The rather fringe sport of Cup Stacking is absolutely bizarre. But you must see this video which shows one of the young competitors at work. It literally looks like the film has been speeded up, but it’s all in real time. Freaky! [via boingboing]

The Sony DSC-FX77 is a 4 megapixel digital camera which incorporates Bluetooth connectivity. One interesting thing about the device is that it also includes software to let you control it remotely from a laptop (using a real time thumbnail image displayed on the laptop screen). So I suppose that you could have the camera set up in one room, and shoot photos from your notebook next door. I’m desperately trying to work out exactly why you would want to do…

This cool article at Space.com happily debunks five of the most common myths to do with space and the cosmos. Want to know why the moon really looks bigger on the horizon sometimes (hint: it’s nothing to do with the air magnifying it) or what really causes the seasons? Then look no further. [via madville]

It may look like a standard Playstation games console, but it’s not. Oh no. This is a Playstation which has been converted into a PC. Those interested in this type of tiny PC concept (as featured by the Ferret previously) should check out some of the weird and wonderful projects at the mini-itx site. [via slashdot]

CD Baby is a small independent US music distributor that will only sell albums which have been supplied directly by the musicians. No distributors, labels or other middle men. The royalties go directly to the musician and independent music gets a true enthusiast’s outlet. So far 24,000 artists have received some $1.8 million from the sale of 200,000 CDs since the site started in 1998. Go guys! On a musically related note (boom boom), exactly what does Ben know that…

According to this ExtremeTech article, chip maker Texas Instruments hope to have integrated a complete mobile phone onto a single chip within 2 years. I suppose that this could lead to all sorts of funky devices incorporating cellular connectivity, including domestic appliances. Of course for most people, the most exciting advance would be even smaller Dick Tracy communicator watches!

Nokia has unveiled a new member of the camera phone fraternity in the shape of the curvy Nokia 3650. According to this Infosync piece, the phone is targeted at the youth market, and will sport a VGA digicam, Bluetooth, GPRS, tri-band operation and crucially MMC (aka SD) card expansion capabilities a la Sony Ericsson P800. It sure looks purty, although I’m not sure how clever it is to change around the keypad so drastically, especially when all those young txt…

Apparently this is a photo of the world’s first computer bug. Actually it was an unfortunate insect found caught in a computer relay waaaaaay back in time, and which seemingly gave rise to the term. I bet little ‘bugsy’s’ parents are real proud. [via madville]

Er..this is a street legal 4 cylinder automatic transmission Star Wars Land Speeder kit car with 880 miles on the clock. For sale. On EBay. Current bid $14,999.00. [via boingboing]

The Open Source Streaming Alliance is a group dedicated to ‘allowing experimental, independent media and arts centers to catch up with the need to stream content creation and distribution’. Sounds good, wonder how it will work out in practice.

Oh yes, the Raynet Personal Massager is the world’s first PDA-enabled body massaging device. Simply plug the unit into your Handspring PDA, attach the pads to your sensitive body bits and switch on. Priced at $79.00 and presented here with absolutely no comment at all. [via ZZZ]

Apparently the Chinese IT industry is undergoing some serious weight training in an attempt to become a world class player. The country’s government has invested over $2.5 billion in the sector so far, pouring money into research and development of anything from CPUs to databases. Watch that space!

According to this Inquirer piece, McAfee has updated SpamKiller so that it will now filter out spam delivered to Hotmail accounts. Not a moment too soon of course. I remember this program when it was a small project of a Scandinavian programmer, and it was one of the best spam filters then. Hopefully it’s still as good.

Pixia is a free graphics and illustration program. It appears to sport all the usual and useful tools you might need, and as a bonus comes in a variety of exotic language versions, including its original Japanese, Hungarian, Chinese and Polish.

The FirstScience.com Factfile is a fascinating collection of scientific trivia. F’rinstance: 12/ If you could drive your car straight up you would arrive in space in just over an hour. Or 20/ The Australian billygoat plum contains 100 times more vitamin C than an orange.