Author: Ty Dunitz

Ronen Kadushin could very well be the cleverest product designer out there; he has developed, simply and gracefully, a device which is a definite iPhone killer. And he did it by himself. ‘Unpossible!’ you cry. And I, too, was a non-believer, until I saw the device. It is a truly innovative concept that will effectively end any iPhone that crosses its path. Made from laser-cut 25mm brushed steel, the iPhonekiller, as Kadushin has so boldly and poignantly named his device, subtly echoes the lines of Apple’s phone, adding only insult to injury. A product to terminate the iPhone if I’ve ever seen one….

You’ve got really big hands, dude. Seriously, they’re huge. I wouldn’t trust those with delicate operations, if I were you. I heard you wanted to use your iPad 3G on your carrier, but they don’t provide MicroSIM. Did you honestly think you were going to cut up that SIM card by yourself? Look at those sausage fingers. You’re no John Benson. Don’t even try this. Here, let me help you out. Check this bizness. This is Cut My SIM, and as the name implies, it cuts your SIM down to Micro-size with a single tap. No mess, and it even comes with a means of restoring your card to regular size in the event you no longer want…

I bet you’ve been wondering how to most stylishly deal with life’s big question: ‘But where do I put my iPad?’ Lucky for you, Mohan’s of New York has you covered, offering dapper power suits that conveniently stow your most magical possession. These are almost as sexy as the tablet itself. Okay, so ‘convenient’ is a matter of perspective, I guess. Have you ever tried hiding a large book under your jacket? It isn’t exactly a party. And an iPad sure is more fragile than a book. And it probably totally shows through the front of the suit a bit. And I bet it unevenly weights your jacket, leaving you to tug uncomfortably…

I was sorta worried abut the ‘New Digg’ that’s been in the works for the last little while – with founder Kevin Rose touting a more social experience being brought to the Diggosphere, I was worried he might pull a Facebook and just attempt to emulate Twitter. By the looks of this video, he has done exactly that. However, he actually makes it seem like a smart idea. The new Digg offers content aggregation on two levels – the first in a standard-issue Twitter-esque ‘friends and followers’ model, and, for the heavier stuff, the traditional Digg Top News. I gotta hand it to Kevin; this is not a bad idea. I personally…

Steve Jobs has been called many things – a visionary, a criminal, an entrepreneur extra-ordinary, and Santa Claus. But it appears Google Autocomplete has something to say about Jobs, too. Typing ‘Steve Jobs is’ into Google’s search field will net the curious viewer some equally curious commentary about Apple’s CEO before even slamming the search button, attacking and insulting Jobs from all angles, including race, religion, and… punctuality? Heavens, no! While it’s every bit as likely that these are just the honest-to-goodness most oft-aggregated search terms, it’s interesting nonetheless,…

Huh. Well this sure is scary as hell. Remember Big Dog? This is every bit as terrifying, only this one flies. It just seems that for every cute robot, there’s one that could kill you all sorts of dead, were it given a gun. Anyway, you’re currently watching an autonomous quadrocopter (translated literally to four-bladed robot) by Daniel Mellinger conduct all manner of demos, including acrobatics, flying through incredibly small spaces – including others of its kind – and landing on surfaces, even upside-down surfaces, with pinpoint accuracy. Even Mellinger himself describes the maneuvers…

Here’s some advice. Take the next five years to really get the most out of your binocular vision. Climb a tree. Play baseball. Do that thing where you put your hand in front of your face and wink back and forth for awhile. Trust me, you’ll miss it when it’s gone. According to the Taiwanese Industrial Technology Research Institute, glasses-free 3DTV will be the hip new tech by 2015, and this week they demonstrated a 45-inch model showcasing the technology. It wasn’t exactly ready for primetime, but impressed nonetheless. Apparently, they can go as big as 65 inches. Stephen Jeng, director of 3D systems…

Hey, y’know Bait Car? Bait Car is great. Bait Car is frequently hilarious. Bait Car comes from Canada. Bait Car has a website. If you’re still lost, just Youtube ‘Bait Car’. This post is absolutely not about Bait Car. At least, not quite. That picture what you’re putting in your eyeholes, there, is a design concept for the MIMO Autonomous Mobile Robot, and while it is not Bait Car, it operates in the same spirit – that is, to deter and frighten would-be criminals out of doing that crime thing they like to do. So what the hell is this thing? Well, it’s not immediately clear, and once the entire scope of this…

Well, that went well. Apparently the iPad is having a super launch day abroad, and perhaps nowhere better than in Japan, where they love their gadgets more than they love their families. Called a ‘frenzy’ by the Wall Street Journal, over a thousand people lined up, cash credit card in hand, to scoop up the all-American gadget. You’d think that of all nations, Japan would be able to crush Apple at its own game, at least locally. But apparently, that’s not the point. “Japanese products are very capable and powerful, but they don’t have the same charm as ones made by Apple,” said Kazuto Ishimura, a college…

Man, gestural interfaces are really starting to gain ground, aren’t they? Apparently, touch was never enough. Toshiba’s been working on something pretty cool. Yeah, that’s it, just cool. No customary ‘rad!’ or ‘awesome!’ from me. S’just cool. I’ll explain momentarily. The AirSwing is an interface that uses a webcam to superimpose the image of the user onto the screen, that they might wave their hands all over some content and make magic happen. I was under the impression they were just using a really, really crappy high-gloss monitor in the video for a full three minutes. Now, this is sort of puzzling….