Afternoon Web Roundup: Apple's next trick, extreme Xbox violence, whatever happened to 8-Track?

Staff writers | Jul 6, 2009 2:25 PM
An iPhone box that charges your iPhone? Also: 8-track audio technology isn't dead, PlayStation 3 tricks, and scary smile tech

The best of the rest. Who's reporting what in the world of PCs, technology, science, broadband, sci-fi, products and more:

Retro tech: NIN release music on USB, Cheap Trick releases them on 8-Track

So this is what a laptop looks like in 1968

Augmented reality gaming, coming to the PS3?

What if your new iPhone box charged your iPhone before you open it?

The scariest application of "Smile detection" 

While the Ulysses spacecraft needed heaters, this one needs a cooler that brings it to nearly the coldest temperature in the universe

This is where you can see the ISS from Australia

Extreme violence on the Xbox and what's best for your kids

Tiny PCs that fit in your hand. Where Intel's been and where they're going