We found out what an internet troll actually looks like in real life, but this is what he thinks he looks like in real life -- hard as nails and creepy as hell. I’m not sure what’s weirder though; the troll face or the disembodied stickman sauntering along the pavement while people try to beat him.
We heard Sky was working on an awesome-sounding F1-coverage companion app for the iPad. Well as it turns out, it wasn’t a new separate app, but rather a whole section of a redesigned Sky Sports App with “Race Control”. Frankly, it still sounds bloody awesome.
We’ve seen quite a few astounding images out of NASA’s infrared telescope, the Wide-field Survey Explorer. Now NASA’s released the mother-load -- upwards of 18,000 images covering the entire infrared sky from over two years of photography. That’s more than 500 million beautiful stars.
Every man grows a beard at some point in his life. But that's not to say that it's a good idea. In fact, science now confirms that while a beard makes you look older and of higher status, it makes you less attractive to women.
Building a killer home theatre involves more than just throwing a big wad of cash at your local electronics dealer. It requires planning, finesse, and scientific acoustic manipulation. The engineers at THX pioneered a lot of the methods and technologies used in today's top systems. So we took a trip to their San Rafael, California, headquarters to get a lesson from the masters. Here's what we learned.
If you’re lucky enough to have one of those awesome Sonos systems in your home, you’ll soon have a new way to control it. Two new Sonos Controller app updates are on the way for the PC and Mac, which should make it even easier to find, control and play music across your home for the ultimate party.
You know those amazing space navigation tabletop-systems you always see in sci-fi flicks? Microsoft’s made one, and it’s called NUIverse. Okay, it’s got a crappy name, but it allows you to navigate around the stars just like in the movies. You can go pinching, zooming, swiping and virtually flying through space, with up to 100,000 stars rendered in real-time, all with a head-up display to boot.
Well, that about wraps it up for another year. As the shutters come down on Baselworld 2012, the biggest watch fair in the world, it's a time to reflect on the highs and the lows of the past week. Mainly the lows.
