Author: Angela West

Does WiFi work well for everything but your spanking new iPad? Fret no more, dear fanboys: Apple Support is here! Earlier today, the mighty Apple people posted a knowledge base article addressing the wifi issues that have been plaguing iPad buyers everywhere. While the initial piece only acknowledges limited issues with multi-band routers, look for the Cupertino support staff to update this a bit further as more fixes come in. Source: MacWorld…

Need a bathtub that auto-fills, auto-cleans, and even adds essential oils at timed intervals? Want no more – the Electronic Tub-E is here. While the name is best suited to something that automatically feeds you Big Macs, the tub itself is a thing of ultra-sleek techno design love. To enter the tub? Climb not an unwieldy ladder, cher billionaire… ascend lovely stairs of perforated steel. Where can you purchase this thing of bathing beauty? If you’re in Australia, contact its creators at Wild Terrain Design. If you’re not Down Under, consider moving there just to install this bathtub. Source:…

On the banks of the river Mersey in England, a new sculpture by architect Tonkin Liu has been unveiled. The 45 foot high sculpture features 160 huge metal petals and over 60 LED lights that are powered by wind turbines. The lights shine at a brightness that intensifies with the wind speed, with power supplied by three completely off-grid wind turbines. The sculpture was commissioned as part of a larger project to revitalize polluted industrial land near the river. Tonkin Liu won the international bidding competition in 2007. Source: BD Online, Inhabitat…

The 2010 UK election, announced today by prime minister Gordon Brown, marks the first time that Twitter has been in widespread use in the UK during a political campaign. In order to track UK political trends on the popular social networking tool, Reuters commissioned market research agency Crimson Hexagon to analyze what people were saying about politics on Twitter. While they turned up some pretty graphs, they also outlined some interesting facts. Most notable was the fact that UK politico traffic on Twitter could be trended from week to week, with strong anti-Tory sentiment showing as constant…

Once again, Google is stretching the definition of “evil” to find out what it can and can’t monetize. Users in the UK, Brazil and France now have the option to choose Sponsored Themes for their Gmail pages, including a very sweet Assassin’s Creed theme, pictured above. If the idea will fly, which we are guessing it will since every Mac fanboy out there will want to paint their Gmail with Apple logos, Google will look at rolling it out within the USA. While funky gaming and tech themes are sure to make Gmail sponsored themes popular, the potential for evil is still there; High School Musical 3 Gmail themes,…

A three-judge panel overturned an August 2008 FCC decision today that had found Comcast in violation of FCC rules due to throttling of Bit Torrent files. After that decision was handed down, Comcast immediately turned around and sued the FCC for overstepping their boundaries through trying to enforce net neutrality laws. Today’s decision is the outcome of that lawsuit. Technically, the FCC had ancillary powers over broadband communications at the time, but today’s decision effectively removes any teeth that they may have had. Specifically, the three-judge panel ruled that Congress had…