Did you adore your 64? Well, wanna buy a 65? That’ll cost you.

Earlier this month we saw how fans of vintage home computers can get a little crazy on eBay, bidding up the price of a 1983 10MHz Texas Instruments TI-99/8 to $3,240.

Well that’s nothing compared with the enthusiasm that Commodore commands. A prototype Commodore 65 more than doubled the winning TI bid when it sold on eBay recently  … Read More → "Commodore 65 prototype sells for $7,625"

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It seems like asteroids have been whizzing past the Earth at an alarming rate recently, although scientists tell us that people are just more aware of them than before. Still, an asteroid with the catchy name 2012 DA14 is going to buzz the planet on Friday, passing about 17,200 from the Earth’s surface at 17,450 mph.
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Wearable tech has become a popular focus for some of the leading tech companies, but sports brands have been experimenting with the category and bringing real products to the market for several years. Now one of sports’s best known equipment brands, Under Armour, has unveiled a video spot that shows off its current innovations, as well as a tantalizing look at what they envision for the future.

The commercial series is … Read More → "Under Armour shows off interactive running suit of the future"

After their wonderful illustrated chronicle of the Space Race, British indie press Nobrow — who gave us Blexbolex’s brilliant No Man’s Land, one of the best art books of 2012 — have tapped Berlin-based illustrator duo Golden Cosmo to bring us High Times: A History of Aviation (public … Read More → "High Times: An Illustrated History of Aviation"

In a few years, the soldier, marine or special operator out on patrol might be able to record the facial features or iris signature of a suspicious person all from his or her smartphone — and at a distance, too.

The Defense Department has awarded a $3 million research contract to California-based AOptix to examine its “Smart Mobile Identity” biometrics identification package, Danger Room has learned. At the end of two years … Read More → "Pentagon inks deal for smartphone tool that scans your face, eyes, thumbs"

How likely are you to hit a deer over the course of a year of driving? According to the insurance company State Farm, West Virginia is the riskiest state with a likelihood of 1 in 40.
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It’s easy to find work on gene-based storage; finding genes that will do any of the heavy lifting is another matter. MIT believes it has a genetic circuit that will finally get to work, and then some. In using recombinase enzymes to alter DNA sequences serving as logic gates, researchers have developed a cellular circuit that not only mimics its silicon cousins, but has its own built-in … Read More → "MIT crafts genetic circuits that remember their work through DNA"

We recently had a chance to put a Tesla Model S through its paces and we had no problem getting where we were going — and back again — despite our testing happening in Upstate New York in the middle of a rather chilly January. The New York Times, however, had a bit of a harder time of it. Over the weekend, Timesreporter John M. Broder published what can only be called a negative report on a failed trip to one of Tesla’s fabled Superchargers. After a series … Read More → "Tesla CEO Elon Musk calls NY Times article criticizing Model S a ‘fake’"

Experts from Sheffield University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and Cambridge University have created a method of spray-coating a photovoltaic active layer using an air based process to develop a cheaper technique which can be mass produced.

Sheffield University’s Prof David Lidzey said, ‘Spray coating is currently used to apply paint to cars … Read More → "Spray coating method used to make solar cells"