New taxi's with odor-absorbing seats aren't the only upgrades New York City is getting. The Big Apple's 12,800 decaying public pay phones could be replaced with large touchscreens that are good for making more than just voice calls. One day, you might be tweeting from one of these "smart pay phones."

New taxi's with odor-absorbing seats aren't the only upgrades New York City is getting. The Big Apple's 12,800 decaying public pay phones could be replaced with large touchscreens that are good for making more than just voice calls. One day, you might be tweeting from one of these "smart pay phones."

There's something extra satisfying about popping bubble wrap between your fingers. It's kind of like eating potato chips or cracking your knuckles, once you start, it's hard to stop. So to deliver the ultimate bubble popping high, it helps to bring a little brute force into the picture

What would happen if Darth Vader played an active role in raising ( SPOILER! ) his son, Luke Skywalker? Apparently some pretty adorable situations would arise, as shown in Darth Vader and Son , an upcoming Star Wars children's book by Jeffrey Brown.

It's bad enough that the new iPad causes people to burn their hands , threatens to destroy its own battery in a shower of hot lithium if you leave it plugged in overnight, makes images on the web look terrible , and consumes all of your data faster than you can say " not compatible with Australia's 4G network ." Those are all serious issues that every potential iPad owner must face , but it gets worse.

Jeff Somogyi of dealmac has posted an amusing comparison between Apple's upcoming OS X Mountain Lion and a real mountain lion . It turns out the differences between them are not so subtle.

Apple unveiled the next major release of its OS X desktop operating system on Thursday, giving the world a rare early look at what the company has in store for Mac computer users this summer. A revamped Messages app with iMessage integration, the Notification Center and enhanced iCloud integration are among the exciting new features users can look forward to in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion . Apple loves naming versions of its desktop platform after jungle cats, of course, so Apple deal-hunter DealMac decided to line up the technology giant’s new OS against its namesake.