Author: Adam Frucci

If you head to Google.cn, you’ll be re-directed to Google.com.hk with a message saying “Welcome to the new home of Google China search.” So that’s that, I guess. More »

Screw combining a phone with an MP3 player, this is the sort of gadget convergence that makes a real difference in my life. [Clicker via The Awesomer] More »

So your hard drive just died, and you didn’t back it up. I’m so, so sorry. You can expect to go through the following five stages once you discover that all of your photos, files and music are gone forever. More »

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 »

It’s a real stretch to say it’s worth paying someone $150 to program your fancy remote control for you; in fact, you’d say whoever is pitching it is trying to upsell you. And they’d agree. [Dell via Consumerist] More »

AT&T managed to keep its network from crashing and burning at SxSW this year by wheeling in three COWs, or cell towers on wheels. Rocketboom went inside one to check it out. [Rocketboom] More »

There are many moments in Life, the followup to Planet Earth, that just have to be fake. They look so perfect, so surreal and so crazy that there’s no way that they aren’t made with computers. But they’re all real. More »

Have you seen these ludicrous posters that NASA makes for every mission? They are insane. But I think you guys can top them. More »

Is there any doubt that the value of purchased music is plummeting? Universal, one of the big four record labels, is planning to cut the prices of almost all of its CDs to between $6 and $10. More »

Science! That is what explains how Mood Swing Emotionally Activated Lip Gloss works, I assume. The makers claim that when a lady wearing it is in the mood for carnal pleasures, it turns deep red. More »

In Fox vs. Duck, you are the duck, and you need to survive constant attacks by fox and fish alike. Like the best iPhone games, it’s simple but addictive. More »

Sure, Digital Storm‘s new DaVinci workstation is designed for pros in fields like video editing, it sure looks like a rig a rich nerd would bring to a LAN party. More »

While Avatar is coming to DVD/Blu-ray next month, it’ll be a completely bare-bones release in 2D. Hope you didn’t buy a 3D TV for it just yet! More »

According to iTunes, I have 22,880 items in my music collection. That adds up to 70.9 days worth of music, taking up 145.26 GB of hard drive space. And thank God for it. More »

Rather than provide quality content to the App Store, humungus publisher Hearst is taking a page from the now-banned Perfect Acumen playbook: charge people for other people’s content. More »

Who knew that the PS Move would be so fun to stick into out-of-context situations? Because man, the results of this week’s Photoshop Contest are some of the best ever. More »

One of the theoretical solutions to an asteroid hurtling towards Earth is to nuke it so it breaks up into many small, harmless pieces. But that won’t work if it can just reform in 2 hours. More »

I’ve been skeptical of the big push for 3D in TVs and movies. But I just played the first 45 minutes or so of Metro 2033 on a top-of-the-line 3D-enabled gaming rig and, well, wow. More »

We’re teaming up with our friends from Epilog and Adafruit to offer up two free iPads to you folks out there who think you can create the coolest/most embarassing designs to be etched in their backs. More »

I like those GorillaPod bendy tripods as much as the next guy, but this seems like a pretty bad idea. [Photography Bay via Gadget Lab] More »