This tiny thing is the LaCie MosKeyto, a seriously wee USB flash drive designed to be left plugged into your computer. You won’t even notice it’s there!

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MosKeyto: a USB drive so small, you’ll forget its plugged in

Water-filtering pitchers such as Brita Pitchers have become all the rage over the past few years, as they’re a relatively inexpensive way to filter the crap out of your tap water. But is there an even better way to filter your water? Maybe!

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Ultraviolet water-filtering pitcher puts Brita on notice

Hamadoun Tour?, the Secretary General of the UN’s International Telecommunications Union since 1999, says that it’s crucial that we start thinking in new terms about cyberspace. If not, he warns, we could face a destructive potential “worse than a tsunami.”

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UN warns that a cybewar would be catastrophic

That didn’t take long. We’re on day two of Apple’s Ping and it’s already showing the telltale signs of a social network being dirtied up. It doesn’t take long for prospectors to spot a potential gold mine, and by “prospectors,” of course, I mean no good dirty spammers.

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Apple’s Ping, a wretched hive of spam and villainy

People have been saying that OLED TVs are the wave of the future, offering up brilliant color and brightness in very thin panels that are very energy efficient. What’s not to like? Well, the price, for one, with Sony’s first OLED TV, the XEL-1 , measured a mere 11 inches and cost over $2,000.

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World’s thinnest OLED TV is a (relative) bargain at $9,000

Once again Japanese schoolgirls are popularizing bleeding-edge technology, this time via Japan’s latest photo booths that zap anyone with instant photoshop magic designed to make even the homeliest poser cute as a puppy.

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Magic photo booths use instant plastic surgery to make anyone super cute

With the shuttle fleet due to retire and the Constellation program — which was going to give NASA an option in deploying personnel to orbit and beyond — entirely scrapped , all eyes have been on what NASA will work on next. The agency has the answer.

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NASA’s next big spacecraft will be a solar-powered electric rocket

Here comes Apple’s Android tablet competition. Along with today’s official reveal of the Samsung Galaxy Tab , Archos has taken the wraps off not one but a full line of five small and large tablets. The star: a 10.1-inch challenger to the iPad that’s $200 cheaper.

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iPad too pricey? This 10-inch Android tablet is just $300

Because stupid people hurting themselves really tickles my fancy, here’s a story about some jackass who blew himself up in the bathroom trying to kill a spider . Come on maine, haven’t you ever heard of a shoe?! The 28 year-old suffered severe burns after attacking the arachnid with an aerosol can at his home in Clacton in Essex. The man was summoned by his wife to deal with a spider she had seen scuttling behind the lavatory on Bank Holiday Monday. Not being able to reach it, the man decided to kill it by spraying it with the can. However he was unable to see whether it was dead because the bulb in the bathroom light had blown. At this point he turned to a cigarette lighter to illuminate the room, but in the process ignited the gas fumes and caused an explosion. The blast was so strong it blew the man off his feet and lifted the loft door off its hinges. He suffered flash burns to his head, legs and torso and was rushed by ambulance to hospital after dousing himself in cold water. Granted this guy is MENSA material compared to Electric Nips , but still. Haven’t you ever heard of masking the smell of a numero dos by lighting a match? And have you ever heard of someone dropping it between their legs before all the gas trapped in the bowl has dissipated? What happened? Exactly, they blasted off like a rocket and fought a towel bar with their face. Been there, done that, six stitches and an Owen Wilson nose, amirite?! Man blows himself up trying to kill a spider [telegraph] and Picture Thanks to Ash, who kills spiders the old fashioned way: tearing their legs off one by one and then letting them starve to death. WOW. Also, my apologies to anybody who’s itching now because of the picture. I couldn’t help myself!

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You’ll Never Be An Exterminator!: Man Blows Himself Up Trying to Kill A Spider For Wife

With the Space Shuttle program winding down , NASA is busy developing new equipment that can do the work of the shuttle, and that includes the Orion escape module. While it has performed well in tests, Orion doesn’t exactly give its passengers the softest landing, so MIT graduate student Sydney Do has developed a clever system to cushion the impact.

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Airbag-equipped seats promise a soft landing for NASA astronauts