You probably saw this coming. Three of the major U.S. TV networks have blocked online streams of their shows from working on Google TV. So if you were eyeing the Logitech Revue as an easy way to catch up on episodes of Castle, you can pretty much forge…
Today’s big unveiling of the new MacBook Air was overshadowed by an unveiling from 15 minutes previous. I speak, of course, of the new version of Mac OS X, that being 10.7 or “Lion.” While some features seem like incremental upgrades, it represents a p…
We were saddened when Ugobe, maker of the Pleo dinobot, filed for bankruptcy over a year ago. However, little Pleo has managed to beat the odds and survive, now made by Innvo Labs, who won the rights to the ‘bot at auction. The improved version, “Pleo …
While shopping apps for smartphones are a dime a dozen, generally there’s not much they can do other than give you a list. If you asked us who would be first in line to improve that experience, Nintendo is not a company we’d name, but this patent appli…
Google TV promises to finally, completely, really, once and for all unite Internet video and what most people think of as “TV” into one seamless interface. The first Google TV product, unveiled today, is the Logitech Revue. It looks pretty much the sam…
Don’t want to reach into a pocket or handbag whenever your phone rings? Nokia’s on it: the company is funding research to create stretchable electronics that you could wear like a second skin. It could one day lead to phones that attach to the back of …
Just for Friday laughs, this video purports to show a guy revealing a top-secret iPhone app that can create 3D holograms. After using the iPhone’s camera to shoot video of his head, he presses a button, holds the phone horizontally and — abracada…
Austin Seraphin got his first iPhone in June, and it changed his life. Seraphin is blind, and the iPhone’s oft-unused feature, VoiceOver, which turns visual cues into voice feedback, enabled him to use the smartphone like no device he’s ever used before.
When you hear “fashion,” who doesn’t think of touchscreen monitors? Wait, no one thinks that — except the wizards at HP, of course! The company partnered with designer Diane Von Furstenberg to introduce interactive touchpanels at her gallery in N…
The entire entertainment industry sees 3D as the next big thing, but one issue holding it back is it’s difficult to produce. Typically, you need to shoot footage with two different cameras (or at least two different lenses) simultaneously. Even with to…
Have you ever been sitting in the stands of a football game and wished you could have your own instant replay? Now you can, thanks to FanVision, a portable device that 10 NFL teams will begin using this season to communicate directly to fans at live ga…
The latest rumors about the next version of Apple TV — Apple’s wildly unpopular attempt to integrate the iTunes ecosystem on televisions — are in. Some say it’ll be a stripped-down box running the iPhone’s iOS software, while others predict…
HD video shooting came to DSLR cameras a couple of years ago, but that feature has been improving and appearing in cameras at lower and lower price points. Case in point: the Nikon D3100, which is the first DSLR to be able to auto-focus while shooting …
This massive touchscreen fulfills all our Star Trek-inspired fantasies of how control panels should work. Called the Töken, the panel is a high-tech DJ mixing board whose purpose is to take live performances to the “next level.”
Mouth guards are common in sports like ice hockey, where contact with other players can mean lost teeth. But there may be a reason for athletes in other sports to give them a try: improved performance. At least that’s the theory from Bite Tech, which m…
Last year, Fujifilm broke new ground with its FinePix W1, which had everything you needed to capture 3D video in a point-and-shoot camera. The follow-up model, the just-announced FinePix W3, upgrades the experience to HD, while also providing an easy w…
They said it, they did it — when Motorola officially unveiled the Droid 2 earlier this week, an R2-D2 version of the phone was promised, and here it is. The phone was on display at Star Wars Celebration V in Orlando.
Conventional semiconductor memory encodes data (1s and 0s) by whether or not an electron is present. But an electron itself has a binary property — whether or not its spin is “up” or “down.” Researchers have now discovered a way to encode data wi…
The word “drone” usually conjures up images of the U.S. military’s Predator, or similar unmanned aircraft. But there are helicopter drones, too, and Boeing’s A160T Hummingbird just got a big upgrade — the ability to see through dense foliage.
It’s really about time: The Droids have been a pretty successful line of Android phones, and finally someone is making the obvious connection to the Star Wars robots that bear the same name. Motorola says an R2-D2 version of the brand-new Droid 2 is co…
What if Twitter were invented in 60 years ago? Then you probably would have seen something like this vintage-style ad in Life or Esquire, touting the service a “virtual locality” and “notorious mechanism.” The ad is part of a series that includes full-…
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