Prepaid Droid, BlackBerry and Palm phones coming to Verizon? (update: confirmed, box spotting)



We’d heard a few rumors of some new prepaid offerings from Verizon recently, but it now looks like the carrier could really be about to expand things in a big way — at least if some purportedly authentic leaked documents are any indication. Apparentl…

HP Labs teams up with Hynix to manufacture memristors, plans assault on flash memory in 2013



The memristor’s come a long way since being hypothesized back in 1971. If you ask HP Labs, the history of this particular memory technology didn’t hit its next milestone for almost four decades, when the company produced the very first memory resistor…

iFixit goes beige with RCA Studio II teardown



The RCA Studio II is already a pretty rare sight as is, but rarer still is a detailed look inside what’s been described as one of the worst game consoles of all time. Thankfully, the folks at iFixit have now come through once again, and followed up th…

Resort uses augmented reality to pair virtual girls with actual nerds



You’ve heard of this Love Plus thing, right? This Nintendo DS-based “dating simulator” is apparently a big deal in Japan, giving Otaku the opportunity to chat up (and kiss) girls the only way they know how: on a hand-held game console, with a stylus. …

Homebrew Cray-1A emulates the iconic supercomputer, to no useful purpose



The Cray-1A first made the scene in 1976, weighing 5.5 tons (including the refrigeration system) and running at 80MHz — with a whopping 8MB RAM. Who wouldn’t want to own one — or a miniature version of one, for that matter? Chris Fenton would, appar…