Let those who doubt the sporting potential of electric vehicles gaze in awe upon the Team Yokohama EV Challenge Racer. This eco-friendly open-wheeled racer scaled Pikes Peak in a record-setting 12 minutes and 20 seconds. This is very impressive, folks. Not only did Ikuo Hanawa shave 57 seconds off the record-setting time he posted in the electric [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/autopia/2011/06/dont-tell-this-guy-evs-are-slow/ Malia Jones

Apple today announced that Mac OS X Lion ? the eighth major release of the world?s most advanced desktop operating system ? will be available to customers in July as a download from the Mac App Store for $ 29.99. OS X Lion offers more than 250 new features, including Multi-Touch gestures; systemwide support for [...] Source: http://tabletbuzzblog.com/mac-os-x-lion-available-in-july-from-mac-app-store/ Tami Donaldson

So much going on in the rumor mill: In the midst of plenty of talk about a Macbook Air refresh, retailers are reporting that their stocks of the entry-level Macbook is running low. Is a new model on the horizon? More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/HpP0hFQwEfM/regular-macbook-getting-a-refresh-too Sarah Silverman

Years of computer use have taught us that the mouse cursor is “above” the windows. It doesn’t push anything around; at least not without you clicking anything. Balance takes that ingrained bit of knowledge and cancels it out. Suddenly your cursor (a blue dot) is solid – and if it touches the blue block, it pushes it around. Your job is to use your cursor to nudge the blue block over to the orange block. [...]

While the subject of Fujifilm’s propaganda video is sad (Japanese earthquake delays production of one of the finest cameras ever!), the production qualities of the video are simply hilarious. Anyone would think they were shooting Michael Jackson’s last days. More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/pOl-ITNT-1g/how-fujifilms-lusted+after-x100-camera-got-back-on-its-feet-post+japanese-disaster Rachel McAdams

Microsoft has priced and dated a number of downloadable games it plans to release during its upcoming “Summer of Arcade” event for Xbox 360, including action-RPG Bastion and platformer Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet among others. Warner Bros.’ Bastion will be out July 20 for $15. With its ever-present narrator and neat graphical style, Bastion looks to [...] Source: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/06/bastion-release-date/ Rose McGowan

None of this actually looking like traditional power stations. Like sculpture. Or, as German architecture firm Becker Architekten put it, like “a smoothed river of stone.” More » Source: http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/UIVsO4ydxyI/dams-should-really-look-like-frozen-rivers Zoe Saldana

The FJ44 leaves every other SUV looking weak and incapable, which is exactly what its buyers are paying the big bucks for. Source: http://www.wired.com/reviews/2011/06/fj44-icon/ Rachel Blanchard

I have a thing for full-screen text editing. I use WriteMonkey for my creative writing needs, and VIM in a full-screen PuTTY session for my Web development work. That being the case, I’m all over the monospace, dark-background, focused editing scene. OmmWriter attempts to take that aesthetic and make it somehow more spiritual, with three picturesque backgrounds and ambient background audio tracks (there are seven of each in the paid version). I’m of two minds [...]

Today?s LogicBUY deal is the Dell UltraSharp U2711 LCD monitor for $824.25.  Features: WQHD 2560 X 1440 resolution IPS panel, 6ms gray-to-gray response time, 80,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 8-in-1 card reader, capacitive-touch switches.  1 USB 2.0 upstream port and 4 USB 2.0 downstream ports, HDMI 1.3, DisplayPort, two DVI, component and composite inputs. $1099 ? [...] Source: http://the-gadgeteer.com/2011/06/28/deal-of-the-day-%e2%80%93-25-off-dell-ultrasharp-27%e2%80%9d-2560-x-1440-wqhd-lcd-monitor/ Shakira