The Wall Street Journal says that Google has been testing a new set-top box to create their own schedule and find videos from around the internet and TV shows. Google Inc. is testing a new television-programming search service with Dish Network Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the latest development in a [...more]
Well, after years and years of hype, we’ve finally got word of the first commercially available 3D television. Last thursday, Amazon.com put up for sale Samsung 46-inch and 55-inch TVs have the capability to display 3-D programming. The sets, which are LED backlit and cost $3,300 at the high end, cost roughly 20% more than [...more]
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. As if the headline and magazine cover didn’t make this perfectly clear, Valve has announced that Portal 2 is heading for gamers this holiday season. To prepare the way for the release, several updates to Portal have been pushed through, including a new achievement, mysterious sound files, and the [...more]
MIT researchers are taking 3D video to the actual third dimension with their prototype system of flying swarms of robot displays. Yup, read that again — I’ll wait. I know!! What?! The video from MIT distills all the pertinent information, but doesn’t capture the scope that something like this could have. Hypothetically, [...more]
A man who designed a working oxygen farm for Mars turned his efforts toward earth with the new fuel-cell power plant dubbed the Bloom Box. The idealist genius said reverse engineered his work on the oxygen farm, and instead of pumping out oxygen, he pumped it in and created electrical power. CBS talked to [...more]
Scientists looking to record heart functions in high speed were having a lot of trouble getting affordable high-speed video footage. So instead of sitting around and getting drunk like most scientist I know, these Oxford chaps created a hack to turn their store-bought video camera into a high-speed camera capable of 400 frames per [...more]
While appealing his copyright infringement case and potential jail time, one of Pirate Bay’s founders has been working on a way for people to actually give money to artists on the internet. Peter Sunde said he has been thinking about creating a service to link artists to their fans’ money. Flattr is live [...more]
Scientists have been working for many years to design something to replace the dull act of washing hands. I for one am delighted, I’ve been telling all my friends that someone really needs to zazz-up the whole bathroom experience with lasers. I do have some little concerns with sticking your hand into a [...more]
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]
A new breakthrough in spraying stuff on stuff has created what could be the next step in creating ultra-durable, easy-to-clean surfaces on most any material. The versatile spray, which forms an easy-clean coating one millionth of a millimeter thick – 500 times thinner than a human hair – can be applied to virtually any [...more]
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