You know graphene, the super material that’s strong enough to withstand diamond cutters ? Turns out that not only may it replace silicon as the de rigeur component of microchips, it’s on track to becoming the next megabattery as well. Engineers at the University of Texas in Austin have found a way to store electrical charge in graphene-based ultracapacitor devices, and their discovery could revolutionize the renewable energy industry

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Graphene Could Become World’s Best Super Battery [Graphene]

If Michael Dell takes the Cowboys, put your money on the Packers. The computer maker CEO isn’t that great when it comes to predictions, if his recent track record is any indication

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Michael Dell: The Anti-Nostradamus

Filed under: Cellphones With under a week to go before the HTC Dream is officially unveiled in the Big Apple, the Wall Street Journal has given us something juicy to gnaw on for the time being: a price. Unsurprisingly positioned to compete directly with the iPhone 3G , the Android-powered HTC Dream / G1 will go for a cool $199 (with 2-year contract, obviously) when it launches on T-Mobile, though there’s no word yet on what it’ll run sans subsidization

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Android-powered HTC Dream to sell for $199 on T-Mobile

Filed under: Laptops The long wait is up, and Peru is first in line to receive the new Windows flavored XO through the OLPC program. Though not as cute as the bubbly Sugar interface, it will pack more of a real world punch where apps are concerned — each XO is fitted out with an assortment of MS goodies, including Office 2003 and Learning Essentials 1.0 for Office, served on a bed of XP Pro . Now before you get all teary eyed, keep in mind that Sugar lives on , and there’s an emulator out there with your name on it

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Peru receives first Windows based OLPC XO laptops

Putting it firmly in a price point to compete with the iPhone, the Android-running HTC Dream will cost $199, according to the Wall Street Journal. The smartphone will also get an “aggressively priced” data plan from T-Mobile and receive some heavy Google branding. It’ll be interesting to see whether Google’s open source platform gives Apple’s apps a run for their money on Sept

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Android Dream Will Cost $199, Get Low-Price Data Plan and Google Branding [Android]

After a few years on the theme of yesteryear, MobileCrunch has been given a facelift under the mighty styling scalpel of Mark Hendrickson . Readers of TechCrunch should feel right at home with the new look.

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We’ve got a new look!

Columbia professor Douglas Irving Repetto designed this crazy looking project which allows humans to write obsessive thoughts on scraps of paper, deposit them in one of seven squirrel cages, and spin them round and round to let the machine obsess for them. Made with grape arbor, glue, rubber bands and a laser cutter, the apparatus utilizes “parallel processing to the age-old problem of broken human minds.” Yeah, I’m not sure I quite get it either, but it sure is pretty. Check out Repetto’s site to see a video of his Distributed Squirrel Cage for Parallel Processing in action! [ Douglas Repetto via MAKE ]

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Wooden Squirrel Cage Machine Obsesses Over Your Thoughts For You [Avant Garde Engineering]

Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal : ‘Android’ Cellphone to Showcase Google Brand   —  The first mobile device powered by Google Inc.’s “Android” mobile phone software is expected to sell for $199 and will showcase the Google brand, people familiar with the matter say, a departure from the standard practice of listing only the manufacturer and wireless carrier on handsets.

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‘Android’ Cellphone to Showcase Google Brand (Amol Sharma/Wall Street Journal)

Yahoo will begin bucket testing a new version of its home page this evening with small percentage of users. The company’s last home page redesign was more than a year ago, and earlier this year Yahoo began integrating third party content onto the site via their new Buzz product .

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Yahoo’s All New Home Page A Mix Of Old And New

On Friday, we introduced you to the Panasonic Lumix DMC-G1 , a tiny interchangeable-lens camera that’s not a DSLR, but rather built on the new Micro Four Thirds standard . Now it looks like the G1 will shoot HD video, even though last week’s US press releases were mum on the subject

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Panasonic’s Tiny Lumix DMC-G1 DSLR-Killer Does Shoot HD Video [Digital Cameras]