The good news for BlackBerry owners is that they’ll be getting more than $100 of compensation for the recent outages. The bad news is that it isn’t in the form of cash or credit, but rather a selection of apps. And customers don’t even get a choice of apps. Instead they’ll be able to download […]
Many of you are probably fans of the prolific Neal Stephenson. He basically helped to start the whole “cyberpunk” movement with his novel Snow Crash, and has been pumping out giant novels at an alarming rate ever since. Stephenson recently wrote an essay bemoaning the dismantling of the space program, and more generally the lack […]
This Panasonic-branded head washing robot will wash, rinse and dry your hair while massaging your scalp, thanks to its 24 finger design. The robot is due out for commercial release in 2012. [Via Laughing Squid]
Ahhhh yeah, this one goes out to all my digital gangsters who work in IT. :) [Youtube]
Next year’s model is already in the picture, somewhere between pixels 585 and 586 in the bottom right corner. [howtogeek]
It turns out that all cellphones, even those without apps, can serve as a very particular type of lie detector. And the detector tells us many people are not just liars, but filthy liars. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine has been working with Queen Mary, University of London to carry out a […]
Residents of a British street have been baffled by their electronic car key fobs suddenly stopping working. It’s led to a host of theories, some more outlandish than others. The BBC reports that the key fobs in Dimond Road, Southampton stopped working last Saturday. It appears to be some sort of problem with interference with […]
Tuesday, the T3 Gadget Awards 2011 named the Galaxy S II “Phone of the Year” — the first time in 3 years the award hasn’t gone to Apple or HTC. Today, T-Mobile is releasing their version of the GSII, which is already available on Sprint and AT&T. The T-Mobile GSII is the final version to launch in […]
The oldest known working car in the world has sold for $4.6 million at an auction in Hershey, Pennsylvania. The vehicle was made in 1884 and runs on steam. The car was actually made a year before the first experimental design of what we’d now recognize as a petrol engine, which featured in cars built […]
B-Reel is not playing around, even though, technically, they are. The production company has rigged up one of those things we thought we’d have in the year 2000: mind-controlled toys. Using a Mindwave headset for measuring brain activity, an Arduino unit and a Processing script, a team of developers managed to hack together what you see […]