Archive for April 2010

Optoma is back with more budget-friendly projectors, and this time it’s focusing on gamers with its Game Time series. The GT720 is the most expensive model in the series, and its meant for PS3 and Xbox 360 owners.…

Engadget has scored pics of what is supposed to be a prototype of the next version of the iPhone. The device, which looks a narrow, flat-backed iPhone, was reportedly found “on the floor of a San Jose [California?]…

Actually, I’m not sure you can actually refer to a Transformer as a balloon “animal”, so we’ll just call him a balloon robot from here on. …

I don’t know what it is with cheap-o novelty makers and their insistence on making mock versions of everyday objects that intentionally jolt you with electricity.…

A rare genetic disease called Williams Syndrome causes “mild to moderate mental retardation, elfin facial features and gregarious social behavior;” a recent study published in the journal Current Biology theorizes that children with Williams Syndrome also have no racial bias.…

If you’re too cheap to go out and buy an actual iPad, you might just be in luck – if you happen to live in China, that is.…

Here’s what happens when you try and play the theme from SMB with a couple of spare pencils. Actually, they look more like pens to me, but what does it matter.…

The day my iPad came through the door, my kids were all over me to let them play with it. My 5-year-old daughter calls it the “big iPhone” and loves to play games on it.…

Even if this robot might seem like it’s too expensive for us, those nutty Japanese apparently have money to burn on robots. At least this new robot was built for people to actually play with, not just as a demo or research ‘bot as we often see.…

I wondered how long it would take for someone to hack the Amazon Kindle in order to play games. Unfortunately, from what I’ve seen, the games don’t look all that cool on that monochrome e-ink screen.…

Put your glasses on, grab your books and boot up your PC, because it’s time to play Are You Certifiable?, a game that will help you find out if you’re ready to earn a Microsoft Certification (an IT nerd badge, if you will).…

So the iPad doesn’t have a USB port, big deal. You don’t have to send files from it to a real computer (ooooh burn) before you can print them.…

The guys at Online Schools scoured the Internet to come up with a lengthy but entertaining infographic about robots. It contains a lot of quiz show-type trivia, like the fact that the earliest known robot was a steam powered one, invented in 400 BC, that most robots are cow milkers, or that people who own a Roomba often clean their floors before putting the little spoiled brat to work.…

What could be better than a cat playing keyboards? I’ll tell you what – a cat that can play the theremin, that’s what.…

Given the fact that I’ve probably spent at least a gazillion hours in my professional careers sitting in mind-numbing meetings, this device is definitely something that I need.…

I am not big on saving things. Typically, once I get tired of something or bored with it I throw it away or give it away.…