8:21 AM (seconds ago) Scott Brown on Why 'Battlestar Galactica' Must Self-Destruct from Wired: Top Stories by Scott Brown Scott Brown discusses what he considers to be inevitable for the upcoming fourth and final season of Battlestar Galactica.
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	8:21 AM (seconds ago) Senslux SLD Desklamps Try to See Off Your Winter Blues, Acne [Lamps] from Gizmodo by Kit Eaton Senslux's new SLD range of desk lamps will light your stuff with LEDs for low power-consumption eco-friendliness, and come in three types. The SG-1500 model appears to be just a plain ol' desk lamp, but the SF is apparently a "full spectrum" lamp, presumably to give more natural light to combat the dim winter sun. The last, SA model, claims to be a light therapy for acne. Brilliant. Available in Korea for around $150, not sure if or when they'll make it over here. [Aving]
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	8:21 AM (seconds ago) Samsung Luce Lock is the iPhone of Doorware, Apparently [Samsung] from Gizmodo by Addy Dugdale Fans of Jonathan Ive's work may find the EZON SHS-5200 lock, aka Luce, from Samsung just a little bit crispy. Built to US standards, and with an emergency keyhole, this slimline digital door fastening has been hailed as being better-looking than the iPhone. Made of aluminum, its tempered-glass, touchscreen pad only lights up when you press the start button and there's a built-in fire alarm that goes off when the temperature hits 55ºC. Given how hot my MacBook gets after a day's work, that's a feature that Apple should maybe think about installing in their machines. [AVING]
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	8:21 AM (seconds ago) This Week On BotJunkie from OhGizmo! by Evan Ackerman By Evan Ackerman On BotJunkie this week, we started things off with a video of a robotic chair that you control by pointing where you want it to go, heard with a raised eyebrow or two that WowWee’s Robosapien is going to be starring in a feature film, started caring about car racing when we learned that there’s going to be an unmanned event at this year’s Toyota Grand Prix featuring winners of the DARPA Urban Challenge, acquiesced to the demands of NASA’s Dextre robot that it now be referred to as “Dextre the Magnificent,” saw an impressive demonstration of Nexi, a robot from the MIT Media Lab who’s mobile and dexterous and social, were impressed by the drawing skills of hexapod robot from Micromagic Systems, totally trumped Andrew by posting a YouTube video of Daisy, the giant robotic propeller of death, and found out that your Roomba may be just the thing you need to get rid of your ant infestation. [ BotJunkie ] BotJunkie
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	8:20 AM (seconds ago) How to power USB gadgets behind the wheel from Crave: The gadget blog by Mike Yamamoto (Credit: Gadget4all) If there's something that even arch-rival Giants and Dodgers fans can agree on, it's that there are zillions of USB hubs on the desktop market. But what about for the car? For 12 bucks, Gadget4all is selling a four-port charger that can plug directly into the ...
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	8:19 AM (2 minutes ago) Big Blue's Secure Second Life Fortress from LinuxInsider by Erika Morphy IBM is putting its heft behind a project that could morph into new way of doing business in Second Life, Linden Lab's virtual 3-D community. The two have partnered to build a protected enclave in Second Life where the company can conduct serious business without fear of marauders. While there are more than 100 corporate storefronts in the virtual community, none operate behind a firewall. Now, though, IBM employees -- or rather, their avatars -- can collaborate and communicate in a secure Second Life zone.
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	8:19 AM (3 minutes ago) Google Reveals Spectrum Auction Strategy from TechCrunch by Erick Schonfeld During the recent wireless spectrum auctions that just brought the FCC $19.6 billion in license fees, there was a lot of speculation about what drove each of the different corporate bidders. But the bidders themselves were barred from speaking publicly about their auction strategies. Now that Verizon has been declared the biggest overall winner, and the auction is over, the participants are free to speak. Google was potentially the big spoiler in the auction, but as it explains, the main motivation behind its participation was simply to ensure that some of the open rules it had lobbied for would be enforced on whoever won. From the Google Public Policy Blog: Google’s top priority heading into the auction was to make sure that bidding on the so-called “C Block” reached the $4.6 billion reserve price that would trigger the important “open applications” and “open handsets” license conditions. We were also prepared to gain the nationwide C Block licenses at a price somewhat higher than the reserve price; in fact, for many days during the early course of the auction, we were the high bidder. But it was clear, then and now, that Verizon Wireless ultimately was motivated to bid higher (and had far more financial incentive to gain the licenses). In fact, Google raised its own bid in ten rounds without any counter bids, which implies that Verizon was doing everything it could to make sure that the open device and open application rules were not triggered. Ultimately, that strategy was not successful, and it must now abide by the open rules. It remains to be seen whether Verizon will abide only to the letter of the rules or to their spirit. (Photo by Steve Jurvetson) Crunch Network: MobileCrunch Mobile Gadgets and Applications, Delivered Daily.