AT&T Is the Most Gigantic Carrier in the Country Again (Thanks to the iPhone) [At&t]
When Verizon bought Alltel, it became the biggest carrier in the US, with 83.7 million customers. Two years later, it has 94.1 million customers. And as of today, AT&T is number...
Some people didn't believe the stunning snow scenes from Japan. What kind of monster machines do they use to clean roads from snowfall as tall as a four-story building? A Gundam plow machine? Now you can watch how they do it. More »
If you're a space nerd like me, you probably knew that the iconic countdown clock at the Kennedy Space Center was big. Yesterday—on my first day covering Discovery's Wednesday launch—I learnt it wasn't big. This thing is humongous. More »
The breast cancer rate is 10% higher on people's left side than right. Why? Some researchers think it's because people tend to sleep on their right side, and their boxsprings are pulling in electromagnetic radiation from FM and TV transmissions. More »
The true Americans believe themselves are gods and the nation's founders are gods! They also believe the Scouts are gods and its founders are gods! The Lord God George Washington: "I am your Lord your God George Washington. Oh, true American, go touch my sacred false teeth and you shall be...
Every year Lego gives us a huge multi-thousand piece Star Wars model, like the 5,195-brick Millennium Falcon or the 3,800-brick Death Star. Now it's the turn to an all-time favorite of mine: The 2,504-piece Lambda-Class Imperial Shuttle. More »
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What's the coolest thing you can do with 117,000 feet of packing tape? If you said anything besides building a humongous, self-supporting spider web inside a historic Viennese stock exchange, then you are oh so very wrong. Let's explore! More »
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See that enormous blue funnel in the middle of those buildings? It's just one of the six canopies that will light up the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai. As the close-ups show, the scale of these things defies belief:
They are not just light sources, however. These LED towers also collect...
First, it was a life-sized Gundam in Tokyo. Now, Kobe has just completed its life-sized Tetsujin, or Gigantor, robot. Haven't you seen your own disaster movies, Japan? This isn't going to end well.
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Last week, a 9-year-old boy received the birthday cake of his life in the form of a giant Wiimote.
At the request of one very loving parent, pastry chef Roshel Michaeli from Schicks Gourmet Bakery got to work meticulously measuring the Wiimote before scaling it to feed a small to medium army...