Gizmodo:
Are you trying to find a gift for one of those crazies who's always going on about the superiority of vinyl, or who dresses like a character on Mad Men? Here are some ideas for the retrophile in your life. BTW, if you hate th (Read More)
Gizmodo:
At Milipol, I was walking around FN Herstal's booth, playing with futuristic-looking P90s, Five-Sevens and F2000s when I noticed a camera-toting tourist pretend-blasting with something very very cool: The Armatronics "Black B (Read More)
Engadget:
We can't all be a Witwicky, owning a badass robot able to change from sportscar to hulking humanoid. Some of us have to aim a little lower; enter the XOR X02 Urban Transporter. It's an electric scooter that can fold into a li (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Sony just recently said they want to get serious with 3D displays this fiscal year, and they seem to stick to their plan. Following the professional 3D camera that shoots video at 240fps and a futuristic 3D stereoscopic displ (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Lifeline Live:
There are many things one can expect at a Victoria’s Secret show (mobs of press, crazy futuristic neon wings, bras covered in diamonds, a Black Eyed Pea, or three) but what we did not expect was a candid takedown of...
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Boing Boing:
For nearly a century, there have been strange sightings of people flying through the air, or hovering anyway. Now, I'm not talking about Superman, but rather groups of people on floating platforms or rocketmen launching throu (Read More)
feeds.washingtonpost.com:
In the beginning . . . Discover, December issue Andrew Lawler, the magazine's archaeology beat writer, traveled to the plains of northeastern Syria to write about a 6,000-year-old settlement called Tell Brak. The discovery th (Read More)
Gizmodo:
The Finger Touching phone concept is perfect if you're not brave enough to have a phone embedded under your skin, yet still want to look trendy and futuristic. Granted you'd look dorky talking into your hand, hologram buttons (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Welcome to the fifth serialized installment of J.C. Hutchins' human cloning thriller 7th Son: Descent. A recent review in Publishers Weekly said, "(T)hriller readers seeking edge-of-your-seat action flavored with conspiracy a (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Bloggers, muckrakers and news fanatics, lend me your ears. It's entirely possible that we've discovered one of the best approaches to media monitoring since RSS itself. My mother always said, "You'll never get what you want u (Read More)
Valleywag:
Due to an unfortunate incident involving talking shit about Ingrid Casares, we were unable to watch last night's episode of The City. Thankfully we were able to piece together the action with some dispatches from our favo (Read More)
NEWS.com.au | Technology:
VIDEO ads that are triggered by what users are watching - without being booked weeks in advance - will premiere online today. (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Fifty years ago, guessing what the future would look like was particularly in vogue, and all those fantastic retro-futuristic drawings were born. I remember seeing somewhere the concept for an automatic car parking machine wi (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Embrace the technology of tomorrow by capturing a Motorola Droid for $150 or an HTC Droid Eris for $70. But don't let the Halo 3 Mongoose distract you from the incredible offer for free downloads of six top Mac apps. Top De (Read More)
Gizmodo:
It looks like the cavernous belly of a massive cruise ship, or a "level" in the real-life horror video game that is CERN. In reality, there's a good chance you use these tubes—which belong to Microsoft—every single day. What (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Dark Horse just sent me a review copy of The Life And Times Of Martha Washington In The Twenty-First Century, a gigantic, slipcased hardcover containing the full run of the Give Me Liberty comics and associated titles.I have (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Layar, which has forged early leadership in the nascent but inspiring field of “augmented reality,” is about to finish raising a round of more than $1 million.The Dutch company, which superimposes images and other data on top (Read More)
MSNBC:
The Obama administration is giving a jolt to the futuristic "smart" electric grid, hoping to more quickly bring America's power transmission system into the digital age.
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Boing Boing:
Light can't escape a black hole. Some people look at this fact and get the shudders. Others think, "Hey, that would make a really effective solar panel!"Not pictured: A convenient terrestrial solar panel. Image from thebadast (Read More)
Valleywag:
The UN Human Rights Council has a special rapporteur investigating affordable housing conditions in New York, which is depressing, frankly, unless you are Jonah Goldberg, in which case it is hilarious. "This is the best story (Read More)