The new poster boy for Canon — the Canon T2i — blends the line between a high-quality DSLR camera and an HD video camera.
The T2i looks to be the next step in bringing HD video to the masses. Debuting at $800 ($900) with a lens kit in March, the camera is leagues [...more]
“Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?” could soon read, “Do ********s Dream Of Electric Sheep?”
At least in the App store. Last week new regulations came down the pipe from Apple banning the word “Android” from being mentioned in any app descriptions. The culprit that caused the ban was Tim Novikov, whose “Flash of Genius” [...more]
Starting Sunday, February 7th, iPhone app developer Sahil Lavingia will be creating an iPhone app live at www.oneweekapp.com. Lavingia, creator of the iPhone app’s Twizzle and Color Stream, says he’ll be posting “timelapses, screenshots, and other notes” in order to allow you to watch the work of an iPhone app, from scratch, happen.
What will the [...more]
Google’s first Super Bowl commercial ran yesterday – in case you missed it, here it is again.
The spot, entitled “Parisian Love,” gives a pretty good tug on the heartstrings. It’d better – they likely spent in the range of $2.5 to $3 million dollars airing it.
Google, who have been notoriously anti-commercials, have been doing more [...more]
Google’s launched the latest iteration of their “Google 4 Doodle” contest, which invites students grades K-12 to design a drawing around the Google logo.
Yeah, that’s right, the contest is only open to kids. This is a national disgrace. What’s the point of even having a civil rights movement if Google can just take them away [...more]
@astro_mike: tell the astronauts planet earth says hi!
The space shuttle Endeavour takes off today, carrying with it a crew that will deliver and install the Tranquility node to the International Space Station. Also going with them are their Twitter accounts – Astronaut Mike Massimino (@astro_mike) will be accepting tweets down at mission control at the [...more]
Your dream of being able to call China over Skype using your iPhone just got a little closer to reality, with Skype’s announcement that a version of iPhone Skype that works over 3g will be coming “real soon now.” Here’s the leader of the Skype for iPhone team talking up the new development:
How soon “real [...more]
Here’s a simple one: Amazon.com is trying to set the prices of all e-books they sell at $9.99. Publishers don’t like this, as they sell their books for upwards of $16 and don’t want to lose the profit.
You’d think Amazon would want that extra cash, too – an increased sale price means more profit [...more]
I’m going to have to call in Scooby and the gang, because I can’t possibly figure out this mystery. Amazon has purchased touchscreen manufacturer Touchco, but has not clarified what it intends to do with the company. Touchco was reportedly working on low-cost touchscreens that work with transparent displays, and I can’t for the life [...more]
I’m not even going to pretend I know what the hell is going on in this graphic, but apparently, it’s what it looks like when pure energy is teleported.
OK. So, there’s this quantum phenomenon called “entanglement” in which two particles can share the same space while simultaneously being very far apart – even light years. [...more]