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NASA employees take 10 to 15 minutes to decontaminate before entering this clean room. But you can get a look inside from your couch, pre-shower. More

Get ready, the iPad craze starts in two hours ? [ Apple ] More

Wow. The PS3 is getting HD purchases and rentals from all six major studios. A quick search turns up that Xbox is missing Fox and, duh, Sony. It’s nice that Sony isn’t handicapping the Playstation 3 in order to protect its blu-ray business

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Playstation 3 First Console With HD Movies From All 6 Major Studios [Sony]

Johnny Cash can’t have known about carbon nanotubes when he sang about rings of fire, but MIT scientists have shown how they can create electrical current—about 100 times as much energy per unit of weight as lithium-ion batteries. The new experiments involved nanotubes, or submicroscopic structures just a few billionths of a meter in diameter, that can conduct both electricity and heat. Engineers coated the nanotubes with reactive fuel that produces heat by decomposing, and then ignited it with laser beams or high-voltage sparks.

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Heat-Channeling Carbon Nanotubes Produce 100 Times More Energy than Li-ion Batteries [Nanotubes]

You’d be able to conceive and give birth to a baby faster than the Tron Legacy takes to come out (just nine months and nine days left!), but here’s a trailer to sate you for a while longer. You won’t be able to make much out in the leaked video, but hey—there’s audio! Here’s the official synopsis, if you missed it last time: TRON: LEGACY is a 3D high-tech adventure set in a digital world that’s unlike anything ever captured on the big screen. Sam Flynn (GARRETT HEDLUND), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (JEFF BRIDGES), looks into his father’s disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin’s loyal confidant Quorra (OLIVIA WILDE), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous

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Tron Legacy Trailer Leaks, Leaves Us Wanting More [Tron]

Things I thought of while viewing the solar eclipse-inspired Nissyoku lamp: GLaDOS, a glowing tennis ball and, oh yeah, a solar eclipse: The designer says that unlike those fleeting solar eclipses we see in the sky, this lamp lasts for up to 10 years. It’s also capable of morphing from one simple shape to the next, and can be suspended from the ceiling, a la a chandelier, or placed on a table, where it will neither burn out your eyes nor damage your table. The light source, sadly, is not fusion or even fission, but a 5W LED in each of the two panels. [ Igendesign via Design Blog ]

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Transforming Nissyoku Solar Eclipse Lamp Powered By LED, Not Fusion [Lamps]

If Matt had to change his pants over the Valve Apple teasers the other day, what will today’s wardrobe malfunction be? I only ask because the latest GameInformer confirms Portal 2 is coming to Mac. Scheduled for a fall release, Portal 2 will be a full-fledged Portal experience distributed to the Mac, presumably, by an all-but-confirmed Steam service for that platform. [ MacRumors ]

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Portal 2 Confirmed for Mac [Steam]

These Force Series SSDs from Corsair have up to 280MB/s reads and 260MB/s writes, which are supposedly “class-leading”. Even if it’s not the fastest solid state drives on the market period, it’s the fastest Corsair’s ever made. The drives will be available in 100 and 200GB sizes in about two weeks, and will support SATA II 3.0Gb/s. No prices for these yet, but our guess is you’re going to have to pay a little more for the higher performance.

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Corsair’s Force Series SSDs Are the Fastest in Its Class With 280MB/s Reads [Ssd]

TiVo might be dying on the vine , but at the rate they’re racking up lawsuit wins they may survive yet. The company’s stock skyrocketed after a federal court shot down Echostar and Dish’s recent appeal; compare that to Premiere’s debut. This decision upholds last fall’s ruling that found Dish in contempt for not canceling their patent-infringing DVR service

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TiVo’s $400 Million Patent Payday Upheld In Court [TiVo]

This world map of mobile browser usage is interesting. Some figures, like the iPhone/iPod’s presence in almost every major market of the world, are not surprising. Others are funny

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In Nigeria, Opera Is Used by 9 out 10 Scammers [Mobile Browsers]