Author: Andrew Kozloski

TheAppleBlog Pretends that Apple Offers 30,000 Free eBooks

Yesterday 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, more »

AT&T To Start Providing Real Phone Service, Only $150 + All Normal Costs

Customers 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 more »

"Heavy Rain" is Neither a Video Game, Nor a Cheesy Crime Film. Why Can't We Have Both?

Image 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 more »

Everybody Cross Your Fingers: Google Announces Next Steps in Fiber-Optic for the US

For 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 more »

One Step Closer to Terminator: Salvation Day

Pictured 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 more »

Good News for Bad Drivers: GM Windshield Can See Better Than You Can

Using 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 more »

iPhones to Double as Social Networks and Triple as Walkie-Talkies

It 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 more »

Roll-able Display from HP: Just Don't Roll It for Now, Please

Hewlett-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 more »

Nintendo DS: Learning Stuff Edition

Japan 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 more »

Twitter is 4 Today!

Break out the cake and the candles, March 21st is Twitter’s 4th birthday.Yes, that means Twitter is an Aries. more » more »

Beautiful Object Makes Weird Noises, Likes to be Touched

Electronic 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 more »

Get Epic With Fallout 3: The LARP Pictorial

The 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 more »

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