Author: Andrew Kozloski
TheAppleBlog Pretends that Apple Offers 30,000 Free eBooks
Mar 27 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentYesterday The Apple Blog announced that the new iPad was going to be offering 30,000 free eBooks. The thing is, the free books are all hosted at Project Gutenberg (and have been for years) so any device with a web browser can access these eBooks, even a Blackberry. The headline, “iPad to Offer 30,000 Free e-Books at Launch” actually more »
AT&T To Start Providing Real Phone Service, Only $150 + All Normal Costs
Mar 27 by Andrew Kozloski | 1 commentCustomers of AT&T will soon be able to buy into an option that makes the phone work the way it’s supposed to, for the one-time low price of $150. It’s called the Microcell–just set up this little baby wherever you happen to be–it supports up to 4 phones at a time and it taps into an existing DSL more »
"Heavy Rain" is Neither a Video Game, Nor a Cheesy Crime Film. Why Can't We Have Both?
Mar 27 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentImage by 1up.com Every now and then the question of whether video games should qualify as art or not comes to the fore. A few years ago Roger Ebert famously concluded in his book “Answer Man” that games cannot be art because there is choice involved. Why anybody would want to know what an old man with bad taste more »
Everybody Cross Your Fingers: Google Announces Next Steps in Fiber-Optic for the US
Mar 27 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentFor some time now there has been talk of Google just going out and building experimental fiber optic networks in the US to test out the infrastructure, and the response has been extraordinary. Including cities renaming themselves to Google to draw the company’s attention. Other mayors have swam with sharks and dove into frozen lakes. Personally, more »
One Step Closer to Terminator: Salvation Day
Mar 27 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentPictured above, an unmanned drone taken from the military blog Armybase.us. Washington’s unmanned drone airplanes will not just be Washington’s anymore. Robert Gates, the U.S. Defense Secretary announced plans to start selling and giving them to other countries, including Pakistan. In the past they had more »
Good News for Bad Drivers: GM Windshield Can See Better Than You Can
Mar 21 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentUsing a combination of night vision, radar and motion sensor cameras, GM cars will soon be packaged with windshields that highlight important information right in front of you, with lasers no less. Other cameras pointing at your face can tell where you are looking, making your own car yet another more »
iPhones to Double as Social Networks and Triple as Walkie-Talkies
Mar 21 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentIt looks like the iPhone, already a kind of digital swiss army knife, will someday have walkie-talkie capabilities and be able to serve as a kind of spontaneous hub where information can be sent automatically to everyone in the group. Patents dating as late as last November, but only unearthed more »
Roll-able Display from HP: Just Don't Roll It for Now, Please
Mar 21 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentHewlett-Packard has just rolled out its newest design in the way of flexible display screens, or “digital paper,” as they are sometimes called. This is part of a collaboration with Arizona State University, and it began quite a while ago but no one has seen or heard anything about it for a couple more »
Nintendo DS: Learning Stuff Edition
Mar 21 by Andrew Kozloski | 1 commentJapan continues its long trend of inserting computers and cyborgs into all aspects of daily life, as it is announced that special versions of the Nintendo DS will be distributed to school students at the elementary and junior high levels. No word on how soon all the teachers will be fired. more » more »
Beautiful Object Makes Weird Noises, Likes to be Touched
Mar 20 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentElectronic music enthusiasts have a new tool at their disposal, this thing that looks like a cross between an iPhone and your grandpa’s radio, and apparently likes long walks on the beach. It’s called the Posc, a portmanteau word made up of pocket and oscillator. It oscillates in your pocket, and more »
Get Epic With Fallout 3: The LARP Pictorial
Mar 20 by Andrew Kozloski | add commentThe images here have gotten some real currency on the net by this point, but they are too good to pass up. These Russian guys do LARP better than I do LIFE. Look me in the face and tell me you wouldn’t be freaking out with joy if you were sitting around this fire pictured above, dressed appropriately and more »
The Water-Scraper: Where You Will Live When the Ice Caps Melt
Mar 20 by Andrew Kozloski | 4 commentsReceiving a Special Mention in Evolo’s 2010 Skyscraper Competition, this underwater skyscraper from Malaysian designer Sarly Ardre Bin Sarkum redefines what it means to be an impossibly large metal tube full of human beings. Decked out with swaying tentacles that collect kinetic energy from more »
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Posted February 19, 2012 in F-Commerce gets an ‘F’ as Facebook storefronts fail miserably
Posted February 14, 2012 in Is 4G enough to end the high-end tablet war for iPad?
Posted February 14, 2012 in Is 4G enough to end the high-end tablet war for iPad?