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#tablet
Mystery Nvidia Tablet Identified: 2010 Arrival and Android Rumored
An update on that sleek, but unknown Nvidia Tablet we showed you yesterday. As widely expected, it's actually a prototype Tegra-based device built by an ODM for Nvidia to shop around to wireless carriers worldwide. Here's what we may know: More » -
#thiscyborglife
The Six Million Dollar Man's Cyborg Surgery, Adjusted for Today's Dollar
Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic show The Six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today? More » -
#towels
Useful Towel Knows How Many Pecks Are In A Bushel
A towel is about the most massively useful thing you can have. This particular one though, does what no other towel could: It guides you through the mysteries of measurement conversions and even has built-in rulers. More » -
#nokia
The Nokia N900 Isn't A Phone, It's A Psychotic Shapeshifter
While we've been sitting, waiting, wishing for the Nokia N900, we missed something very important: It's not a phone. As this Nokia ad shows, it's actually a psychotic shapeshifter. At least I think that's the message they're trying to send. More » -
#dealzmodo
Walmart Offers $100 Gift Card With Any BlackBerry Purchase on November 14th - 21st
You'll be getting a shiny $100 gift card if you buy any BlackBerry device through Walmart during the week of November 14th. The deal's valid both in stores and online with the usual catch of a 2-year contract applying. More » -
#toys
Die-Cast Replica of Akira Bike Will Bring Out The Mini-Rebel In You
The year is 2019. You're in post-World War III Tokyo. There are some bad guys calling themselves The Clowns. You battle. You win. You leave on your highly-customized bike. You wake in 2009 and preorder a replica of that bike. More » -
#google
Google Latitude Gets Creepy With Location History And Alerts
Google already knows too much about me, yet Google Latitude's Location History and Location Alerts features are still creepy. But they're useful, because together they learn your usual hangouts and know when you don't need notifications of who's nearby. More » -
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#thiscyborglife
Digital Tattoo Interface Turns Your Skin Into A Display
There are implants which are purely aesthetic, and then there's the Digital Tattoo Interface concept. It's a blood-powered electronic interface which is embedded under skin to mimic a tattoo, display videos, or act as a phone or computer. More » -
#robots
Unit 33 Is The World's Tallest Two-Legged Robot
You would think that a 7 foot robot would be into basketball but, apparently, soccer is his game. He can also walk, turn, twist and take a bow. Hmmm...I think I have the perfect application for this technology: More » -
#toasters
Product Tank Is Like a Booby Trap For Your Toast
This Product Tank concept employs an innovative solution to the problem of toastables that are oversized in either length or width. There are no slots, and the walls close in like your bread stumbled into a booby trap. More » -
#vision
I Wear My Suncontacts at Night
Photochromic lenses that allow you to walk from inside to outside without putting on UV-filtering lenses have been around for decades. But the technology is just making its way to contacts. More » -
#robots
A.W.E. Robotic Wall Automatically Creates The Workspace You Need
Think about your workspace and imagine if your furniture or your desk or cubicle could automatically reconfigure for different applications with a simple wave of the hand. Now check out the reality of Clemson's Animated Work Environment (AWE). More » -
#architecture
9h: The Luxury Capsule Hotel
If you go to Tokyo, you may want to check into 9h—Nainawasu in Japanese—a luxury capsule hotel that is 9 stories tall, storing 125 capsules that use Panasonic's environmental and lighting control system. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Cup&Up Surgically Implanted Bras Won't Affect Lingerie Sales Any Time Soon
I cannot fathom why someone would surgically shove a silicon bra into her body. Sure, your breast will look perfectly shaped and perky even once clothes come off, but you'll also have bra straps going through your muscles and ribs. More » -
#badnews
Oh Sh*t: New Viruses Download Child Porn Onto Your Computer
Getting a virus that uses your computer to send itself, and spam, out without your knowledge is bad. Getting a virus that hides kiddie porn on your computer is much, much worse. More » -
#retromodo
The Seiko UC-2000 Wrist PC: An Awkward '80s Attempt To Live The Cyborg Life
The UC-2000 or "Wrist Information System" was one of Seiko's attempts (circa 1984) to create a wearable, portable computer. Of course, you couldn't do much more than input around 2K of data, tell the time, and perform calculator functions. More » -
#review
Droid Eris Review
I've reviewed the Droid Eris twice before, when it was called the Hero. The difference is that Verizon's selling it for half the price, making it the cheapest Android phone you can buy—and the best, for the money. More » -
#watch
Maezm Sharing Watch Is Perfect for Passive-Aggressive Individuals
This can go something like this: "Hey, could you please tell me th*" "STOP SAYING WORDS." Or maybe this: "Excuse me, do you know what tim*" "TALK TO THE WATCH." More » -
#thiscyborglife
That's a Bad Cough, Let's Examine Your Genome
In 2003, we mapped the human genome, the 20,000-ish genes we all share. It cost $3 billion. Today, you can literally spit in a cup, place the saliva in the mail and get a peek at your own. More » -
#nanotech
The Sponge That Can Absorb 180 Times Its Own Weight (In Toxic Sludge)
That tiny, plastic-looking black cube up there can absorb up to 180 times its own weight in toxic waste without absorbing any water. How? As with just about every amazing and/or inexplicable scientific breakthrough nowadays, the answer is spelled N-A-N-O. More » -
#thiscyborglife
Tales of Human Upgrades: Jerry Jalava's USB Finger
Jerry Jalava was riding his motorcycle home from work one day, when a deer ran in front of him. Long story short, he lost half his index finger. So, of course, he replaced it with a USB flash drive. More » -
#dealzmodo
Gadget Deals of the Day
Sleeping fitfully because you can't decide which laptop to buy? Save nearly $200 on the Sony VGN-FW590 in today's Deals. If that doesn't cure you, pick up your free copy of Harvard Medical School's Guide To A Good Night's Sleep. More » -
#media
Nick Bilton the Lead Blogger at NYT Bits
My good friend Nick Bilton is going to the NYTimes Bits blog as their lead writer. Nick was Design Integration Editor in the NYT newsroom and a UI specialist in their R&D labs for quite awhile before that, but took a break to work on his book, I Live in the Future: & Here's How It Works. [Nick Bilton] -
#usb
Yeti USB Mic Is "The World's First THX Certified Microphone"
At $150, Blue Microphone's new THX certified Yeti might not be the best investment for something as simple as Skype, but if you are doing podcasts, music recordings, or old-timey variety shows, it might be worth the extra cash. More » -
#advertisement
Make Professional Multimedia PDF Portfolios with Adobe Acrobat 9
Your dreams of dynamic, seamless PDF portfolios can now be realized. With Adobe Acrobat 9, you can combine video, audio, and documents all in a single file. Read: awesome. More » -
#lego
Carl Sagan Deep Space Ship to Go to the Living Room and Beyond
When I was 12, Cosmos was one of my favorite TV shows. The other was Benny Hill. Clearly, planetary exploration and semi-neekeed girls go together like William Shatner and Elton John songs, whiskey and glass, or Lego and awesome spaceships. More » -
#displays
VESA Officially Adopts Apple's Mini DisplayPort
It was bound to happen: Apple's Mini DisplayPort is now officially part of the Video Electronics Standards Association's DisplayPort 1.1a standard. [VESA] -
#photoshopcontest
15 Improbable Bionic Upgrades to the Human Body
For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to imagine some bionic upgrades for the human body. And it's safe to say that I am not interested in having any of you perform unnecessary surgery on me. Yikes. More » -
#maps
Google Maps Shows You the Way to Your Swine Flu Vaccine
The Pandemic That Was Going to Kill Us All But Didn't is still alive, lurking to take you in a one-way trip across the Styx. Or a two-way trip to Snotland. Google Maps points the way to the nearest vaccine. More » -
#fashion
Vitruvian Voltron
If only Leonardo da Vinci had 1980s cartoons as his muse, it would be Voltron representing Man's innate tie to geometry and architecture. Live in that better world by purchasing this $18 t-shirt, or sniffing more Crayola. [ThinkGeek via RedFerret] -
#bathtubs
World's Largest Bathtub. Just that: World's Largest Bathtub
I wanted so badly to have a large, English-style, only-nose-out, soak-like-a-hippo bathtub in my new apartment. I settled for a large shower, but at 72 by 12 feet, maybe I should have rented the world's largest bathtub instead. More » -
#google
Google to Murdoch: Whatever, Dude
Rupert Murdoch—owner of some of the finest and fairest news organizations in the world, true beacons of journalism—is thinking about retiring all his content from Google. Well, Señor Ruperto, apparently Google doesn't give a goddamn about it: More » -
#aimeemullins
Is Choosing a Prosthesis So Different than Picking a Pair of Glasses?
I think technology has evolved enough to let us be earnest about the fact that a consumer of a prosthetic is the same consumer buying an iPod or glasses or a couch for their house. You want options. More » -
#google
Google Search Is About to Get a Lot Better
For the last couple of months, Google's been testing a new search architecture called Caffeine—a back-end upgrade, but one that changes the results in virtually any search. Today, Lifehacker gets word that Caffeine is ready to go live in Google proper. More »
