If you've had better things to do than watch TV news burst into a flaming parody of itself, you maybe missed true crime's best geek moment of the week. Armed with semi-automatic rifles, two robbers at a Maryland video game shop ignored boxes of expensive electronics to instead score unreleased copies of "Call of Duty: Black Ops." Set on soldier turf, the game is to geeks what Lady Gaga's ...

If humankind were suddenly swallowed up by the sea, 100 years from now, a mob of robots will be waiting to take over. Unfortunately, they'll mostly play board games, brush each others' teeth and sit around waiting for the pizza delivery guy. That's because geek-genius engineers are hard at work -- sacrificing true love, social skills and Saturday night Wii marathons -- to bring us robots who do ...

Let's pretend, for a second, you're a lonesome guy who has bad luck with women. You buy an upscale silicone love doll and grow attached to "her"; but, after a decade of lovin', she starts to fall apart. What's a man to do? If you're 37-year-old Michigan telemarketer Dave Cat, you have the $6,500 rubber lady "reincarnated." Which is to say, you commission an exact replica of her to be ...