The smartphone has been ubiquitous for just long enough that a new, mind-bogglingly futuristic piece of gadgetry was due sometime soon, and Google researchers and developers are working quickly to fill the niche. Rumor on the internet says Google is on-track to release Heads-Up Display glasses by the end of year, with a prototype and […]
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Beginner’s Guide To World’s Smallest Transistor Made From Single Atom
On Sunday, February 19, Australian and American physicists working at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales reported in the journal Nature Nanotechnology that they successfully built a working transistor from a single atom using a reliable and repeatable process. Transistors are the fundamental building blocks of computers and many other modern electronic devices; […]
The New Babysitter On The Block: Your iPad
My wife received an iPad 2 as a gift in September and loves it, but my kids know how to use it better than she does. She uses the Gmail app, Safari, and that’s pretty much it. So, why are there about 150 more apps on the iPad? To keep the kids occupied of course. […]
Kenyan City Official Turns Twitter Into Village’s Own 911 Response System
On Wednesday, the Associated Press’s Tom Odula reported an interesting mobile development in Kenya. It seems that Francis Kariuki, the town administrative chief of Lanet Umoja, Kenya uses his Twitter account to communicate with people in town, most unconventionally to stop crime. Kariuki said that even the thieves in his village follow him on Twitter. […]
Honeywell Makes A Beeline To Stir Up Nest
Honeywell Corporation stings Nest Labs and Best Buy retailers this week with a surprise patent lawsuit over the Nest learning thermostat. Honeywell claims their patents were infringed related to “controlling a thermostat with information stored in a remote location,” “a thermostat’s inner design,” “simplified methods for operating and programming a thermostat including the use of […]
Xbox 720 Rumors: Won’t Play Used Games
Rumors are circulating the internet, like they do, about the next-gen Xbox console lovingly but stupidly dubbed the “Xbox 720”. Among those rumors is talk about how much more powerful the game system will be. Of course, it’s going to be stronger than the Xbox 360, but “six times more powerful” is a pretty vague […]
Newt Gingrich + Moon = ???
Twenty-four men have been to the moon; of those 24, only 12 have ever walked on the surface, and, even in his alternate history novels, none of them was Newt Gingrich. This didn’t stop Gingrich from making absurd promises to a gathering of 700 space industry employees and their families this past Wednesday on Florida’s […]
Does Time Warner Plan to Kill The Nielsens?
For those who are not terminally stuck in an archaic system, the Nielsen Company pride themselves on being an “online audience and consumer-generated media measurement” company. The term may seem familiar to you because here in the United States they are how companies rate television viewership also known as Nielsen ratings. This is done by […]
The Pirate Bay Goes 3D (No Glasses Required)
The Pirate Bay announced yesterday they’re adding a new content category called “Physibles”, enabling the swapping of data used by 3D printers to create physical objects. Three-dimensional printing is quickly coming down in price, with such products as the MakerBot Replicator available for $1,749.00. The Pirate Bay operators view this trend as a fundamental leap […]
The Best Of CES 2012
As you’ve probably read here and elsewhere, if you were expecting the major consumer electronics companies to show up to CES 2012 with their latest and greatest hardware that would revolutionize your life, it was something of a disappointment. Most devices, especially those from major companies, were basically updates to the previous year’s line up, […]