Author: Kendra Cowden

Kendra Cowden
Ordinary Wheelchairs Are Out, The RoTrike Is In

Ordinary Wheelchairs Are Out, The RoTrike Is In

What do you get when you mix a wheelchair with a tricycle? One cool looking wheelchair called the RoTrike. Ordinary wheelchairs aren’t really that great but they do their job. People who have to use wheelchairs have to move themselves around by pushing the wheels with their hands and they have to carry their own body weight up and over the wheels just to get in and out of it. It puts a lot of pressure on the upper body. This new invention will solve all those problems. The RoTrike is a three-wheeled chair that looks like it is from the Victorian era and also resembles a tricycle. There are two wheels under…

iPad Rumored To Be Getting OLED Screen

iPad Rumored To Be Getting OLED Screen

The iPad has only been out for a while but there are already rumors of a new version in the works. According to a rumor on DigiTime, Apple is hoping to add an OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen to the next version of the iPad that will use the same design concept as the iPhone 4G. This might seem like a cool idea right now but it will probably up the price of the iPad. DigiTime says that the cost of OLED panels will drop by 2011 but there is no guarantee to this. Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo said that the price for the 9.7-inch LCD panel for iPad is about US$60-70, whereas the price for a 9.7-inch…

New Headphones Will "Light Up" Your Day

New Headphones Will "Light Up" Your Day

Time to have your own personal musical light show with new light-up headphones. Designers Min-guk Ji, Hong-joo Kim and In-oh Yoo for Metatrend Institute have created some very cool headphones that are sure to have everyone wanting them. The “Transparent OLED Headphones” are made from flexible OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) boards that let the customer make their own lighting show or patterns across their head. Making your own designs will also allow the customer to set their current song or “color groove setting”, scroll any messages or stay at whatever color they want to have…

Facebook Rumored To Release Universal "Like" Button

Facebook Rumored To Release Universal "Like" Button

It seems as though Facebook is taking over. There are about 400 million users on Facebook and about half of those users are checking their profile on a daily basis. Facebook is now recognized as one of the most popular destinations on the Internet and it is trying to increase its reach outside of its website. The popular social networking site may announce plans to turn websites into satellites where users will be able to interact with their Facebook friends with a universal “like” button, in the same manner that Twitter and Digg allow tools to be installed on sites that allow users to share content…

Robot Trainers Bring Hope to Stroke Patients

Robot Trainers Bring Hope to Stroke Patients

A study done by a group of researchers from Brown University in Rhode Island showed that intensive therapy using a robot helps patients improve their arm movement years after having a stroke. The researchers used the machine to offer three months of training and according to the New England Journal of Medicine, many patients had a better quality of life. Stroke specialists from the UK said the progress was “exciting” but that the robots were at the early stages of development. A stroke can leave someone with long-term disabilities such as limited movement, loss of strength in upper body,…

Apple Files Patent for Electronic Concert Tix that Work With iTunes

Apple Files Patent for Electronic Concert Tix that Work With iTunes

Afraid of losing your concert tickets before the show? Apple has an app for that in the works. Apple has just come out with a detailed patent for a new application that will allow customers with an iPhone to buy concert tickets. The application may be called “Concert Ticket+”, according to the patent filing, and it works with Apple and iTunes to get rid of paper tickets. The application is designed to improve the process of buying tickets and will offer access to live recording of concerts you have attended, to theme parks and other big events. It will also let you know of any upcoming concerts that…

Pulitzer Prize Winner Too Controversial For Apple

Pulitzer Prize Winner Too Controversial For Apple

Mark Fiore was the first Web-based cartoonist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his “biting wit, extensive research and ability to distill complex issues.” However, Apple rejected Fiore’s iPhone application because he made fun of public figures. In a recent interview with the Nieman Journalism Lab, Fiore said that in December Apple rejected his idea for a application called NewsToons because it broke section 3.3.14 of the iPhone Developer Program License Agreement. This section states: “Applications may be rejected if they contain content or materials of…

30 Vintage Technology Advertisements

30 Vintage Technology Advertisements

Technology has changed over the past 25 years. In the early 70′s the first call was made over a cell phone. It seemed like only rich or important business people had cell phones. The phones were big and bulky and only made standard calls. In today’s society it seems like everyone, even kids as young as ten years old, have a cell phone that can do much more than call someone. Computers and gaming systems have also changed quite a bit too. Computers do much more than type up word documents and play solitaire.  Today’s gaming systems have amazing graphics and some systems are even small enough to fit in your…

10 Game-Inspired Food Items With Actual Awesomesauce

10 Game-Inspired Food Items With Actual Awesomesauce

There are three rules that gamers follow when it comes to eating food and playing video games: must be fast, easy to eat and taste great. The foods we’ve found have one additional thing going for them; they are inspired by video games, and therefore taste of awesome. Nintendo Cereal System In the 1980s, Nintendo crated a cereal for fans called “Nintendo Cereal System”. The box carried two flavors, one on either side, that featured the characters from Super Mario Brothers and Zelda. Video Game Inspired Bento Meals Zelda. Super Mario Boo Ghost. Little Big Planet character. These video game inspired…

The Future Meets The Past: 15 Examples of Steampunk Tech

The Future Meets The Past: 15 Examples of Steampunk Tech

Steampunk is a movement that is getting some attention from tech junkies. It is inspired by science fiction and speculative fiction, such as Jules Verne, and the Victorian era when steam power was often used. Steampunk artists rework some of the greatest gadgets of today and art to create a Victorian era vibe to technology. People have given such devices as USB drives, computer mice, monitors, keyboard, laptops and even entire PC’s a new look. Victorian styled computer chest. Jake von Slatt gives a LCD monitor and computer keyboard a Victorian makeover. He made the frame for the monitor out…

Find Your Favorite Star Trek Actors on Twitter

Find Your Favorite Star Trek Actors on Twitter

Ever wondered which of your favorite Star Trek actors are on Twitter and which aren’t? Wonder no more… the ubergeeks at Techi have assembled a comprehensive list. Please note that we have only included the major actors from each series and the last Star Trek movie. We also respectfully do not mention actors that are deceased. Actors listed with fake/unverified accounts have not been officially verified by Twitter to be the “real deal”. Some of them may be real, some of them may not be; we left it up to you to decide. Regretfully, we don’t have them on speed dial. Yet. Star Trek: The Original Series…

5 Reasons Microsoft Doesn

5 Reasons Microsoft Doesn't Suck

1. Bing The most popular thing to do on the Internet is to use a search engine. Bing has actually come out of the gate to some strong market share, and with some innovative tie-ins such as offering search features on news sites. According to Nielsen, Bing continues to grow, taking 11.5 per cent of all U.S. searches. Google still wins with 69.97 percent of all U.S. search traffic. 2. Microsoft Office While Open Office and Google Docs try, and in many cases succeed, nothing has yet supplanted Microsoft Office as the best Office suite ever. Microsoft Office is a combination of desktop applications, servers…

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