School estimates $1m to remove SETI@home software
Space-age collapsing lampshade looks like a fractal sun
Contest: Design an awesome GelaSkin, win an awesome GelaSkin

Review: Assassin’s Creed 2
CrunchGear in China: Seeing Where the Tech Sausage Is Made
The Freedom Tray: Made in America, used everywhere

Autom, the fat-fighting robot, is coming in 2010
Donkey Kong plus Star Wars equals the nerdiest shirt I’ve seen in a long time
Cabling as art form

Electric skateboard features 600-watt motor, top speed of 19 miles per hour
Monopoly: Nintendo Edition
Celebrating Cyber Monday? Then join me in celebrating Awesome Tuesday tomorrow.

Here are some of yesterday’s stories on CrunchGear:

Awards: Best of Black Friday
USB eye-warmer

Nerdbots: throwbacks to the tin toy era
The twee-est iPod speakers on the planet
This Horgan Becket media cart is somewhat expensive

Life goes behind-the-scenes of the 1954 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Honda makes the ultimate Paperboy gaming system
Now blinking LEDs can transmit information to cell phones via light

It’s… a self-rolling ball
Customized streetmap clocks from FluidForms
USB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongue

Shh! World’s largest radio telescope network goes live
Space adaptive HUMANITARY INVENTION detects things and then calls you about them
USB-powered Alien figure with illuminated tongue

Last Minute New York Meet-Up: A bit of Holiday Cheer with Cali Lewis and CrunchGear
The Aptera 2e gets pushed back to 2010, millionaire tree huggers shed a tear
Review: ContourHD wearable 1080p camcorder

Contest: Win a Nikon D3000
The third day of Peek-Mas
Self-powered diaper monitor system automatically detects wet diapers

Udder pitcher makes me want a glass of moo
UV wand kills H1N1 dead — dead I tell you
USB shoe dryer, USB eyelash curler, USB toothbrush sanitizer, USB blanket (Thanko)

Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear.

CrunchGear wants to kiss you this Holiday
NSMB Super Skills Trailer
Thanko’s USB powered, Dinosaur foot-shaped slipper keeps your feet warm

Palm Pixi Review: Not for everyone, but it fits a niche
NASA: We found water on the Moon
Japan to operate solar energy station in outer space

Thanko’s USB powered, Dinosaur foot-shaped slipper keeps your feet warm>
The Nintendo DSi Studio Kit takes it a little too far
An asteroid almost smashed into Earth, and we only knew about it 15 hours before it happened

It’s very easy to win a Tekken art book from us!
$150 Spy pen is probably good enough for “Mission: Impossible”
And our costume contest winner is…

GamersGate has a virtual currency I might actually want to earn
Excellent idea: flat outlet pulls out to allow extra plug
USB-powered gloves that keep your fingers warm (but why?)

Japanese company announces Dragon Ball headphones
Toyjector: Cute mini projector to be released in Japan
Choken Bako: Cute Japanese piggy bank

Toyjector: Cute mini projector to be released in Japan
Does anyone in tech pay attention to unemployment numbers? Hard to buy that new gizmo when you don’t have a job, right?
Exclusive video of the Litl Webbook

Wherein we discuss Grand Theft Auto: The Ballad of Gay Tony
The Beatles remastered catalogue will be released on an apple-shaped USB drive
The Electrobite makes it fun and exciting to be handicapped

The perfect room: a bed, TV, and an Xbox 360
New spongy material instantly hardens on exposure to magnetism
Choken Bako: Cute Japanese piggy bank

Video: Strange Japanese hamburger vending machine
New system used to protect airplanes from lasers, soon to work against sharks with freakin’ lasers, too
Ties made from old cassette tapes sort of feature audible playback

Here are some stories you might have missed this week on CrunchGear.

All about the Motorola Droid
Helmet radar: coming to a supersoldier near you
Spooky Tesla Radio in a jar

Inspired by this post back in August, I decided to learn how to knit just so I could make this costume of Link from The Legend of Zelda for our 3-month-old son, also named Link. My wife and I finished it just in time today to go to a party with some other new parents. Happy Halloween!

Review: Sanyo Xacti CG10 compact HD camcorder
Advertisers get creative at Waterloo Station, create craziness with projectors
Heated slipper looks downright dangerous