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After the Comcastpuff at the FCC hearing on net neutrality (with Comcast and Verizon present,) the almost-omnipotent Federal agency is considering repeating it all. Back then, Comcast paid people to take seats and cheer on their favor. Replacing Harvard, this time it could be celebrated at Stanford and, hopefully, there won’t be any Comcastards around.…
Dutch designer Gert-Jan van Breugel has come up with the idea of a degradable cellphone. Remove the antenna, battery and print board, chuck the bio-plastic and bamboo body of the phone on the compost heap, and in a few weeks, bamboo seeds inside the phone will grow and turn your former communication device into a…
The first benchmarks on the new Penryn-based MacBooks are in. Primate Labs pitted the Meron-based 2007 models against them using the Geekbench tests, and although the new 2.5GHz MBP is only slightly slower than the 2.6GHZ former model, the MBP 2008 2.4GHz model loses the battle against the MBP 2007 running at the same CPU…
“Comedian” Joe Rogan has got himself a new 7-foot tall isolation tank, and he is giving away his old one. This was created after the 1980s movie Altered States, in which the protagonist—played by William Hurt in his first role—uses it to get in touch with “ultimate reality.” Isolation tanks deprive you of your physical…
Korea is first port of call (well, it would be, wouldn’t it?) for these 3D-ready plasmas from Samsung. Available in two sizes: 42; and 50 inches, the PAVV Cannes 450 has a 30,000:1 ratio and 3D content support, and will work with high-performance PC-supporting 3D software and 3D glasses. And there’s even a super-expensive, HD…
Spanish company PAL Technology’s ultimate goal is to develop a humanoid service robot, and REEM B is the latest prototype they’ve produced. The robot can navigate autonomously around buildings, identify and interact with people and objects and carry heavy weights. He may not be as nippy or sleek as Honda’s ASIMO—his top speed is just…
Apple’s confirmed with us that Time Capsules are indeed shipping, meaning that you’ll be backing your Macs up wirelessly with Time Machine soon. And by soon, that probably means next week, since they’re only heading out of China this week. [Apple] https://gizmodo.com/time-capsule-shipping-barely-makes-deadline-361620
Carl T. Rowan wrote a piece which appeared in the July 3, 1976 Stevens Point Daily Journal (Stevens Point, WI) titled, “Sees hatred yet a century hence.” Rowan covers issues of racism, eugenics and elitism in the century leading up to the United States tricentennial. The piece appears below in its entirety. GALAXY SPACE STATION…
View-Masters were a part of just about everyone’s childhood. For those trying to relive those days, Minnesota artist Debra Dressler has come up with these handmade clocks made with genuine vintage View-Masters. As you might suspect, “handmade” and “vintage” are usually codewords for “expensive,” and at $145, that is pretty much the case here. However,…
Standing up and manually closing curtains is for old people and Luddites. What we roll with is of the mechanical variety, preferably hooked up to something like a Wiimote to give it that extra bit of nerdiness. This Wiimote curtain project is exactly what we mean. Sure, it’s not 1:1 arm to curtain movement, but…
We have already seen some of the phones in LGs KF lineup, and now it seems that the company will be showing off a few more phones at next week’s CeBIT show in Germany. The KF750 codenamed “Libra” appears to be a touchscreen slider with a 5 megapixel camera, VGA cam for video calls, and…
It looks like Apple will keep their Time Capsule “February” shipping estimate with only a day or two to spare. Pre-order customers just received word their shipments are being prepared. [AppleInsider] https://gizmodo.com/time-capsule-hands-on-345130
I never thought that speakers could give me the same feeling that I get when I see a beautifully designed car, but some of the entries in C4DCafe’s speaker rendering challenge have done just that (and some of them are just plain weird). The only problem is that putting one of these designs in my…
If we were handy enough to build our own sinks, we’d build one exactly like this “The Ripple” faucet, designed by Smith Newnam, which equates relative ball movement to the temperature and amount of water flowing out. Hot water makes the LED glow red, while cold makes it glow blue, and the two hot and…
Swedish designers Per Emanuelsson and Bastian Bischoff believe that their Surveillance Lamp is “Orwellian” in the sense that it is an “ambiguous reflection of their thoughts about the political future.” That’s deep and everything, but the bottom line is that a lamp modeled after surveillance cameras looks pretty damn cool. The only question is whether…
Despite the fact that consoles have become the primary platform for most gamers, there is still a die-hard fanbase that prefer PCs based on factors like the online experience you get with games like WOW, the level of control that a keyboard and mouse can bring, as well as the potential for better performance. So…
What happens to your intellectual property if you die in some kind of nasty accident? Worried, perhaps, that your life’s work would be stifled by 70 years of copyright protection, meant to benefit only your ungrateful dependents? Why not donate it all to the public domain? Affix this (legally binding?) sticker on your driver’s license,…
You know that $100 Sharper Image gift certificate you got for Christmas? The one that’s now not being accepted while the company’s going through bankruptcy proceedings? Turns out you can head to Brookstone, the other purveyor of fairly useless light-up gadgets that you stick up your nose to generate ozone, and get 25% off any…
It’s a chocolate helmet. Shaped like Master Chief. For your penis. Yes, that Master Chief. Or as the site calls him, “The One Eyed Spartan.” As if dressing up junior as a viking or Indiana Jones wasn’t silly enough. Reserve yours today for $7.95! [Chocolate Party Hats via The Raw Feed]
Stationary biking may be fun and healthy, but unless you’re sitting right under an air conditioning vent, you’re gonna get hot. Real hot. So why not use the energy generated by all that furious pedaling to power a fan that cools you off at the same time? Sounds brilliant to us as long as you…