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eBoy’s FixPix iPhone Game Now Available and Outrageously Addictive

Yes! eBoy’s FixPix iPhone game is now available in the App Store and it looks fantastic. It’s gonna cost you two bucks and plenty of time. The idea of the game is simple: You use tilt your iPhone back and forth until the cut-out portions of an image line up with everything else. Simple, but…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Robotic Fish Being Built To Control Mortal Fishy Schools

Robotic clones are being built as we speak, designed to take over schools of fish and lead them away from danger. You know what this means, right? The human race will eventually cease to exist. The Polytechnic Institute of New York University‘s assistant professor Maurizio Porfiri has been working on a robo-fish that could control…

Tech News Kat Hannaford

Broken Bottles Transformed Into Shards of Light

Step one: Throw empty beer bottles into a 20×30 foot bulletproof glass cage. Step Two: Gather the shattered bottles. Step Three: Re-imagine the shards of glass into prisms of light. Recycle, Reduce, Reuse. It’s easy to do. [Glassphemy via Core77]

Tech News Casey Chan

Kazaa Creators Launch New Music Subscription Service

The folks behind popular file-sharing program Kazaa are launching a new music subscription service called Rdio. From the sounds of things, it’ll be similar to existing subscription services, but with a social element: Rdio is betting in part on its social elements – the ability to follow friends on the site, see what they are…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Kindle Gets Corporeal at Target Starting June 6

One of the biggest advantages Barnes & Noble’s Nook has had over the Kindle is that prospective purchasers can fondle one in store—the Kindle, available only online, is a “thing” more than a product. But that’s going to change Sunday when Target starts selling Kindles. The ability to replenish my ever-low supply of Axe Body…

Commerce Matt Buchanan

Floating City in the Sky Brings You Closer to the Heavens

I can’t think of a better place to escape the honking horns and suffocating smog of city life than a floating botanical city in the sky. Built on water, it’s a lily pad for human civilization. The idea behind Green Float, as Shimizu calls it, is to create a future living solution that is completely…

Tech News Casey Chan

HomePipe App Streams iTunes to Your Android Phone

HomePipe’s a relatively new cloud-based storage app that’s introduced a new twist: streaming your iTunes music from your Mac or PC to your Android phone. There are a couple of caveats, though. First, it’s not as simple as downloading the app. You’ll need a HomePipe account, which requires you to download some software onto your…

Tech News Brian Barrett

Dr. Paul Garabedian, The Man Whose Work Led To Better Jetliner Wings, Died At Age 82

Dr. Paul R. Garabedian was a mathematician whose work may not have solved any technical problems on its own, but eventually led to fuel-efficient wings: In the 1960s and ’70s, aerospace engineers tried to solve the problem by seeking exact mathematical equations or relying on intuition. Dr. Garabedian, who started his career as a pure…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

British Airways Ad Implies Osama Bin Laden Is A Frequent Flyer

Recently, British Airways advertised and discussed its downloadable, paperless boarding passes in an internal staff magazine called LHR News. There was something odd though: The sample boarding pass pictured in the magazine is issued to Mr. Osama Bin Laden. The airline said that it’s looking into how this “mistake” occurred, so I guess that means…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Meet Leroy Stick, The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR

My name is Leroy Stick and I am the man behind @BPGlobalPR. First, let me begin by explaining my name. When I was growing up, there was a dog that lived on my block named Leroy. Leroy was a big dog with a disdain for leashes and a thirst for blood. He made a habit…

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Sprint 4G To Roll Out In Select Cities Starting In July

Some folks have reason to be very happy, very soon: Sprint will be rolling out 4G service in cities including Rochester, NY, Syracuse, NY, Kennewick, WA, Pasco, WA, Visalia, WA and more starting in July. [BGR]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

GPS Device Helps Domestic Violence Victims Avoid Their Abusers

Here’s a good use of GPS: its a new device that allows victims of domestic violence be aware of when someone they have a restraining order against is nearby. It works via a movement-tracking ankle bracelet that the abuser is required to wear. The victim then gets a cellphone-like device that tracks their location. If…

Tech News Adam Frucci

The 5 Dumbest Products in America, Circa 1977

It’s 1977 and you’ve got a potentially world-changing semiconductor on your hands—but how do you market the thing? By trashing toasters, telephones, cars, and especially TVs, which are so dumb they can’t even pay your taxes! (What?) That’s how National Semi envisioned the televisions of tomorrow: tax-paying, child-rearing futureboxes. Come to think of it, I’m…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert

Verizon Denies Apple Support Once Again

Verizon’s John Johnson tells Beet.TV that they’re not planning on supporting Apple mobile devices in the near future. People who want to believe that the iPhone is coming to Verizon soon will question what he means by “near future” or “support” or “Apple mobile devices,” whereas people who don’t really care will take the statement…

Tech News Jason Chen

20-Foot Shears May Be Used To Cut Leaking Oil Pipe After Robot Saw Got Stuck

BP’s latest attempt to fix the oil disaster in the Gulf involves cutting the tip off the broken oil riser pipe and shoving on a containment dome. One of the problems? The robot saw cutting the pipe got stuck. After the robot saw was unstuck, technicians found that it could “no longer cut effectively,” so…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Slacker Radio 2.0 iPhone App Lets You Cache Music Stations

Slacker has put out an update for its popular Slacker Radio iPhone app complete with a clever feature that actually lets you cache music stations so that you can listen to them anywhere—connected to a network or not. The app’s free, but you do need a Slacker Radio Plus subscription which will run you at…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

HP CEO Mark Hurd: “We Didn’t Buy Palm To Be In The Smartphone Business”

Ouch! According to HP CEO Mark Hurd, the company didn’t “spend billions of dollars trying to get into the smartphone business” when they bought Palm. Instead HP was after the intellectual property—in other words: WebOS. We didn’t buy Palm to be in the smartphone business. And I tell people that, but it doesn’t seem to…

Tech News Rosa Golijan

The Steak-Scented Billboard: Advertising’s Stinking Future

A new Billboard on River Highway in North Carolina not only shows a gigantic piece of steak on an even more giant fork, but it actually pumps out the smell of steak for passing drivers to suffer through. Gross! The Bloom grocery store chain, part of Food Lion, erected the giant sign at 1220 River…

Tech News Adam Frucci

Google Mobile Search Results Now Include Android and iPhone Apps

In order to make life a little bit easier for Android and iPhone users, Google Mobile Search results will now include relevant Android App Market and iTunes App Store links. [Google Mobile Blog]

Tech News Rosa Golijan

Question of the Day: How Much Wireless Data Do You Actually Use?

AT&T has killed off its unlimited data plan, which seems really terrible for consumers. But then I checked my actual data usage and found it to be much lower than I expected, which will end up saving me $15/month. If you’re a heavy 3G data user, you’re probably as pissed off as Matt right now…

Tech News Adam Frucci

eBoy’s FixPix iPhone Game Now Available and Outrageously Addictive

Robotic Fish Being Built To Control Mortal Fishy Schools

Broken Bottles Transformed Into Shards of Light

Kazaa Creators Launch New Music Subscription Service

The Kindle Gets Corporeal at Target Starting June 6

Floating City in the Sky Brings You Closer to the Heavens

HomePipe App Streams iTunes to Your Android Phone

Dr. Paul Garabedian, The Man Whose Work Led To Better Jetliner Wings, Died At Age 82

British Airways Ad Implies Osama Bin Laden Is A Frequent Flyer

Meet Leroy Stick, The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR

Sprint 4G To Roll Out In Select Cities Starting In July

GPS Device Helps Domestic Violence Victims Avoid Their Abusers

The 5 Dumbest Products in America, Circa 1977

Verizon Denies Apple Support Once Again

20-Foot Shears May Be Used To Cut Leaking Oil Pipe After Robot Saw Got Stuck

Slacker Radio 2.0 iPhone App Lets You Cache Music Stations

HP CEO Mark Hurd: “We Didn’t Buy Palm To Be In The Smartphone Business”

The Steak-Scented Billboard: Advertising’s Stinking Future

Google Mobile Search Results Now Include Android and iPhone Apps

Question of the Day: How Much Wireless Data Do You Actually Use?

Tesla Goes Ahead and Admits Its Robotaxis Are Sometimes Fully Human-Controlled

School Forced to Replace Toilets After Kids Flush Vapes

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The Curtain Has Closed on Meta’s Movie Rating-Inspired Content Filters

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VR Just Took Another Massive Body Blow

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