Archive for April, 2011

Will Flipboard Do To Magazines What Napster Did To Music?

Apr 20 by Navneet Alang | 4 comments

Flipboard is, on the surface, a pretty, user-friendly iPad app that creates a personalized magazine for you. But it’s also a sign of what could be a coming catastrophe for web media. Flipboard works by pulling in RSS feeds and links from Facebook and Twitter to produce a content delivery vehicle tailored more »

Apple Suing Samsung, But...

Apr 20 by JD Rucker | 6 comments

With Apple in the process of suing Samsung for stealing the design used for iPhone and iPad, some interesting images have surfaced on the Internet that may reverse the claim: It just goes to show that if you’re going to go after someone, you should be sure that they don’t have a counter-claim against you. more »

You've seen LEGOs before, but not like this

Apr 19 by James Mowery | 2 comments

I don’t know what it is about LEGOs, but they are awesome. But what is even more awesome is when someone puts in the time and effort to create something absolutely spectacular with something that is already so amazing. In that case, it becomes indescribable. But I guess that is why they invented video… more »

All-out patent war between Apple and Samsung brewing

Apr 19 by James Mowery | 3 comments

Apple is suing Samsung for allegedly infringing on some of Apple’s patents — you know, that whole iPhone idea? — and Samsung, in response, is threatening litigation of its own, stating that Apple is allegedly infringing on some of Samsung’s wireless technology patents. This sounds typical, more »

The geekiest chair you'll ever see

Apr 19 by James Mowery | 6 comments

Do you want to see the geekiest chair ever? Well, look no further, because the person who brought us the binary low table and other assortments of geeky furniture is now giving us another chair: the Binary Chair 02. The Binary Chair 02 (or BNR011000110110100001100001011010010111001001-00110010) is a design crafted by Benjamin Rollins Caldwell. more »

Portal 2 ships earlier than expected, destroys productivity in the process

Apr 19 by James Mowery | 1 comment

Who doesn’t love an idea of jumping through portals to solve complicated puzzels? Not to mention the possibility of beating a game while running backwards in under 10 minutes. That’s what you get with the original Portal. But today it just got more interesting — Portal 2 is now available. Thanks to a challenge posted to Steam, which is Valve’s, more »

Dropbox grows 500% in just 15 months

Apr 18 by David Lux | 1 comment

While the glitz, glamour, and buzz of Silicon Valley tends to make start-ups seem as though they can grow effortlessly like weeds, few tech start-ups have grown quite as fast as Dropbox. Since January 2010, the file-syncing and sharing service grew from 4 million users to a staggering 25 million users. more »

New Nintendo console in June? It's about time

Apr 18 by Ty Dunitz | 6 comments

Kotaku is reporting that Nintendo might be dialing up the awesome (finally) in preparation to debut a new console this year at E3 – a console that will apparently leapfrog both the Xbox 360 and PS3 in performance. And that wouldn’t be half bad – while the Wii was a smash hit upon its debut, who cares about motion more »

The origami phone - because... well... why not?

Apr 18 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

It’s still sort of interesting to ponder about the passing of the telephonic torch – that the shorthand ‘phone’ now typically refers exclusively to mobile phones, and that you have to clarify ‘home phone’ when discussing the landlines of Luddites still clinging to the past. Just give it up, guys. more »

From Hacktivists to Cyber Terrorists: The Many Faces of Hacking

Apr 16 by JD Rucker | 4 comments

There are many reasons why people get into hacking. Some want to change the world, to fight for the little guy, to make corporations and governments pay for their crimes against humanity. Others just think it’s cool. Regardless of the initial intent, hackers often go into other areas. It’s not more »

Kinect armchair takes laziness to its logical conclusion

Apr 15 by Ty Dunitz | 3 comments

Sit back, and relax. For the rest of your life. Quite possibly the coolest Kinect hack yet has come from Microsoft itself – in the form of this Kinect-powered motorized armchair, built using the soon-to-be-released Kinect PC SDK. With a flick of the wrist, the chair reclines, adjusts, and even becomes mobile, more »

Prefab high-rises may soon dominate city skylines

Apr 14 by David Lux | 2 comments

Prefab housing isn’t what it used to be. While we typically think of cheap, low-quality mobile homes when think of prefabricated construction, the world’s top architects and engineers are looking to prefab housing as way to create sustainable urban environments. Since prefab housing more »

The geekiest 30 minutes of your life

Apr 13 by James Mowery | 2 comments

I only managed 30 seconds, but for those of you who are willing to sacrifice the next 30 minutes of your life to the power of our geek overlords, this video is for you. The video, titled “unicode,” displays all 49,571 unicode characters in a single blast session. Watch for too long, and you’ll soon feel like Shia Lebeouf more »

360 Web Browser Review

Apr 12 by James Mowery | 1 comment

The Web browser has been a standard feature included with operating systems for years. Most of them look and act in a similar fashion, with the core behaviors being relatively similar. But the devices have changed, and now the browser is changing along with it. The 360 Web Browser is leading that more »