Author: Navneet Alang

Navneet Alang is a technology-culture writer based in Toronto. You can find him on Twitter at @navalang

Pink Floyd... in 8 Glorious Bits

Chiptunes – that genre of music that takes classic tracks and then covers them using 8-bit video game sounds – has always been a bit controversial. Some geeks love the retro-tech aesthetic, while others find it sacrilege to take the treasured more »

3D Printed Jewelery Makes Vanity Efficient and Futuristic

3D Printing has always been a bit of a confusing concept. It’s always seemed a bit befuddling to think that 3D objects – things you can pick up and hold and use – could be printed in the same way that a document or photo are. All that said – who cares? more »

Google Envelopes Snail Mail Concept to Please Both Luddites and Fans of The Absurd

Those of you are fans of both letter-writing and Samuel Beckett-like absurdity are really going to like this: Google Envelopes is a concept that would allow you to send snail mail from within GMail. Designed by Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik, more »

Friends Don't Let Friends Buy Expensive HDMI Cables

Have you ever been suckered into buying a high-end digital cable? Don’t be ashamed – we’re geeks, right? We want only the best. But, you now have no reason – like no reason at all – to ever consider spending more than $10 on a cable to connect your more »

Unvarnished Lets People Leave User Reviews of... You.

Well it’s difficult to imagine what might go wrong this idea. Unvarnished, which today launched into a private beta, is a new service that lets people leave anonymous reviews of you. Yep. Anonymous reviews. About you! Fun! In theory, the site is meant to be more »

Judge to Isohunt: Remove all Infringing Content. Isohunt: Erm, dudes? That's Like All We Have.

While it’s true that there are legitimate uses for Bittorrent, let’s be honest: most of us use it solely for downloading movies or the latest episode of Grey’s Anato– erm, I mean, Mad Men.  And it seems that point hasn’t been lost on a U.S. judge,  more »

iPad Coming to Save All Those Backward Countries on April 24th?

In the tech world – especially when it comes to Apple -  it’s a known fact that America gets everything first. But fear not people of other countries! It looks like that at the end of April, you too will have iPads to put next to your black and white more »

Is Facebook Good for the Internet? (Hint: No.)

A few years ago, when Facebook broke out of its college ghetto into the mainstream, many people welcomed it with open arms. At the time, it seemed like such a helpful, innocuous thing – it was easy to use and offered a neat, simple way for people more »

Skin-Controlled Input Almost Makes iPhone Look Medieval

iPhones? Wii’s? Bet you think those are pretty fancy, right? Well, when it comes to sheer wow factor, those technologies have little on Skinput, which lets you control things by simply pressing different parts of your skin. Your skin! The system, which more »

Unnecessary Lord of the Rings Blu-Ray Has Unnecessary Quality Problems

As soon as Blu-Ray high-definition films became available, geeks the world over waited with bated breath for one group of films: Lord of the Rings. Then, those geeks were smacked smartly in the face. Why? Because after already releasing both more »

In Amazing Text 2.0 Concept, Books Read You

For all the talk of a reading revolution and Amazon, Sony and now Apple are creating, all of this new technology doesn’t actually change reading very much. There’s some text on a blank background and – well, that’s about it. But a new concept developed more »

iPad Launch Games Leaked, Look Awfully Familiar

After a bit clever detective work by the folks over at PadGadget, we now know what games the iPad will be launching with. You will be shocked to learn – or not – that most of these titles are just upgraded versions of their iPhone counterparts, indicated by more »

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