Arboreal case modder Nick “Greensabbath” Falzone’s latest creation is an Ebony and Maple Frankenstein inspired by the Beijing Digital Building. Dubbed Chiaroscuro — meaning a contrast between light and dark, you dummy — the tower sports an AMD Phenom X4 9350e quad core, 4GB of RAM and a Radeon HD 4850.

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Chiaroscuro case mod misinterprets phrase ‘going green’

Protect your head and your ego with this bike lid from Yakkay. Customize for the look you want.

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No Dorky Dome, This Bike Helmet Goes From Glam to Gilligan

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch : MySpace Puts The Hammer Down On Project Playlist   —  MySpace is getting back into the business of blocking third party widgets, it seems – today they’ve banned embedded music widgets from the fast growing Project Playlist.  But unlike previous 2006 and 2007 blocks of iMeem, Photobucket and many others …

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MySpace Puts The Hammer Down On Project Playlist (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

It sure took long enough to happen, but one of HD DVD’s biggest benefits has finally made it over to the Blu-ray side. Yep, we’re talking about a Blu-ray / DVD hybrid disc, with a single-layer of Blu on one side and a standard DVD on the very same side (as in, not a “flipper” disc). Not surprisingly, the action’s going down first in Japan, with Code Blue emergency helicopter doctor Blu-ray BOX (yes, seriously) as the first hybrid title.

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First Blu-ray Disc / DVD hybrid announced in Japan

Sean O’Malley / The Official Google Blog : New search-by-style options for Google Image Search   —  Many of us use Google Image Search to find imagery of people, clip art for presentations, diagrams for reports, and of course symbols and patterns for artistic inspiration.  Unfortunately, searching for the perfect image can be challenging …

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New search-by-style options for Google Image Search (Sean O’Malley/The Official Google Blog)

If you thought the pirated Super Mario World game pushed the NES to its limits, enter Street Fighter 3 — why they didn’t just go with “2″ is still a mystery. Continue reading to see more. (Thanks, Jamie)

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Feature: If Capcom Released Street Fighter 2 on the NES

Dubbed the Broto Domestic Greenhouse, this gadget “lets you use aeroponics to grow plants, constantly checking the pH, temperature, nutrients, and humidity to ensure that they grow as healthily as possible.” Click here for one more picture. And really, it makes sense

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Mini Greenhouse Uses Aeroponics, Lets You Grow Plants Without Soil

What do you get when you combine a host of R2-D2 robots and music? The official R2-D2 dance. Continue reading to watch. More like a dream for every Star Wars fan, a couple of remote-controlled R2-D2 robots dancing together at the R2LA (an annual gather of the R2 Builders Club in Los Angeles).

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The Official R2-D2 Dance

As we’ve seen, plenty of researchers and companies are betting on graphene as being the big thing that will revolutionize transistors and, hence, all manner of electronics, and it looks like IBM is now claiming one of the biggest breakthroughs to date, not to mention the desirable title of “world’s fastest graphene transistor.” More specifically, IBM researchers have apparently been the first to demonstrate the operation of graphene field-effect transistors at gigahertz frequencies and, apparently even more importantly, they’ve also established the scaling behavior of the graphene transistors, which they say could eventually lead to the development of terahertz graphene transistors — or, in other word’s, keep Moore’s Law around for quite a bit longer than many expected. Filed under: Misc. Gadgets IBM claims title of world’s fastest graphene transistor originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds

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IBM claims title of world’s fastest graphene transistor

PopSci’s Adam Weiner did some calculations to see if young Kirk could survive the car jump in the new Star Trek trailer. Adam’s wrong. We have the real answer in our own video. According to Adam, he would have needed to apply a force of 3,900 Newtons with his fingers to stop from falling.

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Can Young Kirk Really Survive the Car Jump In the New Star Trek? [Star Trek]