No intro today. I’m sending you right into the fray unprotected. The Impossible Jigsaw Puzzle Mmmmm delicious Pita Yanko’s take on water and drinking it Damn that’s a big LEGO town! DIY portable iPod speakers RFID 101 Longboarders should immediately grab one of these MIDI Madness over at MAKE Hybrid Taxis get held up Would you seriously put Scope in ...

This isn’t the first idea of real-life geotagging but a new system called Tikitag certainly looks to be the most successful. Think of it as a personal RFID system with a receiver and some sticky tags. These are fully programmable in the sense that you can associate any URL with the RFID tag. Throw it on a pack of condoms ...

There’s only two things you need to know about today (save for the links): Apple and our contest. Iron Man gets shrunken down A little physics won’t kill you Schools are using RFID for security now. Irony? Apple brings out the big guns and Microsoft debuts a clock More Android/HTC spy shots Christ these BMW phones are ugly as sin ...

For those of you who will be in New York during the second week of September, we suggest you come out and visit us at the Minitek Electronic Music Festival. It’ll feature a handful of different electronic performing artists, music, art, technology and more. It takes place September 12th through the 14th and will feature both an indoor and outdoor ...

Burial plot prices are skyrocketing in Japanese cities, so one company built a facility that uses RFID technology to help store the dead. At Nichiryoku, mourners visit a “prayer area” where they swipe RFID cards to have the cremated remains of their loved one are lifted up from an underground storage vault. CScout Japan has some excellent videos of the ...

Another day, another scandal in Beijing. What’s it to ya? Relax and take off a load with these links. Fucking supercomputers… The North Face have produced a wonderful canvas duffel bag It took me about 5 minutes to realize this was a lamp Logitech is buying Ultimate Ears This might be your last chance to own a real Hendrix strat ...

This past weekend, during the Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, several MIT students who were prepared to give a talk regarding the security of Boston’s public transit system were stopped. A judge ruled to ban the presentation after the city realized a gaping vulnerability was about to become exposed. For now, the talks have been stopped, but now everyone ...

If you haven’t seen Pineapple Express yet, this weekend is a great time to do so. Ryan and I will be working on some new Arduino projects this weekend and we hope you’ll be reading our links while throwing back a cold one. Oh, and it’s 08/08/08. Creepy! Madden is going all out for it’s 20th Anniversary Explore the buzzwords ...

With all this RFID implant business going on, the Magic School Bus days are getting closer and closer. We already have a pill that’ll show you your insides, so what’s next? How about a robot you can swallow that attaches to your intestinal wall which can then perform biopsies, deliver drugs, or administer localized treatment to your gut? Metin Sitti, ...

Check out the AMD Project going down at The Last HOPE this weekend. I’d type up an original piece but the official website does it so, so well: This weekend, the Attendee Meta-Data (AMD) project will introduce a new location-aware social networking system to track and bring together hackers based on a huge array of matching interests. Conference goers will ...