Leigh Van Byran and Emily Banting were on their way to Los Angeles from England. Instead of partying like rockstars in Hollywood, they ended up in the back of a truck full of illegal immigrants and Mexican drug dealers because of some seemingly nefarious tweets that they sent out. Watch out, tweeting can land you in jail.

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Twitter joke on ‘destroying America’ leads to two detained Brits

This table, from Italy’s Manoteca , is made from a junk-market door and a lot of style: Made from a door found at a outdoor market in Modena, the table is outfitted with a custom steel frame and new hinges that enable the shutters to open and close at will. When flat, the table can accommodate up to 8 diners, while lifting the back panel open reveals an instant-work desk, complete with rawhide pockets to hold your empty leather-bound sketchbooks and drawers to keep that super 8 camera youre planning to restore (never going to happen). In the words of the makers, its a table, its a desk, its a streetdoor. When its time for dinner just lower the top half and lock up. A Table Thats Full of Surprises ( via Crib Candy )

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Junk-market door as a desk/table/streetdoor

The Galaxy Note is a different breed of mobile device. With a 5.3-inch screen, it’s too large to be a comfortable smartphone and too small to be a real-sized tablet. Yet, it still manages to be a very formidable pocket companion. AT&T’s priced and dated the device, so get your wallet out.

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Samsung’s oversized phone/mini tablet ‘Galaxy Note’ heads to AT&T

Vending machines have become a popular means of recycling everything from batteries to light bulbs . Now, a new vending machine takes the idea reusing and recycling to a higher level by allowing users to exchange gently used items for other items or credit.

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The swap meet of the future: vending machine exchanges goods for free

It will likely be a few more decades before we get to gene-splice ourselves to become cheetah-men and hawk-women, but in the meantime, you can test out what your animal self might look like with a cool new 3D visualization tool.

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3D mirror mask reflects the animal lurking inside you

Like a lot of people, I have a closet stuffed full of old obsolete tech . Having shelled out over $3000 for a PC back in the 1990s, it’s hard to just toss it out. Now your old gear can live on, as furniture to sit on as you play with your new tech.

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Recycle your old obsolete tech by turning it into geeky furniture

Canada might not have much of a space program, but that could change once a couple of 17 year old schoolboys get into the workforce. Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad managed to send a Lego Minifig out to the edge of space, and they did it with a budget of just $400.

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Canadian teens with $400 launch the first Legonaut into space

Marshall Alexander made these free downloadable papercraft Etch-a-Sketch and Viewmaster models. He notes, “Instead of creating exact paper replica’s I chose to do very simple interpretations that fit on a single page and are very easy to construct.” Bright Red 1 and 2

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Papercraft Viewmaster and Etch-a-Sketch

Well, this is no good: testing has revealed cracks in the Soyuz landing capsule that Russia was supposed to launch to the ISS, rendering it decidedly un-spaceworthy . The launch date has been rescheduled until April or May, meaning that SpaceX’s Dragon capsule might be the next arrival at the ISS.

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Russian Soyuz grounded again, SpaceX Dragon may be next to ISS

Here in the U.S., we’re used to thinking about solar power as one of those happy eco-friendly things that we’d all totally be using except for the fact that it’s so much more expensive than fossil fuels. In the developing world , though, it’s exactly the opposite: solar power is gaining ground with 1.3 billion people simply because it’s the cheapest way to go.

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Solar power cheaper than fossil fuels for 1.3 billion people