Archive for June 2011
Jelly Belly Phone Cases Make Apples Smell Like Cherries and Blackberries Smell Like Blueberries
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If there’s one thing that the world constantly needs, it’s good cases for your smartphones and devices. |
June 22nd, 2011
How Huge Is That Folder You’re Trying to Drag? The DataBot Mouse Will Let You Know
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My hard drive is filled with so much junk that sometimes I wonder how on earth it still manages to turn itself on without conking out. (But I’m glad it still functions well though, despite that. Not working at its best, but I’ll take that until I can start deleting… |
June 22nd, 2011
Acorn A7000+ Gets Portable
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While most people outside of the UK don’t even know what an Acorn computer is, the first personal computers from the company date back to the late 1970s, right around when Apple was getting its big break here in the US with the original Apple ][.… |
June 21st, 2011
MacBook 2020: Flexible Nanomaterials, Holographic Display, Shape-shifting, What Else Could You Want?
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How’d you like to fast-forward to the year 2020, and get a sneak peek at the MacBook of the future. Well, industrial designer Tommaso Gecchelin has already done the hard work for you, with his concept MacBook 2020.… |
June 21st, 2011
Japanese Maglev Train to Run at 313 MPH!
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The crazy cats in Japan have all sorts of cool gear that we will never see in the US. One of the coolest technological accomplishments in my book is the high-speed bullet trains that can cruise at up to 150 MPH today. Those trains use coils under the tracks and… |
June 21st, 2011
10,000 Year Clock Will Tell Time Til Your Great-Great-Great-Great-Great Grandkids are a Distant Memory
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This has to be one of the strangest and coolest projects I have ever heard of. Way out in the desert wilds of West Texas, workers are starting the process of digging out the side of a mountain in the Sierra Diablo mountain range to install a clock that will… |
June 21st, 2011
DirecTV Tries to Make Hotels Less Disgusting and Germ Infested with Anti-Microbial Remotes
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I am not a fan of staying in hotels at all. The beds and pillows are uncomfortable, and the thought of sleeping in a bed that some perverts could have had an orgy in the night before is not appealing in the least. I also don’t even want to know… |
June 21st, 2011
Treadmill Computer Plays Portal 2 Theme Song: For Health and Science
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GLaDOS is that you? YouTube member evi1wombat made waves on the Internet a few years ago when he hacked a busted treadmill computer that had been discarded at the back of his school’s gym and made it play Still Alive, the soundtrack to the first Portal game. With Portal … |
June 21st, 2011
Nokia N9 Smartphone: iPhone Killer, or Just Killer Looks?
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Nokia just introduced their new N9 in Singapore and frankly, it looks gorgeous. It’s got a glass display that features no buttons on the face at all. You’ll find a few on the side though, but the device sets itself apart thanks to its bright 3.9-inch, 854×480 resolution AMOLED screen… |
June 21st, 2011
Isle of Tune: SimCity Sequencer
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Digital audio workstations like Reason, Ableton Live and Apple’s GarageBand have made it relatively easy and cheap to make music. But even though these programs enable users to create tunes literally at the push of a button, their interface can be quite intimidating. Which is why I’m quite intrigued by… |
June 21st, 2011
