The Powder Toy

You probably have heard of it. The Powder Toy. The best way to describe it is: nevermind, there isn't. Just download it. Their website server is down (as of 17:06). So download it here:
Windows: http://bit.ly/comzHO
Windows DLL: http://bit.ly/al2pfY
Mac App: http://bit.ly/an34Aw
Sorry no Linux. But it does run great in Wine!

OMG! A Working Hoverboard!!!!!!!!

HOVERBOARD - NILS GUADAGNIN from nils guadagnin on Vimeo.

Fedora 13 Out!

List Of New Features:

• Automatic Printing
• Plug-And-Go Printer Support
• Open 3D Drivers!!!!!
• New GNOME Shell

12 Game-Changing Events

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=interactive-12-events

Scientific American made an interactive piece to show the likeliness of 12 events to happen. They include: Polar Meltdown, Extra Dimensions, Extratressial Intellegence, Nuclear Exchange, Creation Of Life, Room-Tempature Superconductors, Machine Self-Awareness, Cloning Of A Human, Pacific Earthquake, Fusion Energy, Asteroid Collision, and Deadly Pandemic.

Google Pac-Man made us lose $120,483,800

Google Pac-Man Might've Cost Us $120,483,800

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Last week, the Google logo was turned into a game of Pac-Man and we all took breaks to play. In theory, we wasted a combined 4,819,352 hours and many, many dollars. Here's the math.
The Rescue Time Blog made these calculations based on observations and assumptions about the Google audience:

This weekend, we took a hard look at Pac-Man D-Day and compared it with previous Fridays (before and after Google's recent redesign) and found some noticeable differences. We took a random subset of our users (about 11,000 people spending about 3 million seconds on Google that day) The average user spent 36 seconds MORE on Google.com on Friday. [...]

If we take Wolfram Alpha at its word, Google had about 504,703,000 unique visitors on May 23. If we assume that our userbase is representative, that means:

• Google Pac-Man consumed 4,819,352 hours of time (beyond the 33.6m daily man hours of attention that Google Search gets in a given day)
• $120,483,800 is the dollar tally, If the average Google user has a COST of $25/hr (note that cost is 1.3 – 2.0 X pay rate).
• For that same cost, you could hire all 19,835 google employees, from Larry and Sergey down to their janitors, and get 6 weeks of their time. Imagine what you could build with that army of man power.
• $298,803,988 is the dollar tally if all of the Pac-Man players had an approximate cost of the average Google employee.

Of course all these numbers are assuming that the time we spent playing Google Pac-Man would've been spent in some sort of productive manner in the first place. [Rescue Time via Slashdot]

Send an email to Rosa Golijan, the author of this post, at rgolijan@gizmodo.com.

Originally posted at Gizmodo.

Motorola Droid Shadow has been found!

Motorola Droid Shadow Found In Gym

The story goes that this phone was left in a corporate Verizon gym in Washington, but before it was remotely locked the finder saw a text message confirming it was "unreleased". What is it? Why, the Motorola Droid Shadow.
Based on previous information about the handset, we already know it'll be Motorola's second Droid, and will be exclusive to Verizon. It'll have an 8MP camera (capable of shooting 720p video), a 4.3-inch screen, and will no doubt be running Android Froyo when it's released June/July.
The gym employee who found the device (as the story goes) managed to confirm a few details with the chap who picked it up—specifically, that it has 16GB of internal storage, runs on a Snapdragon processor, has a HDMI port, and yes, the 8MP camera and 4.3-inch screen all checked out too.
There's been a good run of unreleased phones being left in public areas—who wants to bet on the next Motorola Kin being found in a Taco Bell? [Thanks, Devin!]

Send an email to Kat Hannaford, the author of this post, at khannaford@gizmodo.com. 

Originally posted at Gizmodo.

iPhone 4G Features

• microSIM card slot (No more AT&T? YES!)
• Front-facing camera
• Camera flash in rear
• 960x640 screen (Maybe)
• A4 processor (Like the iPad)
• 3 grams heavier
• WiFi 802.11n
• 32 GB (basic), 64 GB

Finally... A Google for creepy searches.

Encrypting searches? Apparentlyit was a long wanted topic.

As you can see, it is still in beta. Hopefully it is not in beta for 5 years like Gmail, Docs and Reader was. And in related news, Wave is out of invite-only preview.

The URL for SSL Google is the same, but it is https:// instead of http://.
https://www.google.com/

That's interesting.... TOP 1.72%!