There’s a new Watchmen trailer and this time around the blurry blue gonads are GONE. That’s right, Dr

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New Watchmen Trailer Censors Out Dr. Manhattan Bits [Who Watches The Watchmen Trailers]

As you’ve probably heard by now, China’s been dealing with a massive tainted milk problem. Now that hundreds of tons of milk products have been recalled, precincts are scrambling to figure out what to do with the resulting trash. One city in Southern China has decided that one great way to get rid of all that melamine-laden fluid is to bake them into bricks and cement.

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Chinese City Bakes Bad Milk Into Bricks [Tainted Milk]

This zany lamp created by Marieke Staps outdoes most lamps in more ways than one: the electricity is powered through the organisms contained in the mud. The mud is enclosed in cells that contain copper and zinc, which conducts the electricity in the LED.

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Mud-Powered ‘Soil Lamp’ Proves Water and Electricity Go Together Well [Mud]

Filed under: Home Entertainment , Media PCs This week’s episode of Ask Engadget takes things back into the living room — or the bedroom, or wherever you have a TV — and looks at the selection of HTPCs below the $3,000 range. And c’mon, who’s not into getting a bargain this day and age? “My query is related to a what is commonly referred to as a Home Media PC

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Ask Engadget: Best HTPC under $3,000?

Huge astronomy news! For the first time EVER , galaxy researchers have taken pictures of planets orbiting a sun-star, much like our own. The first, taken by the much beloved Hubble Telescope, shows a planet orbiting the bright southern star Fomalhaut, located 25 light-years away in the constellation Piscis Australis. The second picture, snapped by upstaging Hawaiian observatories Gemini and Keck, shows two young planets orbiting a completely different star located 130 light-years from us! Take that Hubble! But I warn you—like the ultrasounds your friends show you of their three-month old fetus—these pictures wow mostly because of what they are, not because of what they look like.

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Astronomers Take First Ever Pics of Other Planetary Systems [The Truth Is Out There]

Boy Genius Report is claiming they have acquired the original two-page document that was leaked earlier concerning a rumor that Verizon could require a $30 data plan for all new smartphones starting November 14th. Except for Government customers, this change would affect all Verizon customers

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More Information on Verizon’s Alleged Mandatory Data Plan [Rumor]

Chalk it up to our slumping economy, the upcoming holiday season or both—but Criterion , curators of all movie things awesome , have quietly knocked another 20% off DVD prices in their online store. Since they already offer 20% off all purchases with free shipping when you spend $50 or more, this means you now get a 40% discount in total.

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Dealzmodo: 40% Off All Criterion Collection DVDs [Dealzmodo]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets If we’ve learned anything from The Ice Pirates , we’ve learned that in space — and increasingly on our planet as well — water is the most valuable substance. Among the host of upgrades that the International Space Station is set to receive over the next couple weeks is a water purification system that will recycle urine for use as drinking water

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International Space Station crew ‘thrilled’ to receive new urine recycling equipment

Priced from $15,000 – $500,000, these DNA watches feature real moon dust (face), Apollo 11-sourced casing, and a wrist strap that’s made from ISS spacesuits. Click here for first picture in gallery.

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DNA Watch Features Real Moon Dust and Apollo 11 Parts

Yes, your eyes are not deceiving you: This is a hydraulic excavator—a machine that weights 47,554 to 76,500 pounds—climbing a column using its front arm.

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Hydraulic Excavator Used to Climb Column Leaves Us Completely Baffled [What?]