Author: Ty Dunitz

I want all you MW2 and Black Ops freaks out there to take off your ski masks and aviators for a moment, and pay your respects to Wolfenstein 3D. Without Wolf3D, you wouldn’t be sitting in front of your PS3, shrieking likely-inaccurate racial slurs at other white kids into a headphone mic. Luckily, some intrepid gaming heroes still choose to stand up and show their propers to Wolf3D in the form of high fives in the form of tributes like this. Someone with nothing to do and way too much time to do it has re-created Wolf3D within the beta of LittleBigPlanet 2, complete with pseudo-3D and groaning Nazis. This…

Star Wars creator George Lucas has been busy of late, pulling together the makings of his grandest special effect to date: resurrecting the dead. But it’s not exactly what you think. Or, maybe it is. You didn’t honestly believe Lucas was drawing a big pantagram on the floor and sacrificing lesser farm animals, did you? Either way, it’s considerably less metal than that. I’ll let Lucas’ friend, director Mel Smith, fill you in. George has been buying up the film rights to dead actors in the hope of using computer trickery to put them all together, so you’d have Orson Welles and Barbara Stanwyck alongside…

Santa is so sick of this toy delivery thing, guys. Not because he isn’t passionate about showering the well-mannered children of the world with gifts; on the contrary, it’s the only way he gets down. But let’s be real: Santa’s been doing the same damn thing every Christmas for like 200 years now. The guy just needs a change. And change he has brought to his otherwise predictable nightride, trading in his legendary sleigh for… a hovercraft? Powered by air and the smiles of children the world over, Santa’s new ride looks like a rad time if I’ve ever seen one, but let’s be honest: this has got to be less…

Out of the big box marked ‘stuff that will blow your mind today’ busts John Kestner’s Tableau. Tableau is a night stand with a wire coming out of it. And boy, if it didn’t make me flip my lid. It isn’t the design of the stand that incited all this lid-flipping action – I’m more of an IKEA guy – but its function. Tableau is the most ingeniously-disguised Twitter client you ain’t never seen. Barring right now, that is. A hidden printer/scanner resides within Tableau’s drawer, connecting to your Twitter account and quietly printing and depositing photographs for you to discover. As well, any photographs…

Y’know how experts are always forecasting that we’ll soon be using our phones for everything, including ePayments and eTicketing and sutff? Well hold onto your hat, because the future is now. In sticker form. KSW Microtec AG, a manufacturer of RFID components for credit cards and such, has developed an RFID sticker for your phone that functions as an alternative to your traditional wallet full of cards. The sticker acts in lieu of your credit or debit card and is apparently affixed ‘securely’ to your phone, in order to meet credit card companies’ authentication standards. What ‘securely’ means…

Painfully unfunny Russian jokes aside, it’s also true – porn sharing site YouPorn is now under fire for having pulled a minor Google by sniffing users’ browser history. For those of you out of the loop, browser sniffing is not a website’s scanning of your internet activities for scent. A website, as you may have noticed, generally keeps track of links you’ve clicked by assigning them a ‘clicked’ or ‘have not clicked’ colour – typically purple for yes, blue for no. Browser sniffing works, essentially, by a website’s asking your browser which colour link to display. If your browser answers ‘purple’,…

According to the fine print on new placards showing up in Apple stores, the white iPhone is headed to a waiting hand near you… this coming spring, as photomographed by 9to5Mac. This is, of course, assuming your waiting hand is still in fact waiting for a white iPhone 4. I’ve heard of diehard fans waiting for particular iterations of a product before, but frankly, if you’ve held out for a version of a cellular phone this long – just so you can get dirt in all the crevices and quickly turn it into a brown iPhone 4 – then I have nothing but praise for your clearly iron will. You are an epic man/woman with whom…

So the Mac App Store won’t have demos. How about that. Demos, trials and ‘Lite’ versions are hugely popular on iOS, helping drive sales – but the Mac App Store is having none of that bullspit up in hurr. Apple is pretending they’re still down with demos, at least in concept, as indicated by a statement made in the announcement: Your website is the best place to provide demos, trial versions, or betas of your software for customers to explore. The apps you submit to be reviewed for the Mac App Store should be fully functional, retail versions of your apps. Come on, Steve – that’s a pretty crappy deal. Believe…

Yeah, so, uh… it may please you to know that Sony has just released an HDTV with a built-in PlayStation 2. Seriously, that’s really the long and short of it. It’s 22″, $299, and a good half-decade too late. Like, don’t get me wrong – had I a PS2, I’d still be playing We <3 Katamari and Frequency daily. It shall forever remain, in the annals of console history, a hero worthy of the mightiest fist bumps. But come on, Sony. It’s over. This is the PS3′s world now. It’s finally making money, and you’re cramming an on-board PS2 into a television? Horsefeathers. …

To the best of my knowledge, the Techi crew has let fly with a number of interesting Rubik’s Cubes in the past… or maybe it’s just been me. Either way, this one pretty much takes the cake in my opinion, as it’s made of movable type. Being a nut for both typography and Rubik’s Cubes, I’m tickled shades of pink not found in the visible spectrum of light. But the catch, as you’ve no doubt noticed by the photo, is that this Cube is in Chinese type. Only Cube you’d have to learn a new language before solving. Unless, of course, you already know Chinese. Designed by fellow type enthusiast Shaun Chung, I don’t think…