So, your Geek Squad application was turned down, and now your dreams of driving the ultimate Geek-Mobile have vanished like Minovsky particles in the wind? No worries, here are 10 geeky car mods and must-have car accessories–listed in order of increasing awesomeness–that will make you forget all about the blank space on your door where […]
Verizon is to provide wireless support for a new electronic reading device, produced by iRex. It means all three of the largest US wireless networks now have an involvement in the market. iRex already has two electronic readers, the iLiad and the Digital Reader 1000 series. However, the Verizon deal is for a forthcoming model, […]
By Natania Barron Contributing Writer, [GAS] I have a MacBook. It serves all of my needs flawlessly. It runs my browser, Scrivener, and a handful of other programs I use on a daily basis. It’s sleek and white, and quite resilient (having survived a few tumbles at the hands of my three year old). Aside […]
If you use discreet in-ear headphones on your travels, you probably know the following scene all too well: Somebody comes up and starts talking to you, or you need to talk to a bus driver to sort out your fare, and as you pull your headphones out, you’re left with the choice of rifling through […]
Check out this absolutely amazing remote controlled LED-based hard drive clock build by a Polish tinkerer: Amazing little device isn’t it? And while I wouldn’t put it on display anywhere in my house, I can still appreciate the work that went into building it. [Via Gizmodo]
Holy Moley, it’s a wireless Rube Goldberg contraption. Nearness, by Jack Schulze and Timo Arnall uses RFID chips to activate each step. The film Nearness explores interacting without touching. With RFID it’s proximity that matters, and actual contact isn’t necessary. Much of Timo’s work in the Touch project addresses the fictions and speculations in the […]
We’ve all heard the story: Someone locks his car keys and remote car opener inside his vehicle, and can’t get back in. He does have a second remote car opener at home, so he calls up his home, where his wife/roommate/whatever answers. He asks the housemate to hold the second remote up to the phone […]
Designed by Hyuk Jae Chang, The PowerBridge has to be one of the most elegant and brilliant re-invention of a power strip I’ve ever seen! This is definitely one of those things that makes you slap your forehead and say “Why didn’t I think of that? [Via YankoDesign]
While many students would surely like to own a 48-inch multi-touch screen, most don’t have the cash to buy a Microsoft Surface device. But a group of engineering students at the University of Waterloo in Ontario didn’t see that as a problem: they just built their own. Their device does not strictly work on touch, […]
Despite the critical success of electronic reading devices such as Amazon’s Kindle, the gadgets may have a long way to go to reach the mass market. One research firm claims readers would have to be as cheap as $50 to really catch on, making subsidies a must. Forrester Research interviewed 4,706 people and asked a […]