Why check your smartphone for the weather when you can look at 6,000 windows lit up with 72,000 LEDs? If you’re anywhere near the Dexia Tower in Brussels, a glance at its various colors immediately lets you know what the weather will be like the next day.
The rumors are all over the place: The next iPad will be here by the end of this year, it’ll be available in two new screen sizes, including a 5.6-inch, a 7-inch, and its current 9.7-inch screen size. Best of all, those displays will be organic LED (OL…
Dreading those full-body scanners popping up at airports across the world? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Now scientists have figured out how to see through your clothes from a mile away. The secret lies in tiny terahertz waves.
Apple is still trying to weasel out of that reception problem with the iPhone 4. Now the company’s stooped to a new low, deleting any information in its user forums about the Consumer Reports article released yesterday, where engineers confirmed a rece…
Look how a small circular configuration perched atop this ring casts a shadow as a lovely heart. Thanks to clever design, the trough shape of the rest of this rhodium-plated sterling silver ring turns a circle into a heart from almost any direction.
Even the best bulletproof vests can’t keep the fastest projectiles from getting through, but now there’s a custard-like goo that does an even better job than Kevlar. It works by making molecules lock together when they’re hit.
Gmail users, rejoice! Now you can place graphics or rich text in your signature. Place a little picture under your name, use crazy typefaces, and do a lot more with the signature area in your Gmail messages. Knock yourself out.
Microsoft’s Applied Sciences R&D team has followed up its brilliant tabletop Surface display with another visualization technology of the future called Wedge. Just like the sci-fi movie Minority Report, it reacts to your gestures, and can even recogniz…
Even though there’s a “do not call” registry in the U.S., far too many junk calls still get through. Now a small British phone company is fighting back, setting up what it calls “honeypot mode,” luring telemarketers into a time-wasting labyrinth they’l…
Internet video aggregator Hulu is riding high on the success of its Hulu Plus premium service, charging $10 a month for an expanded catalog of streaming video offerings. Now, Hulu CEO Jason Kevlar says he’s thinking about an even higher (and more expen…
This setup on an iPhone 4 must be a joke — when we tried putting a similar lens next to our iPhone 4, it wasn’t anywhere near useful. But we understand the fantasy, longing for great lenses and mounts with which to exploit the iPhone 4′s newfound…
The seemingly never-ending search for a 3D display without those cumbersome glasses goes on, and here’s the latest: the AquaLux 3D system projects images onto numerous layers of water droplets. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have it tweaked …
Cheating on college exams is going to get a whole lot more difficult if you go to the University of Central Florida. The proctors watch over test takers like hawks, and are equipped with an arsenal of new techy tools at their disposal that are sure to …
Take a gander at this iPad Cam-Case design by Chet Rosales. You probably want a case for your iPad anyway, so adding a camera — a swiveling camera, no less — to that enclosure is an elegant way to solve two problems with one sleek product.
It wasn’t long ago that Steve Jobs referred to Apple TV as a hobby. Now, “several people familiar with Apple’s television related efforts” are dropping tantalizing clues pointing to Apple getting serious with its neglected home theater box. It feels li…
We seen a lot of airshows, but never have we seen two planes flying so close to each other. These two daredevil Japanese pilots, flying Kawasaki T4 jets, are part of Japan’s equivalent of the U.S. Blue Angels and Thunderbirds, called the Blue Impulse D…
A mere six weeks after Microsoft launched its Kin cellphones, they’re essentially dead, just as I predicted. The death of Kin tells us a lot about what today’s youth expects from a cellphone. Polling an unscientific sample of tech interested teenagers,…
Here’s a kitchen countertop that could be smarter than the cleverest cook. For example, put a piece of meat on the counter, and the Oasis system’s 3D depth-perceiving camera senses exactly what it is, and then displays helpful hints, nutritional inform…
Banking giant Chase suddenly hurls itself into the 21st century with the latest version of its iPhone app. Now you can deposit paper checks into your Chase account using an iPhone. Just take a picture of the front and back of the check, tap a few icons…
Times are tough in America. The stock market is down, unemployment is high and, oh yeah, there’s that disastrous oil spill in the Gulf. It’s a good time to remember that a lot of the best technology in the world is created right here in the U.S.
A guy named Terasaki-san went to a lot of trouble to get his iPad and iPhone to walk around like this, but it just leaves us wondering: why? It’s quite an exercise in ingenuity, though. Maybe he could add a pair of arms to that iPad and teach it how to…
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