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Gawker Vs. Apple Gets Personal

Gawker Vs. Apple Gets Personal

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has always had a penchant for replying to questions and accusations over his very public email...

USB Post-Its for When Leaving Your Computer for Paper is Too Much

USB Post-Its for When Leaving Your Computer for Paper is Too Much

Perfect for people in business or the absent-minded blogger, these USB post-its are a godsend. The design is so simple;...

Spokeo: The Internet White Pages For Stalkers

Spokeo: The Internet White Pages For Stalkers

Concerned about the security of your personal information on the internet? We all are, and thanks to Mark Zuckerberg, we're...

Mobile Banjo/Guitar Uses Smartphones to Make Music

Mobile Banjo/Guitar Uses Smartphones to Make Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilEdroh3uzM&feature=player_embedded#! Using the iPhone OS, a Belgian man managed to make a wonderfully sounding guitar. Drums and background music can...

Jailbreaking a Requirement For Experiencing WiFi On Your iPhone or iPad

Jailbreaking a Requirement For Experiencing WiFi On Your iPhone or iPad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_09mqhMa-g&feature=player_embedded It looks like users will have to be willing to jailbreak their iPhones in order to experience the benefits...

Mini-ITX Test Bench Looks Like a Transformer

Mini-ITX Test Bench Looks Like a Transformer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=052l5ESJDKQ&feature=player_embedded#! This robotic creature transforms into a Mini-ITX test bench.  The four adjustable legs create a spider-like effect. Designer Lian...

How Can Sony Make The PSP2 A Success?

How Can Sony Make The PSP2 A Success?

Despite its continued success in Japan, PSP sales elsewhere have fallen off a cliff. Software sales are still woefully low...

Toshiba Promises to Hurt So Good with True Tactile Feedback

Toshiba Promises to Hurt So Good with True Tactile Feedback

Apple really likes to tout the iPod Touch (and, by extension, the iPhone and iPad) as a gaming platform. In...

Germany to Fine for Unprotected Wi-fi Netwurst… er, Networks

Germany to Fine for Unprotected Wi-fi Netwurst… er, Networks

Here's an odd one. Seems Germany is now fining users who fail to protect their wi-fi networks. Why? Oh, you're...

Has The Internet Made The Magazine Obsolete?

Has The Internet Made The Magazine Obsolete?

Alright internet, it's confession time. I have a dark, disturbing secret for a geeky tech blogger. But I just have...

Space Tourism Costs Cut In Half by Space Adventures

Space Tourism Costs Cut In Half by Space Adventures

I think it is safe to say that it was everyone has had at least one point in their lives...

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...