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PixelOptics Liquid Crystal Glasses Make Bifocals Obsolete

Bifocal and progressive lenses suck. They’re old tech. Like, Benjamin Franklin old. PixelOptics take a more 21st century approach—liquid crystal lenses that adjust their focus in a fraction of a second, for differing focuses when you need them. All that’s required to shift the glasses—which can be fitted into any design of frame—is a tap…

Tech News Sam Biddle

This Soup Is Cooking…In Its Packaging

Quick free association exercise: What do you think of when I say “wireless power?” My answer, as of twenty minutes ago: a cup of soup cooking instantly when set on a wireless charging surface. While still in its packaging. With their eCoupled wireless charging technology, Fulton Innovations hopes to remove the scourge of cables from…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

GoPro Sports Cameras Go 3D

GoPro makes my favorite sports cams. The 1080p cameras are getting optional LCD screens and battery packs, but the real news is this double camera housing kit that syncs the two cameras for 3D. Love it. I saw a video. It looks great. I can’t imagine a future where we’re not doing all our sports…

Tech News Brian Lam

The Reason Why You Never Get Your UPS Packages On Time

Click to viewThose UPS guys certainly spend a lot of effort avoiding us, don’t they! I get those delivery attempt notices so much that I can’t help but think this video is true. [College Humor]

Tech News Casey Chan

Do You Really Need Three Layers of Protection Around Your iPhone?

Sure, the iPhone 4 is a fragile beauty and it can shatter if dropped. But does that really mean that you should cover it in a case consisting of three layers? https://gizmodo.com/this-is-whatll-happen-when-you-drop-your-iphone-4-repea-5571304 Probably not—unless you’re the sort of person who wouldn’t mind walking around with knee and elbow pads every day. If you are that…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

FCC Chairman Wants Computer Apps to Function as Net Neutrality Watchdogs

Sure, the FCC got some net neutrality standards in place, but the majority of people probably wouldn’t know if their bandwidth was artificially throttled. That’s why chairman Julius Genachowski wants computer apps to alert users of any such funny business. https://gizmodo.com/the-fccs-net-neutrality-announcement-the-good-the-bad-5703253 Dubbed the “Open Internet Challenge,” the FCC wants software makers to help fight net…

Tech News Adrian Covert

TDK 3-Speaker Boombox: Oh. Hell. Yes.

Rememeber TDK? They made the blank tapes you used for those mix tapes that creeped out all the ladies in highschool. Well they’re getting the brand back together, baby! With gear hot enough that it might even help you score. The appropriately named 3-Speaker Boombox is a tasteful blend of early-80’s swagger and new-school ass-kickery.…

Tech News Joe Brown

What Is Gorilla Glass?

The allure of Gorilla Glass is no mystery to anyone with a Droid, an iPhone 4, a Galaxy tab or a Dell Adamo. But for everyone else wondering about all the new Gorilla Glass gear at CES, here’s the rundown. Gorilla Glass is, well, glass… You’ll find it in screens, mostly. This includes smartphone screens,…

Tech News John Herrman

BlackBerry PlayBook Preview: The First Great 7-inch Tablet?

It’s true, the BlackBerry PlayBook is weird in some ways. You have to tether to your BlackBerry to get your calendar or email. But it’s also pretty great. It’s sort of the idealized seven-inch tablet, so dialed in it might be generic if it wasn’t so cleanly executed. As thin as an iPhone 4, the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Windows Phone 7 Is Coming to Verizon and Sprint With Copy + Paste and Faster Apps

Verizon and Sprint customers are going to get Windows Phone 7s of their very own this year, not long after a WP7 software update that (finally!) brings copy and paste and faster app loads (holy yes, thank you). The software updates are expected in the coming months, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and will…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Avatar Kinect: Now Your Avatar Smiles, Smirks and Talks When You Do

Your Xbox Live avatar leads a lonely existence. Or did, anyway, before Avatar Kinect came along. Now, Kinect recognizes your face: When you smile, when you raise your eyebrows, when you talk—and your Avatar uncannily does the same. We knew Avatar Kinect was en route, but the details are even more impressive than the speculation.…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Olympus Pen E-PL2 and XZ-1 Are Powerful, Affordable and Accessorize Fabulously

For a long time there were just point-and-shoots and DSLRs. Then Micro Four Thirds cameras came along and blurred the lines. The Olympus Pen E-PL2 and XZ-1 make things blurrier than ever—a good thing—and bring some innovative accessories. The 12.3MP Pen E-PL2 is Olympus’s second consumer-centric Micro Four Thirds camera—smaller than a DSLR but guaranteed…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

The Nike+ SportWatch GPS Has TomTom and an Attitude

It’s a new year, which means new resolutions to get in shape. Let technology help you! Don’t fight it! The Nike+ SportWatch, powered by TomTOM GPS, will bug you when you forget to run and encourage you when you do. It’s like your own personal trainer…on your wrist! The SportWatch GPS will bug you with…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Watch Microsoft’s CES Keynote Live: All Their New Stuff This Year

Wanna know Microsoft’s announcing for the next year? Watch Steve Ballmer, huff and puff and blow some stuff down, talking about the next version of Windows, new Kinect stuff and maybe some surprises. It’s right here: [Microsoft]

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Panasonic Lumix FP7: The Minimalist Touch Screen Point-and-Shoot

Point-and-shoots are supposed to be simple: You point and you shoot. The Lumix FP7 encourages that behavior by stripping away pretty much all hardware distractions; you get a fat 3.5″ touch screen and not a whole lot else. The 16.1MP Lumix FP7 is one of those “less is more” deals. Its sleek as hell—the frontside…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Panasonic’s New 3D Camcorders For Pros and Amateurs Alike

You want camcorders? Panasonic’s got camcorders! A bunch of ’em. The TM90 and the SD90 have a 28mm wide-angle lens, shoot 1080/60p, and can do 3D on the relatively-cheap with the help of Panasonic’s 3D conversion lens. They 1MOS camcorders have 40x Intelligent Zoom using Panny’s high-res Crystal Engine PRO processor, touch zoom and touch…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Microsoft’s Next-Gen Surface Uses Every Pixel Like a Tiny Camera

Microsoft’s Surface table computers never quite filled the lobbies of hotels and theme parks like we’d hoped, but the next-gen Surface is totally redesigned: smaller, maybe cheaper, and using a new touch technology that’s pretty gnarly. Like the old Surface, it’s using infrared for touch detection, but instead of cameras underneath, it’s using “pixel sense”…

Tech News Matt Buchanan

Put a Real Arcade Joystick on Your iPad

Plastic nubs and stickers are tacky! If you want to add some real control to your iPad, do it right. And doing it right is attaching a real, arcade-style aluminum joystick to your iPad’s screen. https://gizmodo.com/add-a-removable-joystick-to-your-ipad-for-25-5724505 The JOYSTICK-IT works by attaching itself to the screen with a suction cup and using conductive foam to make…

Tech News Casey Chan

The 1080p 3D Bloggie Leads Sony’s 3D Camera Onslaught

Backlash? What backlash!? Sony’s going all 3D everything this CES, and that includes all the content you’re creating, too. They’re pumping out 3D-ready camcorders with glasses-free displays, including a 1080p 3D Bloggie that’ll go for about $200. The Bloggie 3D shoots 1080p in three dimensions with two sensors, and it’s got a 2.4″ glasses-free LCD…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Kung-Fu hackers crash the stock exchange!

2000 A.D., aka Gong Yuan, is one of the all-time great hacker movies of all time, featuring a great scene where a super-elite cyberwarfare program crashes the Stock Exchange by deleting Windows folders. Which is then followed by awesome kung-fu. Actually, my favorite scene is the one above, where someone explains that future wars will…

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PixelOptics Liquid Crystal Glasses Make Bifocals Obsolete

This Soup Is Cooking…In Its Packaging

GoPro Sports Cameras Go 3D

The Reason Why You Never Get Your UPS Packages On Time

Do You Really Need Three Layers of Protection Around Your iPhone?

FCC Chairman Wants Computer Apps to Function as Net Neutrality Watchdogs

TDK 3-Speaker Boombox: Oh. Hell. Yes.

What Is Gorilla Glass?

BlackBerry PlayBook Preview: The First Great 7-inch Tablet?

Windows Phone 7 Is Coming to Verizon and Sprint With Copy + Paste and Faster Apps

Avatar Kinect: Now Your Avatar Smiles, Smirks and Talks When You Do

Olympus Pen E-PL2 and XZ-1 Are Powerful, Affordable and Accessorize Fabulously

The Nike+ SportWatch GPS Has TomTom and an Attitude

Watch Microsoft’s CES Keynote Live: All Their New Stuff This Year

Panasonic Lumix FP7: The Minimalist Touch Screen Point-and-Shoot

Panasonic’s New 3D Camcorders For Pros and Amateurs Alike

Microsoft’s Next-Gen Surface Uses Every Pixel Like a Tiny Camera

Put a Real Arcade Joystick on Your iPad

The 1080p 3D Bloggie Leads Sony’s 3D Camera Onslaught

Kung-Fu hackers crash the stock exchange!

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