Another busy week for tablets, as the market segment just keeps heating up. From the industry leader at the moment, we have some great news. Apple’s iCloud and iWork with Cloud Support have gone into Beta for developers. No news on how magical it might be just yet. Then there was Monday’s release, pull, […]
Aside from inspiring some pretty badass costumes, retro-technology mods, and deviantART sketches, steam power may serve an actual purpose in the near future: green energy.
Last week we talked about a Singapore research team for making a robot that is supposed to “love” its user like a person does. Today, let’s look at PARO, a marvelous robot from Japan designed to look and act like a baby harp seal and give the user a simulation of interaction with a pet.
Apple pushes out a new software update today for the second generation AppleTV boxes, adding a major new feature. For the first time, we can buy TV episodes directly from the AppleTV, not just rent them. Additionally, we can now directly stream television shows initially purchased with an iTunes account. (Previously, users had to leave […]
You know how we were saying Facebook needed to get their Android act together? It gets a tad worse. Bad enough that it looked like Facebook was going to make hardware makers look into their own app solutions (ala HP and WebOS), now it looks more like it’s actually aimed at Android. That’s right, Android […]
Have researchers at the National University of Singapore designed a robot that knows how to love? According to project lead Hooman Samani, they’ve made significant progress. Lovotics, the robot that loves you back, observes user behavior through motion sensors and cameras, then mirrors that behavior. Get closer to Lovotics, and it moves closer to you. […]
A lot of fellow gamers talk about their love of “hardcore” games, but they’re missing out entirely on where video games are actually headed. The future is indie.
It’s not uncommon for sites to be slammed when a major aggregation site like Digg links to them. On Twitter, there’s even a specific hashtag when popular author Neil Gaiman brings down a site. This week, we saw the same sort of thing happen in the political arena when President Barack Obama addressed the nation […]
Mordy Gilden has engineering in his blood. Tech Tricks and Tweaks is a biweekly column in which Mordy seeks out ways to hack, tweak, and otherwise just find interesting new uses for tech, often in ways not originally intended. Oh yeah, and blog about it. When it comes to digital video cameras, traditionally high-end models […]
Oh, Roger McNamee. If you’re a follower of the travails of the company-formerly-known-as-Palm, then you know him as the face of Elevation Partners and the fellow who thought we’d all be using Pres by now (especially the ladies, because it had a mirror). McNamee is a big name in finance and a big investor in […]
