Author: Ty Dunitz

Hands-free just got hands-on, as Microsoft’s would-be Wii-killer, Kinect, is the first to get its own sex game. Though the game (which at time of writing, is still nameless), produced by adult videogame developer ThriXXX, is not an official port – you need a PC running Windows 7 – it… sorta looks interesting, a little, I guess? There’s a video, but out of respect for the thousands of parents obviously browsing Techi with children on their laps, you’re gonna have to click Read More to see it. Basically, it works like every other Kinect game: wave your hands around to accomplish a task. You thought…

Digitimes is reporting that Apple is apparently working on a new MacBook Pro and iMac to launch in the first half of 2G’s+11. The piece claims a new MacBook chassis design, but perhaps most intriguing is an alleged lower price point for the iMac. I love Macs, and swear by their overall superiority in certain areas, but let’s be honest: as it is, they’re too expensive. Any hardware you can get in a Mac, you can generally equivocate in a PC for half the price. Even as a total Mac ‘fanboy’, I can admit that part of what you’re paying for is that wee little apple laser-cut into the chassis. Considering that,…

Am I the only one who finds this terrifying? Like, sure, it’s not quite as immediately scary as Boston Dynamics’ BigDog, but imagine what it’ll look like a couple decades from now when several of these things are sprinting over a hill at you with guns for heads after the military buys them up? Can you say Judgment Day? Of course you can. The bot, called Athlete, is the brainchild of Ryuma Niiyama, a post-doctorate student at MIT, and uses pneumatic artificial muscles to simulate human legs. Currently, it can only run three steps before toppling over, but it’s only a matter of time before the current…

Welp, Tron: Legacy is out on Friday, and if you currently exist, chances are you’re going to see it. In the event you don’t exist, there’s probably a hypothetical quantum world where your un-self will see it anyway. This movie’s moistening the loins of geeks the world over, and I’d be hard pressed to imagine you’re not one of them. You’re reading Techi, after all. With the advances in computing in the last 28 years, you’d have to think that writing Tron 2 would be quite a task – y’know, now that the internet exists and all, the world of Tron would seem to be limitless. But that’s just what Legacy director…

Perhaps Mark Z has to be given some props – after all, Facebook is a little popular.  But is he deserving of the title ‘person of the year’? According to TIME, for sure. And they’ve got good reason: as well as being The Facebook Guy, Zuckerberg has been spending his time of late being philanthropic as hell, pledging $100 million to the Newark, NJ school system, and joining Giving Pledge, a Bill Gates and Warren Buffett joint urging America’s billionaires to give more. That kind of sounds like a disease. Philanthropy, I mean. Dave, I’ve got terminal osteo-philanthropy. But is Zuckerberg really deserving…

You’re well aware I’m not in love with Ping, and I’d be willing to bet you aren’t, either. Ping blows. Like, a lot. A thinly-veiled attempt to sell more albums, Ping has, so far, been a joke of a ‘social’ experience. Now, Ping has added the ability to share playlists. Of your own music. Why this feature wasn’t implemented on day one will remain forever a mystery. That’s the only reason I, for one, signed up – to share my music with friend and foe alike! Of course, when I realized that Apple wanted me to be more ‘volunteer sales associate’ than ‘music enthusiast’, I quickly shut it off and disabled my iTunes…

Big Steve would have you believe that Apple isn’t working on several sizes of iPad, and has outright denied rumours that a 7-inch model is on the way. According to Jobs, 7-inch tablets are “DOA”, and we’d have to “sand down [our] fingers to around one-quarter of their present size” just to operate the things. But lo! Reuters is citing Asian manufacturers who claim that Apple is, in fact, working on a smaller iPad, which we could see drop early next year – perhaps even along the iPad 2. It’s too early to call, and take what you hear from Asian manufacturers with a grain of salt. Although Steve is pretty well…

Alright, so ‘amazing’ is hardly a claim I can make considering I haven’t actually given this device a try as of yet, but being your typical emulation freak, a quick gamepad solution like the Chameleon X-1 from Shogun Bros. looks like it could certainly be something to perform an elaborate song and dance number about. Cramming an entire operational gamepad into a mouse is no small feat, especially when said gamepad is located on the underside of the damn thing – for that, the brothers Shogun deserve a peek at my propers (and, assuming you’re impressed, yours). I especially like the dual PSP nubs – say…

Those ancient Greeks think they’re so great, developing an astonishingly-accurate mechanism for predicting astrological events over 2000 years ago. Whatever – the Antikythera Mechanism isn’t all that. It doesn’t even have any touchscreens. Well, we’ll show them what trivial bullspit their Antikythera Mechanism really is by building one out of nothing but Lego! That oughtta knock those Zeus-worshipping souvlaki eaters down a peg….

Wow, guys. Just wow. Apparently, teen pregnancy sees a boom in Britain around the holidays. Who knew? To combat this, the Leicestershire Teenage Pregnancy Partnership has released this totally bizarre ad illustrating safe sex through the use of… …Mega Man?! Apparently, Rock has dumped Roll for some raven-haired seductress (not to mention given himself a firetruck-red pompadour), and her shop is closed unless our hero can find a condom. It’s a cute ad if nothing else, rife with that whole ‘parents only half-understand videogames’ vibe that was so prevelant in the 90s. And boy, is it ever…