Okay, so my idea for this week’s They Should Make It column is a system of car horns that, instead of making noise, jolt the driver in front of you with a little buzz that comes from a mechanism built into all cars’ driver’s seats.
Why?
For starters, it would make the streets a lot quieter. Let’s face it, most of the time …
Finally an answer to the ages-old question of where Pac-Man’s been lately. It seems he’s retired to one of Saturn’s moons. Mimas, as it’s called, shows Pac-Man frozen in full-on chomp mode as he prepares to eat Herschel Crater, which resembles a nice big power pellet.
The image was captured by the Cassini spacecraft as it
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If you like the iPad and/or well-manicured hand models, you’ll love the “Guided Tours” videos Apple posted to its site today. There are user interface demonstrations of Safari, Mail, Photos, Videos, YouTube, iPod, iTunes, iBooks, Keynote, Pages, and Numbers.
The landscape Mail interface looks pretty nice, and iTunes seems like
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Oh Monday, you come around approximately once every seven days. Your ability to abruptly end fun knows no limits. The only suitable recourse against your nefarious existence is for us to purchase discounted electronics items in preparation for the upcoming weekend–a weekend which always seems so far away. Well played, Monday. You’ve …
Penny Arcade founders Mike Krahulik (Gabe) and Jerry Holkins (Tycho) held a Q and A session right after Wil Wheaton’s keynote address at PAX East 2010. You can listen to the entire audio file here, or check out some select questions and answers below. The text of each answer has been summarized somewhat, but the complete audio snippet of …
Wil Wheaton of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stand By Me fame gives the inaugural keynote address at PAX East 2010. Wheaton discusses his obsession with Dungeons and Dragons, the strong friendships formed around gaming, and how the line between television, movies, and video games as entertainment mediums gets blurrier all the …
Mad Catz’ Eclipse Litetouch keyboard sports a 3-in-1 LCD touch panel where you’d normally find the number pad. And while one of the three modes is indeed the tried-and-true number pad, you can quickly toggle to a media-centric mode or to a programmable “MyEclipse” mode.
MyEclipse mode features “12 pre-defined icons covering …
MacRumors.com is reporting that Best Buy will be the only other retailer to sell Apple’s iPad on launch day, April 3rd.
Some details, for your infotainment:
1. It will only be sold at Best Buy locations that have special “store-within-a-store” Apple sections. So if your local Best Buy has a section that’s blindingly white …
It’s Friday! Maybe you just got paid. You could use that money for boring stuff like bills, rent, and food, or you could act like a wonderfully impulsive consumer and spend it on any number of products. Here are some ideas to get you started based on your taxable income bracket.
10% ($0 to $8,375)
Cheer up, big cat. You’ll …
Do I really even need to type anything here? We’re looking at bookends with Darth Vader’s lightsaber piercing either side, creating the illusion that he came to your house, saw your Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants book in plain sight on your bookshelf, and decided to create a paperback shish kabob. Then he got on the bus! You’d …
Wii owners determined to use the console to stream Netflix movies will be happy to know that the discs that enable online access to select content have been shipped out and ought to arrive tomorrow.
And with that, the Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii can all handle instant Netflix streaming. The Wii, however, won’t handle HD streaming, of
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The Universal Gadget Wrist Charger (ThinkGeek.com, $35) is as nerdy as it is useful. Check out the above video for more information about the product and how you can win it away from yours truly. I’m going to miss it terribly.
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