Check Out Every Apple Store Ever Opened, in Order
A Ph.D student shows his love for Apple Stores by posting photos of all 357 of them, from Bordeaux to British Columbia.
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Glowing Pillow with Heartbeat Connects Long-Distance Lovers
Long-distance relationships are hard. Maintaining creepy, intimate contact during a long-distance relationship is even harder. Introducing Pillow Talk, the new device that lets you hear the real-time heartbeat of your long-distance lover, even if he or she is across the country.
Scottish designer Joanna Montgomery developed the …
How Foxconn’s Million-Machine ‘Robot Kingdom’ Will Change the Face of Manufacturing
Foxconn, pressured by the stresses of rising labor costs and negative media attention over employee suicides, could be reshaping the landscape of manufacturing forever. How?
According to Focus Taiwan, the company recently …
Daily Diversion: ‘Vladimir Lenin’ School Wants to Change Name to ‘Steve Jobs’
The beatification of Steve Jobs continues. It appears that students in Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second biggest city, might soon be attending class at a school named for the late Apple founder.
The technical secondary school is currently named for another guy who has a reputation for being “revolutionary”—Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. The …
Daily Diversion: Microsoft Builds Six-Story Windows Phone
Behold, the gigantic Windows smartphone in NYC’s Herald Square. No, Microsoft isn’t going after the under-served Godzilla demographic; it’s celebrating the release of its four new phones, which all run on the delicious-sounding Mango (less-deliciously known as Windows Phone 7.5).
Those four phones would be the HTC Radar 4G, Samsung …
‘Nest’ Thermostats Already Sold Out Through Early 2012
This is the most excited people have been about a thermostat since… well, ever. People are so in love with the Nest, a.k.a. “the iPod of thermostats,” that the device is already sold out through early 2012.
A notice on Nest’s website apologizes that “the demand was huge from day one and the orders haven’t slowed down.” The company …
Best Buy, Indeed: Buy Modern Warfare 3, Get a Free HTC Phone
Provided you aren’t one of those people who paid $1,725 for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on eBay, you’re probably eagerly awaiting the game’s release on Tuesday. Those who buy it at Best Buy get a nice little bonus—a free HTC smartphone.
The catch? You’ll need to sign a two-year contract. Still, if you happen to need a phone …
YouTube’s Audience Now 60% Non-English Speakers
How do you say “Double Rainbow” in Afrikaans? Yes, it appears YouTube has truly gone international, with 60% of its users now selecting something other than English while viewing it.
The news comes from a spokesperson from Google (which bought YouTube back in 2006), who dropped the statistic to GigaOm yesterday. Perhaps this shouldn’t …
Entrepreneur Amit Gupta Still Needs Your Help in Fight Against Leukemia
When Amit Gupta, founder of photo community site Photojojo, was diagnosed with acute leukemia, he did what any good tech entrepreneur would do: he turned to social media.
Gupta needs bone marrow, but, unfortunately, South Asians are underrepresented in the bone marrow pool. Most people have an 80% chance of finding a donor; if you’re …
Sparrow Releases Details in Wake of Gmail iOS App Fail
Yesterday Sparrow, makers of the popular mail app for Mac, wasted no time wisecracking about Google’s short-lived and poorly received release of the Gmail app for iOS by tweeting “In a few months, you’ll get the Gmail experience you deserve on your iPhone. Sparrow to the rescue!”
Now, the company has released shots and some key …
OLPC Plans Helicopter Drop of Tablet Computers to Remote Villages
Nicholas Negroponte, the MIT professor behind the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, is playing the role of the quirky idealist nicely. His latest plan? To drop the project’s new XO-3 tablets from helicopters to locations outside of remote villages.
He revealed his unorthodox plan Wednesday at the Open Mobile Summit in San …
Google Can Now Index Your Comments Made Through Facebook
I know that you, fair Techland readers, are always civil in the comments section. Those who aren’t might want to think twice about saying something nasty, as Googlebots (a.k.a. Google’s infamous web spiders) can now index website comments from engines like Facebook, Livefyre and Disqus.
Before, the fact that those commenting engines …