Archive for November, 2010

Microsoft Pretends They Were Down With Kinect Hacking All Along

Nov 22 by Ty Dunitz | 8 comments

Surely you’ve seen your share of Kinect hacks in the last little while – hell, even last week I posted a couple here on Techi. Microsoft was originally not down with this, and implied potential legal action against anyone modifying their device. But it seems they’ve now had a change of heart, claming more »

Remembary - Turning Your Online Life into a Digital Journal

Nov 22 by Angela West | add comment

Remembary is an iPad app that allows you to import your Twitter history and up to three RSS feeds from your various blogs and collect them all in one place with an auto-sort into daily entries. You can further edit your daily Remembary entries from within the application, so that the end result is more »

Who Buys In-Game Property for $335,000? This Guy.

Nov 21 by Angela West | 2 comments

Think you’re a hardcore gamer? It can be argued that nobody is more hardcore than the guy who spends enough for a decently sized house – on a video game. Yan Panasjuk, a software engineer living in Boston, recently paid $335,000 real world dollars for a number of properties in the Entropia online gaming universe, including more »

OnLive Releases MicroConsole Which Allows Gaming Access Through Your TV

Nov 21 by John Siano | add comment

OnLive was a success with it’s cloud computing gaming idea, which many people thought wouldn’t work. They took another step tonight by releasing the MicroConsole. If you don’t know what OnLive is, its basically a gaming service that streams games over the Internet that don’t take up any hard drive space more »

Infographic - The State of the Tablet Market

Nov 20 by Techi Team | add comment

Click the image above to see the full large version. Thanks to VoucherCodes.co.uk for sending this in to us. more »

Sony Ericsson XPERIA X12 Specs Leaked This Week

Nov 20 by Kapil Milani | add comment

Sony Ericsson is one company which failed to make the most of the Google’s free mobile OS, Android. The HTC and Motorola banked hell lot of money by making their flagship devices based on android and Samsung has done it too this year, with its Galaxy line of devices, the Galaxy S being most sold phone. But SE is trying more »

Blekko Introduces Slashtags for Better Search Results

Nov 20 by John Siano | 2 comments

When I first heard of Blekko in my local news, I was pretty unimpressed. I already was using Google, the best search engine, and occasionally Bing, another solid contender. However, when I saw that Blekko utilized something called Slashtags to help narrow down your searches, I was pretty interested. more »

Real White iPhone 'Released' in China!

Nov 19 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Okay, ‘released’ isn’t exactly the right word. But the now-mythic white iPhone 4 has been spotted in China, and it can be yours for the bargain price of up to 8000 Yuan ($1204) for the 16GB model. I don’t even wanna know how much the 64GB goes for. But considering China’s reputation as the land of knock-offs, more »

Gesture-Controlled Robot is Possibly the Most Fun You'll Ever Have With Kinect

Nov 18 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Alright, so maybe I’m being a little cheeky by claiming that this robot is the most fun you could have with Kinect, but quite frankly, as far as I’m concerned, it sure beats some of the arm-waving minigames I’ve seen so far. MIT student Phillip Roebbel has hooked up a newly-hacked Xbox Kinect to an more »

And The Internet Prevails! Cook's Source is Shut Down

Nov 18 by Ty Dunitz | 2 comments

Many of you in the know have seen these pumpkins before. Those of you know what these pumpkins mean. They symbolize theft, infringement, and moreover, complete idiocy. The rest of you may or may not remember, a couple of weeks ago, the tale of Cook’s Source – a magazine specializing in the plagiarism of writers the world more »

A Screen Made of 25 iPads

Nov 18 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

If you happened to find yourself at Tokyo Designer’s Week this year, you surely saw iProject25 – a just-shy-of-completely-monstrous display made of 25 iPads, resulting in one hell of a large interactive screen. The use of iPads to make an omniPad is hardly why I, for one, am impressed. We were always more »

Erasing A "Friend": An Examination of "Friends" On the Internet

Nov 18 by James Mowery | 4 comments

I remove people from Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks on a daily basis — not by choice, but because there is too much information — but I never thought of the consequences. I always just assumed that there is an understanding between people in the digital age. But one day changed more »

Facebook's Accidental Misogyny

Nov 17 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Now this is an odd bug, if I’ve ever heard of one. Apparently, thousands of female Facebook users have been attempting to log on, only to find their accounts deactivated. Spooky. And this has been going on for a few days, too. Said Facebook user Valerie L to Huffington Post of the bug: “It said my Gmail address was not more »

Guy Installs Camera Into The Back of His Head In the Name of Art

Nov 17 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

I’m gonna spare you the obvious ‘eyes in the back of your head’ joke, except for this sentence, where I make reference to the joke I didn’t just make. But I swear, that’s it. The ‘guy’ to which the headline is referring is Mr. Wafaa Bilal, an assistant profressor of photography at NYU, and the ‘art’ more »