Archive for October, 2010

How To Make a Juno iBurger Mobile Phone

Oct 31 by Angela West | add comment

Nothing screams hipster like anything from “Juno”, most notably her iconic hamburger phone. Now, you too can haz Juno hamburger, if you are ready and willing to transform your iPhone into a hamburger phone. Its creator, Karen, wanted to be Juno for Halloween, and came up with the crafty idea to burger up her Iphone to really more »

Mount Everest Gets 3G Broadband Service

Oct 30 by Angela West | 3 comments

Nepali telecom company Ncell touted its new setup at the base camp of Mount Everest. This means Everest trekkers can now feed on sweet 3G broadband internet while on the slopes of the world’s tallest mountain. “Today we made the (world’s) highest video call from Mount Everest,” Ncell chief Pasi more »

Google Needs to Put the Buzzkill on a Dead Product

Oct 30 by Leslie A. Joy | 7 comments

Jeff Bullas had a post up on his blog, Is Twitter About to Terminate Google Buzz, that discussed how Google Buzz is essentially dead. However, I don’t think Twitter killed Google Buzz. I think Google Buzz killed Google Buzz. I had high hopes for it. I really did. I didn’t see it as a Twitter killer or substitution for Twitter, but rather a more more »

Zombie Reports Track the Coming Undead Apocalypse

Oct 29 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

With Halloween a mere 36 hours away, sightings of unsavoury creatures of all manner will be on the rise, and it’s integral that the ballyhoo caused by their appearance is kept under control. Perhaps the greatest threat of all, though, is zombies. No, really. What, you thought it was vampires or more »

A Dark Day for Gaming: Zynga Is Bigger Than EA

Oct 28 by Ty Dunitz | 8 comments

I’ve never liked Electronic Arts much, DRM-hawking corporate bad guys that we hardcore gamers make them out to be. But this is a sad day, indeed. BusinessWeek has reported that Zynga, makers of Farmville, have surpassed EA in worth, growing to 5.51 billion, next to EA’s 5.22 billion. Imagine that. EA is a gaming more »

Axsotic Spheric Mouse is Perhaps the Most Radly-Named (And Raddest-Looking) PC Accessory In History

Oct 28 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

Better wash up your loins, guys, ‘cuz they ’bout to get blown. For all the readers out there who work in 3D, you may or may not love the crap out of this: the world’s first (as far as I’m aware, anyway) spherical mouse. Though it’s probably bullspit for anything other than 3D design, the Axsotic Spheric Mouse is a much-needed more »

Cellphone-Wielding Time Traveler Spotted In Charlie Chaplin Film

Oct 28 by Ty Dunitz | 12 comments

I’ve been engaged in a hot debate over the last hour with a friend of mine over just what this is. Seems like Irish filmmaker George Clarke has discovered a time traveler in footage from the 1928 premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s The Circus. In the scene, the alleged time traveler walks across the screen, more »

Why Apple's Distortion Field Works

Oct 28 by Navneet Alang | 50 comments

When Steve Jobs recently made an appearance on Apple’s earnings call, he – to put it mildly – caused quite a stir. He said 7″ tablets like RIM’s Playbook and the Samsung Galaxy Tab will be DOA. He argued that the fragmented nature of Android is “a nightmare”. Put in a more straightforward fashion, he smacked a lot of people down. Yet, many more »

Where in the World is the White iPhone 4?

Oct 28 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

So, uh… hey, how you holdin’ up? Doin’ okay? You feelin’ alright today? Yeah? Bein’ strong? That’s a relief. Because I’m about to drop a hell of a bomb on you. The, um… the white iPhone 4 is missing. What? No, no, it’s not lost! We just… don’t know where it is, that’s all. Apple seems to have taken more »

No More Gunking Your Screen With Your Filthy, Filthy Hands While You Text

Oct 27 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

One of the deciding factors that made me go Blackberry instead of picking up an iPhone 4 was the tactile keyboard. I’m sorry, but there’s just no replacement for real buttons. I don’t care how swiftly you tapdance around that onscreen keyboard – the fact remains that it’s a f***ing screen. But maybe more »

PayPal Vending Machine Lets You Shop Online, Offline

Oct 27 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

For those of you who would really, really like some candy, but don’t have a quarter kicking around, don’t sweat it – Ray Tanaka and his homeslices at PayPal Labs have you all kinds of covered, having developed a vending machine that accepts PayPal. Simply scan the provided QR code with your phone, more »

The Droid X Review: Does It Kick Ass or Get Its Ass Kicked?

Oct 27 by James Mowery | 1 comment

Why bring a pistol to a gun battle when you could bring a rocket launcher instead? That was the question on my mind before this year’s release of some impressively sized Android phones. It’s clear now that consumers desire just a little more ass kickage in the palm of their hands; the Motorola Droid more »

Police Investigating Virtual Burglary of Home That Doesn't Exist

Oct 27 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Italian police are investigating the burglary of the home of 44-year-old Paola Letizia. Normally, I would pay a story like this no mind. And frankly, as soon as I’m done writing this, I won’t. But this is no ordinary burglary. Because the home in question doesn’t exist. Paola called in the fuzz after noticing virtual more »

A Time Line of The Social Buying Universe

Oct 26 by JD Rucker | add comment

While most have only heard of “social buying” in the last couple of years, it has actually been around since 2004 (an eternity in Internet time) with WOOT!. Larger sites like GroupOn and LivingSocial have dominated the segment since, but there are many others that revolve around the consumers who want the power of group buying more »