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The distance Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin traveled on the moon belies the immensity of their feat, as NPR correspondent Robert Krulwich discovered last week when blogging about scale in the news. In truth, the scale of their accomplishment is so off the charts, it can only fuel our fantasies�not to mention those of Michael Bay.

A standard thumb drive with a Rubik's Cube theme suggests a puzzling approach to hardware interfaces.

On October 7th, 1930 � slender and bright; like a string tense and silent in anticipation of the purpose of her note � Beatrice Warde was introduced to the British Typographer's Guild. The speech she gave would change the way people thought about type for the next fifty years... and should be burnt into the flesh of anyone who is making a gadget to this day.

Social networking: it's not exactly an Olympic sport. So it's easy to follow us on Twitter and join us on Facebook.

A new remote-control ball controlled by a smartphone app seems less like magic than a kind of undead.

On the Indonesian island of Flores, researchers have discovered the remains of a giant bird that might have preyed on the mysterious and controversial Homo floresiensis, an extinct, diminutive close relative of modern humans.

Gearfusers of the world, unite! Follow us on Twitter, join us on Facebook. (Don't worry, we're not on Farmville.)

An elegant stocking-stuffer that also proves there's still innovation to be found in books.

Now you can bicycle to the Internet (almost), on a networked stationary cycle that adds layers of gaming, interactivity, and social media to the spinning workout.

Along with advances in telegraphy, weaponry, and medicine, the Civil War seems to have touched off a revolution in box-making.