Yesterday a change to the iPhone SDK allowed for VoIP over 3G and we heard about the first app which'll offer the functionality. Today another iPhone app, Fring, has begun allowing video and voice calls using Skype over 3G.

You don't need to update your version of the Fring app as it was simply a matter of Apple lifting some restrictions on its end. You can now freely make Skype calls without being connected through Wi-Fi—assuming you've got decent reception.

Still no word on when we'll get an official app from Skype though. [Fring via Pocket Lint via Engadget]

It's tough to pitch a perfect baseball game. It's supposedly even tougher to pitch a perfect videogame. Or at least so we're told by 2KSports who's offering $1 million to the first person to do it.

Apparently all you need to do aside from mastering Major League Baseball 2K10 on either an XBox 360 or PS3 is to submit recorded proof of your perfect game to 2K Sports. Their folks will then somehow verify the authenticity of your achievement and send you a check for a million if you're the first success story. It's a nice marketing gimmick, but part of me suspects that there'll be quite a few individuals who'll spend weeks attempting to perfect their virtual baseball skills. [2KSports via Neowin]

The watch this guy's wearing was made by Armatix, the same company who designed his high-tech gun. Poor fellow can't ditch the ugly accessory though, because the $10,000 weapon won't fire without it.

Basically the gun is disarmed and a red LED lights up unless the corresponding watch is close enough to send a wireless signal. While I really don't see a high demand for it, Armatix's .22cal weapon will be shipping next month for 7,000 euro, which is just under 10k in Washingtons. The watch is probably included. [Wired]

This is the iPad accessory I've been waiting for. The first iPad kickstand. The Scosche kickBack is made out of polycarbonate and rubber and works in portrait and landscape mode, blah blah blah. iPad. Kick. Stand. All our problems, solved.

Oxnard, CA, – January 28, 2010 – Scosche Industries, an award-winning innovator of iPod and iPhone accessories, is proud to announce its first iPad accessory the new kickBACK. The shatterproof polycarbonate and rubber hybrid provides superior protection for the Apple's new iPad tablet. The case's patent pending locking kickstand enables both vertical and horizontal viewing and has a low angle setting for an optimal typing position. Scosche also included molded grips on the back of the kickBACK for more secure handling.

"We pride ourselves at consistently being one of the first accessories manufacturers to market with leading edge products following an iPhone, iPod, or now iPad announcement," said Kas Alves, executive vice president of Scosche Industries. "It's that ability to react quickly without sacrificing quality that has helped us develop necessary accessories like the new kickBACK."

Like all of Scosche's kickBACK cases the kickBACK ships with a screen protector and cleaning cloth. The kickBACK will ship in early-mid Spring 2010 and is the first of an entire line of accessories Scosche has planned.

[Scosche]

The folks at the national Ignition Facility decided to demonstrate fusion by focusing the energy of 192 super powerful lasers onto a tiny target. They certainly proved their concept by producing a one megajoule laser shot. Yeah, that's pretty powerful.

This demonstration is being proclaimed as a "key step towards nuclear fusion" by the National Nuclear Security Administration. After all, this is apparently the first time such a level of laser energy was reached. More experiments will occur in the summer of this year, but you can start with the pewpew jokes now. [Physorg]

Laser beam pictured is not the 1 megajoule beam, instead it's a picture by Daily Galaxy

Dell's Adamo is a beautiful, slender machine with girly guts. But now it's coaxing you to ignore the sissy insides with its distracting new $999 base price tag.

If you prefer your Adamo more beefed up, there's always the more powerful Desire model, but that one will run you about $1800. Yikes, at least the basemodel, Admire, is now a reasonably cheap catch. [Dell via Engadget]

In today's Remainders: The Old World. We visit Michael Dell in Switzerland, showing off the Dell Mini 5. We swing by Germany, to see one baaaaad reaction to the iPad and 10,000 watts of homemade light-porn. Last stop: Russia!

It'll Be Out In a Couple Months
TechCrunch caught up with Michael Dell at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, where Dell was sporting fingerless gloves (as well as the forthcoming Dell Mini 5). We've already seen the Android-powered Mini 5 and got to play with it a bit, so there's not too much to get excited about in this clip. But it does present us with some small pleasures. One of them being Dell's suggestion that the Mini 5 will be coming to the States in a matter of months. The other is how awkward things get when the interviewer asks what processor is inside the Mini 5. The video cuts off pretty abruptly at the end, so further awkwardness is left to the viewer's imagination. I'm cringing just thinking about it. [CrunchGear]

iMeme
If you thought Adam Frucci was hard on the iPad, wait until you see how Hitler responded to Apple's newest creation. As usual, the Fuhrer's expectations were exceedingly high and his disappointment proved inevitable. Okay, okay, there have been hundreds of these—the director of the original film himself, who finds them "hilarious," estimates he's seen 145 of them—but there is something about seeing one of modern history's greatest villains reacting to one of history's most anticipated gadgets in one of the internet's greatest meme's that just feels so right. [YouTube]

Sight For Sore Eyes
If you've ever wondered what a homemade array of nearly 200 florescent tubes totalling over 10,000 watts looks like, here's your answer: terribly, blindingly bright. Its German creators claim this Arduino-running monstrosity is part of a giant scrolling text installation that is going up in Berlin tomorrow, but I fear there's some more nefarious purpose for this awful creation. [Hack A Day]

Back In The U.S.S.R.
The richest man in all of Russia, Mikhail Prokhorov, has big plans. For one thing, he's trying to buy the New Jersey Nets. For another, he's developing a new high-tech city car, a venture detailed by the image you see to the left. The automobile will be built by Yarovit Motors, looks like a giant loaf of bread, involves iPhones, and will apparently be driven by the creepy robots from iRobot. Prokhorov hopes to sell the car for just $12,500, but something about the weird Tomorrowland aesthetic of that picture makes it hard for me to believe that this project will get off the ground. Or on the ground, as the case may be. [Luxist]

What do you get when you mix a dedicated GPU, 50FPS Crysis gaming, A Core2Duo, an 11-inch screen, and a $800 price tag? An absurd(ly powerful) little laptop, which nobody—and apparently Alienware—is comfortable calling a netbook.

We first saw the M11x back at CES—impressions here—where we were told it'd hit the market in about a month, for under $1000 dollars. Well, a tipster sent Engadget a little bit of info scraped from the HTML of the notnetbook's official product page, which is currently holding some kind of "Guess the Price" sweepstakes:

The Alienware M11x, with over 6.5 hours of battery life and weighing under 4.5 lbs. will start at an amazing $799! Leave it to the folks at Alienware to enable truly mobile performance gaming at an affordable price.

Er, contest's still open, folks!

[Engadget]

British artist Nick Gentry's paintings give long-forgotten floppy disks a new lease on life. They're still storage media, just in a much more literal sense.

At some point recently, you've probably uncovered an old box of videos, cassettes, and floppies in the basement and thought to yourself, "what am I supposed to do with these?" It turns out you just weren't thinking hard enough.

Painting on canvases comprised of 3.5" floppy disks and VHS tapes, Nick Gentry puts these bygone forms of storage to use in his art.

To see more of his incredible work, check out the artist's website. [Nick Gentry]

Ars hears there's a company-wide internal meeting today at Apple to talk about the iPad, just like Apple had shortly after the launch of the iPhone. While you're possibly more interested in the serious chance everybody who's been at Apple for a while will walk out with their own iPad—like with the iPhone—the likely employee Q&A session will probably peel back in more detail how Apple's thinking about the iPad. Oh to be an Apple employee velcro'd to that wall. [Ars]