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Go crazy like the Lost fans who watched the whole thing in one marathon 94-hour sitting last May, or dole out episodes at your leisure: The choice is yours if you win Wired.com’s giveaway of the $230 Lost: The Complete Collection Blu-ray box set.

The coolest thing about this car isn't the Lola chassis, or the clear bodywork. It's the kids who made it.

The iPad has proved a boon for app developers of basic pre-school tutorials. But just as there are too many fart apps (though one may be too many) there is an overabundance of those which purport to teach the "ABC's," and lots of them just plain suck. Enough already!

AP - A pair of fender-benders, two technology-loving hitchhikers and 22 hours blocked at the Russian border. That's the balance sheet so far for a team of driverless vehicles on a 13,000-kilometer (8,000-mile) roadtrip from Europe to China.

Simplenote, our favorite note-taking application for the iPhone, iPad, Android, the web and PC or Mac, has just seen a rather important update with a treasure-trove of new features.

Take a peek at DIY space photos taken by some of 130 astronomy enthusiasts gathered at a campsite just south of Salisbury, England, from Aug. 8 to 15 for the fourth annual Salisbury Star Party.

Pluto, once the ninth planet from the sun, is downgraded to a mere "dwarf planet." Our solar system loses a favorite kid brother and now has, officially, only eight planets.

A series of satellite photographs conveys the epic scale of the floods sweeping through Pakistan, leaving millions homeless and the world aghast at an extreme weather disaster that experts consider the new normal.

At Comic-Con this year, a Rocket Poppeteers ice cream truck cruised through the streets of San Diego, giving away T-shirts and popsicles to curious bystanders. In addition to helping Comic-Con attendees beat the heat, the Rocket Poppeteer crew was subtly promoting Super 8, a new film by J.J. Abrams and Steven Spielberg, as part of an alternate reality game.

Facebook is suing a little-known website for educators called Teachbook, claiming Facebook literally owns the -book when it comes to naming social networking sites.

The rotating corpses of massive stars can help scientists weigh the planets in the solar system. By carefully timing radio blips from spinning stellar leftovers called pulsars, astronomers have measured the masses of all the planets from Mercury to Saturn, plus all their moons and rings. Until now, the only way to figure out the mass of a planet was to send a spacecraft past it.

With the NFL finally taking a proactive stance against identifying and preventing concussions, the league has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control to help spread the word about brain trauma that occurs on the field of play.

Your next iPhone might listen to your heartbeat or scan your face to identify its rightful owner — and it could react with anti-theft measures if it ended up in the wrong hands, according to a patent recently filed by Apple.

A driver survives when his car goes airborne and slams into an overpass. You've gotta see this to believe it.

Ben Patterson - Google tried — and ultimately failed — to turn the U.S. wireless market upside-down by selling its supercharged Nexus One Android phone online, with minimal help from the big carriers. But now, months after shuttering its online storefront for the phone, the Nexus One is a sudden, improbable hit.

Ben Patterson - A new beta of Apple’s iOS mobile software reportedly boasts references to a fourth-generation iPod Touch and maybe even a new iPad — not much of a surprise there. It’s the mention of some "unknown hardware" in the iOS beta code that’s raising eyebrows. Are we talking a new Apple TV, perhaps, or something new we haven’t seen yet?

The Social Bicycle System (SoBi) turns bike-sharing on its head, and is set to test in New York City this fall. Instead of big, central base-stations from which the bikes must be taken and returned, the SoBi puts all the tech on the bike itself. Here’s how it works.

How has the Man of Steel outlived his creators? Writer Grant Morrison reflects on the political relevance of the costumed hero, how a costumed Comic-Con attendee inspired his take on Superman, and his uncomfortable encounter with Bizarro.

AP - India's Home Ministry threatened Thursday to block BlackBerry corporate e-mail and messaging services unless the device's manufacturer, Research In Motion Ltd., makes them accessible to its security agencies by Aug. 31.

Not all marketing is bad -- sorry, Bill Hicks. A new generation of tools help businesses keep tabs on what consumers are saying about them, in order to keep their customers happier. Everybody wins, especially the guy who gets a free drink for tweeting about a hotel pool.