Archive for September, 2010

Want To Stay Home And Be Creepy? There's a Wii Game For That

Sep 21 by Toby Leftly | add comment

It can be a lonely life for creepy guys. Who do you have to talk to when you’re stuck up in a tree looking at some girl through binoculars? No one! Who’s going to bail you out when you get caught rifling through your ex-girlfriend’s garbage? No one! Well creepy dudes, your salvation is here. The Wii LovePress is a Wii more »

You Already Have A Touchscreen Phone - You Just Don't Know It

Sep 20 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Do you sometimes feel an unwarranted sense of telecommunication shame? Is your old, crappy flip phone making you an embarrassment to your friends and family? Well, if Input Dynamics has anything to say about it, you won’t have to for long. Maybe you’ve heard of TouchDevice – but even if you have, I’m gonna tell more »

This R2 Unit Can't Repair Your X-Wing, But It'll Be Your Xbox

Sep 20 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

If there is a more ambitious case modder than Brian DeVitis, I haven’t heard of him. Not content with having his game consoles anywhere but in one place, Brian has taken the liberty of dismantling and reconfiguring eleven game consoles, a projector, and sound system into one box. And, naturally, more »

The New Twitter Is All About The Attention Economy

Sep 20 by Navneet Alang | 2 comments

So the new Twitter – which we and about a million of other sites have reported on  – is slowly rolling out to users as we speak. On the surface, the new Twitter is all about usability: rather that one main column, it contains two that can adapt to either displaying extra information like lists and trends, or can display more »

100-Year-Old Talking Tree is Most Facebook-Savvy in Belgium (and Quite Possibly, The World)

Sep 20 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

My parents don’t know jack about the internet. We’re talking nothing more complicated than basic email. We’re talking, like… you know those real long, embarrassing parental messages they tend to leave on Facebook, because they don’t ‘get’ the unwritten laws of social networking? Actually, more »

Intel's Suicidal New Business Model: Charge Twice For The Same Product

Sep 19 by Toby Leftly | 5 comments

Geeks and nerds everywhere, prep your fingers for some angry typing in the blogosphere, this one is going to get messy. Intel has decided it doesn’t make enough money selling you a single product once, so now it’s experimenting with selling you that product twice. This genius marketing strategy more »

Sunday's Big Rumor: A Facebook Phone

Sep 19 by Toby Leftly | 2 comments

I’ve talked before about how no one in the tech industry is happy with the color of grass in their own patch. Apple wants to be Facebook. Google wants to be Apple. Microsoft wants to be anyone but Microsoft. Well here’s a rumor that could practically write itself. Mike Arrington at TechCrunch is reporting that according to internal sources, more »

Wanna See Flickr's 5 Billionth Photo?

Sep 18 by Ty Dunitz | 4 comments

It’s always cool when a totally big-ass milestone is hit on something, sort of like Twitter’s 20 billionth tweet, which… well, I… posted about it awhile ago, but for the life of me, can’t find. Whatever. It was a boring tweet anyway. It’s just cool to nose in on the big milestones, whatever they more »

Gmail Makes It Easier To Switch, Yahoo Pretties Things Up A Bit

Sep 17 by Toby Leftly | add comment

Gmail is rolling out a new feature which will make switching to their free email service even more attractive – import email and accounts from Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL or other POP3 accounts. The feature is obviously intended to draw in users who would be interested in switching but can’t face the more »

Why GMail's Priority Inbox Needs to Get Off the Web (And Why It's the Future)

Sep 17 by Navneet Alang | 2 comments

The introduction of Google’s Priority Inbox in GMail was hailed by many as a step forward for email. Here finally was a way to not simply filter email in to spam and regular email, but a way to filter on what you read and replied to most. Though the service has its share of people who don’t seem to see the more »

iPhone Gaming Reaches A New Level Of Awesome

Sep 17 by Toby Leftly | add comment

So the iPhone is the new king of mobile gaming, at least until Sony or Nintendo strikes back. But if you remember gaming the old fashioned way, you might not feel entirely comfortable with your iPhone 4. Here’s an answer to your prayers: The iPhone 4 Nintendo NES controller decal. Okay, it’s mostly more »

HTC's Customized Windows Phone 7 Interface

Sep 17 by Toby Leftly | add comment

A video has appeared on YouTube that appears to show HTC’s customized UI for Microsoft’s upcoming mobile OS. Windows Phone Series 7, now Windows Phone 7, now coming to be known as WP7 is due to hit the streets in the near future, and this video appears to show a WP7 phone with several new apps and UI touches. more »

Least Surprising Rumor Ever: 2nd Gen iPad Planned For Early 2011

Sep 17 by Toby Leftly | add comment

In the “no shit, sherlock” category this morning comes news that Apple is most likely planning to release a new iPad in the first quarter of 2011. Touch panel and glass suppliers are ramping up production for a new touch screen product with components shipping in the first quarter of next year. Rumored more »

Adobe Releases 64bit Flash Player For Mac, Windows And Linux

Sep 17 by Toby Leftly | 2 comments

Hot on the heels of not releasing a successful mobile version of Flash, Adobe is turning it’s attention back to Flash for desktop computers. A preview release of a 64bit version of Flash Player, codenamed “Square” is now available for Mac, Windows and Linux. Adobe advises caution when installing the app which more »