Archive for June, 2010

Pork Board Tenderizes ThinkGeek With Cease and Desist

Jun 23 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Poor ThinkGeek. Between mounting pressure to develop the iCade and now this, it’s a wonder they bother to participate in April Fool’s Day at all. If you were doing your internet thing this April 1st – and I certainly hope you were – you no doubt are privy to Canned Unicorn Meat, the “sparkling, crunchy, savory meat of today’s more »

Lights Out for Kimmel - Talk Show Host Breaks Out His Webcam

Jun 23 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Here’s a weird one. Last night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! was all the more live: due to a power outage on-set on Monday, Kimmel, ever-resolute, ever-resourceful, decided to film the episode entirely on his MacBook and air it last night. Hey, the show must go on. Partially, this reeks of shenanigans. more »

Sup, Geordi? Electronic Corrective Eyewear to Hit the Market This Year

Jun 23 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

How have you been making use of your time? PixelOptics have spent the last decade developing emPower, which is – get this – electronic spectacles that can change focus via an electrical current run through a layer of liquid crystal in the lenses, effectively rendering the bifocal obsolete. You more »

Microsoft Kinect vs. Playstation Move: Which Will Prevail?

Jun 22 by Navneet Alang | 8 comments

Now that some of the dust has settled from this year’s (rather uninspiring) E3, it’s time to step back and think about the prospects for Microsoft Kinect and Playstation Move. After all, these products are like mini- console launches mid-generation – and that’s not something we’ve seen before more »

Adobe Ships Flash Player 10.1 Mobile

Jun 22 by Jon Edwards | add comment

Adobe has (at last) introduced a version of Flash it swears is suitable for mobile devices, Flash Player 10.1, and in an attempt to prove it isn’t sitting alone whistling its multimedia software’s song, claims HBO, Sony Pictures, Turner, USA Network, Viacom, Warner Brothers and others are already more »

LA Times gets an iPhone habit

Jun 22 by Jon Edwards | add comment

Got a world class newspaper you want to keep publishing as tastes go digital? The LA Times has, and so it has introduced its rather marvelous and all brand new Los Angeles Times News Reader iPhone app. A $1.99 app which delivers a nice and easy route into all the influential newspaper’s editorial content. There’s no half measures here, more »

Metal your iPhone with Kiss and Slayer

Jun 22 by Jon Edwards | add comment

It could just be me, but I really like these two incredibly rock-tastic apps that recently appeared on the App Store, they come from rock acts, Kiss and Slayer. Kiss Your Face lets you plaster ‘digital makeup stickers’ on your photos, including a layer of white base on faces for the full Kiss effect — can we look forward a viral more »

Doors Open On Google's iTunes-Killing Music Plan

Jun 22 by Jon Edwards | add comment

Google seems set to stick it to iTunes in an attempt to carve out its own slice of the music market, hoping that by linking music sales up with its dominant search engine it will be able to achieve a content ecosystem designed to support sales of devices powered by its browser-based Android-one-day-Chrome OS. The company is thought to be closing more »

The iPhone 4 Just Became Your Best Drinking Buddy

Jun 21 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Man, the iPhone 4 isn’t even out yet and already the ‘cleverest app’ game has arguably been taken to its logical conclusion. Utilizing the iPhone 4′s gyroscope, the Drunkometer is the brainchild of web designers 23, and boasts a host of handy features, such as drunk-dial prevention, a Google Maps more »

Three Reasons the PC Era Is Coming To An End

Jun 21 by Navneet Alang | 42 comments

These days, if you asked most people which company is out to destroy the PC, they’d tell you ‘Apple’. But it isn’t just Steve Jobs out to crush the personal computer. In fact, a much better symbol for the end of the PC came recently when Google launched an on-site video editing app on YouTube. Why? It was one more step in a trend that more »

Toshiba Takes Aim at the iPad with the Libretto w100

Jun 21 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Oh dip. This is a sultry unit. Toshiba is celebrating its 25th anniversary by dropping a true iPad killer into the fray. Billed as a ‘concept product’, a limited quantity of the Libretto W100 are being released into the wild as a test to see if consumers will dig it. Hell, I, for one, dig it. Just look more »

Dropped Your iPad? Grow Some Ballz

Jun 21 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

Guys. Guys. You NEED too see this. If there is one thing you need to see today, it is this. I just choked Ensure all over my keyboard. Yeah, I drink Ensure, so what? No, wait, my sullied keyboard is not what you need to see. No, come back, here, I’ll show you. This is iBallz. Possibly the stupidest-looking more »

I'm Drivin' It: California Ponders Ad-Supported Electronic License Plates

Jun 21 by Ty Dunitz | 5 comments

California must really be strapped for cash. In a move to generate some revenue, the state is considering a bill to allow electronic advertisements to be placed on vehicle license plates. Before your ass gets too puckered, I hear you – what about driver safety, right? Apparently, the ads will only more »

Facebook, The Movie: This Holiday Season?

Jun 20 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

Gear up for the white knuckle thrill ride of the holiday season that will speak to the soul of every man and every woman who’s ever been in love. Or something, I guess? Columbia Pictures has released the official poster and website for The Social Network, Hollywood’s version of the tale of everyone’s favourite more »