The machines I use at Kroger and Giant Eagle in Columbus, OH, you can type in the 4 digit code on the apple's label and it identifies it correctly in just a few seconds. The codes seems to be consistent from store to store too; Gala apples are almost always 4135. There is an option to choose the apple visually, but…

@Llew: I think that's because most of Australia is desert outback where few people live, much less have internet access. The more human habitable areas are on the coasts.

@Aminpro: follow the "Facebook" link at the bottom of the article, it'll take to you the post on Facebook and there's a link to the hi-res version there :)

The Soyuz is only the "last physical link" after the shuttle retires for now; SpaceX already has a contract with NASA for the same sort of human/cargo ferrying service and just had their first successful launch, I'm really surprised you didn't link Giz's own article on it, [gizmodo.com]

@Y2KGTP: No, Apollo 11 was the name of the mission. The lander was Eagle, the orbiter was called Columbia. But no matter what was called what, there is no way Eagle would/could have landed on the far side of the Moon from Earth; they needed constant communication of telemetry from Houston, which would have been cut…

@farcedude: In fact it wouldn't flow at all because that requires atmosphere to surround each dust particle and "fluidize" it, like when sand runs like a little river out of your hands at the beach. I'm not precisely sure what that shot would have looked like in actual 1/6 gravity but it probably would have been a…

@triplecheeseburger: I knew it was only a matter of time until they shoehorned Alpha Trion and his impossible robot beard into the movies :P

@Zanzan42: I wonder how he arrived at that price, anyway, and where he bought the materials from. Obviously fossils are sold all the time, but in my mind there is a difference between a fossil of, say, a brachiopod (of which there are literally millions, especially here in Ohio) and that of a T-Rex. Scientifically and…

Wow, that actually ticks me off a little bit. It's not like you just find T-Rex teeth lying around every day, they're priceless fossils, and important to science! I can't believe someone would use them for something like this; ridiculous.

@HeroOfTomorrow is lonely: I think because he tends to be a bit negative and opinionated in his reporting. In this case he obviously feels this hack of Kinect is ridiculous, but quite a few commenters (myself included) think it's actually pretty cool. The fact that even his headline for this article is negative right…

Actually this looks pretty challenging, I can see the fun in it. Would be exhausting to play, but I'd give it a shot. Might get too frustrating in the long term though. I'd say Mario Galaxy would be an interesting one to hack, but that probably really would make my brain explode.

Great, now I'm all distracted from work, trying to figure out how you'd get 100,000 people to the Moon and back. And then I think of anime like Battle Athletes and picture an elite sports university in space...yeah, the future will be pretty awesome ;)

@Tommy Zheng: When I lived in Japan I was able to use my US Costco membership, so I think you should be fine.

@Alexander Ward: Besides which, from what I understand the Towers collapsed exactly as they were designed to in a worst-case scenario event like that; collapsing in on itself in place instead of toppling over and destroying half of Manhattan.

@typica1cat: That is badass! WANT.

That's actually a pretty cool idea, it certainly makes your computer easier to clean, and overheating becomes a non-issue! I can see that as a techy art piece, he just needs to jazz it up with some color.

@Deckard: Agreed, I'm not sure this concept even makes sense from a biological perspective. The Paleolithic dragonflies were a different species, they'd evolved to that size in that atmosphere. I find it difficult to believe that you can take a modern-day dragonfly and just breed it bigger based solely on oxygen…

I lived in Japan for a year and I saw one of their hornets for myself once. These monsters are as long as your thumb, no joke. I'd build a robot too!! Scary photos if you follow the link, [www.worsleyschool.net]