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Google
Android…Controls Android?
That’s not a typo, folks, that’s a strange little bit of news that’ll make your day just a little more surreal. I try to do that sort of thing wherever possible. If you’ve got $3000, a lot of patience a...
Business
Will Punxsutawney Phil Be Next To Lose His Job To A Machine?
Well, folks, it’s almost Groundhog Day again, and you know what that means. No, the post office doesn’t get yet another screwball holiday off to screw up your Netflix queue–it means that once again, Punxsutaw...
Battery
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Autonomous Saucier
Sometimes I get to thinking that Hammacher Schlemmer is the Thanko of people with too much money. Because they’ve brought out some really weird and overpriced stuff, and they’ll continue that awesome tradition with...
Robots
The Da Vinci Robot Si HD Is A Surgery Machine…Literally.
In Calgary, robots do surgery. That’s the surprise of the day from the folks up in Canada as Rockyview General Hospital is the first hospital in Canada to lay hands on a da Vinci Robot Si HD. Small wonder they’re fi...
Doomed For Failure
Cambridge Computer Laboratory Declares The ADE 651 A Fraud
You guys remember a few months ago when we were talking about the ADE 651, supposed to be the world’s greatest bomb detector because it could literally sniff out explosives from up to half a mile out? And how we said tha...
Apple
Chinese MacBook Air Knockoffs Will Blow Your Mind
What would you say if you could buy a MacBook Air that costs just one fifth of what a normal MacBook Air costs? Why, you’d probably say “What Chinese sweatshop did that boil up out of?” and you’d be rig...
Cell Phones
Final Fantasy 1 and 2 On iPhone Soon
For those of you who count yourselves as classic gamers, or just plain enthusiasts of same, you will be unquestionably happy to hear that Final Fantasy–yes, the original!–will be coming to the iPhone. And on the off...
Clothing
Buckminster Fuller’s Revenge, Or, The Sleep Suit
Buckminster Fuller once came up with a concept he called Dymaxion Sleeping, in which you take four thirty minute naps regularly spaced over the course of twenty four hours. Yes, I know that only adds up to about two hours of s...
Business
Kiva Systems Mobile Drive Units Take Jobs From Humans
Anyone else remember those few episodes of South Park featuring the local boys who lost their jobs to one thing or another? You know, where they end up getting together on camera shrieking incoherently about how something R...
Cell Phones
YoGen Mini Charges Your Cell Phone With A Pull Start
You’ve heard about the YoGen Max footpedal pump to power laptops right here…but what you may not already be familiar with is its newest model, the YoGen Mini. It looks like a strange cross between a yo-yo and a pull...
Apple
Tune Belt Sport Armband Lets Your Gadgets Ride Your Arm
If you’ve ever wanted to take your iPhone along with you in an environment where you need both hands free, like, say, running, then we’ve got something for you today. The folks out at Tune Belt bring you the Tune Be...
Displays
HoloAD Holographic Display Creates Animated Full Color Holograms (video)
Folks, there were a LOT of things to come boiling out of the CES show. No one person can possibly pass on all the sheer cool that was generated by that convention. Thus, you’ll likely be getting the total update for day...