Tag: CONTESTS

Evan Ratliff knows how to pull a good disappearing act. For the August issue of Wired Magazine, Ratliff outlined the best way to literally disappear, citing the case of Matthew Alan Sheppard, a health and safety manager who faked his own death for insurance money, as a way to highlight the impossible possibilities of trading in an old identity. The digital age, with Google and social networking, ...

Digital dexterity is no match for ring-side reporter Mo Rocca. Thumbs fly, collars pop and hearts break in our exclusive, behind-the-scenes coverage of the 2008 LG National Texting Championships. Pro-texter Morgan Pozgar walked out with a cool $25,000 after beating out the competition at last year's tournament, and she returns this year to defend the much-coveted title. For 2008, the stakes ...

Not long ago, getting any game on a video game console like Microsoft's Xbox or Sony's PlayStation required some sort of publisher to front thousands of dollars in capital for the production of discs and boxes and manuals. Thanks to Xbox Live Arcade, getting games on the Xbox 360 is a lot easier than it used to be, since publishers are essentially no longer required because games are sold and ...

It wasn't all that long ago -- just about three years -- that aerospace engineer Burt Rutan and his company, Scaled Composites, won the $10 million Ansari X PRIZE for being the first private corporation to reliably launch a manned spacecraft twice in two weeks. It was a monumental achievement, but it turns out that the X PRIZE Foundation that awarded the $10 million exists solely to "create ...