For a paranoid section of the population, a giant face on a monitor can be an Orwellian nightmare come true. But, a giant face on a monitor that walks around town in a white jumpsuit is actually pretty cool. Still, he should definitely keep an eye out for a girl in red shorts wielding hammers.
News of the insane powerhouse Asus Transformer Prime quad-core tablet only broke a few days ago, but Henry Martin from ZTOP in Brazil already got a hands on with the little supercomputer.
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich looks pretty good. It's got a bunch of new features, like an updated look, improved notifications, and an awesome browser. Oh, and anyone with a picture of your face might be able to unlock your phone. Uhhh, guys?
The search giant sent out invitations to an event in the US for November 16, which will also be livestreamed. The invite states that "These Go To Eleven." A reference to the Spinal Tap joke and a clue that it'll be talking about it's Google Music service.
Data, reception, battery, screen, CPU, weight, size. These are the phone specs I'm concerned about. Smaller SIM cards? Not so much. But Giesecke & Devrient, one of the original SIM manufactuers, thinks we need a nano-SIM that's 30 per cent smaller. Great?
People resort to the black market for all sorts of stolen goods: phones, watches, cars, babies. But used cooking oil? According to the Washington Post, that's a thing too.
Ever wondered if anyone outside your redneck little town writes about it on Wikipedia? Or if anyone has ever written about Australia in Arabic? Guess no longer, because someone's worked it out for you.
Motorola's Droid Razr has just gone on sale in the States, and it's already been hacked to bits by the teardown junkies. Now it's been rooted, too.
The fine folks at iFixit have torn apart the Droid Razr piece by piece like hungry direwolves to give us the scoop on what's inside. Here's what the found. (Spoiler: Kevlar and skinnyness!)
Did you watch a lot of movies in the '80s and '90s? If the answer is yes, you need to go home, put this video on the largest screen you have, and take this amazing trip down memory lane.
The other day, while sitting in our car with the windows down, my wife and I had a heated argument. Bad words. Yelling. A fist or two slammed into our car's centre console. Though we both received nominations, we never reached consensus on which one of us was wrong, and the whole thing blew over by time we pulled into the service station.
"ASIMOV WAS WRONG!" How's about that for a provocative statement? It's a reference to the sci-fi legend's famous laws of robotics, which stipulated that robots should never allow humans to come to harm (and other bits of fluffy-headed peacenik dogma). In EPOCH the laws are summarily rejected with three words of political graffiti scrawled onto a wall. Also, legions of robots blasting each other into scrap.
Ever worried what would happen if we ran out of blood in hospitals? Fear no more! Because the first patient ever has been given lab-grown blood—and survived.
I hate you; you broke my heart; I never want to see you again. Oh, and can you check my Facebook while I'm at yoga to see if my sister got back to me? That's what a Connecticut couple's doing after a judge forced them to share Facebook and dating website passwords.
In a tale that'll bring a tear to your eye -- a 28-year old Scottish woman was saved from certain death by her chicken fillets, after a head-on collision with another car during a driving rainstorm in Kirkintilloch, just outside Glasgow.
Have you made something awesome with Lego Mindstorms NXT? A sweet walking robot, perhaps? Wouldn't it be cool if you could control it from work? Or to have it Tweet when something happens? Well, the future is now!
