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Interface explores machine interfaces, operating systems, and robotics. It draws attention to the technological developments in automation and software ecosystems that provide seamless human-machine contact.

Why Apps Are (Sometimes) Better Than The Open Web

Why Apps Are (Sometimes) Better Than The Open Web

Despite the fact that Wired Magazine has said that the web is dead, the browser-based internet is still thriving.And why...

Y’know, I Bet Sports Programming Would Die Off Altogether With This Tech

Y’know, I Bet Sports Programming Would Die Off Altogether With This Tech

Oh, Japan. You'll never cease coming up with the best stuff. Why, just last night I was regaling a friend...

Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace, Or Something

Mad Scientist Dooms Us All With Self-Replicating Lego Menace, Or Something

This is just downright threatening. Software engineer Will Gorman has seen fit to play god and create a robot out...

Marvel Heroes Get TRON’d The F*** Up

Marvel Heroes Get TRON’d The F*** Up

I hang out with an awful lot of comic book dorks, and many of them have been cowering in fear...

Pantone Capsure Puts Color In The Palm Of Your Hand

Pantone Capsure Puts Color In The Palm Of Your Hand

Pantone, the controllers of all things color have released a new product that brings color from the real world into...

Is That A Phone In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Is That A Phone In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

Check this. Seriously, check it. I can see your cursor on the scroll bar, there. Stop for a second and...

You’ll Have To Walk the Walk To Talk the Talk

You’ll Have To Walk the Walk To Talk the Talk

You think your phone is a target for would-be identity thieves now? Wait until this phone-as-method-of-payment madness touches down -...

Map of Social Networking Pretty Much Hits the Nail on the Head

Map of Social Networking Pretty Much Hits the Nail on the Head

Coming down the pipe from XKCD is this utterly brilliant map of the state of social networking today. Click the...

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

No Pirates, Princesses, or Pokémon, Please

What's your kid wearing for Halloween? He's not going as Batman, is he? I see, like, a trillion child Batmans...

Would You Kill A Man For An iPod Ninja? Would You Kill A Man WITH One?

Would You Kill A Man For An iPod Ninja? Would You Kill A Man WITH One?

Turns out Big Steve isn't the ninja we all thought he was. After being pulled aside and searched at Kansai...

To Boldy Cut, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Star Trek-Slash-Pizza Joke

To Boldy Cut, Yadda Yadda Yadda, Star Trek-Slash-Pizza Joke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWNc0yjC3T4 Tell you what: I'm just gonna leave this here, and you can totally just talk amongst yourselves. Or buy...

Wanna See Flickr’s 5 Billionth Photo?

Wanna See Flickr’s 5 Billionth Photo?

It's always cool when a totally big-ass milestone is hit on something, sort of like Twitter's 20 billionth tweet, which......

$100 Origami iPhone Stand – Functional, Stylish, Expensive

$100 Origami iPhone Stand – Functional, Stylish, Expensive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU36zTVkOTY Craft time! Got a spare $100 bill lying around? Of course you do, you're made of money. Look at...

‘In Soviet Russia’ Joke Goes Here

‘In Soviet Russia’ Joke Goes Here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrook6t4AFg Despite Soviet heritage, I don't pretend to know more Russian than I learned watching James Bond movies through my...

Making Future Magic – Animators Create Stop-Motion Film With iPads and Light

Making Future Magic – Animators Create Stop-Motion Film With iPads and Light

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14958082[/vimeo] I repeatedly harp on the iPad for its lack of ability for truly professional content creation. Well, I take...

A Safer Kind of 3D Advertising

A Safer Kind of 3D Advertising

3D is absolutely bloody everywhere now. Everywhere you turn, stuff's popping out of every surface at you - most of...

A Little Blinky Blinky For The Ladies

A Little Blinky Blinky For The Ladies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luOeJdosct4 Engineer Marc DeVidts is my favourite person today. Marc's unconcerned with not being totally fly and getting all the...

It’s Always a Party When Twitter Gets Naked

It’s Always a Party When Twitter Gets Naked

After my outrage at iTunes 10, you may think of me as a nitpicker. Well, you know what, guilty as...

Mind-Controlled Moog Theremin Ain’t No Mozart, But It Sure Is Cool

Mind-Controlled Moog Theremin Ain’t No Mozart, But It Sure Is Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ0So3q9cT0 It would be a day wasted if I didn't show you a bafflingly unique piece of musical technology, so...

Apple-Adobe Feud Heats Up With Blatant Disregard for Photoshop

Apple-Adobe Feud Heats Up With Blatant Disregard for Photoshop

It would appear that the rift between Apple and Adobe has become so great, that Apple's ad artists are losing...