admin | November 12, 2010
We heard that Foursquare founders Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai were going to star in a Gap ad and it looks like the final product is out. You can watch the video here. The videos addresses the question-”if you could give anything in the world, what would it be?” Gap says that in Crowley and [...]
admin | November 11, 2010
Next Issue Media, the tablet magazine storefront from the superfriends of publishing (Conde Nast, Time Inc, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp) will launch in early 2011 according to CEO Morgan Guenther, but it will only be available on Android devices at the outset. “We’re ready to support Apple as well,” Guenther says, but presumably Apple hasn’t [...]
admin | November 11, 2010
Last Monday, the cruise ship Carnival Splendor suffered a fire in the engine room, leaving her stranded 150 nautical miles southwest of San Diego. Thankfully, the Nimitz-class supercarrier USS Ronald Reagan was around and they had lots of extra Spam cans. More » STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS SRA INTERNATIONAL SPSS SPANSION
admin | November 11, 2010
Filed under: Fun, Games Word Bubbles is a Flash game that’s somewhat similar to Amazon’s Every Word for the Kindle. You get three initial letters (“tru” in the screenshot above), and you need to compose as many English words as possible with those three letters. When you create a six-letter word, the bubble that says [...]
admin | November 11, 2010
I promise I’ll stop writing about iPad keyboard cases soon, but today’s second installment comes from ThinkGeek, in the form of a luxurious leather folio case, packed with little chiclets to help you type. Unlike the ZAGGmate profiled earlier today, the ThinkGeek case is designed to continuously swaddle the iPad, not to be removed. It [...]
admin | November 11, 2010
Judging by the panicked screams in this video, the folks demolishing a 275-foot smoke stack in Springfield, Ohio didn’t expect it to snap power lines, destroy power equipment, or terrify children when it collapsed into the wrong direction. More » STANDARD MICROSYSTEMS SRA INTERNATIONAL SPSS SPANSION
admin | November 11, 2010
We’re now less than a month away from LeWeb ’10, the giant tech conference in Paris, France put on each year by Geraldine and Loic Le Meur. This year’s agenda features a whole lot of TechCrunch as several of us will not only be on stage at various times, but there’s also a modified version [...]
admin | November 10, 2010
Cramming 500GB of storage into that molten silver casing, LaCie’s design partnership with Philippe Starck has gone USB 3.0 for faster data transfers—though of course it also works with USB 2.0 ports, too. More » TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TERADATA TELETECH HOLDINGS TECHNITROL
admin | November 10, 2010
Our love of tech, gadgets, and anything, really, with blinking lights means that while we certainly value usability and quality in our consumer electronics, there will always be a place in our hearts for the utterly useless. And we’re definitely not alone here, as the popularity of the annual Bacarobo (stupid robot) contest will tell [...]
admin | November 10, 2010
This segment of light suspended in space is actually an entire galaxy, spanning 35,000 light years across and containing billions of stars. We just happen to be looking at it almost perfectly edge-on. More » TIBCO SOFTWARE THQ TEXAS INSTRUMENTS TERADATA