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Virtual Reality Puts Men in Women’s Bodies

Virtual Reality Puts Men in Women’s Bodies

Are virtual sex changes on the horizon? It’s doubtful, but scientists have seemingly taken their first step towards such a...

Are You Human? CAPTCHA’s Many Ways of Asking the Same Question

Are You Human? CAPTCHA’s Many Ways of Asking the Same Question

Are you human? For most of you, hopefully, the answer is yes. Throughout the years, CAPTCHA has provided us with...

New Smokeless Smoking Device To Eliminate Second Hand Smoke

New Smokeless Smoking Device To Eliminate Second Hand Smoke

Smokers may have a new way to get their nicotine fix. The Model One, a new project by Stanford graduates,...

The iPad – Now Available At… Wal-Mart?

The iPad – Now Available At… Wal-Mart?

Before you leap into your Ford Windstar and gun it for the strip mall, I should correct myself - not...

Limewire Loses: Another Victory for RIAA Against File Sharing

Limewire Loses: Another Victory for RIAA Against File Sharing

People may have a harder time downloading their crappy new wave electro-pop as sung by androgynous female singers now that...

SCVNGR: Geo-Tagging Just Got Unpronounceable

SCVNGR: Geo-Tagging Just Got Unpronounceable

Foursquare's gonna have to step its game up. Unwisely-spelled geo-tagging doodad SCVNGR (I was pronouncing it 'sick vinegar' in my...

Facepalmingly Unsurprising News of the Day: Land Lines Are Dead

Facepalmingly Unsurprising News of the Day: Land Lines Are Dead

I actually talk about this often with friends: how it's interesting that nobody seemed to notice when the shorthand 'phone'...

A Change of Facebook? Facebook Calls Privacy Meeting

A Change of Facebook? Facebook Calls Privacy Meeting

Regardless of it being the biggest game in town, Facebook is unquestionably the most hated, with mounting privacy concerns that...

Robot Car Gains Extreme Maneuverability, Drives Itself

Robot Car Gains Extreme Maneuverability, Drives Itself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_piO849uRdI&feature=player_embedded A robot car on its own is pretty cool, but couple that with the ability to learn new maneuvers...

Android 2.2 Sucks 450% Less Than 2.1

Android 2.2 Sucks 450% Less Than 2.1

For a point upgrade, Android 2.2 has high aspirations. Google's latest upgrade is 450%, that's right, 450% faster than it's...

Like Facebook, But Minus The Suck?

Like Facebook, But Minus The Suck?

Facebook is one of those things you hate yourself for using, but you keep using it and hating yourself because,...

Geeks Knew It, Now Science Proves It

Geeks Knew It, Now Science Proves It

Geeks have known this for a long time, but science has has finally proven it: Technology makes people feel good....

Indie Developer Beats Facebook To The iPad

Indie Developer Beats Facebook To The iPad

With it's hot shot iPhone developer Joe Hewitt gone, Facebook has gone some time without an update for iPhone, and...

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

6 Exciting Apple Patents Hint At Innovation On Steroids

Apple has a host of patents to its name, and rifling through them can offer some fascinating insights into the...

Windows Phone 7 Release Nears

Windows Phone 7 Release Nears

I'm probably not one of Microsoft's biggest critics, but I'm certainly no fan. I was however pleasantly surprised when they...

Was Apple right to dump Flash on iPhone?

Was Apple right to dump Flash on iPhone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y7XJI4NN7k Fresh in from the historical inevitability department comes news of a failed Adobe Flash demo -- and an all-new...

7 Ways Technology Could Kill Us All, As Told By Hollywood

7 Ways Technology Could Kill Us All, As Told By Hollywood

We have bestowed technology with the task of improving our lives, and as technology becomes more intertwined with our lives,...

Bitter Twitter Bugs Celebrities

Bitter Twitter Bugs Celebrities

Twitter says it has now fixed the bug which allowed people to force others to follow them. The loophole, that...

Video: iPad-touting Waiters Take Orders With An Apple Smile

Video: iPad-touting Waiters Take Orders With An Apple Smile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inRsSyJ2bNY Next time you sit down for a slap-up meal out keep an eye on the waiter - he (or...

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

SmartSwipe Card Reader Keeps You Safe Shopping Online

Cool UK gadget retailer, Firebox, has begun selling the SmartSwipe, a handy USB device which reads, encrypts and transmits your...