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God of War Smites Human Hand (X-Ray) [Broken] ... Generally speaking, videogames don't cause real bodily harm. But this X-ray, sent to us by a physician, proves that God of War III can break actual bones. More »



Google Wants 3D Graphics Acceleration Directly In Chrome [Chrome] ... Google's ANGLE project, launched today, will allow their Chrome OS to be able to access graphics hardware using the OpenGL ES 2.0 API. What this means to you: 3D graphics in your browser! More »



A War Photographer's Storage Casualties [Blockquote] ... The size and quality of digital photographs has exploded over the last 10 years. So, we asked our friend and war photographer, Teru Kuwayama, how his storage and backup system has changed to accommodate the data boom. More »



Would the iPad Take Over Casual Home Gaming? [Chart] ... Get ready, because this one may get big: 44% of all iPad applications being tested on the actual device are games. Hey Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft, the iPhone/iPod titan is getting its tentacles all over the living room. More »



Windows Phone Office Screenshots [Windows Phone] ... Microsoft has decided to not show screenshots of the mobile Office suite for Windows Phone 7—possibly because they're not final, possibly because they just don't want to focus on Office as part of their new "consumer" oriented strategy. Either way, here's what mobile Office looks like. It's really streamlined and simple. [Techau via Engadget] More »



Nostalgia vs. Digital Reality: The Perils of Permanent Perfect Memory [Memory Forever] ... It's easy to claim that the stuff you liked as a kid was way better than the crap kids watch today, because you haven't seen it in years. But now you can, in better quality, even. Does it hold up? More »



Windows Phone 7 Emulator Shots Show Inconsistent Vision [Windows Phone 7] ... It's unclear whether the task manager and file explorer found in these Windows Phone 7 emulator screens will make it to the final release, or if it will live only in emulators and debug versions of Windows Phone. Here's why we're wondering. More »



How Apple Keeps iPad Developers on Extreme Lockdown [Apple] ... If you're a software developer lucky enough to get a look at the iPad before its release, you'd better be ready to submit to some of the toughest security measures this side of Super Max. More »



Like a Surgical Mask...But Even Creepier! [Concepts] ... It's always nerve-wracking when the person beside you on a plane is coughing, but I'd imagine that them wearing this mask would only heighten the effect. More »



Macs vs. PCs on Operating System Security [Blockquote] ... Security expert Charlie Miller on the record-breaking 20 zero day security holes soon to be announced in OS X. [H-Online] More »



Watch Robot Boy Meet Robot Girl in Spike Jonze's I'm Here [Robots] ... I've been excited for Spike Jonze's I'm Here ever since the trailer hit, and today the beautifully produced, 30-minute film is finally available for viewing online. But you're gonna need to hurry if you want to watch it today. More »



Bill Nye the Science Guy: Don't Worry, Your Phone Isn't Making You Dumb [Brains] ... Talking with Bill Nye the Science Guy is like meeting your favorite HS science teacher in a bar—the conversation might flail wildly, but you learn something at every twist. This week, I picked his brain about, well, brains. More »



Paladin XLC Gaming PC: Six-Core CPU, Liquid Cooling, and Looks from Hell [PCs] ... The new liquid-cooled Paladin XLC gaming PCs from iBuypower come loaded with Intel Core i7 980X Extreme Edition processors, 12GB of DD3 memory, a maximum of 1 terabyte of storage, and Blu-ray. They start at $2,159. [iBuypower via Slashgear] More »



The Camera-man Is Real, And He's From Pentax [Photography] ... New from Pentax—a smiley faced 52mm lens cap attached to a rag doll! Take a moment to process the true scope of such an idea, then realize that this flower print person is just one of 100 designs: More »



The Windows Web Browser Choice Screen Works [Web] ... According to the latest data from Opera, the Windows Web Browser Choice Screen—a browser download and activation pop-up mandated by the European Union in all versions of Windows—is working. There has been a "dramatic uptake on downloads." More »



Old Websites Sure Are Embarrassing [Retromodo] ... The Wayback Machine offers an incredible catalog of what the web once was. But unlike that beloved Polaroid of your dad donning tweed and an afro, anyone can access the skeletons in your digital closet, anytime. Here's our peek wayback. More »



Leaked BlackBerry OS 6.0 Screenshots Show Widgets Aplenty [BlackBerry] ... This is it. This is the moment us BlackBerry users have been waiting for. After countless Android, Symbian and Windows Phone 7 OS leaks, our time has come. This could be the turning point—BlackBerry OS 6.0. More »



HP Slate Priced At $540 With June Launch Date According To Leaks [Hp Slate] ... Well, they've succeeded in coming in at under $630, but even so the €400 ($542) price rumored for the Slate is still too much when it's coming up against the $499 iPad. More »



Sony Aibo's Pre-Death CAT Scans and X-Rays Emerge [Robots] ... Four years after the Aibo puppy was discontinued, some CAT scans and X-rays have emerged showing two of the models' inner parts. The CT scans don't appear to show any abnormalities, but then I'm no doctor. Or roboticist. More »



If Everyone Watches This Google Japan Street View Video... [Street View] ... ...World peace would likely reign—or at the very least, privacy watchdog hissers would slink back to their fluoro strip-lit offices. More »



Invisibility Cloak Project Becomes More Realistic [Science] ... Invisibility cloak project is back on! It's from a different team of scientists that were using silver-plated nanoparticles in water though, with these latest Harry Potter enthusiasts using photonic metamaterials to change light rays. More »



Laptop Concept Folds Into Briefcase For Ultra Portability [Concepts] ... Cut out the laptop bag middleman with a laptop that transforms into a briefcase. Ok, so there's no room to stash the power cord, but this concept is like a grown-up Fisher Price laptop I had as a kid. More »



Google Rumored To Shut Down Chinese Arm In April [Google] ... We've already explored some of the repercussions that could come if Google exits China, but that's looking all the more likely now that an actual date has been pointed at by one of their Chinese employees. More »



"Last summer, I forgot my friend Norman’s birthday." [Memoryforever] ... Dave Pell, on what it means to have our heads in the cloud, as he puts it: More »



How Grenades Work [Grenades] ... Oh, man. Not only does this infographic show how modern time-delay grenades work, it actually walks you through a bit of the history of the handheld explosive. All while setting a new standard for stick figure abuse! More »



Google Street View, Meet Your Avian Nemesis [Image Cache] ... Now leading the privacy crusade against Google: birds! Spotted in the English beachside town of Brighton, where even the gulls are nervous about the Big G. [Google Maps] More »



A Blind Soldier's Sight Restored Through His Tongue [Sight] ... Lance Corporal Craig Lundberg lost his sight to a rocket-propelled grenade in 2007. Now, thanks to a fascinating technology, he can read words and make out shapes using his tongue. It's truly incredible. More »



Nasal Spray Chills and Saves Brains After Cardiac Arrest [Memory Forever] ... Consciousness lost, breathing stopped, pulse gone. Someone just slipped into cardiac arrest. In order to preserve the precious memories and thoughts at risk right now, we're gonna have to squirt some perfluorocarbon coolant up a nose and chill a brain. More »



Which Batteries Actually Benefit From Being in a Freezer? [Batteries] ... Some batteries benefit from being stored at freezing or near-freezing temperatures, but not all. It turns out that while chilled NiMH and Nicad batteries will last longer, there's barely any difference when it comes to their alkaline counterparts. More »



The Entertainment Industry's Biggest Problem: "Piracy" Is Too Sexy a Word [Block Quote] ... It's tough being a record label or a movie studio these days. People are stealing your content, all because they want to be Jack Sparrow. No, seriously: that's actually what the industry thinks. More »



Making Water Run Uphill, With Lasers [Water] ... Researchers at the University of Rochester have discovered how to make liquid overcome gravity and flow upward along a silicon surface. The essential ingredient, as always: lasers. More »



Hey, Put Down Your Goddamn Camera [Rant] ... There's something to be said for watching a concert with your own eyes, not mediated by the lens of a camera or the fuzzy screen of a cellphone, compulsively trying to capture it forever. More »



A Calm Beach Day In Nuclear Hell [Imagecache] ... Hey, may I have another caipirinha? Or another nuclear bomb? They often have the same effect. [Thanks David Keyes!] More »



Cabestan Sol Invictus Watch Has Two Solar Panels [Watch] ... Imagine having this on your wrist. The questions people would ask. The minutes you'd spend staring at it, trying to work out the time. Wondering why you spent $560,000 on it, instead of buying a house. More »



SlingPlayer App for Android Coming This Summer, Will Stream Over Wi-Fi and 3G [Android] ... Android users will finally have an app to stream media from their SlingBoxes to their smartphones this summer. The app will allow for streaming over both Wi-Fi and 3G. There's no pricing information yet. [Android Community via Engadget] More »



I Might Actually Use Google Buzz With This Android Widget [Google Buzz] ... Part of the problem with web apps is that they're not as immediately accessible as something that's right there on your phone, and with a service like Buzz, if you can't update your status nearly instantly, it's not gonna happen. Hence, Google's new Buzz widget for Android (1.6 and above) makes a hell of a lot of sense, and might actually get me back to using Buzz, at least on mobile. Uploading in the background, also smart. [Google Mobile] More »



Keep Close Track of Your Friends' Exercising Habits With RunKeeper Live [Fitness] ... Lifehacker's favorite exercise tool RunKeeper has added a feature that's as creepy as it is useful. You can now opt to have your location and activity level broadcast live on your RunKeeper profile by using the iPhone app. More »



Why Google Should Buy Palm [Analysis] ... With terrible sales and no sign of turnaround, Palm's options are whittling down to one: buyout. Ex-Appler Phil Kearney sees a buyer in Google, which, in its looming megawar with Apple, might need Palm as much as Palm needs it. More »



This May Be The Only Existing Video of Mark Twain [Memory Forever] ... There's little action, no sound, and the footage is grainy. But this brief clip may be the only existing video of writer Mark Twain and his daughters Clara and Jean. It was captured in 1909 by inventor Thomas Edison. More »



Street View Captures Superhero Pub Outing Off the Coast Of Scotland [Street View] ... Now that Street View has covered 95 per cent of British roads, expect to see a lot more random snapshots of those eccentric Brits—like these, which show a comic book meet-up on a very remote island off Scotland. More »