Japan’s Ikaros solar sail spacecraft has certainly made itself into one to watch. After a successful launch and an equally successful deployment, the ship is now showing off how it maneuvers. High tech as the ship is, its method of steering is simple and genius.

What happens when you pump a whopping 10,000 volts of juice into a helpless watermelon? Instant watermelon salad, that’s what. You’ll just need to gather up the pieces from the blast radius.

There are a lot of pretty great iPhone games, but none of what I really, really want: old school NES and SNES games playable with real buttons. With the GPad, that’s not necessarily the case.

I’ve gotta give Xtraordinary Adventures credit for bringing the price of a flight to space down from the $200,000 Virgin Galactic is planning on charging. But still, $95,000 is a wee bit out of my price range.