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In case you’ve ever wanted to dabble in telepathy, NeuroSky Inc. has prototyped a new sensor that lets you control your cellphone with brainwaves. Based on similar medical technology, the system can roughly measure brain relaxation and concentration to pass on appropriate commands to a cellphone. Though the system is made up of several parts…
Looks like somebody over at Amazon made a big oopsies and accidentally put up details of Adobe InDesign CS4 on its website long enough for Apple Insider to get a bunch of screenshots. Features for the software, which is due for a public unveiling on Tuesday, include Live Preflight, conditional text, SWF file export and…
That Eye-Fi technology we were so gung ho about a few months back, the one which adds Wi-Fi to any digital camera, has found a new home in Lexar. The memory card giant is churning out a 2GB Shoot-n-Sync WiFi SD card that works exactly the same as the Eye-Fi Share. But with the Lexar…
We’ve featured a couple of Wiimote charging solutions before, but here’s one that’s gotten around the pesky problem of charging without metal contacts-annoying if you actually use those Wiimote jackets. Teknocreations’ InCharge allows you to dock up to two ‘motes, silicon and all, to grab 25 hours of gameplay juice. How? Magic (i mean, inductive…
Om Malik’s Mobilize Conference was an all day event today in San Francisco, and while there wasn’t a ton of gadget news, it managed to gather some powerful mobile electronics execs to talk about the future of mobile gadgets in a public forum. Though many areas of mobility and mobile devices were discussed, there were…
Always had something against Darth Vader and his many Stormtrooper cronies? Why not denigrate them to the lowest forms of consumer electronics by decapitating their shrunken heads and turning those into nifty Star Wars phone flashers? Now if you’re in a way-too-noisy cantina, or if you’re phone is on silent, the head of the Dark…
Phase 2 of Microsoft’s Windows ad campaign debuted tonight during The Office, and the latest work by ad agency Crispin, Porter + Bogusky definitely beats the crap out of those (ill-fated?) Gates/Seinfeld ads when it comes to making a point. The point is simple: Not all PC users look like John Hodgman. Some are even…
According to an Apple patent application, the company is considering adding an “At a Glance” screen to the iPhone. Instead of spreading various notifications across multiple icons, the screen would allow a one-page roundup of the phone’s calls, SMSs and voicemails, and a keypress would take the user to any of those individual screens. The…
OK guys, is it out yet or isn’t it? This morning, official word of Asus’s new AiGuru SV1, a standalone (no PC required) Skype videophone was released and then retracted—but here we are tonight at a media event in NYC and what do we see sitting on Skype’s table? Not sure what the nervousness is…
You can watch this commercial all day long. You can load up YouTube and play it for your coworkers. You can even rip the video and convert it to play on your PMP of choice. But it won’t make your shitty hatchback into an epic 80s superhero. Sorry. Not gonna happen. And this isn’t even…
We got our hands on Canon’s brand-new full-HD shooting 5D Mk II monster tonight, and well, yeah, we want it just as much as we did last night-even though Canon wouldn’t let us pop our own CF cards in for some test shots and vids. We’re not mad though-we ran through live view, video mode…
Programmers who made knockoffs of the Atari game Breakout are getting nasty letters from the game developer to remove their apps from the iPhone App Store. So far touchArcade says BreakClassic, BreakTouch 3D and Super Pong 2 have all been targeted, which is similar to the situation where the Tetris knockoff Tris was also pulled…
Like the Buffalo hard drive I bought in Japan to replace one that died, Buffalo’s Shinobi Portable HD is actually Samsung inside, but in this case, the same kind used in the MacBook Air, so it’s incredibly slim and totally pocketable—the “world’s thinnest external hard drive”—about the size of a biz card holder. The convenience…
It looks like RCA is trying to best their own high marks with the Small Wonder EZ300, an HD-capable pocket camcorder that’s seriously cheap. In addition to shooting 720p HD video (and along with Kodak’s Zi6 making HD the pocket cam standard), the EZ300’s 2GB internal memory is expandable by 16GB via SD slot, which…
In a panel at GigaOm’s Mobilize conference today, Motorola VP of Applied Technology Fred Kitson revealed some prototype display technologies they have in the works, confirming the company has more on the mind than the damn RAZR. One phone prototype Kitson described involves an embedded projector that made use of 3 lasers that project on…
Have you ever wanted to impersonate a Verizon Wireless employee? This is your chance! Some former employee is now auctioning off his sad, sordid history with the company (he actually saved up 300 different pieces of flair from his time there) to the highest bidder. There are cellphone holsters, fanny packs, flip flops, balloons (never…
There are no real details yet, but the e-reader company iRex has a teaser site up promising to unveil a “new era in digital reading” on September 22nd. We’re not sure what kind of improvements they’re going to make on their iLiad reader to make it worthwhile in this current market. Obviously, they are going…
The screamingly obvious trail of evidence left behind by the person who broke into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo mail yesterday should have been the tip-off-this was not an elite job. According to postings on the troll-hive forum 4chan dug up by Threat Level, all the perp did was guess her password-resest security question correctly after a…
You may recall an incident on the news last summer involving a bridge collapse in Minnesota that claimed 13 lives and injured 145 others. State officials were quick to draw up plans for a replacement—but this time they wanted strict safety measures in place to prevent another disaster from occurring in the future. Contractors delivered…
In just a few days, T-Mobile will be taking the wraps off of the world’s first Android phone and we’ll be bringing it to you live. The event officially starts at 10:30AM Eastern on Sept. 23, but we’ll be there early as always, hoping that the first 100 people get Google stock as a door…
