Kickstarter is full of awful, ill conceived, downright dumb ideas. So is the internet. So is the universe. But it's also festooned with crazy-good thinking, ingenuity, and imagination. It's fun and unfettered. It's the opposite of the tech industry.
Ever wished your paper aeroplane would just make itself? Well now it can. Almost. Because scientists have developed a material that can fold itself when you shine light on it, without you ever needing to lay a finger on the thing.
I love pork. I like pigs. They're cute, and fun to eat, and intelligent among mud-dwelling beasts. But what I don't like is for my dinner to artificially resemble the killed animal from which it was derived. This is gross.
Typically when we're talking about using your smartphone while driving, it's either for maps or because it's making your car into a death trap. iOnRoad is a pretty darn good attempt at using your phone to make you safer.
We all have opinions about the people on Big Brother-style TV shows. But spare a thought for nine girls who were duped into taking part in a fake show — then held captive while naked images of them were sold online.
How many gestures can Apple implement in iOS? Apparently not enough! These new gestures, detailed in a recent patent may end up in your iPad or iPhone in the future. Please please please please no.
Apple just rolled out the update we've been waiting for. The one that fixes the incredible shrinking battery life. Just plug your iPhone into iTunes and start updating. Nowhere near your computer? The over the air update of iOS 5.0.1 is available now.
Some frighteningly muscular mice and nematode worms are running and squirming around a laboratory in Switzerland where scientists have genetically manipulated the critters to be harder, faster and stronger.
Last night, Ashton Kutcher posted a dumb tweet about a football coach getting fired. He didn't have all the details, and later retracted his tweet. Now he's turning over his Twitter feed to a team of media experts to make sure he only makes an idiot of himself on purpose.
Move over moustaches, it looks like November belongs to the Muppets this year. They've got a new movie coming out, there's an online movement to have them host the Oscars, and now TomTom has announced a series of Sesame Street voices, starting with Bert and Ernie.
Here's an easy to way to silence your annoying photographer friends who brag about the megapixels in their expensive DSLRs. The U.S. DoE has just endorsed the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center's proposal to build a 650 ton behemoth of a camera, with a 3.2 billion pixel sensor, that will snap images of the heavens from an observatory being built atop a Chilean mountain.
Every once in a while, a new game comes along that blows our minds with a fresh concept. Blueprint 3D is one such game. In fact, we reckon it's invented a whole new genre, all by itself. Let's christen it the "fragment'em up".
Cars aren't the only thing that runs on fossil fuels, so Honda has taken some of the technology they developed for its hybrid vehicles like the Civic and Insight, and applied it to their first snowblower to feature an electric drivetrain.
Apparently, the latest version of HTC Sync will let the HTC Rhyme and HTC Sensation XL sync with iTunes. What? Yep. According to Taiwan News, the HTC Sync app will "automatically detect iTunes (or Windows Media Player) to copy media files such as music, pictures and contacts to their phones."
When iFixit originally tore down the iPhone 4S, they discovered a sensor whose function they were unsure of. Now they've determined that it's an infrared sensor tasked with activating Siri when the phone is held up to your ear. Could it be the reason why Siri is a 4S exclusive?
Think the Smart car was too small to squeeze your lardy rear-end into? You're in for a whole new world of pain, because the smallest working car has been built — and it's just one molecule in size.
