This is the cabinet that cradles an iPad in an upright position for playing a host of classic Atari video games.

A sturdy, 1/4-scale version of the full-sized cabinets found in arcades throughout the 1980s, it communicates with a secured iPad using Bluetooth, mapping movements of its joystick and taps of its eight buttons to controls featured in over 100 downloadable Atari video games for iPad. The eight-way joystick and spring-loaded buttons provide the same genuine feel and response as the original controls for realistic play. Additional games, such as Asteroids, Battlezone, and Centipede available for purchase from the iTunes Store for as little as one dollar.

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This is the picture frame that displays two levitating photographs. Magnets inside the acrylic photograph case and the three-sided frame create a magnetic field that suspends the photographs in midair. The dual-sided acrylic case holds two 5″ x 3 1/2″ photographs and rotates 360º while hovering to display either picture. A gentle push of the picture case will cause it to spin in midair, creating a nearly perpetual, two-photograph slideshow.

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A new study says that, thanks to Facebook, six degrees of separation is now only four. Kevin Bacon, you and 41 others like this.

A theory stemming from an experiment by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in the 1960s claims every living person is connected to any other through only six friends. According to a recent study, Facebook reduces the six degrees of separation to only four, meaning the world’s largest social network makes the world even smaller (figuratively).

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National Geographic is currently holding its annual photo contest, with the deadline for submissions coming up on November 30. For the past nine weeks, the society has been gathering and presenting galleries of submissions, encouraging readers to vote for them as well.

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