Hooray for Hollywood! — the big winner this week in our roundup of the top 10 Twitter trends. From the Oscars to Alice in Wonderland (and of course, Justin Bieber ), celebrity — whether be it music or film — dominated the Twitterverse. The latest data, which comes from our friends …

Need a more efficient heat sink? Try a carbon nanotube . Artificial muscle? Nanotubes . Space Ladder ? Self-cleaning windows ? Incredibly small bowl of soup ? You get the picture. What can’t carbon nanotubes do? We’re not sure just yet, but even power generation is not beyond their grasp. Apparently when you coat…

The blogosphere was literally split down the middle in terms of online buzz around the 82nd Academy Awards Best Picture nominees. Both Avatar and The Hurt Locker each maxed out with three quarters of a percent (.75%) of blog post buzz across the web. The data in question comes from The Nielsen …

We’ll admit to having shared a few login credentials amongst friends here and there in our younger days, but it sounds like the party might soon be over: a company called Scout Analytics has developed a way of identifying a user’s “typing cadence,” and matching it to how a username and…

For this week’s Shooting Challenge , we asked you to abuse the principles of perspective to confound our sense of scale. The results are as charming as they are clever…or someone took out a second mortgage on that giant Aibo. Second Runner Up Taken with my Sony a350 Sony DT18-70 lens @…

Windows Phone 7 snuck up on the world today, but having played with it, I’ll tell you Microsoft is putting all it’s muscle behind this. No matter who you root for, to be anything short of impressed is stupid. How does it feel? Nothing like an iPhone, for starters. The slippery, rotate-y …

It’s official: Steve Jobs has just revealed the much anticipated Apple Tablet . Its name: the Apple iPad . On stage just moments ago, Apple’s founder and CEO held up the device to the thunderous applause of the audience. The rumors surrounding it have been the talk of the town …

Admit it: after all the rumors about the mythical Apple Tablet, you hate the Tablet and want it to suffer. Well, these images, which finally look like they might be genuine, real pictures of the device, will satisfy your evil cravings, as the Tablet looks to be bolted down to a table. Yep, that’s…

Last week we asked you which is the best name for the Apple Tablet from among the top rumoured names so far: iSlate, iGuide, iPad, iTablet, or none of the above. The results are now in, and it turned out to be a very tight battle between two frontrunners. The final winner is iSlate , which…

A single TwitPic of a napping transit ticket collector in Toronto, Canada has jump-started a major controversy that has made Toronto’s transit agency, the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), the target of citizen and media anger. First, a little background: Back in November 2009, the TTC announced that they would be raising fares by…