Laugh all you want, but the stupendously silly $200 million Battleship blockbuster opening Friday isn't close to sinking toy- and game-based films anytime soon. Here are 10 classic childhood diversions that got burned into our brains thanks to cheesy television commercials. We think Hollywood should eye these for their own movies.

The next generation of videogames is going to rock your world. And it's all thanks to a piece of software called Unreal 4.

HP and Intel call it Itanium. But others call it the Itanic. This difference of opinion goes a long way toward describing the ongoing court battle between HP and another giant of the tech world: Oracle.

Thor Heyerdahl sets sail with his crew from Safi, Morocco, aboard Ra II.

Arnhel de Serra?s photos are like the British equivalent of a good New Yorker cartoon: quirky and insightful. His series on the U.K.?s agricultural shows ? which are similar to county fairs here in the U.S. ? gives viewers a curious peak into the eccentric events that have been part of the country?s heritage since the 1800s.

The average episode of Top Gear runs around $1 million to produce. But those high-style, high-flying ? and incredibly expensive ? aerial shots just got slightly more affordable with the introduction of a new quadrocopter specifically developed for shooting automotive action.

Honda has unveiled a new personal mobility concept vehicle that lets riders move around indoors at about the same speed as their legs could carry them. The UNI-CUB is the evolution of the U3-X, unveiled back in 2009, and uses Honda's proprietary balance control system to keep from tipping over. It also uses the company's Omni ...

On the eve of Facebook's IPO, a look at the daring decisions that took the social network's price tag from $1 billion to about 100 times as much

Assuming Facebook hits $104  billion on IPO day

A menagerie of medical machines join forces in The Immortal, a new project by artist Revital Cohen. The tangled mass of life-support devices are hacked to support each other, detached from their usual human hosts.

*If I didn't blog this, I'd have to be put out to pasture and shot as a mercy. http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=14041 http://justinpickard.net/gonzo-futurist-manifesto.pdf (...) "The gonzo futurist is a super-empowered hopeful individual. She may have been a ?graduate with no future? (Mason, 2011), or the victim of public sector cuts, but has since grieved and moved on. She plays, tests, and play ...

Self-promotion is tough for anyone, but for designers it's an Olympic challenge. Everything they hand out, post, and send to potential clients has to visually represent their (inimitable) style and (immeasurable) talent.

Google's daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.

Despite the biggest tech IPO ever, the flagging stock market has prompted an increasing number of companies to halt plans to go public

On this week's edition of the Gadget Lab Show, the gang takes a gander at the Nook Simple Touch e-reader and Pebble Smartwatch, the most successful Kickstarter project ever.

Conch shell flower pots, Radio Flyer wagons-turned-go-karts, bamboo bicycles. The Internet's made it easy to share individual projects. But the web's also given designers a sense of community, says Shoshana Berger, Wired Development Editor and curator of Wired Design, the magazine's newest addition to its website. Ten years ago, creative types didn't have outlets like Etsy ...

Virgin Atlantic begins offering cellphone coverage on transatlantic flights. The pricey, and somewhat limited, service will use items found in space and in the homes of outlying carrier customers to help passengers call in sick to work while flying to London.

In the early days of Web 1.0 beta (i.e., the '90s), most of us who were paying attention thought music middlemen were on their way out. Things didn't really pan out that way, but we're sniffing a return of the "direct to fan" ecosystem. Here are five apps that could rewrite the industry's rules.

Brain implants, a robotic arm, thought control ? it sounds far out. But in Brown University?s BrainGate experiment, the combination worked. Scientists helped stroke survivor Cathy Hutchinson train her mind, a computer, and a robotic arm to work together to perform a simple task her own body hasn?t been capable of since 1996: raising a cup of coffee to her mouth, and drinking it.

In the inaugural episode of Wired's video show The Monitor, senior editor Peter Rubin talks about new movies (The Avengers, Dark Shadows), comics (Dial H) and videogames (Max Payne 3).