Thursday, June 10, 2010

HUD For Navigation


Holy jeez! This is like Knight Rider here, man!

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Map of the most popular photo spots!

Combining GPS information with Flickr photos creates these maps of major cities and their popular photo locations!

Monday, June 7, 2010

Australian Sun iPhone Controllable


This full scale 3D model of the sun, holographically suspended in the air, can be remotely influenced by iOS devices. AWESOMESAUCE.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Chrome Out of Beta!


Google Chrome, Google's new browser is now out of beta! This is an acheievement, because as some of you may know, Gmail is still in beta.

Thursday, May 20, 2010

What's new in iPhone 4.0?.


Gizmodo published a list of new features in iPhone OS 4.0. Messages has new features, tethering is finally almost working (YAY!), and camera roll can be viewed in landscape view among other things. However, they warn that it's not a toy, and can often crash your iPhone!

Thursday, May 6, 2010

The Laser Turns 50!


Gizmodo has an article about the history of the laser, which has just turned 50!

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Scope Watch


This watch from Yanko Design is amazing! I want one, except it's $190 D:

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

iPhone OS 4 Revisited


Gizmodo has released a article on what the iPhone OS doesn't give the iPhone.

Monday, April 12, 2010

La-z Boy


This concept chair from La-z boy shows a possibly multitouch screen that is awesome. I'm both lazy and want to use computers, therefore this is great.

Photoshop Thing!


I made this image today, using a technique I learned over the weekend. Using filter>Render>Fibers(16/4), and then motion blurring the image(90˚/999), you create this blurred lines effect. The rainbow is a simple spectrum gradient and an overlay blend mode.

AT&T 3G MicroCell


A review via Gizmodo of this device. Effectively, this device is a downsized cellphone tower for personal use, that increases cell reception.

Monday, April 5, 2010

iPhone OS 4


Apple says they're going to give us a preview of iPhone OS 4 on April 8th at 10:00am! Awesome.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

CS5 Content Aware Fill

This new feature set to debut in Adobe Photoshop CS5 allows you to more easily delete, correct, and alter images that have undesired elements. This new method creates smarter fills, that make more use of the information around them to be able to balance colors, shadows, and objects easier than the current tools possibly could.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Kindle for Mac


Kindle for PC has been out for a while, but now the mac version is out as well! This allows people to read their Kindle books on their computers, which is flippin sweet.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Portal 2: Writing


Gameinformer's interview with Valve for it's portal 2 coverage has been unveiled! This interview focuses on the humor and wit of the first game, and how they plan to bring the same thing to the second game.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Ghosts


This is a picture of the inside of an atom showing an electron at the size of a pixel, and the relative distance between the proton.

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Portal 2


Gameinformer is running a month of Portal 2 release coverage, and so far it's AMAZING. Portal was the crown jewel of the Orange Box, and the second one purports to be seven hundred billion times better.

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Monday, March 8, 2010

Steam for Mac!


Valve is releasing a Steam client for mac, which means that now many of the games available on Steam will be available for Mac! Also, PORTAL 2 FOR MAC! :D

Friday, March 5, 2010

Paint With Light


This new concept would allow you to customize your lighting any way you wish! It has multiple colors, and could be used in so many awesome ways.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

AT&T Favors Wi-Fi iPad


It's been a topic of debate, get the WiFi iPad, or wait for the 3G version? AT&T's CEO says wifi in this article.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Skinput

This system uses acoustic monitoring to detect where you depress the skin, to use as a marker for apps. PROJECTED ON YOUR BODY.

Monday, March 1, 2010

A compromise between real keyboards and touchscreen

This device uses dynamic reconfiguring buttons, which can go blank and become a touch screen!

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Okay to pay?


Gizmodo has released an article about when it's okay to pay for an iPhone app. Their "Professor Dealzmodo" tells us that many of the apps aren't okay to pay for

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Google's Algorithm


Wired has released a new article about how Google works. The many important acievements in their algorithmic technology are chronicled here!

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

10 BILLIONth song downloaded from the iTunes music store


After a short distance from the 1 billionth, Apple is counting down to it's 10 Billionth song sold. They've even got a flip counter

Monday, February 22, 2010

"The Shortcut To Her Heart," ctrl+z Apology Card


These cards are perfect. "You forgot to pick up our daughter!" "CONTROL ZEEEE!"

Friday, February 19, 2010

Private Bittorent Trackers


Gizmodo has an article about private bittorent trackers. These are special, invite only connections that allow faster downloads through peer to peer connections. As someone who has been trying for almost a week now to download something, I would love a higher speed tracker.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Calculatge the speed of light by melting chocolate.


Wired has written an article about how you can measure the speed of light (299,792,458 meters per second), by melting chocolate! Cooool!

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Google Familliar


Gizmodo has released a photoshop contest, where entrants created mockups of google services. The point was to show how google could encroach on our lives EVEN MORE.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Robot Land


Robot land, which is disneyland for robots, has secured over 1/3 of it's necessary budget. With attractions such as Robot Water Park, Robot Battle Stadium, Robot Flower Island, Robot Museum, and Business Incubation Center, Robot land should prove awesome.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Virgin Sexting


A man in winnipeg was dumped over sexting messages found in his phone. But he didn't write them, it was actually Virgin mobile employees!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Crazy EcoTec!


Gizmodo has a list of really cool, (but likely quite expensive,) technologies that are mean, green, coolo machines! Underwater planes, OLEDs, Liquid metal technology... it's cool beans!

Monday, February 8, 2010

Read SD cards on your iPhone!


Remember how Jobs promised us iPhone peripherals with OS 3.0? Well Zoomit is one of the first. It allows you to read SD cards on your iPhone, using the dock connector.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Avatar Blows Titanic Out of the Water


Avatar is now officially the largest grossing program of all time. It's beaten out titanic's previous record of $1.842 Billion dollars.

Monday, January 25, 2010

Visual Sound


Visual sound is a concept phone for deaf people with both text to speech, and speech to text functions to help deaf people make a phone call.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Put your computer to good use


Distributed computing is the use of leftover resources to assist research in things. This site allows you to download a program to put your computer, which will use the processing power you aren't to model proteins for research.

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

5 Worst Tablet ideas


Gizmodo has released a list of the 5 dumbest tablet ideas. With the tablet predicted to launch on the 27th, this is a list.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Late Night Fight


Gizmodo has released a photoshop gallery. This one highlights the late night fight between Conan and Leno.

Friday, January 15, 2010

Working Star Trek Phaser

There is now a DIY guide to making your own Star Trek Phaser. It makes sounds, and blows stuff the hell up.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

OLED Sunlight


OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology has always been a cooler blueish hue, but researchers in Taiwan have adjusted the temperature to create OLEDs the mimic the photonics of sunlight by varying the voltage through the OLED panel from three to nine volts to produce ambient light simulating natural light that changes from dawn to dusk. This is a wonderful thing for photographers, because with this they could literally create sunlight at their shooting location.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

$100,000 an hour

Valleywag is offering $100,000 if anyone can give them an Apple tablet to play with for an hour. WHAT?

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Augmented reality facade shows tweets and deets.


Using the QR codes painted on the building, an iPhone app can display tweets from the building. Sadly, it's invite only.

Monday, January 11, 2010

Wifi Harvesting Charger


Airnergy takes the energy created by wi-fi signals and stores it in a rechargeable battery. This is awesome, and for $40, you can have one.