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Are you doing the Boston Typewriter? Perhaps we're lucky that when it comes to marketing, viral video has its limits.

This sweat-absorbing, all-natural peripheral promises "a deep feeling of peace, calm and tranquility."

In 2010, the Electronic Frontier Foundation fought copyright monopolies, walled-garden mobile phone formats, and privacy invasion in the social media, helping keep the Internet safe�even for 8-bit nostalgia. Video after the jump.

The eyes of Xenos peckii, a miniscule parasitic fly, inspire optical engineers with their ability to stitch small images into a composite picture.

The Pioneer anomaly, a long-discussed discrepancy between the expected and actual speeds of the Pioneer spacecraft, has tantalized researchers with the possibility of an exotic new physics. A solution may be close at hand�and even if it supports the standard model, it's pretty amazing.

A short film featuring Syd Mead, concept artist for Blade Runner, Tron, and Aliens, shows a master visual futurist at work. Video after the jump.

Google has asked its corporate partners in the company�s television venture to delay the introduction of products supporting the new broadcasting platform, thanks to poor reviews and a fickle and uncertain market for Internet TV.

These minimalist, stick-on outsoles prefigure a future in which we'll pad and weaponize our bodies with consumer-grade prosthetics for fashion and fitness.

Minecraft isn't just PC gamings' trendiest new box of 8-bit building blocks. It's also a solipsist's god sim... with all of the loneliness and pathos that implies.

A viral math trick may not be what bloggers claim it is, but it's pretty cool nonetheless.