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AiLive, the company that collaborated with Nintendo on the MotionPlus controller add-on, has released a video demonstrating the full capabilities of the new hardware with a set of 3D tools called LiveMove2. An obvious but effective rendering of the controller shows that the touted 1:1 tracking is, in fact, 1:1 and that the response time…
If you are serious about photography, at one time or another you may have considered how the human eye reacts to an image. After all, it is logical to assume that possessing information about what entices the eye can help you take much more powerful photos. If you could use a little education in the…
We have been hearing about mini /pico projectors for a long time now but so far, nothing has made it to store shelves. However, there is no doubt that this technology will be an important part of many of our mobile devices in the near future-which is why there is no shortage of concepts out…
Nyko’s Wiimote charge station has been on the market for a while now, dutifully rejuvenating two Wiimotes at a time so you don’t have to. How could you improve on that concept? By introducing a charge station that charges FOUR Wiimotes simultaneously. Penguin United’s solution does just that, plus comes with fancy green and blue…
The UnMouse Pad is like the MacBook Air/Pro’s multitouch trackpad on steroids. On display at the Microsoft Research Summit (which also housed the Microsoft Sphere), this Joint project between Microsoft and NYU utilizes Force-Sensing Resistors to create one giant, mouse pad-sized circuit. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-microsoft-surface-sphere-prototype-5030603 In the last part of the video, you can see the insane…
Sprint’s best phone, the Instinct got a little bit better today with a firmware update that patches some sniggles. No new features, but this update apparently lubes it up for a big one next month that’ll drop in changes to the browser (dear god, make it better), Sprint Nav, TV, Picture Mail-and pretty much everything…
Researchers at Virginia Tech hope to combat injuries suffered from elderly falls with these teched-out pants, which employ multiple sensors sewn into your standard flannel jams (aka blogging pants) to monitor the gait of the wearer for early diagnosis potential problems. So long as he doesn’t shuffle out of Bluetooth range. The pants are equipped…
We’ve been hearing many different dates for T-Mobile’s 3G rollout, but the latest one (October 1) seems to be a more solid date. Solid, that is, if you consider a lousy 8.5×10 printout taped to a wall outside a meeting room found by TmoNews to be solid. Nevertheless, October 1 seems to be the target…
It kind of looks like a laptop if you ask me, but the V-Line toaster concept from designer Thibault Masclet is actually a toaster and an induction cooker all-in-one. It incorporates glass like other toaster concepts, but the induction cooker on the flipside is a new one on me. To be honest, I would prefer…
The RainwaterHOG is a design-y rainwater tank (yes, there is such a thing) that collects rain to re-use in the garden, give to your dog or fill up your Super Soaker without draining the mains. Most people don’t save rainwater because they don’t want a giant open bucket/mosquito-larvae farm on their porch. But now, you…
“For six long minutes on June 30, screening operations froze at Jackson-Evers International Airport’s West checkpoint in Mississippi.” Bated breath. “Transportation Security Officer Scot Peele leveraged his training and experience when he detected the suspicious item while monitoring the X-ray image of the passenger’s carry-on bag.” The “explosive-like” item that brought you this tense Jack…
As of yesterday evening, Apple claims the bugs that have plagued the service since its launch have been worked out, including restoring the mail accounts of users that were locked out for nearly two weeks and resolving a new bug that caused devices to drop calendar and contact data when syncing wirelessly. With those issues…
I was not impressed with Esquire’s E-ink cover idea, but Joel Johnson at BBG has interviewed the Esky overlords and changed my mind a bit. Surprisingly, Esquire expects us to buy these mags and hack them. Second, Ford advertisements, also in E-ink, displaced some of the cost of production. That’s good news for us. I…
More often than not, very public art installations are pretentious and, well…pretty damn stupid. But every once in a while you come across a rare gem like the “Telemegaphone Dale.” On August 2nd, anyone with a telephone can call a 23-foot tall loudspeaker sculpture on top of the Bergskletten mountain in Western Norway and have…
It’s the sort of thing you’d expect ordered by Wile E. Coyote from an ACME catalog. But instead, it’s a product for the Hurricane Research Center to prepare for the devastating natural disasters. Six giant gasoline-powered fans drive winds at well over 100mph in a wall of moving air that’s large enough to engulf an…
We put up with too many cables. There are at least four different kinds of USB plugs, two kinds of FireWire and like a million different ways to connect something to TV or monitor. Modern gadget life can be kind of retarded in this way. Why not one kind of cable, or just a couple?…
At a $300, or even $400 pricepoint, it was easy to come up with all sorts of reasons to own a mini-laptop like the Eee. But when those prices quickly grew to a baseline of $500, we all looked at these machines like $60,000 Kias with no wheels. Now Sylvania, a brand famous for its…
If you needed a bigger hint that new iPods and MacBooks (whatever form they take) are around the corner, AppleInsider is reporting that Apple has “strongly suggested” to its retail channel partners to stock up on at least four weeks worth of their best-selling iPod models, and at least three weeks worth of MacBooks and…
This video shows a girl getting absolutely launched into the air from an inflatable “blob” on a lake. She lies on one end, while what has got to be a much larger man jumps down onto the other. It looks like both the most fun thing ever as well as one of the most painful…
Yesterday, Kotaku reported on Nintendo and 54 software makers filing an injunction to stop the sales of the R4 and similar devices in Japan. For the uninitiated, the R4 allows you to download DS games online and play them on your DS. Yes, DS piracy. And now said piracy is threatened! So what does that…