Wanna know who’s getting a new iPod Touch 16GB for FREE? Watch the video and find out!

It’s almost time to give away a brand new 16 GB ipod touch, make sure you’ve entered! Check the original video for details and to leave your entry comment!
Here’s the vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS-ZrBQHI3M
Remember: One entry per screen name, multiple entries will be disqualified. Entries must be submitted by June 28, 2009 at 8PM EST.

Today on the show we take a look at the lunar exploration rocket that NASA just sent up and the awesome video they shot from on board. Also, the RIAA makes bank by suing the pants off a lady to the tune cost of $80,000 a song. Finally we discover why the laptop battery ratings [...]

Today on the show we take a look at layar, a smartphone app that lets you place overlays on live video shot with a cell phone.  It’ll tell you what buildings are what, where things are, and might even find you a job. Also, we take a quick look at the finally released iPhone OS [...]

Today on the show we learn why the space shuttle couldn’t take off on Saturday and what that has to do with incontinence. We also say a final farewell to analog TV and take a look at an iPhone user survey and find out what they really think about AT&T.

Today on the show we take a look at some of the stuff that Apple revealed on Monday’s WWDC including the new iPhone 3Gs, the new MacBook Pro, and OSX Snow Leopard. We also give you the low-down on Facebook’s new vanity names that’ll become available this Friday at midnight, check out how much CraigsList [...]

Today we take a look at what might or might not be revealed at Apples World-Wide Developers Conference.  Did you know there might be a new iPhone!?!? OMFG!!! Also, the Palm Pre came out and the world will never be the same. Finally, we take a look at some Segways on a motocross track and [...]

So the secret’s out - you voted and the results are in, the prize for our big subscription contest is a 16GB iPod Touch, new in the box ready for you to use and abuse. All you have to do is subscribe and leave a comment to this video - get your friends to do [...]

Today on the show we find out that Big Ben just had a birthday! Also, more about the upcoming Zune HD and iPhone update and we find out where New York City plans to send millions of tons of toxic waste. Here’s a hint - it’s Texas.
We also offer you the opportunity to pick the [...]

Today on the show we take a quick look at the Zune HD and the lack of features that’ll make it a hit. Also, Psystar is filing for bankruptcy, to no-one’s surprise. It’s kind of sad though, since that’s the first company we ever talked about here on Techspank. Also, Carol Bartz thought dropping the [...]

With the internet becoming a more and more powerful tool to get the word out about a candidates political ambitions, Iran has blacked traffic to Facebook ahead of their June 12th election. Also, the South Carolina attorney general is told to lay off Craigslist by a judge.  HBO and Trueblood trick reporters into thinking their [...]

(NOTE: it’s the 21st not the 20th, don’t get pissed!! Mistakes happen…)
With Google sitting happy at the top of the search food chain, competitors have to find SOMETHING to do, luckily for us Wolfram Alpha has an interesting type of search engine that doesn’t just give sites, it gives answers. Also, the GPS satellites that [...]

Today on TechSpank, the French have plans to get tough on people who download movies and music illegally - and if they find you, they’ll snip your internet connection! Oh lala!!! Also, the makers of World of Warcraft have plans to release a totally new massively multiplayer online game but they’re tight on the details. [...]

Today on the show we reveal why there was no show on Monday and then we tell you about the Slingbox app on the iPhone and why AT&T might not be playing fair with its customers. Also, after just a few murders, Craigslist decides to change the way they do business in the classifieds world.  [...]

Today on the show, more Twitter news, it just never seems to go away, the U.S. Mexico border gets a cyber patrol and Microsoft takes on video editors in a new ad.

Today on the show we take a look at a patch that can measure calories that we eat and use over the course of a day as well as update you on the large hadron collider and finish up with a look at the most popular youtube videos of all time.

Today on the show we take a look at what scientists took a look at - the oldest object in the universe that we know of. We also take a swing at the sine flu and some of the ridiculous coverage and even music that it has inspired. Throw in a TechVi.com shout out and [...]

Today on the show we take a look at a web site that takes a look at hipsters and how they’re annoying simply by existing. Also, prosthetic arms that move when the user thinks of moving them and a small Alaskan town that’s being forced to relocate because of climate change

This is an update to a story in the previous episode dealing with bill collectors who allegedly posted threats to a MySpace profile in an attempt to get the money they were owed. We got in touch with Ron Larson, the man who owns the company accused of posting the messages and found out some [...]

Today on the show we cover Twitter and the tweets who love it, bill collectors who use MySpace to track down their victims and force them to pay, and the spies who hacked into government files dealing with a new fighter jet in development.

An action packed episode with The Pirate Bay creators being found guilty, an ISP that likes torrents, robotic dog redux, ethanol’s future not being as great as we thought, internet shopping taxes and the United States getting a new CTO.

Today: there’s a crazy plan that almost sounds like something out of a bond movie to put satellites into space that would beam energy to earth. Also, people afraid of getting a heart attack have one more tool to help them prevent one, as stealing pin numbers might be easier than we thought for the [...]

We’re back after taking a week off, and we’re covering fat that makes you lose weight, what an itch really is, burglars caught on hidden camera, and tweenbots.

Asimo, Honda’s little robot that wouldn’t go away, learns how to read your mind! Also, Time Warner finds new and exciting ways to screw over their cable internet customers, Optimum has an insanely annoying commercial, and Steve Wozniak gets the boot from Dancing With The Stars. Sadness for all…

Today we find out that James isn’t the only person who hates twitter, we also learn about the state of the internet, and finish out with a look at a YouTube remix that might open up a whole can of copyright worms.
Here’s the link to Current TV’s awesome SuperNews Twitter video:
http://current.com/items/89891774/twouble_with_twitters.htm

We took a trip to the Boxee meetup in NYC and got the latest on Boxee and what they have planned for the future, and we got tangled up with some of the interesting people who go to meetups…

Today on the show, Google introduces a way for us to snatch back emails we might have sent to people by mistake, researchers in Texas start work on synthetic muscles, and Sense Networks introduces CitySense, which might help you find people just like you, wherever you are.

As we all know, Apple announced the details surrounding the iPhone 3.0 software, which didn’t contain many surprises, but we can still get excited about it. Also, the car/ airplane hybrid took flight for the first time, new tire technology hits the road soon, and Psystar just won’t stop making Apple knock-offs.

When a kid has his iPod Touch blow up in his pants, lawsuits are bound to happen. Also, South By Southwest (or SXSW for the cool kids) pushes Twitter to the limit, and lastly, how prepared are you for death — online death, that is. Some companies are helping us take care of business once [...]

WARNING: PERFORM AT YOUR OWN RISK!!!
Video tutorial on how to take off the new iPod shuffle earbuds and replace them with whichever ones fit your ears and sound best. Originally this tutorial was made for the iPhone earbuds but this should work with the new ones included with the shuffle.

Today on the show we take a look at the connection (or not) between bootleg DVD’s and terrorism, REM’s case against a Dutch band and Obama’s lifting of the ban on stem cell research funding.

Facebook is going after some of the features we love (or hate) in Twitter. Their ttwitterfication is just about complete, we’ll see who comes out on top. Also, new vaccine technology could make HIV and cancer a thing of the past, and finally, green bullets are better for the environment but just as deadly to [...]

Episode 50!! WOOHOO!!! On today’s show, TV.com comes to the iPhone app store, Microsoft shows us the future, and California is all dried up.

Today on the show, James takes a look at video games censorship — who is it really trying to protect? A video game called “Rapelay” has New York council member Christine Quinn up in arms, even though it’s not available in the US. The point of the game is to stalk and rape a woman [...]

The stimulus bill means more to some than it does to others — especially those getting $15 Billion, Microsoft fires some employees then asks for some cash back, and patent lawsuits could use a little clarity. Also, we announce a winner of our super fantastic amazing Toy Fair swag giveaway. Lives will be changed on [...]

In this episode we’re giving you a chance to win swag from the Toy Fair! Yay!!! Also, Boxee has been forced to remove Hulu and TV.com content from their service for no good reason and the Pirate Bay is having a fun time defending itself in court.

Even though it’s the 2009 New York International Toy Fair, and there’s nothing really techie or science-ey about it, we thought we’d go and try to find cool stuff there anyway… and we did.

Today’s show covers the ridiculous “Shorty Awards” which gives praise to the best of the best Twitter users (let’s just call them “twits” for short…). Also, Chinese executioners take their show on the road in a death bus and emoji is finally available to those of us outside of Japan — iPhone users rejoice!

Microsoft’s new ad has a little girl editing photos but a 9 year old iPhone app developer wrote a paint program of his own (probably just to spite her). Also, the Swedish Navy has a stealth ship and the economic stimulus bill might give the finger to science.

Ever think you’d have a kidney travel through your vagina? I’m sure the woman who had it happen to her didn’t. Also, someone in North Dakota is scamming folks with fake parking tickets. We also take a minute to give you an update on the DTV transition as well as the circuit city liquidation, and [...]

It’s Groundhog Day!!! We take a look at some Superbowl bloopers, Google accidentally blocks the entire internet and, oh yeah, James lives in Obama’s old apartment — really!

President Obama and others want to allow individual states to determine how low the emissions should be for cars and the car makers are none too pleased (they want their SUV’s to keep on truckin’ plus the bigger the car, the bigger the profit). Also, California decides they want flat panel TV’s to start using [...]

We took a trip to our local Circuit City to find out what kind of sales are to be found now that the liquidation has been going on for a few days. We found some shoppers and compared what they paid to what can be found online. Thinking of going to find a deal? Check [...]

President Obama makes his way into the White House and breaks the internet a little bit. Also, if you hate Sprint, you’ll want to watch this episode. And we might not know Mark Hurd in person, but we hate him.

On today’s show we cover the bankruptcy and liquidation of Circuit City and some of the tech keeping the inauguration celebration safe, at least for Obama. We’ll also cover how the economic bailout money could help fund research in the US and take a look back at what Martin Luther King Jr. thought about science [...]

Psystar, the mac clone company, refuses to let Apple’s legal team shut them down, and their new defense is as flimsy as their old, but they’re still out there stilling fake macs. A new study finds out how dangerous it really is for kids to be online and the US House of Representatives and Senate [...]

In this episode we take a look back at 2008 and find some pretty bad tech blunders. Think you know what made the list? Watch and find out!

In a big week for the iPhone, not only did it go on sale at Walmart, but it also get give-away prices at the AT&T refurb store. Could this mean that there’s an iPhone nano in the works? Also, wind farming in the US is more popular than ever, but are we ready for it?

Apple has announced that they’ve got enough other stuff going on and this will be their last MacWorld ever. A company decides that the best place to built a safe and secure data center is inside of an old nuclear bomb shelter. Researchers at the university of Illinois invent a self-healing paint that can can [...]

Today it’s all about web video - the viewership and ad sales for Hulu appear to be on the decline, NBC decides to turn a blind eye when “Jizz In My Pants” is released on youtube, and bicyclists from “Critical Mass” finally get their day in court, in part because of a video posted to [...]

Nvidia has some problems with solder balls and the macbook pro, cheap oil prices might spell disaster for alternative energy research, and an old friend turns 40.

LiveStation hopes to bring streaming video to the iPhone and Ipod Touch, German and Australian researchers find that laser printers are spewing out way more toxic fumes than we thought, and guys around the world let their beards grow to help raise awareness about mens health.

Had enough black Friday crap? Yeah, sit back and come with us on a porno journey. From spam to iPhone apps to cell phones, porn is everywhere this Thanksgiving. You’re welcome.

The tech used to monitor carbon sequestering is being fine-tuned, meaning that it’ll be a safer and more effective way to dump our carbon in the future. Also, a woman in London can only recognize the voice of Sean Connery. Finally, companies who dock worker’s pay while their computers are starting up are about to [...]

A company called Hyperion Power Generation plans on having a tiny nuclear reactor in back yards everywhere. Researchers at MIT have come up with a way to make stuff water repellent, and the Mars rover “Spirit” gets all those NASA control room people up in a tizzy again. They’re so easily excited. . .

The election night coverage on the major networks (except MSNBC, losers) was in full HD effect with more unnecessary graphics than at a Hannah Montana concert. Also, there’s a new walking robotic assistant being tested that likes to make friends with your private parts and videolan player (VLC) becomes the target of some sneaky malware.

Finally getting the AppleTV to do cool stuff that doesn’t have to do with iTunes. We’ll show you how, using Boxee for the AppleTV, you can watch free internet video from Hulu, Comedy Central, CBS, you can also view your photo library, listen to internet radio and your MP3’s and more, all without iTunes or [...]

It’s Halloween!! HP tries out some viral videos dripping with corporate lame-ness and we check out some tech Halloween costumes for a last-minute fix.

A bacteria who poops to make you fat, Britney Spears goes web 2.0, and scientists help us forget whatever we don’t want to remember, like the last episode of TechSpank.

Come along with us on a really REALLY long ride into hacking the Apple TV to do all sorts of cool new stuff using the ATVFlash patchstick. All your friends are there: XBMC, Boxee, NitoTV and all the other stuff you’ve never heard of. Forgive James for sometimes saying XMBC instead of XBMC, he likes [...]

Today on TechSpank: Americans suck at math, Verizon finds another way to rip people off and your balls just got way more important.

New tubular solar panels, Ask.com gets a makeover, and Google tries to keep your alcoholic rantings under control.

Today on the show we find out something stinks in Israel, knees have something to look forward to, and Obama takes office in your iPhone.

Google’s Android makes its debut on the T-Mobile G1 and the financial crisis in America might have a silver lining for the tech industry.

Since there’s so much talk about the large Hadron Collider breaking down recently, we thought it’d be a good idea to explain what it is, without all the idiotic “it’s gonna kill us all” stuff… it’s not… we don’t think… well at least you’ll know how it’ll kill us all if it does…

Today on the show: rats get counted from space, Microsoft gives Jerry the boot, bacteria get funky and FINALLY a waterproof computer mouse.

Nexicon offers a karma fix for illegal music downloaders, MySpace takes on iTunes (who cares?) and dog poop gets the CSI treatment.

Today on the show we cover genetic bling and a not so fancy form of bio tech as well as Googles 10th glorious year… ALL HAIL GOOGLE!!!!

Today on the show: are you a micro-tard for Windows 7? Also, texting goes to Washington and MyYearbook.com is totally awesome…. TOTALLY!

Today on the show, Scientologists must be crazy (not for what you think), Star Wars themed condoms, and Facebook changes make people quite unhappy.

We take a look at, then take apart, the Esquire magazine E-Ink display. Can you hack it? Is it worth it? Watch and find out.

On today’s show we take a look at a cell phone teddy bear, inmates who try to shove phones where they shouldn’t, and spammers outsourcing to India.

WOOHOO!!! 10th EPISODE! Diebold sucks, Obama drunk texts, and dogs sniff cells for cells…it’ll all make sense.

iPhone update, growing new limbs, heads full of hair, and lego my olympics!

Today on the show: making stuff invisible, robot skin, a tax on porn, and an Olympic sized yawn.

Olympic overload! Smog that clears the air, fake supernovas and Megaman 9, YAY!

Today on the show: criminal searches online, rapid prototypes, Scotty’s ashes get sprayed over the ocean… by accident, and the FCC lays down the law with Comcast.

A hacker gets sent to the U.S., Dell tries out another media player, fat princesses take the stage and the Wii MotionPlus add-on helps some people come to terms with their childhood.

Yahoo’s giving something back, Apple’s MobileMe isn’t quite ripe yet, NASA rocks the nukes and the Spanish invent an acoustical cloak.

Yahoo pulls the plug on their music store, Intel will be putting tougher security directly into their CPU’s, Scrabulous FINALLY gets busted, and Apple announces the Macbook TOUCH!!!! (oh yeah… they totally did).

On this show we take a look at Sega’s new Sonic game, NASA’s pee problem, a new exoskeleton and Microsoft’s counter attack against Apple.

Today’s show covers cell phone number transfers, old people tech, and the Wii. Yup, just another Tuesday.