After roughly half an hour of the usual “holy shit we’ve sold a lot of stuff and isn’t our stuff awesome?” statistics and info-porn, Apple finally got around to announcing some new stuff this morning. So, what’s new? Greeting cards! Yes, they really announced their new greeting card app first. Then another 10 minutes of […]
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It’s a 4S!
LA Times In what is probably the most important news of your entire life, Apple is announcing the new iPhone RIGHT NOW. Most important so far: it’s not an iPhone 5. It’s an iPhone 4S—an upgraded version of the current model. In other important news, Apple CEO Tim Cook is NOT wearing a black turtleneck. […]
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Today in Depressing: Meet the Pizza Vending Machine
The Oncoming Hope just introduced me to a whole new level of depressing: Sometimes when I think about the last hundred years of inventions—vending machines, automobiles, the internet—I wonder if the ultimate lesson to be learned is that we humans just don’t like interacting with people all that much.
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PDX Police + One-Wheeled Electric Vehicle of the Future
So much for authority figures on Segways. The Portland Police Bureau is about to step it up a notch — well, in a year. For a summer. Meet the Micro-Cycle, the robocop-esque electric crotch rocket of the future! Ryno Motors The micro-cycle waits. PPB has signed a lease with local auto biz Ryno Motors to […]
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Poll: 3D — A New Dimension Of “Who Cares?”
The glasses still look dumb. Like it or not, Hollywood recently dragged “3D” kicking and screaming from its comfortable tomb in an effort to raise ticket prices for no real, discernible consumer gain. Likewise, tech companies have taken to including 3D tech in their newst gadgets. TVs, phones, cameras, even the latest descendent of the […]
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Microsoft Unveils Windows 8: What Do You Think?
So Microsoft showed off Windows 8 for the first time today. It’s supposed to be one unifying OS for phones, tablets, and desktops. This Is My Next has the best explanation of how it works, but Gizmodo’s description is pretty good, and they posted a nice video of what it’s like to flip through a […]
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I Don’t Like It When The People I Actually Live With Use The Toilets In My House
So I’m not going to be downloading this app: Says Gizmodo: The crew behind CLOO, who apparently think putting a sassy salsa soundtrack to their demo video somehow makes the notion of a stranger coming in off the street and taking a shit in your bathroom (or doing Christ only knows what else) more palatable, […]
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Horrible Thing Replaces Horrible Thing
Is Facebook killing high school reunions? Who cares! I mean, it could be: “People have told me that now that they are on Facebook, they don’t feel the need to go to the reunion,” Sullivan said. While Facebook and other social networks have been a godsend in helping reunion organizers [track] down classmates who have […]
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Microsoft Sued for Collecting Data Even After Users Tell Microsoft to Stop Collecting Data
TechCrunch just found a doozy of a lawsuit: A recent class action lawsuit filed in Seattle district court alleges that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 operating system collects users’ location data, even after offering users the chance to opt out…The offending bit of code rests in Windows Phone 7′s camera application. When fired up for the […]
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Samsung Accuses Apple of Stealing from THE FUTURE
2001: A Space Odyssey is one of my favorite movies—if not my favorite movie—which means this fills me with delight: Apple is giving Samsung a legal pummeling because it thinks the latter stole the iPad’s design for the Galaxy Tab. So far, the fight’s going well for Apple. But Samsung has something up its sleeve: […]
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“Run, (Robot) Forrest! RUN!!”
Question: What’s going to happen when all those freaking nutso Japanese inventors who have independently been working on various horrifying robot parts, finally get together? Introducing (for your displeasure and horror) the final piece of the puzzle: disembodied running robot legs. Now all they have to do is attach this to the legs, and I’ll […]
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Lonely? Maybe This Creepy Moving Pillow Can Help!
Hey, some people don’t like to sleep alone… I get that. But I’m really not sure that a creepy moving robot pillow is the answer. Check this out! As part of his graduate thesis, German designer Stefan Ulrich worked with electroactive polymers (EPAs), a type of synthetic material—similar to everyday plastic—that changes shape in response […]