I hate Facebook games with the fire of a thousand g-type main-sequence stars. But, I managed to put all that aside when I heard that NASA just released its first stab at a social network app, which gives you the chance to best other geeks in space trivia to earn meaningless rewards that I suddenly must have.

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Playing NASA’s first Facebook game will actually make you smarter

It’s been sixteen years since Edinburgh scientists cloned a sheep and named it Dolly , but their sophomore effort appears even better: they’ve gone back to the studio and created some new brain tissue. Human brain tissue, that is.

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Human brain cells created using stem cells

Are you still clinging on to your legacy Windows 95/98/XP install? Maybe your netbook is running one of Microsoft’s old OSes? Screw Windows Phone 7 and its colorful flat tiles, because now you can install the full desktop copy of Microsoft’s operating systems on your Android smartphone.

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Tinkerers install Windows 95/98/XP on an Android smartphone

Thingiverse user Brian Beebe has contributed this great design for an electrified wire-stripper that uses an LED to tell you the instant the razor-blades have penetrated the insulation, completing the circuit that lights it up. Use: * Sight down the blades. * Align the blades with where the wire should be stripped. * Move the wire into the blades having the blades cut into the insulation. * When the blades cut through the insulation and contact the wire the LED will light. * Spin the wire or the tool to cut the insulation completely around the wire. * Remove the wire from the tool and pull off the insulation. Electro Wire Stripper ( via Make )

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Clever wire-stripper design

This picture isn’t really communicating the greatness that’s going on here (there’s a video inside for that), but here’s the gist: Kevin Donahue is an inventor who has patented a “one-way see-through illumination” system. Read: these shades light up like something out of a cyberpunk wet dream without blinding you.

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GloSpex light-up shades come from an alternate cyberpunk reality

There’s been a lot of talk about driving drunk on here, and now there’s a new way to avoid it! Since, it seems people are more apt to listen to an app than they are to another person, it’s probably a good thing that there’s now an iPhone app that tells you if you’re too drunk to drive.

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‘BreathalEyes’ app tells you when you’re too drunk to drive

Whether you like it or not, Facebook will switch your profile over to the timeline format over the next few weeks (if they haven’t already). My experience has been mostly enjoyable, but Timeline Movie Maker takes it one step further, by turning it into a nostalgic video.

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Timeline Movie Maker turns your Facebook profile into a movie

What’s that in the sky? Neo flying around your city, and you’re in The Matrix !? Or did someone just create a real, working Iron Man suit? None of the above. The real answer is far simpler.

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Remote-controlled flying people let you play real-life superhero

Lockheed Martin has been hard at work getting the Orion space capsule ready for its first unmanned launch, scheduled for sometime in 2014. The first manned launch was supposed to happen two years later, but it’s now been pushed back, dragging manned deep-space exploration along with it.

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Orion delay pushes manned deep-space exploration back to 2021

Guys, while you’re waiting for that miracle contraceptive shot to make its way to the U.S. from India, you might want to try taking your testicles to a really loud ultrasonic concert, since according to a new study, ultrasonic blasts might lower your sperm count enough to make you temporarily infertile.

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Blasting your dude-bits with sound could work as a contraceptive