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Sep 30, 2011
This is amazing. Using a whole bunch of YouTube videos as reference material, UC Berkeley scientists were able to capture the visual activity in a human brain and reconstruct it using short video clips that a computer program identified as being similar to what the human was visualizing in his head. This is surreal. The implications of [...]
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Sep 30, 2011
Brent Rose from Gizmodo: The day your package is scheduled to be delivered, UPS will text (or email or call) you with a four-hour delivery window. This service, called UPS My Choice, is free and launches October 3rd. For a $5 fee you can reschedule delivery or ask them to deliver to another address. $5 is [...]
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Sep 30, 2011
A clever comic. Android gave fire to the other animals. “Here is fire, it is free for all!” But try as they might, the others couldn’t make fire burn as bright as the Magic Ones. Nice pictures too, and I loved the ending.
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Sep 30, 2011
Whitson Gordon from Lifehacker: Opera’s still the speed champion, as usual. The other browsers have surprisingly switched places, though: Firefox, so often looked down upon for its sluggish speeds, has jumped up to #2 with version 7, and Chrome has slowly worked it’s way down to last place.
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Sep 30, 2011
Steve Jobs after WWDC last year: The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go to market strategy. The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us… ask Google in a few [...]
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Nope, iPhone 5 cases have a connector hole
Sep 30, 2011Darn! Next year… next year for sure.
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Sep 29, 2011
This is good, although the $2/month charge isn’t really necessary. This stuff should be integrated right into the phone’s OS, and in the future when wireless I/O & Nuance Voice tech enables seamless car-to-iPhone/Android/Windows interfacing I bet texting/talking and driving will be a whole lot easier and safer.
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Sep 28, 2011
[viddler id=7058d1d7&w=545&h=307] A cool little idea, I’m sure kids at the Lego stores love it. I kind of want to visit one to test it out myself. Good thinking Lego people!
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TUAW: Will new iPhone designs include Europe’s common charger?
Sep 28, 2011Nope. Steven Sande in the same article: My take on this is that Apple will most likely ship new European iPhones with a USB Standard-A cable that ends in a Micro-B plug, along with a Micro-B to Dock connector adapter.” Yup. It won’t be very pretty, but it’ll give Apple time to figure out the [...]
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Sep 19, 2011
This would be such a pain to walk on… imagine this on a boat.
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Sep 19, 2011
You’re probably familiar with the facial recognition technology in Picasa and iPhoto. It’s neat stuff; just pop in your SD card and all the smiling members of your grandpa’s barbershop quartet are automatically recognized and tagged in each photo. Sometimes the algorithm is a little unsure and asks you (the expert) for confirmation, but for [...]
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Sep 18, 2011
“I hear something!” “What? What is it? How far away?” “Uh, I don’t know. It sounds far away, but not too far away. Like, just a little ways away. And it sounds like, sroooosh… srooOOOoossh…” “That doesn’t help me, private.” “Oh no, wait, I think it’s the wind. Yeah it’s the wind. Sorry.” 20th century inventions [...]
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EA offering refunds on PC version of Tiger Woods 12
Sep 18, 2011Seriously EA? Your game’s multiplayer mode is a link to a browser-based flash game? Okay, you’re offering refunds, but if you knew that people wouldn’t be happy with it, why did you push it out anyway? This is why you buying Firemint (Flight Control, Real Racing), Popcap (Plants vs Zombies, Peggle) and other iOS developers makes me [...]
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Sep 17, 2011
According to a recent study: 9 minutes of viewing a popular fast-paced fantastical television show (Spongebob Squarepants) immediately impaired 4-year-olds’ [executive function], a result about which parents of young children should be aware. I bet kids do have a hard time concentrating after watching just 9 minutes of Spongebob; I’d probably be thinking about how [...]
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Sep 17, 2011
I clearly remember sitting on the floor of my elementary school’s library watching my teacher pull in a big old TV on a rolly-cart. TV days were great. I don’t remember much about Reading Rainbow, but I know that I liked The Magic School Bus more. Especially the one where Miss Frizzle shrinks the bus [...]
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The 3DS’s New Analog Stick Peripheral
Sep 14, 2011Whoops. That reminds me, what happened to the Vitality Sensor?
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Sep 14, 2011
Happy Blue Screen of Death (sort of) spotted by tinkererguy on Tinkertry: They really did “re-imagine everything” with Metro.
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Sep 13, 2011
BUILD is starting today, and I feel like the industry is going to be pleasantly surprised with what Microsoft has to demo. Windows 8 is going to be an important step toward the future of personal computing in general, so we’re sure to see a whole lot of coverage and analysis this week. Should be [...]
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Sep 9, 2011
A little late, but welcome nonetheless. I think adoption rates will be high.
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Sep 7, 2011
His fingers fly.
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Sep 7, 2011
It’s probably real, but I seriously doubt that this is a Nintendo-made peripheral. It makes the 3DS very bulky, and other developers wouldn’t develop games that require an add-on like this. It would need to be built into the device itself, not tacked on afterward. Definitely not Nintendo.
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Sep 4, 2011
Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper: RSS is a great tool that’s very easy to misuse. And if you’re subscribing to any feeds that post more than about 10 items per day, you’re probably misusing it. I don’t mean that you’re using it in a way it wasn’t intended — rather, you’re using it in a [...]
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Apple: Finish Cutting the Cord
Sep 4, 2011iOS 5′s automatic nighttime wireless syncing is going to be great for a whole lot of people, no doubt. For the first time, grandpa’s iPhone can fall from its waist holster onto the cold linoleum floor and his photos from last night’s shuffleboard game won’t be lost forever. When he calls you to see if [...]
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Sep 4, 2011
Whether you’re sticking with Facebook or rooting for Google+; as always, competition is good. I particularly like the new option to approve or deny tags of yourself in photos before they appear in your profile.
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Sep 4, 2011
I moved 16 miles down the road, and had Comcast triple play. Was told that I moved to a new rate area, had to get a new number, new equipment, etc. Tech came out, had all the wrong equipment, DVR didn’t work right, on demand didn’t work. Eventually had to replace it all myself after [...]