A Star Trek fan with a lot of particleboard built himself a USS Enterprise Galileo 2 shuttle in his backyard. A backyard that could actually pass for some of the original Trek’s “alien worlds”. It’s not just the outside that looks authentic, the inside is awesomely detailed as well.

Some of us didn’t even have a stinkin’ treehouse as a kid. If I knew what back yard this was in I would go there at night dressed as Captain Kirk and play until the wee hours of the morning.

Here’s a notebook for some extreme multi-tasking. Intel’s latest laptop outdoes them all with a large primary display, along with three sub-displays above the keyboard. These little OLED touchscreens will be able to display video, music playlists, whatever your wandering attention span desires.

They can work as a single screen or as one continuous surface (the “albums” in the video spill across multiple screens). It’s mainly a proof of concept intended to show that they’re working on these kinds of displays for their laptops.

Vodafone has confirmed that it will be launching the HTC Tattoo next month. It’s being positioned as an entry-level model with some customization options. The Tattoo features a 2.8-inch resistive touchscreen with the HTC Sense UI and replaceable covers.

Some other features include a 3.2-megapixel fixed-focus camera, dualband 900/2100MHz HSPA, WiFi b/g and Bluetooth, 3.5mm headphone jack, microSD card slot and USB 2.0 connectivity.

We’ve seen some crazy Foosball tables, but nothing like this one. It’s clearly from the future and it’s name is Space Foosball. Basically they’ve turned foosball into a tabletop video game.

Sure it takes some of the fun out of it. No spinning paddles that kick a real ball around the table. But think about it. The players can now be anything. Donkey Kong Vs. Mario, Space Invaders… The possibilities are endless.

Nintendo just announced that they will be releasing three new colors for the Nintendo DSi, which are scheduled to arrive in Europe on October 23rd. The colors are metallic blue, light blue and red versions of the DSi to compliment the already available black and white models.

But wait, there’s more. With the new colors comes a firmware update that will include the new Flipnote Studio and Facebook feature pre-installed.

Above is a Microsoft Word document from SEGA America’s official FTP site in SEGA’s news directory. It could be there as a joke, but if it’s real, then it reveals some interesting details. Mainly that Sony will be launching its PS3 motion controller in Japan in March of 2010, then elsewhere in the Spring.

There are also details of PlayStation 2 emulation on the PS3 and that “SCEA wants to sell all PS2 titles on PSN (GTA Vice City/Sonic/etc).” Want more? Maybe they will announce it at the Tokyo Game Show which starts Thursday.

One of the larger of the privately held wireless providers in the country is Cellular South. The mobile provider is one of the more vocal that has been crying foul over the exclusive arrangements that the major national carriers are striking for devices like the Pre and the iPhone.

Luckily, for Cellular South customers HTC didn’t give a major carrier an exclusive on the sweet HTC Hero Android phone. The device will hit the Cellular South network soon with preorders starting on October 5.

Say supercomputer to most people and they think of the massive machines that take up entire rooms at colleges and laboratories around the country. The sort of computers that have massive power and consumer as much electricity as a mall.

SGI has announced a new computer that is the first in what it calls its line of personal supercomputers. The machine is a high-performance desk side cluster. Despite the machines high-performance it takes up the same amount of space as your average workstation.

There are a few basic things that people need for their home and office when it comes to technology. Things like cables, ink, recordable CDs and DVDs, and other things of that sort. The problem with massive stereos like Amazon is that it can be difficult to find these basic things and we all want them at a low price.

Amazon has introduced a new line of private branded AmazonBasics gear for consumers that are being sold all in one store to make it easy to find. The AmazonBasics line currently features video cables and blank CDs and such.

Extreme sports fans like to show people all the crazy stuff that they do from sky diving to swimming with five four year olds at once (which I assure you is very extreme) the catch is most cameras can’t stand up to the rigors of this type of use. What these people need is a camera like the Predator VX360.

The VX360 is a wearable camcorder that is water resistant and aimed directly at the extreme sports market. The camera is waterproof to three meters and robust enough to survive impact with rock and the salt from seawater.

This R2-D2 may be the best mod ever. It was created by Popular Science reader Brian De Vitis and holds not one, not two, but eight consoles, a sound system, and a projector. You had me at eight consoles R2. This all started with an R2-D2 shaped cooler that he modified.

Then the consoles were gutted to rearrange the controllers inside so all the ports could face in the proper direction. He still had enough space inside for a projector and a sound system. This man is my new hero.

Microsoft has confirmed the 802.11n adapter for the Xbox 360. Which is great and all, but that’s about it. No mention of price or a launch date. The big M did say that the adapter will offer “another choice to consumers,” which probably means that the original adapter will be around for a while, probably for a cheaper price.

So it’s confirmed, but that’s about all we’ve got. We pretty much knew that already. We’ll let you know more when we know more.

Netbook SSDs have come in several forms, but finding the right model for your machine is about to get much easier thanks to the SATA-IO working group having just announced a new mini-SATA standard called mSATA that should get it all uniform and reduce it’s footprint some.

Toshiba’s the first now with 32nm drives in 30 and 62GB sizes, but you can expect to see mSATA drives and machines from a bunch of big names in the future. Players like Samsung, Dell, HP, SanDisk, Lenovo, and STEC. We can all hold out hope that standardization will lead to lower prices as well.

This black and red X-Box 360 Controller reminds us of Thrustmaster’s Ferrari controllers, without all of the logos. If your X-Box 360 could use a little flair, why not get this bold controller.

It’s an official release from Microsoft and will be available on October 15th. This would go well with the all black X-Box Elite or even the Resident Evil console. The X-Box 360 Controller & Charger retails for $69.99 at GameStop. Looks kinda spider-like.

Team has announced a new series of Flash Drives called the Color Turn that they hope will stand out. The drives are available in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB capacities. They feature a cap-in-body design and a USB 2.0 interface, with maximum read and write speeds of 15MB/s and 8MB/s.

Each drive measures just 55mm x 16mm x 9.1mm and weighs in at 11 grams. These are compatible with most operating systems including Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Linux 2.4 and Mac. No word on price or availability just yet though.