Surfing with
the stars

Will Ferrell has Funnyordie.com, Gwyneth Paltrow just launched Goop.com, and even MC Hammer has a Web site that's thriving. Those are just a few in a long list of celebrities who have come off the big screen (or out of the recording studio) and onto the Web. But not all celebrity-powered start-ups are still alive and kicking.

Love it or leave it?

The Archos 5 portable video player offers a beautiful high-resolution touch-screen display, Wi-Fi connectivity, music playback, Flash video and game compatibility, and much more. But is it really an improvement over its Editors' Choice-winning predecessor?

Atomic smash

Twenty-three-year-old Kate McAlpine just wanted to teach people about particle physics. So the CERN intern, working 300 feet underground at the Large Hadron Collider, made a rap video all about neurochips with her fellow interns. And it's a smash: the video has been viewed on YouTube more than 3.3 million times and has triggered almost 1,000 viewer comments.

We buzzkill the new G1 from T-Mobile,
the Large Hadron Collider decides to hold
off on killing us all, and voyeuristic
Webcam dating...is freaking us right out.
It's Buzz!

iPod family album

The iPod has come a long way since the introduction of the original 5GB model more than five years ago. The timeline of subsequent iPod releases reads like a royal family tree, with some branches that have stayed true to the original iPod form (iPod Classic), some that have made evolutionary leaps (iPod Touch), and some that withered away (iPod Mini).

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