Author: Rosa Golijan

You’re completely broke after buying all the equipment and supplies for your latest creative venture, so why not save money on lessons. The best way to soothe your inner cheapskate? Free online classes. More »

Starting on April 18th, you supposedly won’t have to run to a Barnes and Noble to get a Nook because it seems that the ebook reader is starting to pop up in Best Buy‘s inventory system. [Engadget] More »

Asthma affects about 300 million people around the world, but can be difficult to diagnose. That’s why scientists designed an electronic nose which can sniff the air exhaled by a patient to determine whether he or she has asthma. More »

Turns out that there’s a financial center in Madrid, Spain which is so damn big and confusing to navigate that you’ll desperately need these multilingual robots to guide you around. Here’s how it works—in-action video and all: More »

Daring Fireball’s John Gruber writes that “Apple hasn’t thought of everything with iPad, but what they’ve thought about, they’ve thought about very deeply” and Ars Technica’s Jacqui Cheng finishes the thought: More »

Rumor is that HTC’s EVO 4G will be coming to Sprint on either June 6 or June 13—though supposedly Sunday the 13th is being favored. There’s also talk of an additional $10-20 monthly charge for the 4G service. More »

When driving cars in videogames, you’re often forced to see everything from a third-person perspective. Now, what would happen if you tried to drive while limited to that odd view in real life? These folks decided to find out. [Kotaku] More »

In the support pages for the iWorks products—Pages, Keynote, and Numbers—there’s a little note: More »

Apparently Mr. Slanty Cam—that’s Mr. Blurry Cam’s brother—spotted a box containing these Flip Slide HD pocket camcorders in a Best Buy. Guess our favorite cheap camcorder line is getting an addition. [Engadget] More »

Chad Barraford has designed a “digital life assistant” who recognizes him, cooks hot dogs, and alerts his friends when he has a migraine. Unlike Tony Stark‘s J.A.R.V.I.S. though, this one only cost $691.98 to build. More »

The iPad doesn’t have a built-in camera, but you can give it something better. By putting an app onto each an iPad and an iPhone, you can connect the two via bluetooth and have a wireless camera for your iPad. More »

Iron cobalt was the most magnetic material on Earth until physicists created what’s in this man’s hands. It’s an iron and nitrogen compound which is 18 percent more magnetic and potentially disproves theories about how magnetic a material can be. More »

For some reason, CBS decided to actually allow late-night talk show host Craig Ferguson to have this robot skeleton companion. Mythbusters’ Grant Imahara built the odd—and slightly freaky—fellow and then taught him the Robot Skeleton Sidekick Laws: More »

To promote his book Dot Robot: Atomic Swarm, children’s author Jason Bradbury built a replica of one of the characters, Punk. The only trouble is that—with some CGI help—the spiky, spherical robot turned against his creator. More »

Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi took this beautiful long-exposure shot of the aurora in Earth’s atmosphere through the International Space Station’s window. Then he did what most of us would do and showed off the snapshot via Twitter: More »

Sure, he seems a bit confused about how to fit it into his utility belt, but it looks like even Batman has an iPad. Guess he felt the need to buy one after seeing these other costumed folks holding theirs: More »

All Jason Chen wanted to do is play We Rule on his iPad, but instead of castles, villagers, and whatever else is in that game, he got this message. Sorry, Jason. Restart and try again? More »

As this clip from the upcoming Iron Man 2 movie shows, Tony Stark requires nearly two minutes to actually enter a building—or in this case the Stark Expo stage. His probable excuse for the wait is great though. More »