Thomas O'Connor's "USB Floppy Drive" is a nice reimagination of technology from the not-so-distant past. We've seen a lot of these imaginative USB drives and hopefully we'll see a kit soon that will let you easily create your own design.

via Core77

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Kaz Hirai confirms current price points in the build-up to Christmas

Tubular Bells, arranged for Commodore 64: a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHvSpUq5pkI"Part 1/a, a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWDM1w6oPM"Part 2./a (Tubular Bells for the a href="http://www.metafilter.com/28309/Beepy-beepy-beep"Sinclair ZX Spectrum/a has been on MeFi previously, but this has ifar/i more ring modulation.) br /

The Gambling Commission has warned home owners that they could be breaking the law if they operate internet-based schemes to offload unsold houses. The draw for the most famous of the schemes will take place on Thursday.

pHer finalist year: 1944 a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sister-deiters-westinghouse-science-education[More]/a

This Nokia concept phone is made from sustainable timber and features an 8 megapixel camera, bluetooth, integrated speaker, and runs Symbian. We like it when big companies go green, and this is a nice way of proclaiming your love for the environment without getting splinters, as you would with this other wooden cellphone mod.

via Tree Hugger

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/celebrities/" rel="tag"Celebrities/a/pa href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/12/jeremy-clarkson-injured-in-another-top-gear-car-crash-115875-20797110/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/jeremy_clarkson_250op.jpg" //aAccording to a report by the UK's emMirror/em, Jeremy Clarkson has been injured during filming of the BBC version of a href="http://www.autoblog.com/tag/TopGear/"Top Gear/a. The story doesn't divulge the circumstances of the crash or what the presenter was driving during the incident, but according to Clarkson, the head-on collision was his first serious crash in 31 years. Top Gear's front-man described his injuries in typical Clarksonian style thusly: "My right index finger looked like a burst sausage, my left shin was fatter than my thigh and my back felt like someone had driven over it with a pile-driver." Clarkson's wife took a call from the emMirror/em on Saturday and told the tabloid that her husband was fine. We wish him a speedy recovery and look forward to the a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/11/top-gear-series-12-officially-starts-november-2nd/"Top Gear team's triumphant return on November 2nd/a. emTop tip Lee!/embr /br /[Source: a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/12/jeremy-clarkson-injured-in-another-top-gear-car-crash-115875-20797110/"Mirror.co.uk/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/10/12/jeremy-clarkson-injured-in-another-top-gear-car-crash-115875-20797110/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/clarkson-injured-in-head-on-crash-during-filming/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1339975/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/clarkson-injured-in-head-on-crash-during-filming/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=gf5zH1"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=gf5zH1" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=V8LKm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=V8LKm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=In9Hm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=In9Hm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/419458048" height="1" width="1"/

Associated Press:
Krugman Wins Nobel Prize for Economics  —  STOCKHOLM, Sweden — The American economist Paul R. Krugman won the Nobel economics prize on Monday for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity.  —  Mr. Krugman, 55, a professor at Princeton University in New Jersey …

People pulling around rickshaws in India could one day be a thing of the past ndash; replaced instead with solar-powered motorised bicycle-drawn rickshaws known as the ldquo;Soleckshawrdquo;.

Barclays and HSBC should benefit from the freedom that partly-nationalized RBS, Lloyds and HBOS will lose.

On October 19, NASA will launch the IBEX, or Interstellar Boundary Explorer, into a 130 mile earth orbit to begin mapping the very edge of our solar system. This region of space, also known by the...

pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/desktops/" rel="tag"Desktops/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/653/860/-/7728112/Asus-Eee-All-In-One-Touch-Screen-PC-ETP1602-WT-X0010-Intel-Atom-1-6GHz-1GB-160GB-15-6-Wide-Panel-Touch-Screen-Windows-XP-Home-Desktop-PC/Product.html?searchtype=genre"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/10-13-08-asus_eee_all-in-on.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Oh sure, there's absolutely a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/29/leaked-eee-pc-roadmap-shows-23-models-redefines-brand-dilution/"no viable reason/a for ASUS to slap an Eee moniker on this all-in-one desktop, but it's there, so we just couldn't resist the mention. Now that we're beyond that, this touchscreen-based desktop -- which was a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/05/asus-intros-the-eee-monitor-all-in-one-pc-says-more-eee-models/"peeked way back in June/a -- is finally showing signs of life courtesy of a formal pre-order page hosted up at emPlay.com/em. The all white machine packs a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, 15.6-inch LCD, Windows XP Home, a 1.3-megapixel camera, built-in stereo speakers, WiFi, a slew of ports and an integrated graphics set. The current release date is set for November 20th, though we wouldn't bet the farm on that or anything. At any rate, those unable to resist can plunk down pound;399.99 ($685) right now and look forward to free delivery in just over a month.br /br /[Thanks to everyone who sent this in]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/-/653/860/-/7728112/Asus-Eee-All-In-One-Touch-Screen-PC-ETP1602-WT-X0010-Intel-Atom-1-6GHz-1GB-160GB-15-6-Wide-Panel-Touch-Screen-Windows-XP-Home-Desktop-PC/Product.html?searchtype=genreRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/asus-all-in-one-touchscreen-pc-up-for-pre-order-in-the-uk/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1340200/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/asus-all-in-one-touchscreen-pc-up-for-pre-order-in-the-uk/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=sGUtGH"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=sGUtGH" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=W9s9m"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=W9s9m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=VNBhm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=VNBhm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/419446030" height="1" width="1"/

h4Chipset reshuffle?/h4 pApple will drop Intel’s integrated graphics chipsets in its new family of MacBooks in favour of Nvidia’s new mobile platform, according to speculative reports..../p

At the recent Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS), a presentation outlined how grown-ups are better prepared to lsquo;skim,rsquo; lsquo;bouncersquo; and lsquo;viewrsquo; on-line material than are their children.

According to the report by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the total talk time on mobile phones in Japan was 1.899 billion hours, a 4.5 percent increase from the previous year. A recent government report on domestic telephone usage in Japan in fiscal 2007 has found that the total time of calls made from mobile phones surpassed that of calls made from fixed-line phones for the first time in history. The number of mobile phone subscriptions at...

A British Army interpreter charged with spying for Iran is a Walter Mitty-style fantasist with grandiose visions of his own importance, a court heard today.

pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/10/freelance_money.jpg" width="179" height="150" align="right" hspace="4" vspace="2" align="right"/Freelancer Collis Ta'eed makes about $200 each month from work she mostly did years ago and hasn't touched. From putting his (admittedly clumsy) illustrations up for sale on stock photo sites, she steadies her freelance income and makes better use of her time between projects:br / blockquoteWith the holiday season coming up, work usually slows down and it’s a good time to do some side work to build for the future. So that years down the road you also are watching residual royalties accumulating every month./p/blockquote pHave you regularly sold work through stock media sites? How do you ensure your work gets actual use? Tell us what works and what doesn't in the comments. div class="related"a href="http://freelanceswitch.com/money/how-i-make-2000-every-year-without-doing-very-much/"How I Make $2,000 Every Year Without Doing Very Much/a [Freelance Switch]/div/p br style="clear: both;"/ img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=8913914e71536d77613e1520a0b68df8" height="1" width="1"/ img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=8913914e71536d77613e1520a0b68df8" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/ pa href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?a=qzFvsL"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~a/lifehacker/full?i=qzFvsL" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=zz8VM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=zz8VM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=aP1cM"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=aP1cM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=e9Aam"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=e9Aam" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=KAPmm"img src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=KAPmm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/419483752" height="1" width="1"/

h4Ooze cruisers suggested for US Navy/h4 pUniversity engineering profs in San Diego believe they may be on the road to solving a conundrum which has baffled the greatest researchers for decades. That is, how to build a gigantic ekranoplan style sea-skimming battlecruiser supported not by a flimsy cushion of air but one of self-generated slime..../p

Almost 200 companies now signed up for Lyon event in November; Network party registration now open

img src="http://www.edge-online.com/files/imagecache/article_homepage_large_144x108/ps3_psp_0.jpg" alt="PlayStation Firmware Details" title="PlayStation Firmware Details" class="imagecache imagecache-article_homepage_large_144x108" /br /!--paging_filter--strongSony Computer Entertainment America will be evolving the PS3 and PSP through free firmware updates later this month, the company said Monday./strongbr /br /PS3 firmware update 2.5 will add special support for the official PS3 Bluetooth headset, such as on-screen volume, battery and mute indicators, as well as a quot;high qualityquot; mode; in-game screenshot capture (for supporting games in the future); and an improved Trophy system featuring new options to compare Trophies with other players.br /pa href="http://www.edge-online.com/news/playstation-firmware-details"read more/a/p

h4Not budging despite Xbox 360 reductions/h4 pDespite Microsoft's Xbox 360 price cuts and an analyst a href="http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/10/08/ps3_too_expensive/"warning/a that the PlayStation 3 is too expensive, Sony is sticking to its guns by refusing to reduce PS3 prices..../p

Zookeepers in Bangkok move two anteaters out of the city, fearing stress caused by noisy recent clashes could make the sensitive animals ill.