Wearing Google Glass might make you look weird but it's certainly a lot better than any of the prototypes that Google first tried out. Google Project Glass Staff Hardware Engineer Jean Wang showed off a slide revealing the earliest prototypes of Glass and they're a lot bulkier with open ribbons, chips, gigantic cameras and more. You'd look like a total robot wearing these. Read More >>
Featured comment by niebyl2002:
"I agree with scaramoosh, what's the point of going out with friends that spend 90% of the time texting others." More »
This is easily the most exciting piece of gaming hardware to come to light in many years. A super-rare Sega Pluto prototype of which only two were ever made. It's a bit battered, but you can buy it. You may need to sell your house, car, sofa, phone, microwave and bottom by the hour first to raise enough money, but it could be yours. Read More >>
Samsung's got no shortage of alternate control methods up its sleeve. You've got your eye scroll and your air gestures, but how about full on mind-control? Samsung's messing with it, but it probably won't be coming to consumer devices very soon. Probably. Read More >>
You know the Nike FuelBand as a sleek black band that's a half-step removed from a Livestrong bracelet. That wasn't always the case, though. Some looked totally different from the finished product, like this early mockup that basically got the FuelBand off the ground. Read More >>
Featured comment by Christof:
"Thanks very much! Will look into the flex a bit but sounds good. Might finally give me an excuse to upgrade my slightly aged iPhone 4 to something a ..." More »
When you're obsessed with finding the most awesome gadgets and devices, there's nothing more heartbreaking than the word "concept." Not only does it mean you're not going to find a given device in stores—it usually means you're never going to find it anywhere. Read More >>
We heard Valve had new hardware in development, both insane looking and, potentially, a more mundane traditional "Steam Box," but now it seems it's ready for the general public to start testing its secret stuff. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sam Gibbs:
"Plus Valve's actively looking further afield, just not at the UK right now. Who knows, if we make a big enough stink about it, maybe we'll get some to..." More »
Featured comment by Will.King.London:
"Now call me silly but I would have walked along in a comical fashion, as if the shoes were pulling me along. It's such a shame people don't share my ..." More »
There's a lot of talk that technology is going to kill the book, eBooks specifically. It's true that physical books are still pretty low-tech, but that doesn't mean they have to stay that way. Maybe there could be a future where books are actually computer peripherals. If so, the prototype Elektrobiblioteka is a teaser. Read More >>
Featured comment by armhed:
"This is a really cool concept. It would be great for text books, where you could have a note structure, which would then allow you more information on..." More »
It's already stepping on the toes of Amazon's dual-display patent, but at IFA E Ink is showing off a prototype handset featuring a traditional full colour LCD panel on the front, and a dull monochrome e-ink display on the back. Kind of like a reverse technological mullet with the party in the front and business in the back. Read More >>
Featured comment by smurfydog:
"Having the e-ink flash every time it refreshed the display would get annoying very fast. It's bearable on an e-reader because it only refreshes when ..." More »
While the design has yet to catch on with civilian air travelers (focus groups hate amphitheater-style seating), Blended Wing Body aircraft hold great promise for military operations. To better study this innovative design without sinking untold extra millions into R&D, NASA built the next best thing—a 1:8.5 scale RC demonstrator. Read More >>
The same Apple/Samsung trial that gave us some of Samsung's future secrets yesterday has now revealed a small part of Apple's amazing past, with around 40 hardware prototypes revealed as part of its ongoing battle to prove it invented the idea of glossy rectangles. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jammin500:
"erm.. When some company breaks a new concept/idea the first thing every other company does is buy one and take it to bits, then build copies from ther..." More »
You wanna know why opening a package is so thrilling? Because it's a bloody epic poem just to get the box open. By the time you're in, you'd be excited by packing peanuts and nothing else. Read More >>
Featured comment by JoeyG410:
"Haha, yea but the point is you still need something to open it. But I suppose if your penis is sharp enough, this shant be a problem." More »
Auctioning off Apple prototypes is tricky business. If you're the seller, there's always the chance that Apple will try to shut you down, and ask for the device back. The man who was selling an iPad prototype with two dock connectors suspected this when he posted his eBay auction. Read More >>
Featured comment by Josh:
"Oh bloody hell why do people have to bring the no flash thing into this anyway? On both my laptop and my *android* phone I have flash disabled and it'..." More »
A group of scientists have developed a camera that can take pictures of things that are hidden by walls. Not through X-Ray vision but with the ability to see around corners. That is, if an image is blocked by a wall, the camera will use lasers to peek around the corner. Read More >>
Someone's found an unreleased prototype phone in a bar again. This one's quite easy to identify, as it's covered in stickers and serial numbers and looks to have half its hardware features removed. Read More >>
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