Author: Ty Dunitz

Alright, alright, you’ve had enough cool things to look at in the last few hours. Let’s rap for serious, real quick. The iPhone 4G has now got some official stats floating around, so here’s some straight poop on Your Next Phone. According to Ming-Chi Kuo, senior analyst for Digitimes, Foxconn will be shipping 24 million units this year (4.5 in the first half of 2010, 19.5 in the latter), starting in June. Kuo also confirmed that the 4G will feature IPS (in-plane switching) panels with FFS (fringe-field switching) technology and a 960×640 resolution – in layman’s terms, this thing is going to be…

That’s my second ‘i- prefix’ headline joke today. I’m on a roll. A couple of days ago I made all y’all privvy to a non-illustrator who is teaching himself to paint via the iPad. Now, check out what happens when a pro illustrator gets his hands on an iPhone. Kristofer Strom is a fellow illustrator I’d heard tell of before, but now he’s getting internet famous by vowing to draw something with his iPhone every day for ‘some time’. Like a true career artist, he readily admits his eventual procrastination and laziness. I respect that. Anyway, don’t not click here to rub your eyes all over the blog he’s using…

The boon of a slow news day (or morning, at the very least) is that it gives an intrepid internetsman like myself the opportunity to force upon hapless readers all sorts of awesome stuff. Take this, for example. Yes, it does look like one of those aroma therapy candles your mom would buy, doesn’t it? She’s got to hide your scent somehow, you basement-dwelling freak technology enthusiast. But a candle it’s not – this is an oracle into the state of the social web. Existing as little more than an Arduino hooked up to a WiFly (okay, so that’s all it is), this little unit scans Twitter at large for trigger words…

This rocks, so I’m writing this as a service to you, who also rock. Developed as an artsy-fartsy design thing by Jean-Louis Fréchin & Uros Petrevski, FabLabWall is an iPhone app that basically works in the spirit of those decoder rings your grandparents found in cereal boxes as kids. You know those scannable bar codes popping up on billboards these days, yeah? Basically, FabLabWall is the same sort of thing, but works in real time: just aim your iPhone at wallpaper designed for use with the app, and hidden embedded text and images are revealed, augmented-reality style. It does not get cooler…

Techi is honor-bound to offer you totally rad (and routinely bizarre) things to read about, and I for one don’t like to disappoint, so check this out. In the endless chronicle of robots infiltrating humanity’s dwindling normalcy, it would appear Japan is still proving itself crowned king – this time, with a robotic priest, of all things. Satoko Inoue and her groom, Tomohiro Shibata, were recently wed in a fairly typical ceremony, save for the atypically-nonhuman i-Fairy robot presiding over the affair. According to Inoue, who is an employee at Kokoro Ltd, the robotics company behind the i-Fairy,…

Your favorite waste of time celebrates a half-decade this week. I’m one of the few who can remember life before YouTube. I even remember the very first video I watched – some home movie of an airheaded jock, drunk and throwing his cat down the stairs or something. Okay, maybe I don’t recall it with complete accuracy, but I do remember thinking one thing: “This will never catch on”. At the time, YouTube’s content was almost entirely comprised of horribly unfunny home videos. Needless to say, five years later, feel free to color me previously-undefined shades of wrong; YouTube’s bandwidth last year…

My phone sucks. No keyboard, the 6 key is broken, FORGET emails… it’s just terrible. I was thinking about trashing it and stepping up to a Blackberry, but I’ve been holding off to see what the hullabaloo over this Blackberry tablet is all about. I may as well just go ahead with my plan, because the tablet certainly isn’t terribly exciting. At least, not in the way other tablets are.  A Bluetooth device, the Blackberry tablet has no wi-fi or 3G, and is little more than a giant screen for your existing Blackberry. Now, on the one hand, this is kind of neat – Blackberry screens are tiny, and a tiny trackball…

I’ve been hearing this concept tossed around for years now, but apparently, it has now happened: Science (and may I point out that I capitalize ‘Science’ intentionally) has built robots out of DNA, and has put them to work. Nadrian Seeman, a professor at NYU and his team have developed a sort of ‘factory’ where they’re currently experimenting with having the nanobots build particles of gold. Each robot is composed of a few molecules, instructed by DNA. “We have the three robot stations lined up in a row, and the walker walks by them. Depending on how we program the system, the walker will or will not…

If you’ve been following Techi for the last few hours, then you’re already aware I’m all about the iPad today. Yep, today I love it. I’m even pricing them out right now. Y’know, trying to find an iPad tailored to my exacting specifications. One that screams my name. Uh, figuratively, of course. …Wouldn’t that be creepy. Anyway, you wanna give me a hand with this? Sweet, thanks, you’re the most. Alright, so check this out, I’m kinda mulling this one over in my head. I’m kind of a ‘gold’ guy, right? I think it’s totally my color, and over at Stuart Hughes they’ve got this really nice gold iPad I’m eyeing…

Today is historic. Today was never supposed to happen, yet against all odds, it did. Today marks the first time I’ve sat back and thought to myself ‘Huh. Might be nice to have an iPad.’ Now, I catch a lot of flak as Techi’s resident Apple skeptic (he said, typing this from a Mac), but this morning, I am all smiles about That Crazy-Powerful, Magical iPad. Why, might you ask? You probably mightn’t. But either way, I’m going to show you. Here, we have Tabloids, running on the iPad. Pretty well-formatted app, right? Sexy. So it’s a news feed reader, isn’t it? Actually, it isn’t. This thing’s a goddamn Twitter…