Trapped Chinese miners survive on coal and urine diet

BEIJING (Reuters) – Two Chinese brothers who tunnelled their way out of a coal mine collapse after being trapped for nearly six days survived by eating coal and drinking urine, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Brothers Meng Xianchen and Meng Xianyou became trapped while working at an illegal mine in Beijing’s Fangshan District late [...]

DVR viewership eating away at DVD watching

DVRs have earned the enmity of broadcasters and advertisers alike by enabling viewers to easily skip their least favorite bit of the TV watching experience, commercials. Another group may be moving the DVR further up on its list of disliked technologies in the wake of Ofcom’s fourth annual report on the state of the UK’s [...]

Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber heading into space

According to recent news out of NASA, the next time the Discovery crew take their ship into orbit, the “force” will be with them — because they’re taking Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber along for the ride. That’s right, for the film’s 30th anniversary, the original lightsaber prop from the first Star Wars film is taking a [...]

Battle of the Asian OEMs: Acer buys Gateway, thwarts Lenovo

Taiwan-based PC manufacturer Acer has announced that it will purchase rival firm Gateway for $710 million in an all-cash deal. Combined, the two companies should ship more than 20 million PCs annually with revenues of over $15 billion.
Acer’s acquisition of Gateway was made with an eye towards its market share battle with Lenovo. Perhaps [...]

Rumor: Google Phone Will Be Linux-Powered, GPS-Loaded and Cheap

If the murmurs are true, the GPhone cometh in September.
Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins has uncovered some details about the long-rumored (and apparently all but confirmed) Google Phone.
According to Rizzn’s source at Google, the device runs a modified version of the Linux kernel and has GPS built in. The positioning system will be used to power a [...]

Tera-Discs To Blow Away Blu-Ray and HD-DVD?

Tech UK is reporting a startling new disc storage technology that could end the HD war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray: the Tera-Disc. How much data? On a 1TB disc, you could store 212 DVD-quality movies, 250,000 MP3 files or 1,000,000 large Word documents.Read Moredigg story
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FotoFlexer Raises The Bar On Online Photo Editing

Online photo editors keep getting better and better. For hardcore image manipulation, desktop software like Photoshop or Gimp will always have its place, but online editors are free, easy to use and a lot of fun. We covered most of the online editors back in February (Fauxto, Picnik, Picture2Life, Preloadr, PXN8 and Snipshot). But a [...]