| Friction May Someday Charge Your Cellphone | |  | The phenomenon that causes a painful shock when you touch metal after dragging your shoes on the carpet could someday be harnessed to charge personal electronics. Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a device that takes advantage of static...
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| Google Maps Helps Man Walk 5,000 Miles Across Asia [VIDEO] | |  | While most of us consult Google Maps to get directions to the mall, one man used the app to trek 5,000 miles across Asia. Equipped with an Android phone running Maps, U.S. Marine Sgt. Winston Fiore set out on a journey to raise money and...
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| Nintendo's Wii U: First Impressions | |  | Nintendo's newest console has only been available for one day, but that's still enough time for early-bird consumers to get their hands on the Wii U, and test out its features and games. We spent the last 24 hours playing with the Wii U, and have...
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| AC/DC Is Finally Available on iTunes | | Monday, November 19, 2012 11:57 PM | |
|  | Legendary hard rock band AC/DC has finally added a new way to offer the crunchy grooves you crave: iTunes. From 1976's High Voltage debut to classics such as Highway to Hell and Back in Black, every one of AC/DC's 16 studio albums as well as four...
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| CBS Analyst Apologizes for 'Homoerotic' UFC Tweets | | Monday, November 19, 2012 8:57 PM | |
|  | The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) may be a hit sport on social media, but it apparently doesn't sit well with CBS Sports analyst and Sports Illustrated reporter Seth Davis. Davis took to Twitter on Sunday morning to detail just what it is...
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| Self-Taught Teen Prodigy From Sierra Leone Wows MIT Engineers [VIDEO] | | Monday, November 19, 2012 7:40 PM | |
|  | The latest installment of the THNKR's Prodigies YouTube series highlights Sierra Leone teen Kelvin Doe, who is visiting the U.S. as a guest of MIT. The 15-year-old is a self-taught engineer, who has never taken an engineering or electronics...
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| Mumbai Women Arrested for Political Facebook Comment | | Monday, November 19, 2012 7:27 PM | |
|  | Following the death of Bal Thackeray, leader and founder of the Shiv Sena political party, 21-year-old Shaheen Dhadha was arrested for a Facebook comment that didn't please many Indian citizens. "People like Thackeray are born and die daily and...
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| How Should Apple Name the Next Mac OS Series? [POLL] | | Monday, November 19, 2012 6:50 PM | |
|  | The reign of the big cats is almost at an end at Apple, and we don't know what will replace them. With the rumor mill now pointing to the name "Lynx" for Mac OS X 10.9, the company is almost running out of big cat names it has already...
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| So What if Oprah Used an iPad to Tweet About Microsoft Surface? | | Monday, November 19, 2012 5:31 PM | |
|  | Oprah Winfrey recently gave Microsoft's Surface her seal of approval when the gadget made her annual "Favorite Things" list. Oprah has been using Twitter and hashtag #FavoriteThings to endorse the Surface. On Monday, however, criticism began...
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| Horror Movie Chronicles CERN Zombie Apocalypse | | Monday, November 19, 2012 3:34 PM | |
|  | The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has inspired its fair share of doomsday scenarios and rumors of pending Apocalypse, mostly centering on the exceedingly far-fetched possibility of creating mini black holes that consume the universe....
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| This Headband Controls Your Smartphone With Your Brain | | Monday, November 19, 2012 3:01 PM | |
|  | Google Glasses? Passe. Voice-controlled intelligent agents? So over. Controlling the tempo of "Call Me Maybe" with your heartbeat? Please. The future of wearable computing is all about using your noggin. That's what the Muse headband promises to...
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| Twitter Fiction Festival Ignites Creative Collaboration | | Monday, November 19, 2012 2:34 PM | |
|  | Millions of 140-character quips pop up on Twitter each day, and whether users are talking about politics, food, the weather or their location, they always seem to have something to say. While some users vent and others tweet photos, the...
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| NASA Video Captures Giant Sun Eruption | | Monday, November 19, 2012 1:20 PM | |
|  | The sun unleashed a monster eruption of super-hot plasma on Nov. 16 in back-to-back solar storms captured on camera by a NASA spacecraft. The giant sun eruption, called a solar prominence, occurred at 1 a.m. EST (0600 GMT), with another event...
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| Windows 8 May Not Be Selling Well [REPORTS] | | Monday, November 19, 2012 1:00 PM | |
|  | Windows 8 may not be off to a strong start. Sales aren't meeting Microsoft's own expectations, a longtime company observer says. At the same time, a major online PC retailer says sales of the new OS are "slow going." Blogger Paul Thurrott,...
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