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While Namco jumped headfirst into the Android Market by giving away Pac-Man, EA Games is going to sit out for the time being, at least until there’s a billing system in place for apps in the Android Market: “EA will support the Android platform…but has elected to wait for the launch of a content billing…
Besides looking a lot like Vista—and we mean a lot—Microsoft has said Windows 7 uses a lot of the same foundation, too, to keep upgrade migraines to a minimum. The problem is that its core ain’t so suited to parallel computing, one of rival Snow Leopard’s few headline features. So they’re actually implementing some deep-level…
If $100 is just too much for you to pay for a homemade iPhone stand, then this paperclip version might be a better option. And to anyone who has ever paid more than 50 cents to hold any pocket electronic, hopefully this fan-made pwnage will keep your money in your pocketbook/child savings accounts next time.…
Synaptics, best known for developing the Zune Pad and Android G1 screen, have unveiled two new multitouch gestures for their PC touchpads: two-finger flick and ChiralRotate. Two-finger flick is fairly self explanatory — you swipe your finger from side to side on the trackpad and it will move through a series of files, such as…
By Mark Ecko, this Stormtrooper hoodie will ensure that, at a moment’s notice, you will be ready for an impromptu Star Wars convention or back alley role-playing fest. It may sound like overkill, but to the die-hard Star Wars fan, it’s a whole lot easier than carrying around plastic armor everywhere you go. $98 through…
If you’re still clamoring for Adobe Flash support to get Hulu on your iPhone, I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Adobe Senior Director of Engineering Paul Betlem says that as soon as Apple approves it, it would be out “in a very short time.” The bad news is that…
Canadian astronaut Greg Chamitoff has challenged everyone on planet Earth to a game of chess. He will play from the International Space Station traveling at five miles per second, 200 miles above the Earth, while you can make your move from your living room at ground level traveling at 0.1 miles a second to your…
One of the reasons you’re going to see Android on a ton of phones—aside from Google’s juggernautical influence—isn’t because of its ass-beating potential, but because hardware makers don’t have to pay anything for it. They do have to pay for Windows Mobile, the other major free-floating smartphone OS, on the other hand, and Steve Ballmer…
Who says you can’t do amazing things with the iPhone’s camera? Using only its subpar shooter and some skillful manual stitching, you can actually create some incredible patchwork panoramas. The crappiness of the cam actually gives the shots a lomographic sheen that meshes really with the whole hand-stitched patchwork aesthetic. If you want to make…
How does a fledgling, technology-oriented school just north of Acapulco get a leg up in this competitive world? I honestly have no idea, but at least one person seems to think that naming it after Steve Jobs will do the trick. Will this entice southern Mexico’s best and brightest to switch to the school? Maybe.…
Piracy on the high seas is a growing problem, so the Navy’s latest lightweight fighter, the Littoral Combat ship, has a system specially designed to knock out pirates without killing them (so it obviously don’t use ninjas). The Running-Gear Entanglement System, developed by the Coast Guard, is decidedly low-tech—basically a floating net that jams up…
Spotted in the OAMI (European trademark registry), this Nintendo-branded pedometer will most probably become an official piece of must-have Nintendo gear soon. Lacking any external screen, there’s no indication whether it will sync with the DS or the Wii (like for Wii Fit or something), but we’re assuming Nintendo has some decent software integration in…
Like the other surveys we’ve had in the past, all you have to do is click here, fill out a survey (which will only take a few minutes) and then send an email to [email protected] telling them what the last question on the survey was. Once you do that, you’re entered in a drawing to…
Having received a tacit endorsement from President Medvedev, the iPhone might have won the political battle for Russian touchscreen dominance, but Emblaze has a more traditional plan to take on Apple: with price and features. Emblaze’s Edelweiss is an impressive slab of phone, with an HTC-trumping 480 x 854 touchscreen, 3G, GPS and 8 or…
We love Iron Man and really have nothing bad to say about the guy. But we were surprised to hear that customers who are personalizing their Dell’s Inspiron, Studio or XPS will have the options to bump up the RAM, upgrade the video card and then preload Iron Man (in standard definition) with some extras…
Relax, people who’ve been using mobile broadband internet: your scarily unbranded ‘net surfing days are over. The GSM Association has coordinated 3 Group, Asus, Dell, ECS, Ericsson, Gemalto, Lenovo, Microsoft, Orange, Qualcomm, Telefónica Europe, Telecom Italia, TeliaSonera, T-Mobile, Toshiba and Vodafone among others to create the “Mobile Broadband service mark.” It’s a logo designed to…
When you hear about a camera that’s the size of a trailer, you figure it’s a novelty used by a struggling artist looking to make a name. But watching this clip that explores the giant photography of John Chiara, you realize he’s not just a salesman exhibiting a clown camera. He’s an artist who painstakingly…
How big is too big? That’s the question that you inevitably ask yourself once you spend any amount of time with Panasonic’s new 150-inch plasma TV prototype. We visited it in Panasonic’s towering warehouse in Secaucus, New Jersey last Friday, running it through its paces with 4K footage, Blu-ray movies and Playstation 3 games. After…
One of the OLPC’s few successes—besides arguably sparking the whole netbook movement—was its Give 1, Get 1 program. Okay, it had some issues, but overall, the program was a success in getting the laptops out there. No surprise then that it’s coming back on Nov. 17, though this time they’ll be wisely letting Amazon take…
Remember that time in Star Wars when R2-D2 shot out the lightsaber to Luke Skywalker? Yeah, well the only problem with that scene was that lightsabers don’t freaking exist. And until they do, robots of the future must be retrofitted with the next best thing—copious amounts of booze. (Which, as we see in this picture,…
