By Evan Ackerman
SpaceX's Falcon 1 rocket successfully entered low Earth orbit yesterday, making it the first privately funded liquid fuel rocket to reach orbit with a payload. The Falcon 1 is a two stage rocket powered by liquid oxygen...
By Andrew Liszewski
Some people might avoid having kids because they don't want to deal with the crying, the diapers, the spitting up and all of the other stereotypical downsides of raising a child. I, on the other hand, am...
By Andrew Liszewski
I don't know about you, but besides using an alarm clock to get me out of bed every morning, I also rely on it to know what time it is when I roll over in the middle...
By Evan Ackerman
It's pretty dusty up there on the moon. So dusty, in fact, that in an effort to prepare the lunar surface for human habitation, a company called W.I.S.E. Retail Solutions is now stuffing Apollo 11 commemorative pens...
By Jonathan Kimak
There is admittedly a lot of stupid junk that companies try to pass off as actual products and this is one of those.
The FingerFood, designed by Ken Goldman, is a plastic ring with a little plastic plate...
By Jonathan Kimak
If you're in Chicago over the next few weeks you may want to check out Wired NextFest going on now until October 12. While there you should check out the game Brainball.
Brainball is played by you and...
By Evan Ackerman
This electron micrograph of long finned squid suckers is one of National Geographic's Best Science Images of 2008. Have a look at the entire gallery here, or see the first place winner (a picture of diatoms on...
By Andrew Liszewski
To celebrate the release of The Matrix trilogy on Blu-Ray in Japan, Warner Brothers has created this ridiculously over-the-top packaging where the 7 discs in the collection can be stored inside a 2-foot highly detailed model of...
By Andrew Liszewski
I've said it before and I'll say it again, while I'm not exactly thrilled with having to deal with Customs lineups and random security searches whenever I fly to the U.S., I'm more than willing to take...