Captain Nemo’s ultimate laptop

Call me crazy, but I would really like one of these. You can picture a member of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen using one. The giant key that turns it on is the best part.

Mystery object: Candle-holder or gauge?

Maybe I have too much time on my hands, but I was fascinated by a post on BoingBoing yesterday about a mystery object that someone inherited from their grandmother, a metal contraption with three square supports (each with a circular hole in it) and a long articulated neck with two joints, ending in a point. [...]

Can you have too much information?

From my friend — and notorious data junkie — Paul Kedrosky comes this photo of a young fund manager surrounded by (from my rough calculations) almost 20 LCD screens with stock charts and trading data. Is there such a thing as too much information?

Of course, in his post, it’s difficult to tell whether Paul is [...]

Coolest. Halo gear. Ever.

I know this isn’t a gamer blog or anything, but if you play Halo at all (or have ever played it and liked it), then this could be one of the coolest things you’ve ever seen — a full-scale, working Warthog, complete with four-way steering and dual mounted machine guns. Click on the picture to [...]

A shorter version of The Bionic Man

Peng Shulin was cut in half after getting run over by a truck in 1995, and lost the lower half of his body. Doctors did skin grafts to seal up his torso, but he has been bed-ridden for years — until now. Scientists at the Chinese Rehabilitation Research Center created a kind of plastic housing [...]