Archive for January, 2011

2011: Hollywood Destroys Ownership. 2012: The World?

Jan 18 by James Mowery | add comment

You might think that 2011 will be all about how the amazing the iPad 2 or iPhone 5 will be. However, this is nothing compared to what Hollywood has in store for all of us. The big movie studios are making great strides towards providing consumers with more access to movies and television shows than more »

Quora: Has Social Trumped the Semantic Web?

Jan 17 by Navneet Alang | 3 comments

Long long ago, in that distant, ancient era of the 2000′s, we heard unending chatter about this thing called ‘the semantic web’. The semantic web was supposed to be like the holy grail of technology. At its heart, it was meant to do two things: to make all that impersonal data online accessible in more »

Hot Wheels Reaches Its Logical Conclusion With the Addition of Video

Jan 17 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

You may recall experiencing the unabashed radness that was Hot Wheels way back in the day – whether or not that day was 25 years or 25 hours ago. But either way, you’ll more than likely wish you’d have had one of these. Enter the Hot Wheels Video Racer, hailing straight from the ‘Couldn’t Come Soon Enough’ more »

The Rise of Steve Jobs Was the Rise of Apple, So...

Jan 17 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

It is rare that the direction, success, and fate of a company is so closely tied to one person. With Steve Jobs taking a medical leave, people will be wondering and bloggers will be speculating about how it will affect Apple. It won’t. His work there may not be done – he’s still the CEO and will be involved in major decisions – but he has more »

Robotic Plant Ushers in New Age of Unnecessary Robotics

Jan 17 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

Not content to robotically emulate any and all members of the animal kingdom, humanity has turned to another branch of the Tree of Life for inspiration: that of plants. Japanese artist Akira Nakayasu has developed plant (no, really, it’s just called ‘plant’), an interactive robotic installation more »

Jobs Forced on Medical Leave Again

Jan 17 by Ty Dunitz | 1 comment

Effective immediately, Big Steve has been made to take medical leave from Apple again, handing the reigns over to COO Tim Cook and sending the following memo to Apple’s employees. Team, At my request, the board of directors has granted me a medical leave of absence so I can focus on my health. I will more »

Amazon, Not Developers, Will Set Pricing On Android App Store

Jan 16 by Rocco Penn | add comment

It actually happened a while ago and nobody noticed until now. Here’s how it will work. A developer can set the MSRP for an app. They will get the higher of 20% of the MSRP or 70% of the retail price. So,  developer can set an MSRP of $10. Amazon can price it at $10 and the developer would get $7. If the retail more »

Facebook's Valuation Keeps Going Up. Where's the Cap?

Jan 16 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Keep smiling, Mark. In a recent email from SecondMarket, the latest auction of Facebook shares hit $28.26, up 24% from just before the holidays and putting the unofficial valuation north of $70 billion. How high will it go? Any speculation regardless of one’s level of expertise is futile. This is uncharted more »

How to Unswindle a Kindle: Removing DRM from Legally Purchased eBooks

Jan 16 by Connor Livingston | 1 comment

Fair use. If you buy a device and decide later to switch to a different one, should you be forced to buy the exact same media over again? Such was the case with the DRM-tainted Amazon Kindle… until now. The geniuses over at Too Smart Guys made a video showing us how to remove DRM from your Kindle. The intro is fun to more »

An Abridged But Very Cool "History of Gaming"

Jan 16 by Rocco Penn | add comment

When you’re done with the video, most gamers will probably say, “But they missed so much.” I know, but that doesn’t make this little exercise a fun watch for 4 minutes, even if only to reminisce.  From 1958 with Tennis for Two on the Oscilloscope to the implied future of sunglasses as the game itself, more »

Apparently, A Lot of People Are Obsessed With Facebook

Jan 15 by Rocco Penn | 5 comments

It’s clear that Facebook is absolutely huge and getting absolutely huger every day. It’s getting so embedded into many of our lives that some couldn’t imagine not having it. Facebook facts are everywhere and it seems that the infographics associated with them are equally prevalent, but this more »

1-Minute Science: Everything You Ever Needed to Know About The Sun

Jan 14 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

In today’s episode of 1-minute science, we look up. The sun is the source of, well, just about everything that we need. It would be an insult to our readers to go over the details of how important the Sun is to our very existence, so suffice to say that we need it. This graphic by 1bog puts that all into perspective more »

Dear Confectionary Industry: Sh! It Just Got Real.

Jan 14 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

The concept of flavour just got turned on its ear as engineering students in Japan have developed TagCandy, a device which augments the flavour of whatever candy is inserted into it. Stick a regular lollipop into the handset, choose a flavour (Crunchy apple? Fizzy soda? …Fireworks?), and suck more »

How to Pop Popcorn... With Lasers!

Jan 14 by Ty Dunitz | add comment

In case you had no idea what you were going to do this weekend, here’s a suggestion: popcorn. With lasers. But not just any lasers: Arctic Spyder blue lasers, the kind that if flippantly horsed around with, you could very literally unweld your retina from the back of your eye. Then you’d just have more »