Posts Written by Paul Strauss

870 feet tall, totally silent, and pollution free, the Aircruise is a uber-lux airship that runs on solar power and hydrogen fuel cells; it’ll carry 100 people from London to NYC in 37 hours.

Verizon subscribers finally get a taste of Motoblur-flavored Android with Motorola’s Devour; it’s a slide-out QWERTY phone with 3.1″ capacitive touchscreen, 3G, aGPS, and Bluetooth.

It’s not the first solar powered battery for USB gadgets, but Scosche’s solBAT II shines in terms of affordability; $30 gets you 1500 mA of capacity, a windshield cradle, and carabiner mount.

Bioshock 2 gets a suitably creepy trailer to announce its launch on 2/9/2010; it’s purely cinematic, but you’ll catch a glimpse of Big Daddy’s cool-est and most shock-ing weapons.

A wallet-friendlier version of the EP-1, Olympus’ PEN E-PL1 is a Micro Four Thirds camera with a 12.3 MP Live MOS sensor, in-body image stabilization, HD video, and polycarbonite body.

It looks like a poor man’s Mass Effect at times, but we’re happily stunned over this Ground Combat trailer for Star Trek Online; phasers are cool, but we can’t wait for bat’leth brawls.

Disturbia’s Spring/Summer 2010 t-shirt line is now available, and true to form it’s a NSFW 12-piece collection of kickass line art that includes lizards, werewolves, and loads of gore.

The North Face’s 2 meter, geodesic Dome Tent has you ultra-covered: it’ll fit up to 8 people and features wind/snow pressure distributing sleeves, dual doors, and a chimney vent.

Our favorite multi-tasking mobile OS goes multi-colored with Andrew Bell’s 3″ Android mini collectibles; due out soon, it features 12 different vinyl figures with rotating heads and arms.

Not to be outdone by Fuijfilm’s HS10, Olympus’ SP-800UZ also sports a 30x zoom lens but packs it into the world’s smallest superzoom body; it also features a 14 MP sensor and 3″ LCD.

Get ’em before they’re lost: 50 pairs of these LOST Supra Vaiders are in the hands of the cast and crew, but a smaller run of 17 will be available to the public on 2/2/10 at 9 pm PST.

Command & Conquer 4 shows off its three-class system in this Class Warfare trailer; both GDI and NOD players can respawn as offense, defense, or support without losing their units.

adidas Originals slightly blings-out its Superstar Tracktop with the Sty TT SS C.O.; the jacket sports a two-way zip, logo, and 3-stripes in gold, slash pockets, and black polyester fabric.

Make Rock Band and Guitar Hero sessions more realistic with Omega’s GM-1 System, which hooks up to a real drum set via a MIDI or accessory cable; it also includes 2-3 cymbal triggers.

It’s no DSLR, but you won’t mind with FujiFilm’s FinePix HS10 superzoom: it features 30x optical zoom, 1080p video, a 3″ tilting LCD, triple image stabilization, and 1000 fps movie capture.

Metro 2033’s numerous baddies (both human and not-so-human) make themselves known in this Journey Into the Unknown trailer; the post apocalyptic shooter arrives 3/16/2010.

Go from 8-bit to 180 degrees with these Heat Changing Arcade Mugs; the empty playing fields and skies will be brimming with ghosts and invaders after you pour a hot cup of joe.

All the world’s a stage and you’re forced to be a player in BattleBlock Theater; aka “Game 3”, it’s The Behemoth’s third Xbox Live Arcade game after Alien Hominid and Castle Crashers.

Rugged yet loaded, Olympus’ 14 MP Stylus Tough 8010 offers 720p HD video and a 5x wide-angle optical zoom lens; it’s also water resistant to 33 feet and can survive a 6.6 foot drop.

Uploaded two days before Apple’s iPad unveiling, this Chrome OS Tablet UI may be a warning shot across Cupertino’s bow; it’s purely conceptual, but it’s also made by a Google employee.

Media speculation about black holes swallowing the earth is pure pseudoscience, but this press conference reveals that there are other dimensions to the Large Hadron Collider’s Secret.

Part of Sony Ericsson’s eco-friendly Greenheart line, the Aspen is the first smartphone with WinMo 6.5.3 and features a full QWERTY, 2.4″ touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, and 3.2 MP camera.

Carried by every Alinghi team member, Wenger’s Alinghi SU1 is an 11-in-1 multitool made just for yachting that includes a grippy rubber inlay, Marlin spike, and awl with sewing eye.