A new technology looks to appease those wanting a sleek touch screen with the tactile feedback of a real button. According to the MorphPad company rep, the technology is only available in a few devices in Japan, but it will likely make its way to the US at some point. She did mention [...more]
A company named Paraben has, for some god awful reason, created a device that searches your hard drive for illicit JPEGs. It’s a USB stick – just plug and play – and a report pops up, revealing the ugly truth to whomever happens to be conducting their search. How’s the software work? Paraben says it scans [...more]
Here’s a fun fact for those who think reading is dead – the number of books available for the iPhone/iPod Touch has just exceeded the amount of games on the platform. According to Mobclix, we’re currently at 26,569 books compared with 25,079 games, which is incredible for a system that displays books in a tiny, hard [...more]
Well, we wouldn’t be a blog without a little bit of Oscar coverage now, would we? Cool factoid: 9 out of the ten documentaries nominated for Best Documentary or Best Short Documentary were cut on Apple’s own Final Cut Pro. This is pretty cool news for the do-it-yourself filmmaker – until a few years ago, all [...more]
Huzzah! TiVO’s launched a new flavor of its set top box, the “Premiere” edition. The box, which will run for $300, is notable in that it’ll include simpler functionality for Netflix, YouTube and other online video streaming services. It’ll also help go through local television listings easier as well. The basic “Premiere” model will hold 45 [...more]
The NYC based live streaming startup Livestream just partnered up with the massive newswire service Associated Press to run all of the AP’s live video streams, streams until this point I had no idea existed. The first event to be covered under the new Livestream/AP partnership? The Oscars! Look, I could give two craps about [...more]
Interestingly, I was just ruminating last night to friends about the value of having Viacom shows on Hulu, a service owned by FOX, ABC & NBC. Then this morning, we get the news that as of today, Comedy Central content will be pulled from Hulu. This is bad news for consumers, but I honestly don’t see [...more]
Apple’s really gotta knock this off. Once again, we all wake up to a story of Apple arbitrarily removing apps from their iTunes App Store – some which have been sold for years – for vauge and arbitrary reasons. Today’s victims? Wi-Fi stumbling programs like WiFiFoFum, WiFi-Where and yFy Network Finder, which are all designed to [...more]
Yesterday, we ran a story reporting on a rumored release date for the iPad. Apple just confirmed that rumor as false – the “magical and revolutionary” iPad is launching on April 3rd. Well, the Wi-Fi version, anyway. The model that can tap into AT&T’s 3G network arrives in “late April.” The model will be shipping with 12 [...more]
Google Maps is taking a note from Microsoft’s Photosynth and tapping into user photos to create street views of places that street view doesn’t reach. Google released a video of the new addition in action, and it looks almost exactly like Photosynth. It basically uses location data and algorithms to combine photographs into [...more]
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