From Morris Rosenthal's Computer Repair with Diagnostic Flowcharts. Bonus: On his site, the charts are interactive, so clicking on a diamond jumps you to the text for each decision step. After the jump, check out all the branches up close......

I-SWARM robots are three-legged solar-powered droids which are less than 4 mm long, wide, tall. Two things to note: 1) I-SWARM stands for "intelligent small-world autonomous robots for micro-manipulation." Physorg explains: .....

An advantage Sony's Reader still has over the Amazon Kindle is that it's easy to hack. It runs Linux, has various hooks into the system for eager coders to latch onto, and will run custom applications directly from SD card. The new model...

Handwritten paper signs like these, with words like "SOS" and "Beatings!" on them, were seen floating out of second-story windows at Internet addiction camps in China when a local paper went to further investigate after the recent...

Every time I see my living room bookshelf, I feel silly. This is because it's the ultimate poseur bookshelf. In it is a complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Filling two more shelves...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has pored over the terms of service for several popular ebook services and devices and come up with "An E-Book Buyer's Guide to Privacy," a handy chart that tells you what information about your reading habits you...

Here's a neat kitchen gadget — a toaster that "prints out" toast. It allows you to feed multiple slices at once from the feeder at top, and spits out finished products from the bottom. It's a concept by Othmar Muehlebach, and it won second place at a...

Reader femaletrouble3 wins an HP MediaSmart EX495 for this entry in our 100-word fiction contest. Runner-up acrocker wins a Peek Pronto. Runner-up Toryhoke wins a mystery prize. Winners, email Rob at Boing Boing dot net for your loot!

Artist Marc Woods made this collection of oddly erotic "fetish objects" for the London Wapping Project. Charlie Stross once wrote one of these into a novella we were working on together -- this is exactly how I pictured it. To Have and to Hold by...

Airtrax's omnidirectional wheels for industrial vehicles can roll forward, back, sideways, diagonally... Like something out of a Neal Stephenson novel. I want an electric car with these things (though who know how they wear on road...