Archive for July, 2011

Batman: Arkham City hype machine gets psychedelic with Riddler trailer

Jul 15 by Rocco Penn | add comment

Few games have been as anticipated in recent months as Batman: Arkham City. The unique adventure game uses an appealing combat style, clever puzzles, and iconic heroes and villains to draw us in and make our collective gaming mouths water. The sequel to the wildly-popular Batman: Arkham Asylum more »

Jet-Propelled wing flying over the Grand Canyon: Jetman

Jul 15 by Rocco Penn | add comment

Many children dream of flying. Whether they want to be pilots or Superman, there is something compelling about soaring through the air that fills kids’ imaginations and creates desires that need to be satiated. Most of us never experience it beyond commercial flights. Yves Rossy from Switzerland more »

Tombstone QR Codes: Bringing the memorial to the mobile device

Jul 15 by Connor Livingston | 3 comments

Technology has been integrated into paying tribute to lost loved ones for some time now at funerals and on memorial websites, but Israeli medical technology executive Yoav Medan has brought technology to the final place of rest for his mother by adding a QR Code to her gravestone. “I was most more »

The Hierarchy of Internet Communication

Jul 15 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

While it’s clear that the internet has become one of our primary methods of communication with friends and family, it’s only been in recent years that the emergence of using different internet tools has really emerged in the business world. Email has been used for a while, but social media, chat, more »

Amazon to launch tablet computer by October

Jul 14 by David Lux | 9 comments

According to reports, Amazon.com is planning to battle Apple with the launch of its own tablet computer. The device will reportedly hit the market by October and it will help the online retailer sell its music, movies, and other types of digital content. Since introducing the iPad last year, Apple had sold more »

The Slave Leia solution by Kaley Cuoco

Jul 14 by Rocco Penn | add comment

This spoof public service announcement brings together some of the most geeky-epic dreams male nerds around the world have ever had. First, it features “Slave Leia”, an icon in the cosplay universe representing everything hot about intergalactic princesses everywhere. Then, it features more »

Is Apple an elitist company?

Jul 13 by Navneet Alang | 4 comments

In the few brief moments of respite we get from the constant flurry of Apple rumors, sometimes it seems worth something to think about the broader effects a company like Apple has. After all, though there is always much debate about the gang from Cupertino, it tends to be about technology or features more »

Monkey see, monkey sue? Or, can a monkey hold a copyright?

Jul 13 by Amy Vernon | add comment

Remember the amazing self-portrait of the monkey that was making the rounds the other week? The Cliff’s Notes background: A photographer, David Slater, left his camera unattended for a little while while he was in the forests of Indonesia. A female black macaque got curious, as monkeys are wont more »

Go to modernwarfare3.com, get redirected to Battlefield 3 website

Jul 13 by Connor Livingston | 2 comments

The battle lines have been drawn between the 2 major FPS titles to be released before Christmas this year with both Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 getting tremendous amounts of attention since E3. One unknown fan of Battlefield 3 took the war to the next level by redirecting modernwarfare3.com to the more »

Is US space dominance officially over?

Jul 12 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

When the final space shuttle lands next week at Kennedy Space Center, it will begin a long stretch when the American space program will not be putting people in space. Between Russia, Elon Musk, and Virgin Galactic, it’s very possible that NASA will be the 4th or 5th next entity to do so. Is the US space more »

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio to get first Fisker plug-in car

Jul 12 by David Lux | add comment

After numerous delays, the 2012 Fisker Karma plug-in electric performance car will finally be heading to showrooms by the end of this month. According to British automotive magazine Autocar, Fisker’s first customer will be actor and committed environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio, with Al Gore and Colin Powell set more »

New plans, pricing for Netflix cuts regulation problems off at the pass

Jul 12 by JD Rucker | add comment

Those who have watched the evolution of Netflix over the years are probably aware that the company has done an excellent job of keeping current and having their products reflect the current times. That has slowed lately as the movie rental company seemed to have been stuck in a rut, offering few more »

More brilliant Apple marketing: appealing to iPad and Mac owners for the iPhone

Jul 11 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

As if they didn’t do a great job already of marketing each individual product they put out, Apple has stepped up their push in the phone market by appealing to those who already have iPads and Macs, as well as those who have friends who have iPhones, iPads, or Macs. “If you don’t have an iPhone…” is more »

Yet another iPad rumor: HD

Jul 11 by Rocco Penn | 2 comments

While rumors of an iPad 3 coming out later this year bouncing between yes, no, maybe, and we don’t know, the latest rumor seems to make a little more sense. An HD variation of the current iPad 2 is being considered as “likely” with double the current resolution of 1024×768. The idea is that it would more »