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 […]
Japanese inventors have a way of blowing my mind. This time researchers at Keio University’s Anzai-Imai Laboratory (LMAI) have come up with robotic “Pygmy” rings that look like blinking eyes and a mouth so you can make faces with your hand. Graduate student Masayasu Ogata put on his best suit and sweater vest to demonstrate […]
If you think the just recently announced Canon 60Da looks exactly like the 60D from over a year ago, that’s because its the same camera in just about every way. What that little “a” in the name gets you, however, is a special new astrophotography mode. People who take pictures of the stars and heavens […]
Rumors have been surfacing here and there for some time now about a secret project inside the halls of Google. Glasses, powered by Android, bringing augmented reality not just to our smartphones, but to our everyday lives have been the topic of conversations involving Google. Yesterday, those rumors were confirmed as reality. Google’s Project Glass […]
Let’s get this out of the way early: robots are creepy. Robotics, as a field, is creepy. An entire branch of science dedicated to building increasingly autonomous constructs that are smarter, faster, and stronger than the very creators that have forced them into servitude? Sounds like a great idea! Clearly, humanity’s only chance of survival […]
The Canon EOS 5D has quite the reputation in the world of digital cameras. The original model brought us the first full-frame DSLR in a standard body, and the updated Mark II brought us video recording and helped fuel the DSLR video revolution back in 2008. It should therefore come as no surprise that fans of […]
Reviewing a tablet as iconic as the iPad is a challenge no one wants to take on, especially not a recently converted Apple hater. Regardless, I will do my best to impartially and fairly review this beautiful and polarizing piece of hardware that screams Apple out of every orifice. Okay, so it may not be […]
This past week has seen tragedies throughout the nation and the world. In Florida, George Zimmerman’s defense may rest on the faint cries for help caught on a 911 recording from a nearby home. Zimmerman claims that he was crying for help after being attacked by 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Trayvon’s mother has heard the tapes […]
Not to be outdone by startup company Square, Inc.’s popular credit card processing service for the masses, PayPal introduces PayPal Here. The new service, announced just last week, reports over 1,000 new signups per hour. Unlike Square’s service, which requires a plastic cube-shaped dongle to swipe credit cards through (with an option of manually keying […]
After the Washington D.C. election board announced a new e-voting system for absentee ballots in 2010, they invited the computer security community and general public to try hacking it, several weeks before using it in a real election. Professor Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan felt “It was too good an opportunity to pass […]
