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The Ergoskin is one of those far out concepts that will probably never see the light of day, but the fact that poor posture is a common problem (especially amongst us computer nerds) makes this unique solution intriguing. The design utilizes sensors woven directly into fabric at special points along the body—sensors that deliver small…
The Flip camcorder won our hearts with a stripped down, value priced approach to home video. However, a company called Advanced Video Technologies (AVT) has filed suit claiming that the company behind the Flip stole their patented Full Duplex Single Chip Video Codec compression software. Fortunately for consumers, AVT is not seeking to block sales…
NBC Universal Chief Digital Officer George Kliavkoff: “We’d love to be on iTunes. It has a great customer experience. We’d love to figure out a way to distribute our content on iTunes.” Obviously NBC did, until they walked out. In order for them to come back, they want more money per show (still) to “reflect…
We ran this photoshop contest of Steve Jobs, asking for Good and Evil versions of the man. For some reason, we got an overwhelming result of Evil Steve Jobs entries. Actually, they’re almost all evil Steve Jobs photoshops. Is that because it’s more fun to dress him up as Osama than it is to make…
Stop looting supermarkets and get back to your homes, because NASA is saying that “doomsday” asteroid Apophis doesn’t have any significant chance of impacting Earth in 2036, basically classifying the 13-year-old German student as a moronic smartypants. In fact, even if it hit, it wouldn’t have been the end of the world. Or that’s what…
If you thought the original calculator watch was nerdy, get a load of this DIY gem from designer David Jones. According to his website, the “uWatch” is the “world’s most powerful programmable RPN/Algebraic scientific calculator watch.” Unfortunately, the project site is still under construction, so a step-by-step tutorial has yet to be developed. However, there…
Those of you hoping for a next-gen DS to be unveiled by Nintendo at E3 this year will have to stop by the supermarket to get a gallon of consolation ice cream on your way home from work. Nintendo Japan just shut down the rumor by saying “We cannot comment…but at the very least there…
Europe may be ok with passengers making in-flight calls on their cellphones, but at least a few members of Congress have the foresight to see how this situation could become problematic in the US. A new bill has been introduced that promises to ban cellphone calls on US flights, but not text messaging and web…
Crestron, the company that makes crazy high-end home automation equipment that lets you turn off your lights by just breathing loudly, just announced Windows Sideshow support. You remember Windows Sideshow, right? The Windows Vista feature that lets you feed Vista’s Gadgets onto an external device. Crestron’s including this on all Crestron touchpanels and 2-way devices…
Boing Boing Gadgets has deemed the standard HTML blockquote insufficient to reveal the expressive power of his business English. Hence, Super Blockquote, which arms you against the marketroid oppression of Thompson’s prose. [Boing Boing Gadgets]
This week at TreeHugger: Brazil is the biggest importer of condoms in the world (!), and now the Brazilian government wants to make condoms with latex from Amazon forest trees to help fight deforestation and reduce imports. Many companies are working hard on batteries and ultracapacitors for plug-in hybrids and electric cars, but some are…
An update that went out last week for Vista to patch security holes in Windows Defender (ironically) is apparently knocking out some USB devices like mice and keyboards, so that they stop working entirely. Microsoft actually admits the issue: “We are aware of concerns that a recent Microsoft update may be causing problems with USB…
Apple just rolled out the Safari 3.1.1 bugfix and security update. As far as we can see, it still asks Windows users to install Safari even if they don’t already have Safari installed. Update: We just tried this again, just to be sure, on a completely virgin computer with neither iTunes or Safari installed. After…
Even though our (pretend) DJ days were over back in college, we still have a fond spot in our hearts for Technics and their beautiful equipment. The Technics 1200s are legendary DJ gadgets after all, so when we saw that the company actually issued a series of shirts featuring Marvel characters behind the decks, our…
A couple of years ago we introduced you to the privacy scarf, which was based on the same principle as this body-laptop wooly jumper, but lacked its homemade, knitted style. The idea is intended to provide “privacy, warmth, and concentration in public spaces,” but in the end it just makes you look like an epic…
Republican Congressmen Fred Upton, Cliff Stearns and John Shimkus are huffing and puffing that Google hosed the government in the ballyhooed 700MHz auction, only bidding to lock in the open access rules. They’re right! Google totally “gamed the system” and had no interest in winning. But that’s a good thing for us. If they hadn’t,…
Case-Mate claims to be the world’s first touch-through case for the iPhone or iPod Touch, but that honor seems to be taken by the Ivyskin Xylo T2 Reflect Chrome case we saw last week. Even though Case-Mate’s edition is just slightly late, their Naked Case looks slightly thinner than the Ivyskin’s, even though both of…
Sony’s launching a new ad campaign on April 22, following up all those other spots we’re crazy about. We got our hands on the teaser, entitled “Nothing,” and it is both very cool and totally irritating at the same time, because “Nothing” is exactly what happens. Kind of. It’s a bunch of smug film dudes…
Nintendo’s just started shipping out these SNES controllers to their Club Nintendo members in Japan, and great googly moogly are these fantastic. Not only is it a similar greyish color, but the X Y B A face buttons are exactly the same color as before! What better way to play SNES games on the Wii…
Charlie over at DVICE is a musician, so if he says this Direct Note Access is miraculous, we definitely believe him. Think of this software suite as Photoshop, but for music—able to change any note to any other note even if it’s buried inside chords or other instruments playing simultaneously. Up until now, you could…
