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Top Tech News- XWave Headset Lets You Control iPhone Apps With Your BRAIN [MindControl] September 8, 2010You could argue that the iPhone's biggest UI leap was turning the user's finger into a stylus. Now, with the PLX XWave headest, you can turn your BRAIN into the stylus. Or your finger? My head hurts already.More » […]
- iPod touch review (2010) September 8, 2010At Apple's last event, Steve Jobs called the iPod touch the company's "most popular iPod," and it's easy to understand why. In just a few short years, the iPhone-with-no-phone has kept in lockstep with Cupertino's halo device, benefitting from the same kind of constant hardware and software updating that has helped turned the iP […]
- iPod nano review (2010) September 8, 2010Apple's sixth generation of the iPod nano is essentially the first complete rethinking the product has had since its debut in 2005. The previous form factor -- slim and light with a decently sized display and clickwheel -- has been all but abandoned. The new design is a complete departure; a full touchscreen device that brings to mind something more lik […]
- Equinox Clock Looks Like a Colorful Dyson Air Multiplier [DIY] September 8, 2010The Equinox Clock is an Arduino based creation that lets you tell time day or night with a rainbow-hued ring of LEDs illuminating your wall. Its hollow circular shape looks a lot like that bladeless fan, the Dyson Air Multiplier.More » […]
- The State of Mapping APIs, 5 Years On September 8, 2010macslocum writes "Map APIs took off in 2005, and during the ensuing years the whole notion of maps has changed. Where once they were slick add-ons, map functionality is now a necessary — and expected — tool. In this piece, Adam DuVander looks at the current state of mapping and he explains how mobile devices, third-party services and ease of use are sha […]
- Larry Ellison on HP's Mark Hurd lawsuit: 'virtually impossible for Oracle and HP to continue to cooperate and work together' September 8, 2010Uh, wow. Oracle CEO Larry Ellison just released a statement in response to HP suing former CEO Mark Hurd for taking a position as Oracle's co-president, and well, just read it:Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. "By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is actin […]
- Spoof Survivorman, Win Prizes [Contest] September 8, 2010Can you out survive Les "Survivorman" Stroud? Fortunately you don't need to! Stroud's "Spooferman" contest site is giving away Leathermans, tents, GoPro cameras, and Sony editing software for the best five-minute "Fire Starting" spoof video. Be safe! [Spooferman]More » […]
- Smallest Manned Electric Plane Flies September 7, 2010garymortimer writes "EADs have successfully flown an electrified Cri-Cri aircraft. The Cri-cri (short for cricket) is the smallest twin-engined manned aircraft in the world, designed in the early 1970s by French aeronautical engineer Michel Colomban, the Cri-cri aircraft is the world's smallest twin-engine . At only 4.9 m (16.1 ft) wingspan and 3.9 […]
- Courier App Easily Uploads Your Files To Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and More [Software] September 7, 2010If you're frequently uploading videos and photos to Flickr, YouTUbe, Vimeo, Twitpic or Facebook, you know that it's slightly annoying to have to log into each service, search your files and go through their uploader. Courier solves all this for you.More » […]
- Swiss researchers show off brain-controlled, AI-augmented wheelchair September 7, 2010They're far from the first to try their hand at a brain-controlled wheelchair, but some researchers at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (or EPFL) in Switzerland seem to have pulled off a few new tricks with their latest project. Like some similar systems, this one relies on EEG readings to detect specific brain patterns, but it backs that up […]
- XWave lets you control your iPhone with your noodle, levitate if you're lucky September 7, 2010In the early, chaotic, primordial years of the mobile phone era, you had to press real, actual "buttons" to get things done. Almost barbaric to think about now, isn't it? As society advanced and we gradually became a more civilized species, buttons gave way to touchscreens and voice control, mercifully giving the atrophied sausages we call […]
- Imprisoned War Reporter Tweets Status From Captor's Cellphone [Sos] September 7, 2010Japanese reporter Kosuke Tsuneoka disappeared on April 1st of this year in Afghanistan, leaving no clues as to his whereabouts. Then, five months later, he tweeted that he was imprisoned but alive—by filching his captor's cellphone.More » […]
- They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers September 7, 2010I'm Not There (1956) writes "Sociologist Clifford Nass is talking about how people think of their computers as something like human beings. In one of his experiments, Nass found that people are more willing to 'help' computers when the computer helped them previously: 'When people were then asked to help optimize the screen resolutio […]
- Apples In Stereo man controls his Moog... with his mind! (and you can too) September 7, 2010We thought that our homemade Theremin was difficult to control, but this one is in a different league altogether! The, ahem, brainchild of Apples In Stereo's Robert Schneider, the Teletron takes a Mattel Mindflex game and uses it as a control voltage source for... well, any piece of musical equipment that has a CV input. In the video below, the musician […]
- Splitsider, For Those Who Like Comedy [Adam Frucci] September 7, 2010Now everyone can finally see what Adam Frucci's been up to since he left us: Starting a comedy blog. It's one of the few sites that I know of that is focused on the whole culture of comedy, rather than just focusing on the product of comedy—if you know what I mean. Being a guy whose experience in performing comedy as well as watching it, Frucci wil […]
- XWave Headset Lets You Control iPhone Apps With Your BRAIN [MindControl] September 8, 2010
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