![What Are These Weird People Doing In the Arizona Desert? [Vehicles]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/559b41124001-01.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Who are these guys and what the heck are they doing driving alien-looking vehicles in the middle of the Arizona desert? I can tell you two things: One, looking at the cool gallery, I wish I was one of them. [...more]
![John Carmack’s Armadillo Finally Wins Lunar Landing Challenge [Space]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/b713e1f2b2adillo.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
After crashing the last time , Armadillo Aerospace won the $1,000,000 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge this Saturday. Needless to say, Doom-creator, Armadillo's head, and überspacenerd John Carmack was veehee happy: Since the Lunar Lander Challenge is quite demanding in terms of performance, with a few tweaks our Scorpius vehicle actually has the capability to travel all the way to space. We'll be moving quickly to do higher-altitude tests, and we can go up to about 6000 feet here at our home base in Texas before we'll have to head to New Mexico where we can really push the envelope. [...more]
![Join The 2010 Deadspin NFL Pants Party Pool, Peephole Patrons! [Balls Deep]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/8019ebb695snyder.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Hey, you! Wanna test your prognosticating knowledge again the best of the best? Yes? [...more]
![The World Trade Center Terrorist Attack from Space [Space]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/5ebfe5a9087-zoom.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
NASA has released this terrible image of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, as captured by Frank Culbertson—the commander of the International Space Station at the time. His words that day: Our prayers and thoughts go out to all the people there, and everywhere else. Click on the image to zoom in. [...more]
Even though unemployment is at the highest levels in a decade, companies are still finding it difficult to find the best qualified candidates to fill the positions that are available. [...more]
![This Is How Total Destruction On Earth Looks from Space [Space]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/a559730932doflv.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
Back in June, astronauts onboard the International Space Station took a few spectacular photos of the Sarychev Peak volcano as it exploded in a 5-mile high plume of ash and gas. Here's the even more spectacular video [...more]
![Local Dimmed LCD vs Normal LCD [Image Cache]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/f84b4bc0ebc-0448.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
In the words of Jerry Seinfeld, "What's the deal with local dimming LCDs?" In the words of one Toshiba rep, "it finally allows us to compete with plasma." On the left, the recently announced Toshiba ZV650 , a locally dimmed LED LCD. On the right, Toshiba's last gen, CCFL LCD display (click image for full size pop-up) [...more]
![Berlin Tower Blasts Off Into Space [Architecture]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/65568feb0a856277.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
I don't know if Fabian Tischer—the author of this cleverly made video that mixes architecture and space—loves or hates the Berliner Fernsehturm tower. No matter what, the fact is that he decided to launch it into space. [...more]
![You’re No Invisible Pedestrian While Wearing Black Diamond Sprinter Headgear [Running]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/f737bc8cddite-1.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
The Black Diamond Sprinter is designed with the adventurous night runner in mind, but I can just as easily see this headgear transitioning into a lightweight spelunking role... and, yes, there it is—I think I just invented cave running [...more]
![Gutted Classic Game Boy Made Into 80GB Hard Drive [Mods]](http://tekpop.com/wp-content/themes/newspress/thumb.php?src=http://tekpop.com/wp-content/uploads/23c69f3859amesss.jpg&h=75&w=75&zc=1&q=80)
While I generally weep when modders take classic video game consoles like this Game Boy here and gut it to produce something less important, like a hard drive, I'm taking solace in the fact that this mod might be used to store Game Boy ROMs for an emulator. I hope. And no, it no longer plays games—that's a sticker [...more]
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