Tuesday’s announcement by startup Planetary Resources that they have plans to start a privatized asteroid mining operation seems the stuff of science fiction made reality. This is literally a plot point in countless science fiction books and movies, usually to get the protagonists in an out of the way location so all kinds of space chaos can break […]
Last night, Techcitement received a nod from The Colbert Report — winner of multiple Emmys, two Peabody awards, a special recognition by the GLAAD Media awards, and current home to Captain America’s shield — for its article bout male birth control by Jon Clinkenbeard. During a segment called “Cheating Death with Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, […]
Boy, oh boy, the internet loves Ron Paul. The “I think I can, I think I can” of a GOP presidential candidate never fails to inspire love among his netroots following; and now, Politico reports that an enterprising soul is making an indie video game starring the Texas congressman/presidential candidate/implausibly utopian libertarian idealist. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are you a Brony? A Transformers fan? Do you dress up as Sgt. Slaughter from time to time? (And yes, that’s me in the link.) Then, you’re going to want to subscribe to Netflix‘s streaming service, because their deal with Hasbro is giving them online rights to various versions of My Little Pony, Transformers, G.I. Joe, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
Director Michael Rossato-Bennett of Ximotion Media has announced the release of a fascinating new documentary Alive Inside next week in New York. Alive Inside investigates these questions and the power music has to awaken deeply locked memories. The film follows Dan Cohen, a social worker, who decides on a whim to bring iPods to a […]
The popular open source DVR, MythTV, announces a new release today with version 0.25. Features added with this release include HTTP live streaming capabilities, IPv6 support for both the back end and front end clients, Apple AirTunes and AirPlay support for streaming both audio and video content from iOS devices, VAAPI support (a video acceleration […]
