The official News agency of Nigeria (NAN) is reporting that a NIgerian school has received 300 a gift of 300 laptops - one per pupil but has no electricity to power them up. Galadima Primary is the first school in the country where each pupil has his own laptop. Electricity is indeed a big problem in Nigeria, the world's sixth largest exporter of crude oil. Only big cities get power however the service is at best erratic....

This Lego tower stands tall at 94 feet and was built with over 465,000 bricks. Thanks John...

Shawn from Houston is a bit careless in opening the box. Luckily the phone works after the fall....

Current hard drives which use magnets to write and read binary data are hitting a speed block and if computers are to become faster they will require a different and faster data transfer medium. Researchers at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands have used laser light to write data to a magnetic hard drive at very high speeds. The technique works because the photons transmitted by the laser actually carry angular momentum, allowing them to interact with the hard drive....

This is actually an on-the-ceiling poster in the smoking room at an IT firm in Mumbai, India. Thanks Deepa...

Apparently, Apple Inc is secretly working on a draft plan to release a customised iPhone to capture the Indian market. Here is some exclusive information about a ’special button’ that activates a plethora of amazing features....

With hours to go before the iPhone is available, leaked pictures are trickling in. Like these which were spotted on Flickr, well there is no way to verifying the authenticity, but they are convincing and seem to be shot from a cameraphone. (More pictures after the jump)...

The mighty 90,000 tonne aircraft carrier USS Nimitz will be docking at the Southern Indian city of Chennai early next month as part of a joint defense exercise. Following the news local politicians made a huge outcry fearing that the Nimitz might be carrying nuclear weapons and also because they thought that radiation from the 23 storey tall ship's nuclear reactor might affect the locals. The Nimitz was given clearance after the defense department confirmed that it was not...

The RAZR's successor the RAZR 2 is finally out in stores in Korea, the first market it is available globally. Motorola's flagship model for the year it features a distinctive tandem display in the front. It has a 2 inch external screen for crisp picture and readable text, the internal display is 2.2 inches wide and has double the resolution of the original RAZR. The phone is 2mm thinner the first RAZR at just 11.9mm. The most distinctive feature...

A really unique combination we have got here a mouse which doubles up as a counterfeit money detector. Working is pretty simple place the note or gift certificate under the mouse and activate the UV scanner via the scroll wheel and spot the not. The company will be pitching the products to convenient stores, gas station, bank and hotel. The mouse will be available sometime in July in Korea. (More pics after the jump)...

If the machine-gun equipped robotic sentry developed by Samsung and Korea University gave you the creeps then hang on till you hear about iRobot and Taser's plans. The duo are partnering to come out with "weapons-capable bots." The Packbot Explorer is the firt one in line that is fitted with a Taser X26 stun gun....

Caller ID spoofing can be used to evade dial-in systems that rely on your calling location to establish who you are. It is believed that Paris Hilton used this modus operandi to break into Lindsay Lohan's voicemail. And since what Paris does is unforgivable, we need to pass a bill on it. Sorry about the PJ, but it was to hard to resist. On a serious note, the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has passed S. 704,...

The Xda "Helen" from O2 features Windows Mobile 6 Pro making it a wishlist contender. This "vanilla pocket-sized slider" features quad-band GSM and EDGE, 3G in the 2100 MHz range, Bluetooth, WiFi, 64MB RAM, 256MB ROM and a forward-facing cam for video calling. The touch sensitive soft keys, a 2-megapixel camera on the back, and 570 MHz CPU are the other specs....

Before we go ahead with this article we thoroughly credit Ars Technica and their internal sources who dripped out the gossip on this meeting. Apparently Steve Jobs held a meeting before the historical launch of the iPhone. We personally know it will be a momentous occasion, considering that people are hiring professional waiters to wait in queue for their iPhones! To summarize the meeting, Steve reminisced about the good 'ole Mac Days and went on to compare the launch of...