Author: James Mowery

It’s another day in the tech world, and, as one would expect, that means there are more Apple rumors being spread throughout the Internet. There are quite a few (three, to be exact). With the iPhone 5 rumored to be a heavily upgraded device, any of these are a possibility, but some of them have even shocked me. The first rumor is that Apple is working on an “iPhone Nano,” which would be produced in tangent with the iPhone 5. There are a vast amount of reasons why I think this would be a horrible idea, but the fact remains that it could come true. This version of the iPhone has been rumored to work on several networks,…

I have a question: how did you arrive to this article? Did you find your way here from Google Search? If by the slight chance you did, you might want to pay attention — you are part of a dying breed. Google Search is past its peak. Those cute Google Doodle’s are all that’s left. I became acclimated with Google Search while I was in middle school, while typing away at an old Mac computer in keyboarding class. I don’t remember exactly where I heard about Google, but I do remember that I was the first one in my class to use it. It was different — much more so than the likes of Dogpile, AskJeeves, and Yahoo, which…

As I witnessed my Pittsburgh Steelers fall to the cheese heads, I couldn’t help but be sullen throughout the night. But at least there is something good I can claim: not all of the car commercials sucked during the Super Bowl. Most of them sucked, I admit (especially the Hyundai ones), but not all of them. Three, in particular, stood out above the rest. “The Force” by Volkswagen came out on top, featuring pint-sized Darth Vader too. It currently has 20.98 million hits on YouTube. Eminem set the tone for Chrysler in “Imported From Detroit.” It currently has 3.72 million hits on YouTube. Volkswagen…

A man much more brilliant than I once said that you must adapt or die to succeed in business. Warner Music Group’s (WMG) sales have dropped 14 percent while digital sales fell 5 percent in the past three months alone. Clearly, WMG is going for suicide. It’s not a shocking announcement. The big labels are struggling to find their mojo. They will blame piracy, of course, but the truth is that artists are beginning to see the light. They are beginning to understand that they can do it without the labels and that social media and the Internet is the way to fame and fortune. Perhaps Amazon will do to the music…

I’m not going to attempt to explain how this is working because, to be honest, I don’t know how it works. But this seems to be a legitimate product straight out of Japan from a company called AirCord. It’s called N-3D, and there are many demos on their website (in Japanese) showing this thing off. It caught my attention because they have it hooked up to a Galaxy S. There are also other demonstrations of it working with an iPad. And, well, it’s cool. What I do know, however, is that the Japanese are amazing and that I want this, if only to amaze my friends for a few moments….

I’m not sure whether or not to believe what I’m seeing, but if what I’m seeing is true, this is huge for men. I know what it is like to be a man — primarily because I am one — and I know what it is like when you rub your hands over your face or head and you know time it is. You know that it is time for a shave. And if you’re anything like me, you hate this moment dearly. But what if we no longer had to worry about such a thing. (I know that this is probably fake, and I’m heading to the patent office right now.)…

In what could be the next great evolution in artistic appreciation, Google has decided that all of those wonderful pieces you see in art museums should be viewable by anyone who has the desire to do so. With the power of gigapixel photo technology and the cooperation of several art galleries around the world, Google is doing just that with Art Project. By using similar technology in Google’s Street View, people will soon have the opportunity to take virtual tours of 17 museums from around the world. Cameras, which are mounted on a special trolley, will travel through galleries, take 360 degree pictures,…

Technology can amaze, inspire, and shock us all. In this story, though, technology helps one quadriplegic do all three. Hank Torres is paralyzed from the shoulders down, but that didn’t stop him from setting a new Guinness world record in “Fastest Hands-Free Typing.” The amazing thing, though, was that he did this with his mouth, along with the help of some amazing technology. By combining TrackerPro, a Sip-Puff mouth switch, and SWYPE on-screen keyboard on Windows 7, Mr. Torres completed a complicated sentence used to judge typing speed at an impressive 83.09 seconds. But don’t take our word…

You don’t make it to a billion-dollar blunder without making a few mistakes along the way, or so should be the motto of the day for Intel. The world’s largest chip maker has distributed roughly 8 million faulty Cougar Point chips, and the cost to fix this mess: one billion dollars. The problem is that the Cougar Point SATA chips (the ones that transfer information back and forth to your hard drives) are faulty — more specifically the 3Gbps controllers are experiencing the issues. There is a slight chance that they could fail, and that is what all the fuss is about. However, it isn’t as bad as it might…

Geeks love smart phones, but if I see another “fart” application, I might just go kamikaze on my Droid X. Barring that potentiality, it has now become known that 26 percent of all applications are only used one time after installation, before becoming a waste of space, according to Localytics. And I think that fact is impressive. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that most of the mobile applications we install are stupid; they don’t do anything useful, they don’t do anything productive, and they don’t warrant the time spent downloading and installing them. Is it because the applications…