The Man Wants Your PS3
We all know that you can get a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside by contributing your PS3’s idle time to processing sh’loads of Alzheimer’s research data. Apparently, Stanford’s Folding@home is generating so many teraflops of good buzz, Big Corporate wants in. Masa Chatani, chief technology officer at Sony Computer Entertainment, told the Financial Times yesterday…
Xerox Gets X-Ray Vision on the Web
As if there weren’t enough reasons for Web-related paranoia, Xerox just patented a technique to get a demographic lock on you—age, sex, and possibly income—by just looking at the sites you have visited. The patent explicitly describes the invention as a workaround for all of those pesky users who input incomplete, inaccurate or, God forbid,…
Cat Paw: Almost Useless, Makes You Do Weird Things
For reasons best kept to yourself—and $20.14—you may want to get your mitts on this synthetic cat’s paw. And for another reason, probably best kept to itself, said paw comes with a small bell and a trigger to make it bend. Or something like that. Apart from doubling up as a key ring and G-spot…
Hammock Sofa: Bring Out the Swinger in You
This sofa hammock from a Franco-German design team called Bless is such a simple concept that it’s a wonder it hasn’t been done before. If you did have a sudden hammock-floor interface (tying the wrong knots, house a cardboard box, murderous other half, or simply too fat) then you would be nicely cushioned against injury.…
Microsoft to Release Pink Zune Tomorrow?
Zune-Online is reporting that the pink Zune is to be introduced to polite society tomorrow. That’s Friday the 13th. Now then, this could mean three things: one, that Microsoft has a, like, hulaaaaarious sense of humor; two, it’s utter bollocks and I should go back to my day job of sexing chickens; or three, that…
Wii Internet Channel and Opera Final Out Now
If you’ve been waiting for the final version of Opera for your Wii, today’s your day. Under the shop section of Wii Ware you can grab the 285 block download for free—just make sure you do it before June, when it’ll cost you 500 points to get your intertubes. Some of the new features include:…
Horse’s Head Sold Separately
Just when we thought we could get away with a really slick pairing of Nokia phone and tuxedo-clad silver-screen icon, the cellphone maker itself beats us to the punch. Now you can buy an Nokia N73 in tux-friendly black, with a 256MB miniSD card containing The Godfather. Yep, Coppola’s entire original 1972 film. According to…