The Wireless Power Consortium took a big step forward this past week with the confirmation that its precocious Qi interoperability standard has been finalized. Composed of three documents setting out the interface, performance and compliance requirements, the new dictum has set itself the not inconsiderable challenge of making wireless charging universal , so that any Qi-approved phone can soak up juice from any Qi-verified base station, dock or omnitool. This first spec is limited to devices requiring no more than 5 Watts, an appropriately humble early goal, though cauldrons are already bubbling with ideas for laptops and the like.

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Qi wireless power standard finalized, universal contactless chargers look closer to reality than ever

Wooden computer cases? We’ve been there before , but few offer the simple elegance of this “Modern Danish-styled PC enclosure” photographed by slipperyskip at Collectors Weekly — who jokingly indicates it wouldn’t look out of place on the set of Mad Men . We think an integrated ash tray is a necessity before it could make the cut at Sterling Cooper, but it does appear to have plenty of room on top for scotch glasses

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A modern, Danish case for your modern, Danish computer

Nintendo already dropped a hint that Miis could be heading to the 3DS by including some Mii-like characters in the Pilotwings demo at E3 last month, and Shigeru Miyamoto himself has now offered some further confirmation that Nintendo is at least looking at the possibility. Speaking with IGN this week, he says that it is “something that we’re definitely giving consideration to,” and that Nintendo wants to “continue to try to allow people to use their Miis on different Nintendo systems going forward.” While that’s not quite a complete confirmation, it definitely sounds like your Mii could be with you for a long time to come.

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Nintendo’s Miyamoto says Miis could make the jump to the 3DS

Rumors of a June 8 launch of Telus’ HTC Triumph — a rebranded version of the Desire , seemingly — came and went without a trace, but now, we’ve got another reason to think that the model’s launch might be just around the corner.

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HTC Desire with North American 3G graces FCC with its presence

Can’t find an official iPhone 4 bumper ? Driving yourself mad trying to give your new smartphone white glove treatment ?

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Element Case, Ivyskin out iPhone 4 cases specifically to deal with reception issues

Turns out all our snooping was spot on with this one.

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$149.99 WiFi-only Nook confirmed by Best Buy listing

You wanted to be an astronaut growing up, didn’t you? Your parents shot down your dreams , didn’t they? Well stop blaming them, you never would have passed the physical fitness test anyway.

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I’m Gonna Be An Astronaut!: NASA Will Take Your Face To Space On Last Shuttle Missions

Note: This is only a tiny portion of the graphic, you have to hit the jump to see the whole, incredibly long thing. Reminds me of myself

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We Live Here, I Guess We Might As Well Know Something About It: Earth, From Top To Bottom

Note: Video is after the jump because even I peed a little and I’m exposed this this sort of thing everyday. Autonomous drones that can assemble themselves into a flying mothership. Crap.

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Uh-Oh: Autonomous Drone Bots Can Assemble Themselves Into A Hovering Death Copter

Months and months after the telltale signs appeared over at the Bluetooth Special Interest Group, we’ve now got further confirmation that HTC’s as-yet-unpeeped “Fiesta” will indeed be an Android handset. The good folks over at Cell Passion “stumbled upon” the UA Profile for this bad boy, also known as the HTC T5252, and here’s what we know: the phone will boast a QVGA display, and a numeric keypad (read: non-QWERTY). Did we mention that internal HTC linking indicates this puppy is headed to AT&T?

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HTC Fiesta: definitely Android, headed for AT&T