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Last week at GDC, Sony showed how the standard PlayStation Eye camera connected to a standard PS3 does well at tracking face and body movement, even at some distance. As you can see in the above video starring my good friend Stephen Totilo, it works great, and would be brilliant for duck-and-cover maneuvering in first-person…
This ad for Epuron Wind Power won the prize for best film advertising at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes this past summer, and you can see why: it’s downright wonderful. While we’ve recently seen the destructive power of the wind as it wreaks havoc on one poor turbine, it’s nice to see the wind…
Most of us might find a 10000:1 contrast ratio monitor from LG with Digital Fine Contrast technology overkill for writing Facebook entries or watching YouTube, but college students—who watch full-length pirated movies on their computer every day—will find this extremely useful. And since a higher contrast ratio means blacks are much blacker (though, sometimes losing…
Much like Homer’s makeup gun, this Glitter Gun allows you to apply sparkly bits to your woman in record time, allowing long waits on the couch while she’s getting ready to become a thing of the past. The gun is a bit tricky, however, seeing as one glitter shot is not quite enough, and two…
If you were of the 598 landline-only Giz readers, you should probably hide your embarrassing lack of technology. This $49 touchtone phone disguises your relic as a pack of death sticks. It looks accurate, but your bluff will probably be called when people notice that it’s connected to the wall or remember you don’t actually…
Do you need a constant reminder that you’re always late? Perhaps in a four-port USB hub form? Then this USB Running Man Hub is the perfect gift for your birthday, with its four distinct USB 2.0 ports in the guy’s base, arm, leg and briefcase. No? You wanted a nose hair trimmer instead? Guess that’s…
Click to viewLooks like the delay was true: an invite for the launch of the iPhone SDK came in, and it’s showing a Town Hall event on Cupertino campus on March 6th. The mail includes a reference to “some exciting new enterprise features” as well. Research In Motion should be as excited as we are.…
Okay, so one big studio actually hasn’t made the jump to Blu yet: Dreamworks, which was paid $100 million to join HD DVD back in August. As we had pieced together in our closed-door analysis, they can’t break rank until Toshiba lets them. Says Dreamworks chief: “It really is in their court at this point…
Human trials are about to begin on a new device that goes inside a woman’s body for up to four days, holding fresh IVF embryos in place like an artificial fallopian tube. Developed by Swiss company Anecova, the 5mm-long “silicon womb” is pierced with hundreds of 40-micron holes, the better to expose the embryos to…
UK robotics professor Noel Sharkey is raising a fuss over the US Defense Department’s intention to put $4 billion into “unmanned systems” in the next year or two. One fear is that spillover from all that R&D will give terrorists new ways to build effective GPS-guided suicide bombers for $500 or less. “How long is…
This field has 1,301 florescent bulbs planted in it, and they’re all glowing. They aren’t plugged into anything, however; they’re powered solely from the magnetic fields produced by the power lines above. It’s all a large art project by Richard Box, and if you’re really interested in it you can order a DVD of the…
What you are seeing here is two grown men riding a 9 feet, 7 inches XJ-13 two-people snowboard. Why? Because they can, and have an intimate desire to a) look stupid, b) appear in the media looking stupid, c) wear fur coats and hats while sticking their tongues out. Doesn’t it seem stupid to you?…
Oh man, do I like this table. Sure, it provides a flat surface for eating or working on like most tables, but it also has marble tracks carved into it. That means that when you get bored of your meal/job, you can put marbles in the top and watch them follow an elaborate path around…
To celebrate the mapping of the human genome, Science magazine published an issue featuring a T-shirt covered with the annotated gene sequence map of human chromosome 1. Now the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) is releasing the shirt for all to have. And at just $22.50, nothing says “I understand women” better…
While those who are born into a world of e-books won’t miss much, there are a few generations of paper-readers who might still need some convincing. The LIVRE, a concept for a more tactile friendly e-book, first looks like a chunky version of Sony’s Reader. But the design is actually fairly inspired. Our favorite feature…
Panasonic has developed a recycling technique that uses titanium oxide to convert unrecoverable plastic and other organic compounds to a “harmless” gas. The key focus is on separating wires from their coatings and extract the other rubbers and plastics that make up the non-recyclable 20% of home-appliance waste. Panasonic’s stated goal is to “completely eliminate…
The worst thing about this official A-Data Mickey Mouse USB flash drive is that I can think of about five adults I know who’d love one. The modular design conceals the mini 2GB drive as one of Mickey’s ears, the other ear being pierced for pendants or charms. The clear plastic centre even pops out…
This Mug! is a mix between coffee mug and a knuckleduster. Comes in two models: Big Mug for guys, decorated with gore, and Girlie Mug, decorated with butterflies. Knowing my wife’s tea addiction and her sweet charming character, her Girlie Mug will probably end up looking like the Big Mug, but with real blood. [Mug!]
Cracking Yahoo’s CAPTCHA human verification may have been a major security-breach milestone, but now bots have been tag-teaming in pairs to crack Google’s Gmail human test too, which they currently can pull off one in five attempts. During the crack, they also appear, somewhat snarkily, to read Google’s help pages, perhaps as a means of…
Playboy Mobile is on the hunt for a lady. No surprises, there, then. It’s on the hunt for a lady who it can thrust $5,000 at, photograph at the Playboy Mansion and then call Miss Playboy Mobile 2008. Competitors must have a suitcase full of lingerie a couple of sizes too small be over 18,…