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TECHi Interface covers operating systems, developer tools, software ecosystems, and the platforms developers build on. From iOS and Android updates to new programming frameworks, API launches, and the tools shaping how software gets built. Where the code meets the user.

Facebook, The Movie: This Holiday Season?

Facebook, The Movie: This Holiday Season?

Gear up for the white knuckle thrill ride of the holiday season that will speak to the soul of every...

Shock and Awesome: New Technology Lets Gamers Feel the Noise

Shock and Awesome: New Technology Lets Gamers Feel the Noise

"Interestingly enough," says Shahriar Afshar, "I'm not a gamer myself. I'm a physics professor." Afshar is not of our generation,...

String Section Hero Brings Some Class to the iPhone

String Section Hero Brings Some Class to the iPhone

I used to be so good at Guitar Hero. Back in my day we were scoring our own tracks for...

Email, Reduced to A Series of Tubes

Email, Reduced to A Series of Tubes

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10777240[/vimeo] This is totally flowing my mind. Developed by Dean McNamee and Filippo Cuttica of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction...

Apple Aptly Announces Apple Store App

Apple Aptly Announces Apple Store App

In what is quickly becoming an extremely Apple-centric day, Apple has announced its own app to browse its online store....

Twitter-Powered Marble Coaster Can Make Your Tweets Incrementally Less Inconsequential

Twitter-Powered Marble Coaster Can Make Your Tweets Incrementally Less Inconsequential

Here's a Twitter oddity I am absolutely not going to do the opposite of talk about. You've probably seen something...

Heineken Gets Personal with Online Campaign

Heineken Gets Personal with Online Campaign

Awhile ago, I wanted to purchase some custom Converse shoes. Y'know, how on their website, they let you design your...

YouTube and The Guggenheim Begin the Quest for the Most Creative Video Ever

YouTube and The Guggenheim Begin the Quest for the Most Creative Video Ever

Now here's a partnership of which you'd never have fathomed to dream. The Guggenheim has jumped into bed with YouTube...

Insert Classless Joke About ‘Computers’ and ‘Running’

Insert Classless Joke About ‘Computers’ and ‘Running’

Gabriel Dishaw knows what beef is. Culling tech refuse for old circuit boards, processors, and other obsolete throw-away-ables, Gabe recombobulates...

Because Your WPM is Entirely Too High: Enter the USB Typewriter

Because Your WPM is Entirely Too High: Enter the USB Typewriter

Yeah, maybe I talk about iPads and iPad accessories a bit much, but this is seriously cool, so let's just...

App of the Dead Straight From Mr. Romero Himself

App of the Dead Straight From Mr. Romero Himself

Oh, George Romero… what happened? On top of the world of horror at one moment with your groundbreaking films filled...

iCade, Part III: Adventures in Homebrew

iCade, Part III: Adventures in Homebrew

The rock don't stop. Remember the iCade Pinterest? Of course you do, that's a stupid question. Possibly one of the...

Get Your iPhone Pregnant and Suffer The Consequences

Get Your iPhone Pregnant and Suffer The Consequences

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/11679798[/vimeo] Do we all remember the Tamagotchi craze in the 90s? Those annoying little digital playthings made up of only...

These Speakers for the iPod Look Like Something Out of a Sci-Fi Film

These Speakers for the iPod Look Like Something Out of a Sci-Fi Film

Have you ever been to a house and stated in your head “WTF were they thinking?” when judging their design...

Because Nostalgia Always Beats Practicality

Because Nostalgia Always Beats Practicality

So I was in Best Buy yesterday, iPadding in Cantonese because I like a challenge, when I thought to myself...

iPhone 4: Apple are Kings of Tech Because They Get Culture

iPhone 4: Apple are Kings of Tech Because They Get Culture

Given that today's announcement of iPhone 4 contained almost nothing surprising, you'd think everything that needed to be said has...

New Bike Add-On Allows For Phone Charging… The Green Way

New Bike Add-On Allows For Phone Charging… The Green Way

The green movement has stopped being just about saving our dying planet and has become the fashionable thing to do....

Race Cars and Explosions Inspire Design of This BMW Art Car

Race Cars and Explosions Inspire Design of This BMW Art Car

One thing we Germans are known for (other than our beer) is our crazy sense of style and awesome cars....

Just Like Minority Report: Introducing the G-Speak Spatial Operating Environment

Just Like Minority Report: Introducing the G-Speak Spatial Operating Environment

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2229299[/vimeo] Remember Minority Report? If so, what about that scene where Tom Cruise is controlling a computer with hand movements...

Pray to Jobs with Stained Glass Motherboards

Pray to Jobs with Stained Glass Motherboards

Straight outta the Church of Obsolescence comes Dan Beville, stonemason and apparent architect for the Cult of Holy Tech. Having...