Apple’s developer conference began this morning, and as usual there was a keynote address with several major announcements. Unlike most of these announcements, everyone already knew the major things they were going to be showing off: Mac OS 10.7 (Lion), iOS 5, and iCloud. No one was expecting new hardware today, and none was announced. […]
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Get Ready for the Grilled Cheese Bubble
The next big tech happening is a chain of grilled cheese restaurants? Jonathan Kaplan, who invented the popular Flip digital video camera, took his startup “The Melt” out of stealth mode while on stage today at this year’s D gathering in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. His big news? Sequoia Capital, which in the past has […]
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Microsoft Previews Windows 8
Yesterday Microsoft unveiled a preview of the next generation of their operating system, cleverly code-named “Windows 8”. The focus on tiles is clearly inspired by the Windows Phone OS, and it looks pretty slick. Apps going full-screen and behaving more like tablet apps is the direction all desktop operating systems are going, and if it’s […]
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Invasion of the Robot Jugglers
So now I’m thinking that maybe the world IS coming to an end. First the robots came for our jobs. Then the robots came for our genitals. And now, the robots are coming for our Ren faires. When will the madness stop? It won’t stop. Not until the robots are writing hyperbolic blog posts like […]
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I Don’t Like This
Gizmodo: Lior and Vardit Adler just had a baby girl. She’s probably all cute and wrinkly! But they hate her soo much that they named her Like, in honor of the Like button in Facebook. In their defense, the parents say, “I believe there will be people who will lift a eyebrow, but it is […]
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The PlayStation Network Is Back (Sorta, Kinda)
Good news for those three or four people still treating the ongoing PlayStation Network outage as an actual crisis (as opposed to the awe-inspiring PR clusterfuck it truly is): The PSN is back! More or less. Sony figurehead Kaz Hirai is currently detailing the return of the firm’s flagship online service, but a pre-announcement media […]
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Today in Conceptual Technology: The Bento Book Makes Me Drool
This concept from RISD student René Lee is circling the interbutts today, and I think it’s a gorgeous idea: The Bento Book looks like a laptop, but you can remove each of the compartments to use as separate devices. There’s a solar-powered battery pack, a hard drive, a tablet, and a phone. It looks like […]
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Google Music Vs. Pirates
I was excited to hear about Google Music this morning. I tried to be excited about Amazon’s Cloud Player, but the uploader crashed repeatedly and I finally gave up. Google is usually pretty good about making the uploading process fairly seamless. But Gizmodo says that Google has some plans that make the service look a […]
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Neurowear: I Don’t Get It
So maybe technology isn’t my strongest suit, but I’m having a hard time understanding the function of Neurowear. Or maybe it’s Necomimi. I’m not even sure. Firstly, they are bunny ears for people. Not that weird in certain circles, but then they… have… brain sensors? They move around when you concentrate or see a cute […]
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The Future Is Now: Introducing the Internet Makeout Robot
We were so busy with other things here (Hi, Osama bin Laden!) that we missed the biggest news from the last couple of days: The Kajimoto Lab in Tokyo has invented a robotic kissing machine: The Kiss Transmission device is a pair of boxes with plastic tubes sticking out the front that are powered by […]
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Google Chrome: It Gets Better
So good*: * Not just the commercial, but the whole, huge, amazing thing. Way to go Dan and Terry.
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This Will Put Human Sperm Collectors Out of Business
This invention, found at a “Japanese Scientists Need to Concentrate on Cancer” expo, is entitled a “sperm collector”—but I’m pretty sure it has other uses as well. For example, I bet it would be great at shelling pistachios. Or maybe socking somebody in the balls (if you put a boxing glove on it). Or receiving […]