gadgets

Live TV Comes to iPad, But You’ll Have to Stay Home

You know you want to watch live TV on your iPad, because what else are you going to watch live on your iPad, right?

Well now you can, courtesy an app from Time Warner Cable Inc. — full disclosure, Time Warner Cable was divested from our parent company, Time Warner, in 2009 — that’ll allow your totable Apple slate with its glossy …

Verizon’s 4G HTC Phone Rumored to Debut March 17

If you’ve been waiting to get your hands on Verizon’s first 4G phone, the wait might not be that much longer. Reports say that leaks from within HTC put March 17 as the HTC Thunderbird launch date. But after we expected it to make a debut on Valentine’s Day, perhaps keep those hopes in check.

The HTC Thunderbird is set up to …

Survey Shows iPad 2 Sold to 70 Percent New Buyers

Investment firm Piper Jaffray sent a team of analysts out into the streets, and not so shockingly, they found that the iPad 2 had virtually sold out in retail stores. But surprise, surprise, they discovered that a vast majority – over half, in fact – of new buyers never owned the original iPad.

To get the numbers straight, 70 …

What Happens When You Mix a Canon 5D MkII, Paint and a Speaker?

Canon’s Rob Zuurbier brings up a valid point in this promo video for the Pixma line of printers – most photography and image sharing takes place digitally. When was the last time you printed a photo or held a photo that wasn’t on someone’s phone?

Although you don’t see much of the printers in this video, it definitely has a …

The Best Thing About Caprica? Their Technology – No, Not Cylons

When Caprica returns to Syfy tonight, it’ll bring with it a return of all the gadgets and almost-but-not-quite technology that’ve quietly become one of the highpoints of the series’ worldbuilding – The holobands, the e-paper and the one-step-beyond-steampunk broken down “old” technology that mixes and matches technology we’ve already …

Google Now Peddling Pizza Or Something

Umm…what? We’re not entirely sure what Google is trying to get at with this Google Mobile ad, but listening to someone say “pizza” for over 10 minutes has to be one of the most annoying things of all time. Watch for yourself and click on the following at the designated splits for a little reprieve:

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U Penn’s Aggressive Quadrotor Is Like Parrot’s AR Drone But Scarier

Researchers Daniel Mellinger and Vijay Kumar from University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab have been working on an autonomous quadrotor that, well, scares the bejesus out of us. Just watch the videos. No doubt the government has been watching what these fellas are up to.

The video above was released earlier this year and the one below …

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