Archive for March 2010

There’s nothing sweeter in life than having a robot do some chores for you. It makes your realize just how much robots can accomplish nowadays. Take for instance, Clockwork‘s little manga-bot, who makes a mean cup of coffee.

Ever since I saw Back to the Future…, I’ve wanted to

Combining LEGOs with Star Wars was a stroke of genius. Now, Chris Harrison has built himself a LEGO iPhone dock that’s inspired by Star Wars…. The only way that this could get any better was if robots were involved in some fashion.

To celebrate the first anniversary of their flagship store in Tokyo, Vertu – the luxury brand of cellphone giant Nokia – will be selling four “golden” cellphones. The price? ¥20,000,000 (appx. $215,000 USD) each. The handsets are not really made of gold – they’re “just” decorated with Japanese gold lacquerwork,…

Game developer Freeverse announced Wednesday that they are currently working on an iPhone/iPod Touch action game based on last year’s hit comedy mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies…. Freeverse, who have already made several iPhone games such as Flick Fishing and Big Bang Sudoki, promises “a rollicking action

Now I’m pretty sure that the whole Segway fad is over, but it looks like others have different ideas in mind. While this unusual horse-like vehicle looks interesting on paper, I’ve got trouble looking at it and thinking about transportation.…

I will admit to an irrational fear of writing BSOD, saying BSOD, or thinking BSOD. I think Windows sits waiting like HAL for us to utter the word and then offers up the dreaded blue screen out of spite. How many times have we all been cut off in the…

EA.com editor-in-chief Jeff Green recently tweeted about his difficulties with his own company’s DRM: “Booted twice — and progress lost — on my single-player C&C4 game because my DSL connection blinked. DRM fail. We need new solutions.” Similar to Ubisoft’s new DRM, Command & Conquer 4… requires gamers to be

When I think of Casio watches, I tend to think about the G-Shock series, which are quite bulky, manly, and filled with functions that you’ll probably never need. On the other hand, we now have Casio’s playful new Baby-G line.…

Back in 1993, one of the animators working on Mortal Kombat 2 pitched a fourth finisher to programmer Ed Boon. The latter asked him to “Get Over Here.”… The poor dude, now throatless, is cashing in on his idea in the form of a shirt design:

And Knoll said, “let there be an image editing program,”… and there was Photoshop. Then the prophet Meninos came down from the mountains, and with him was a tablet – okay it’s a bar – in which are printed the 20 commandments commands of the original Photoshop. Thus it was