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So BBM is going to get video chat in BB10. And some other super-integrated features, probably! RIM Cheerleading Coach/CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed it today at the annual RIM shareholder’s conference: With upgrading it into a new experience, think about adding features on BB10 such as video chat, for example, within BBM. There’s many other features…
If you saw a guy totin’ around this iPhone case that has a 3D naked girl taking a bath in a hot tub, you might assume he was a pervert. You’d be wrong. He’s actually a very practical iPhone user that values function over form. You see, this naked hot tub girl iPhone case is…
Next Issue, the “Netflix of Magazines,” is available today on the iPad. And that has me thinking a lot about the digital magazine format. In general, I love the entire idea of tablet magazines. The touch UI, the ability to carry years worth of issues with me all at once, the instant downloads, the interactive…
Instagram has only been around for two years, and spent most of that time in relative geek obscurity. Those days are over. It’s Facebook’s. It’s mainstream. How mainstream? R&B sex anthem mainstream. This is now a real thing. The song is by Willie Taylor, a pretty-much-no-name whose previous claim to fame was being on Making…
Hordes of children ran around as wild as a locust swarm at the recent USA Science & Engineering Festival. The main attraction: the Lockheed Martin booth, with its faux F-22 cockpit and Orion spacecraft simulator. There, the virtual big guns provoked a surprising mix of reactions from the 7-year-olds. Some apathy. Some shouts of: “Shoot…
Though this photo may look like a prom picture on Facebook that’s been blingee’d, it’s actually the very first photo that was ever uploaded to the web. The history of the picture—in all its random glory and woeful photoshopping—is amazing. Motherboard actually tracked the photo’s origin down and found out that the lovely ladies in…
Between 1925 and 1927, the burgeoning US Naval submarine force suffered two high-profile submarine failures—the loss of the S-51 in 1925 as well as the S-4 in 1927—together resulting in the deaths of 71 US Servicemen. Seeing an opportunity to save lives, Charles B. “Swede” Momsen set about devising a means to pluck submariners from…
GPS watches generally appeal to those who put navigation capabilities first, and aesthetics a distant second. But with its new fēnix, Garmin has managed to squeeze a backpack full of functionality into a subtle watch design. In fact, Garmin claims the fēnix is its first watch to include similar GPS navigation functionality as its handheld…
Bows and arrows have evolved quite a bit since the Paleolithic era. But one thing hasn’t changed in 12,000 years. This has never been a sport of sheer skill and power—its most elite competitors have always relied on the best gear of the age. Jake Kaminski, a 23-year-old athlete representing the USA in the 2012…
This is insane. 152,455 Lego bricks, 677 pounds (307 kilograms) and 6.56 feet long (2 meters). That’s how amazing this Lego cut-out of a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine is. It has over 160 separate engine components just arranged like the engine that power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Rolls-Royce—who presented their Lego engine yesterday at the…
Mark “IPO” Zuckerberg sure has a lot of friends—yesterday we saw him chomping sushi with some, and then there was that guy with the dog. But check him out now! Crushing a lemon Gatorade! Guys, it’s party time. Gizmodo creepy cat Colin spotted Zuck in late May at The Oasis beer garden in Menlo Park,…
There are plenty of insanely fast ways to acquire images, but in a lab in UCLA, engineers have created the world’s fastest 2D camera. It’s so fast, it can image 36.7 million fully-2D frames every second—and it could revolutionize the way screen for cancer. The camera is actually part of a microscope set-up, and it…
Within the next year or two, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will instantly know everything about your body, clothes, and luggage with a new laser-based molecular scanner fired from 164 feet (50 meters) away. From traces of drugs or gun powder on your clothes to what you had for breakfast to the adrenaline level…
You’re not going to walk away with an in-depth knowledge of how to build your own digital camera from watching this video. But Canon’s behind-the-scenes peek at what goes into building and designing its digital cameras and lenses is still pretty fascinating if you’re into photography. And as PetaPixel points out, probably the most fascinating…
Less than a year after it was originally unveiled, Wacom has announced an updated version of its largest interactive pen display, the Cintiq 24HD Touch that, as the name implies, expands its touch functionality beyond just single finger taps. Like your smartphone, you can now perform multi-finger gestures for panning, zooming, and rotating your artistic…
Even if you’re a Microsoft Office hater, sometimes it’s extremely useful to have access to its features. Well, here’s a quick way to achieve that on OS X, for free, using OnLive’s Desktop service. OnLive offers a free service through which iOS and Android users can access an install of Office running from its servers.…
Five months on from the Wall Street Journal spotting that Google was circumventing cookie privacy settings in Safari, the big G is now close to settling the matter with the FTC. There’s one bitter pill that still remains to be swallowed, though: the WSJ reports that Google is set to pony up $22.5 million, the…
If you’ve ever wondered what the pool of data which is the Stanley Cup results would sound like turned into song, then… well, you have an overactive imagination. But now that artist Bard Edlund has done just that, you’ll wonder why more visualizations don’t make use of audio, too. Edlund explains how he sonified the…
The Nexus Q is an odd little piece of hardware, filling a very small niche rather expensively. It could, however, turn out to be more useful than first thought, because a simple hack seems to bring it to life with the Android launcher, apps and as a result—you guessed it—Netflix. In the xda-developers forums kornyone…
Legal proceedings against Kim Dotcom aren’t going so well for the US authorities. First a New Zealand court ruled that the Megaupload seizures were illegal, and now Dotcom’s extradition hearing has been pushed back to March 2013. The hearing was originally due to take place August 6th, but a series of complications—including the siezure ruling…
