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Location-based album launches musical elitism to new heights

Location-based album launches musical elitism to new heights

Do you exist? Do you like music? If you answered yes to both questions, you'll likely find this pretty neat....

Robotic Plant Ushers in New Age of Unnecessary Robotics

Robotic Plant Ushers in New Age of Unnecessary Robotics

Not content to robotically emulate any and all members of the animal kingdom, humanity has turned to another branch of...

Look Out For Mario! No, Seriously, Look Out, Or You’re Dead

Look Out For Mario! No, Seriously, Look Out, Or You’re Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j2kw5MJK24 Waterloo Labs, a team of engineers at National Instruments Corp in Oregon, have unveiled the source code for their...

Axsotic Spheric Mouse is Perhaps the Most Radly-Named (And Raddest-Looking) PC Accessory In History

Axsotic Spheric Mouse is Perhaps the Most Radly-Named (And Raddest-Looking) PC Accessory In History

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16253164[/vimeo]Better wash up your loins, guys, 'cuz they 'bout to get blown. For all the readers out there who work...

No More Gunking Your Screen With Your Filthy, Filthy Hands While You Text

No More Gunking Your Screen With Your Filthy, Filthy Hands While You Text

One of the deciding factors that made me go Blackberry instead of picking up an iPhone 4 was the tactile...

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...

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...

Lego Wiimote Opens the Doors to Some Truly Rad Prospects

Lego Wiimote Opens the Doors to Some Truly Rad Prospects

When I dare put 'rad' in the headline itself, you know something must be goddamn rad as all hell. And...

So, How ‘Bout That New Twitter, Yeah?

So, How ‘Bout That New Twitter, Yeah?

Twitterphiles hither and yon, gather and bear witness to the new Twitter.com. At a special event yesterday, Twitter unveiled a...

Vinyl+ Gives You One More Reason To Be a DJ

Vinyl+ Gives You One More Reason To Be a DJ

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14119612[/vimeo] Man, there is just some really neat tech flying around today. Seriously, it's a Wednesday to remember. Not many...

German Researchers Take Gaming Peripherals to Their Logical Conclusion

German Researchers Take Gaming Peripherals to Their Logical Conclusion

Microsoft's Kinect would have you believe that no controller is the way of the future for gaming. Microsoft's Kinect would...

Insert Obligatory Magic Mirror Joke Here

Insert Obligatory Magic Mirror Joke Here

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/1867956[/vimeo] Look at that iPad you're holding. All compact, and... portable n' junk. Crap on that. Portable is for chumps....

What’s Next for Digital Artists

What’s Next for Digital Artists

The future of the internet has again predicted a new wave of evolution. Thus, this one is not confined to...

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Mice

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Mice

Earlier today, I posted a piece on a group of researchers who have discovered a major security flaw with any...

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,...

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...

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...

New Toshiba LCD Concept Gives Your Arms a Workout

New Toshiba LCD Concept Gives Your Arms a Workout

Finally. Thank you, Toshiba. I've always found that iPhone pinching gesture to be so unintuitive and weird. I mean, yeah,...

Toshiba Takes a Swing at Yesteryear’s Technology

Toshiba Takes a Swing at Yesteryear’s Technology

Man, gestural interfaces are really starting to gain ground, aren't they? Apparently, touch was never enough. Toshiba's been working on...

Just Like Minority Report, Only Really, Really Ugly

Just Like Minority Report, Only Really, Really Ugly

Hey, speaking of things in 2010 that feel like they came from the 80's - no, not me - check...