Archive for April, 2010

Expo 2010 Shanghai Ready to Open to Public

Apr 30 by Jordan Cumberland | add comment

Expo 2010 Shanghai China begins on May 1 and runs until October 31 and it has been made possible with the help of 189 countries and 57 international organizations. The theme of the expo is “Better City – Better Life,” and more than 70 million visitors are expected to attend the traditional fair. That more »

Doctors Monitor Pregnancy With Smartphones

Apr 30 by Jordan Cumberland | add comment

There are some pretty awesome phone features and apps out there lately but it doesn’t seem like much can top AirStrip Technologies new way of tracking pregnant women and their babies using Smartphones and iPhones. Using the AirStrip OB, this has become possible and is a huge breakthrough for the medical more »

Unboxing of the iPad 3G Feels Like Christmas Morning

Apr 30 by Jordan Cumberland | add comment

The long-awaited release of the Apple iPad 3G is over for US residents! iPad 3G’s are on their way to every greedy hand who ordered the massively popular device and the excitement is overwhelming. Some buyers who pre-ordered and have already received their goodies have taken to the Internet, posting more »

Some Fascinating Stats About Twitter

Apr 30 by Navneet Alang | add comment

I still remember the early days of Twitter. Well, sorta’. I got on in 2007, after the SXSWi hype-storm that year introduced it the tech world. And it was a different place then: replies were invented by users, and you could see all of them; a 100 followers seemed like a lot!;  and no-one outside of more »

You Can't Stop the Bum Rush. Seriously, You Can't. So Don't Try.

Apr 30 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

See my name, above this post? Click it, and you’ll see no shortage of posts about wicked awesome bikes. I love wicked awesome bikes. But first, check out this wicked awesome bike. Liron Bobrov’s Soopa Scoota is a total death sentence of a device – not truly a ‘bike’, the Tron-inspired Scoota is a downhill more »

Apple Patents More Stuff, Continues Sliding Downhill

Apr 30 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

Hold your horses, guys – I don’t mean ‘as a company’. Apple is wonderful, we all love Apple. But where Apple is ‘sliding downhill’, truly, is in their interaction design. I used to be a guy who liked to use his iPod from his pocket. Ever since the Touch/iPhone, I can no longer do that due to lack of tactile more »

How I Learned to Love 3D... I Think

Apr 30 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

‘Why do you hate it?’, a friend of mine asked a couple days ago. ‘Hate what?’ ‘3D.’ She looked almost personally offended. ‘What’s wrong with it?’ Before I type my answer to her question, you have to understand that I’m part of a dwindling minority. We, the stubborn few purists, more »

Tea Infuser Designed with the Future in Mind

Apr 30 by Jordan Cumberland | add comment

Who doesn’t love a nice steaming cup of tea? It’s not just something you drink at high noon with crumpets and jam, it can be enjoyed anywhere at anytime. With this new idea by Mexican designer Emma Moreno, doing just that will be even easier. The small egg-like diffuser dubbed, “Duo,” uses nanotechnology more »

Theme Blogs: When Everything Sucks, Nothing Does

Apr 30 by Ty Dunitz | 5 comments

I’ve always been a fan of the internet’s perpetual refusal to be governed by an ‘official’ body. The internet today, as I mentioned last week, largely resembles the American Wild West: player pianos, a keen interest in poker, bandits, and a whole lotta rules routinely broken by the people, whenever it suits more »

Will Mobile App Platforms Destroy Browser-based Innovations?

Apr 30 by James Mowery | add comment

Remember the beginning of the computing revolution? When the Internet didn’t exist, and everyone, for the most part, relied on desktop applications (or creating their own programs) to get something done? I do, and it sounds so primitive these days. But we also remember when the Internet and the more »

Severed Biomechanical Arm Gives New Meaning to 'Robot Rock'

Apr 29 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Chris Conte knows how to rock and roll. Or at least how to build machines that can assist in the task. Having been commissioned by Adam Gontier, lead singer of alt rock outfit Three Days Grace, Conte has whipped up a microphone stand reminiscent of the final scene of Terminator. The stainless steel more »

Jobs, Flash and Elitism: Why Apple Doesn't Care About the Digital Underclass

Apr 29 by Navneet Alang | 13 comments

Jobs’ reasons for barring Flash sound reasonable enough. But what does it say about Apple’s values? As you will have likely heard by now, today Steve Jobs wrote a long post on why Apple refuses to integrate Adobe’s Flash into its mobile products. For people who have heard the incessant chatter about Adobe more »

Knitting Without Needles With Wind Power

Apr 29 by Jordan Cumberland | add comment

If you’ve ever made an attempt to learn how to knit you’ll know that while it’s rewarding to create something from your own two hands, it’s also slow and can be painful for your fingers. With this futuristic piece designed by Merel Karhof, who is an RCA grad, there’s no chance of cramped fingers or get bored of slow more »

Apple Rumored to Charge up to $10 million for iAds

Apr 29 by Jordan Cumberland | 1 comment

Rivaling ads that are displayed during the Superbowl, Olympics and other popular events, Apple may soon start charging companies up to $10 million to have their mobile ads on their devices. Apple has indicated that prices for their online advertisements for their new iAd platform for iPhone more »