PC Pro reports that Fujitsu Siemens is offering a new program called Lifebook4Life, which allows customers to upgrade their Lifebook laptop every three years after purchase for free. Sound too good to be true? Well, there are a few restrictions: You must purchase an extended three-year warranty with each upgrade (price yet to be determined). [...]
Even if the Wiimote was revolutionary when it initially came out, it really can’t compare to the motion-sensing capabilities of Sixense’s new Truemotion 3D system. Check out the video — it’ll blow you away. Rather than using an accelerometer like the Wiimote, the Truemotion system uses a magnetic field to track both of your hands [...]
By Will Sullivan Contributing Writer, [GAS] The “Peapod,” by GEM (green eco mobility)—financed and designed by Chrysler—is pretty much a preposterous mashup of a Tesla Roadster and an AMC Pacer: zero-emissions electric vehicle meets mobile aquarium! As with the ill-fated Pacer of the ’70s, that vast expanse of glass looks terrific style-wise (well, I’m in [...]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] That’s right – yet another upgrade to the mighty JesusPhone. Why do we report on this stuff? Because people want to know, that’s why! iPhone users received an email today telling them to upgrade to firmware version 2.2. It’s been a little while since a major upgrade was made, [...]
By Stephanie Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] A San Francisco woman hopes to be the first person with a real-life bionic eye. Tanya Vlach lost her eye in a 2005 car crash, and the self-described trans-disciplinary artist thinks a webcam would be a lot more useful than the plastic prosthetic she’s currently wearing. In an announcement [...]
Thanks to a partnership between the Max Planck institute and MITs Media Lab, a whole new, revolutionary, zero-power display technology has been unveiled. The technology allows a picture of a still object to react to a light source just as it would in the real world. Check it out: Now, try to imaine the possibilities [...]
We’ve been talking about how multi-touch technologies would soon make spatial gesture computing a possibility, a bit like what we see happening in Steven Spielberg’s movie, Minority Report. Well folks, it seems that the day when we’ll be able to manipulate data and object in real 3D space isn’t that far off. Dubbed g-speak, Oblong‘s [...]
By Mackenzie Morgan Contributing Writer, [GAS] Are you a green geek? Would you like to be one? There’s always more we can do to help the environment, or at least reduce our environmental footprints. Tina at MakeUseOf wrote a really good article about the meaning of environmental footprint and mentioned a lot of great non-technical [...]
By Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] You know what’s cooler than a robot that can play the violin? A robot that can play the flute. Watch as this anthropomorphic flutist robot owns Flight of the Bumblebee: Of course, what good is a robot that just sits around and plays music all day? You may as [...]
Finger vein identification might usurp fingerprints and retinas as the most secure form of ID, and companies in Europe have already begun to introduce an advanced biometric system from Japan. In fact, this system has already been in place at thousands of Japanese ATMs for 2 years. The finger vein ID system, developed by Hitachi, [...]
Produced to promote Toshiba’s new line of upscaling products, “Timesculpture” was filmed using a 1,000 pound custom-built filming apparatus created from 200 “Gigashot” camcorders. The resulting footage took over 20 TB of data, and was then re-worked by special effect gurus to create the following commercial:
Google’s PageRank algotrithm certainly has its detractors, among them people who feel that using links as ‘votes’ for a site’s importance isn’t the smartest way to get the best content. Unsurprisingly, librarians fit within this group, and they set out to determine what Google would look like if the weight of search results were powered [...]