I’m not terribly homesick for New York most of the time, but I admit to missing New York Comic Con quite a bit. It was always a blast. This year, those in attendance received a special surprise: Social network updates they’d never actually made. First reported by Polygon and brought to our attention by Jonah […]
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Nokia Wants To Give You Cellphone Sense
You probably want to file this under “Solution in Search of a Problem” — Nokia has patented the bright idea for alert ink. The idea is to use ferromagnetic ink to create a tattoo that “pairs with your phone” and vibrates when you get an alert. For those not into body art, there’s also the […]
Human Becomes Walking Computer Virus
British researcher Mark Gasson became the first person to infect himself with a computer virus and spread the infection to a machine, in the name of science. To be fair, this isn’t a case of human flesh actually contracting a virus made of software code. The Senior Research Fellow at the University of Reading pulled […]