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You control your urges for violence and sex using a tiny tangle of neurons located in a very ancient part of your brain. Now it turns out that this knot of nerves, located in the hypothalamus, can be controlled with a new gene therapy technique that uses flashes of light. What this means is that…
Asteroids has always been a little too frenzied for me—there’s nowhere to hide!—and Breakout, Blackberry classic though it may be, can get a little bit tedious. Breakeroids, a Frankenstein-style combination of the two, strikes a highly playable, deliciously neon balance. What is it? Breakeroids, $2, iPhone The top half’s asteroids, the bottom half’s breakout. That’s…
Voice over LTE will come to the masses this summer on Verizon, but at least we know for sure now that it works. The company completed its first successful VoLTE call yesterday, with both ends reportedly confirming that they could hear each other [then]. [Press Release]
You’re about to watch a video of Performer. Know first that it’s an iPad app that lets musicians control their instruments by moving shapes around in real time. Know second that you are definitely tripping out. Keep in mind, also, that this is pretty strictly professional-grade. It connects to any instrument that receives OSC or…
Update your bookmarks! Alan Taylor, founder of the wildly famous The Big Picture photoblog, has launched his newest iteration at The Atlantic, called “In Focus“. [In Focus]
HP’s webOS devices are finally here: The Touchpad tablet—an sleek affair with iPad-competitive specs—as well as the bigger, badder Pre 3, and a teeny, Pixi-esque slider called the Veer. Hands On: HP’s TouchPad Tablet Looks Great, But Moves Slow Although the Touchpad I played with is not the final version, my impression of the HP…
First we heard that Facebook is making a phone, then we were told that it’s not, then we heard that there will be two Facebook phones, and then we wondered what make sense about all these rumors. Click to viewAnd now? Now we’re pretty damn sure that the Facebook Phone is real—particularly considering that TechCrunch…
The HP TouchPad and Motorola Xoom are legitimate threats to the iPad. And if they were available now, I’d buy them over an iPad. Here’s why: Hardware It’s been over a year since the iPad was first announced and in that year, its age is starting to show. The shine is off, the wrinkles are…
Why is beer batter just so good? Fish and chips fans take note: the secret is in the carbon dioxide. The gas makes the final product lighter, crisper, and faster to cook. Oh, and delicious. Don’t forget delicious. [Scientific American]
The HP Veer is what I imagine would happen if you gave children the right to vote on what to size things. It is tiny. The keyboard looks like the keyboard on a toy smartphone—one that you might attach to your regular smartphone as a cellphone charm. Surprisingly, I could still type relatively well on…
Nine year old Ty’Ge Davis is a sophisticated young man. A star math student! But not sophisticated enough to be texted a photo of two adults blowing each other on a couch. Offender’s defense? Just trying to sell the couch! “That was just too old for me…I wasn’t ready for that,” says Ty’Ge, who was…
Although the Touchpad I played with is not the final version, my impression of the HP TouchPad is that it is slow. Not incredibly slow. But compared to, say, the Motorola Xoom or an iPad, I noticed slight delays between my touch and the interface moving around. The interface looks fantastic. And so are the…
It’s hard to find a display crisper than OLED; you don’t need to look much further than LG’s 32-inch OLED TV for proof. So how come we don’t see the technology in laptops? Apple’s apparently been asking the same question. The three Cupertino patents dug up today over at Patently Apple indicate that Apple’s majorly…
They’re not offering many details—we’ll hear more “throughout the year”—but HP mentioned today that they’re planning on bringing webOS to PCs and printers. A spokesperson told SAI that it would run on top of Windows, a customized UI on top of Windows. Seems kinda silly, until you imagine it on one of their hot new…
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Forget Rosie the Riveter. The real female heroes of WWII were the human computers who calculated bomb trajectories and more in the pre-digital age. This is their story. The trailer above for “Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of World War II,” is just a glimpse at the 100 women who turned the tide of…
As HP continues to announce a ton of new stuff today, Palm was left out. Engadget noticed that, as the brand that brought us WebOS and headed an industry for nearly 20 years, Palm has breathed its last.[Engadget]
When Snake Eyes retires, you’ll find him doing pretty much exactly this, forever, the end. [The Daily What]
The TouchPad is 1.6 pounds, 13.7 mm thick, measures 9.7inches (1024×768), a 1.3 megapixel webcam, video calling, and HP’s Beats branding. Specs are pretty similar to the iPad. Other stats: 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth, 16 or 32GB, and twice the memory of Pre 2 (1GB, I believe.) Also, a 1.2GHz dual core processor. (Or, rather, 2.4GHz…
Palm/HP is targeting the Pre 3 as a “business”-class phone, even though it’s got the same body shape as the previous Pres. It has their largest keyboard, a larger 3.6-inch 480×800 display, and a 5-megapixel camera. It will be 802.11b/g/n, HSPA+ and EVDO world phone, 8GB or 16GB storage, memory (same as) Pre 2, and…
