Author: Jay Perry

As reported yesterday on Entertainment Daily, a copy of the 1938 edition of Action Comis No. 1 featuring Superman’s debut sold for 1.5 million dollars at an auction. They wouldn’t reveal the name of the comic book fan who purchased the copy, but I’m assuming we may have a good idea who will be appearing in the next X-Men movie. If you have deep pockets you can bid on the chance to win a walk-on roll and have yourself featured in the movie. Good idea? I’m assuming that the role will be extremely limited but all proceeds will go to the Worldwide Orphans Foundation. If you want to bid on this amazing opportunity,…

It seems as tho technology researchers are getting bored and slapping a LCD screen on everything. Yesterday I wrote about the screen on your microwave that plays YouTube videos, (which seems like a good idea to me) and now they have gone and put a digital screen on your milk jug. In theory I guess this is a good idea and will keep you from drinking spoiled milk but what’s next? A small LCD screen on our cutlery to tell us if its completely sanitized or not? How does the jug actually work? Its pretty simple. It contains a sensor in the bottom and measures the acidity level of the milk and as the pH level drops,…

With the anticipated release of Apple’s iPad, development companies have been in quite the rush to release apps for it. Well, put your worries of no Twitter app to rest. Twitepad, an app released from InfoXenter has been approved by Apple and is one of the first Twitter clients scheduled to be released on Saturday April 3rd. This app allows for multiple twitter accounts to be used at the same time as well as they intergrated a web browser in Twitepad. What does an intergrated web browser mean? We integrated a webbrowser into Twitepad, so you can look at the articles your friends tweet. But we didn’t…

We’ve all been stuck in a situation using our laptops in a Wi-Fi hotspot only to look at our battery life and see 5% left. In a panic, we quickly scan the area for an electrical outlet only to realize you are outdoors or forgot your plug at home. RCA has introduced this amazing technology that will power your portable device using USB. The only thing you need, is to be able to connect to Wi-Fi and it will turn that signal into power for your device. Imagine charging your laptop, cellphone or MP3 player on the go. Just leave a charged RCA AirPower in your pocket and never have to worry again. Pricing has yet to…

One of the newest and SIMPLEST gadgets out there for your Smartphone, is the MoviePeg iPhone dock. Coming in an vast array of colors, it will allow your iPhone to situate almost any way you can imagine. Just like My Applecore, this is one of those inventions that we shake our head at thinking, “Someone is getting super rich of something as simple as that. Why didn’t I think of it?”. For those of us who use our iPhone as our alarm clock, now we can actually prop it up on our nightstand instead of it getting lost in our bed. Thanks to the MoviePeg, you can take away that contraption you built using duct tape and…

Doctors all over the world will soon be treating less wrist injuries. Samsung has released its ultra compact SMX-C20UN camcorder that features at 25-degree active angle lens. The idea behind this feature is to allow owners to have a more comfortable hand position while recording. This means that you will be able to hold your video camera longer on your family vacations, which also means longer boring videos to show at a family get together. For those of you who are clueless with computer video editing, the Samsung SMX-C20UN features a built in video editing device to get rid of all those times Mom…

With the trend quickly leaning towards a Hollywood in 3D, Apple has jumped on board with the technology and released its concept of the MacBook 3D. Equipped with Apples version of 3D glasses, you can now enjoy the “Avatar experience” from the comfort of your own computer desk. The majority of the features will remain the same but added are stereoscopic iSight cameras, a touch screen trackpad and a hingeless spine design. If it wasn’t already nerdy enough to open your MacBook inside of Starbucks and be glued to your laptop screen, we will now be able to view these same nerds (myself included) while…

Polaroid? They still exist? Everyone once and a while we rummage through our grandparents closet and stumble upon this old metal box that when the shutter is pressed, prints out a photo. We shake the photo, at rapid speeds hoping that it will dry quickly and we can look at the instant quality of a polaroid picture. Gone are those days and we now have digital cameras……. umm.. and then…. Impossible Project releases a new, polaroid camera with a new age design. Really? and its got a digital feature? The new Polaroid 600 One is designed by Paul Giambarba, who is also responsible for designing the…

As a photographer, I understand how difficult it is sometimes to make people not only smile, but have a naturally looking smile. Stefan Stubble and Adnreas Schmelas of the University of the Arts in Berlin, have came up with a camera that no matter what, will take your photo with an artificial smile. The camera uses an array of smiling photos that were taken before to basically replace photoshop and instantly give you that artificial but award winning smile. Not sure if I would actually pick up this product because as a photographer sometimes you want to convey emotion in your photo with somebody…

So I decide to cook something in my microwave that takes 4:52 to cook and look, Chocolate Rain by Tay Zonday comes up on the screen. Life is good. The CastOver developed by researchers at Keio University in Japan features a 10.4 inch screen instead of a window on your microwave. It runs Adobe Air and will grab videos from your internet and with the built in intelligence, pulls videos close to or exactly the length of the time you put on the microwave. Slowly our kitchen appliances are turning into quite the smart technology. I can see the day where we put food in our microwave in the morning, and with our…