In a goal to end the year with a bang, Google’s Doodlers have drawn up a creative, artsy doodle for this year’s holiday season. It’s 17 interactive portraits of holiday scenes around the world and took six months of work.
The 17 different portraits are: • St. Basil’s Cathedral • Acropolis of Athens • Buche de Noel • Mount Fuji • Great Wall of China • Pierogi • Indian dance styles • Sahara Desert • Sydney Harbor • Oud • Chili pepper • Venice gondolas • Nepal • Chilean vineyards • African kanga • Up on the House Top • Henna lamp
Chief Doodler, Micheal Lopez, and five artists spent over 250 hours working on those doodle, which loosely (very loosely, actually) re-creates the Google logo with various images across the world. I’m interpreting the unrelated im
Razer has unveiled its new Scarab Gaming Mouse Mat which has a scheduled release date on New Years Day, January 1st, 2011. The Razer Scarab is a hard mouse mat which has a rubber base for better stability and measures a mere 350 (W) x 280 (L) x 3 (H) mm. According to Razer, the Scarab is subdivided into very small areas, each of which displays self-similarity to its surrounding areas for precise movements which results in better responsive and tracking from your Gaming Mouse. The Razer Scarab also has a Fractal 2.0 surface which was coated in light grey for a highly responsive and uniform tracking system which works with both Laser and Optical mouses. 
For Australia’s Tron: Legacy premiere, skaters slid around Eness’ interactive ramp; iPod Touches loaded with custom apps that measured air time to control the graphics. Tony Hawk, this isn’t. In fact, it’s rather like Wipe Out, isn’t it? [LiveForFilms]
Super Talent has announced its new Storage Pod USB 3.0 Hard Drive External Storage device that offers a max storage of 500GB and will deliver speeds of up to 90 MB/s when being used with a USB 3.0 compatible system. The Storage Pod is USB-powered plus it is lightweight weighing at a mere 200 grams. The Super Talent Storage Pod USB 3.0 Hard Drive is priced at $99.99 and will start shipping in early January.
Few years have passed since we first heard about the Predator drones used by the Air Force and other organizations, yet it’s already time to begin waving goodbye to the outrageously expensive aircraft as their more dangerous replacements take over.