From its inception, Google Earth has been an amazing application. For the average computer user, the application was thought of at first as little more than a cool toy, with interesting ways to see things but not very useful ones. Then, features were added to get directions. Google Maps were much better for directions though […]
Sometimes just listening to things isn’t enough — you need to have sound shoved into your skull in the most efficient way possible. To that end, Sennheiser announced the release of two new products today, the IE 800 headphones and the HDVD 800 dynamic headphone amplifier. The IE 800’s feature technology were only seen before […]
Verizon has the largest LTE network in the United States. There’s no question about that as Verizon is about to cover two-thirds of the U.S. population with expansion to 230 markets, significantly more than AT&T’s small but fast LTE network and orders of magnitude beyond Sprint’s nascent new 4G. However, Verizon wants to expand further […]
Do you remember that scene in Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home where Scotty teaches an engineer how to make the future technology of transparent aluminum? Canadian scientist Peter Jansen didn’t need a man from the future to show him how to make things from Star Trek when he built himself a tricorder. More […]
NeuroVigil, a neurodiagnostics company headquartered in San Diego, has developed a way to hack your brain during sleep by using a headband fitted with electrodes to the wearer’s head to record brainwaves. The company hopes this technology could be used to help people with neurological disorders, such as prominent physicist and author Stephen Hawking, communicate. […]
Are you a cold war history buff? Do you have a few hundred thousand bucks lying around? Would you like a man cave that can withstand a one megaton nuclear blast? Then 20th Century Castles LLC would like to sell you a decommissioned U.S. nuclear missile silo, cheap. With just a little bit of elbow […]
College tuition may be rising in cost at a rate faster than even medical expenses, but several entrepreneurs want to offer you free courses via the internet. Udacity accepts new student enrollments for any of six computer software-related courses beginning on April 16. The site began last November, when Stanford computer science professor Sebastian Thrun […]
There’s something about searching for nudity on Netflix Streaming that almost feels quaint, in a 1980s, trying to spot nipples on the scrambled porn channels kind of way. With so many actual porn choices available at the click of a mouse, scanning for full or partial nudity on Netflix is almost family friendly by comparison. Who […]
Monoprice may be the best worst-kept secret in tech. If you have put together a home theater system or a computer network and someone didn’t point you towards Monoprice, let’s just say you need to find yourself some geekier friends. Although not as well known as some other retailers, the company has become known as […]
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a federal antitrust complaint against Apple and Hachette, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Simon & Shuster, Pearson, and Penguin, alleging e-book price fixing in violation of the Sherman Act. According to the complaint, after unsuccessfully trying to pressure Amazon into raising its e-book prices, the publishing companies found common cause with Apple. The […]
