If patents are to be believed, Apple is working on the creation of the world’s first glasses-free 3D display that would produce holographic images using a screen made up of “pixel-sized domes” that would be read differently by the human eye depending on where they’re viewing from.
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Move over Netflix and iTunes, it’s time for the Big Box Stores to get in on this Video On Demand action. Sears and Kmart have teamed to launch their own movie download service, with their famously low prices and… wait, I mean surprisingly familiar pricing and format. I guess this might not be quite the gamechanger it could’ve been, in …
The first volume of European comics creators Mezzo and Pirus’ King of the Flies, subtitled Hallorave, was one of the creepiest graphic novels of 2010–an intersecting set of short pieces about a small group of people drawn together by sex, drugs and violence in various combinations, whose horror deepens with every new connection it draws …
The number of Facebook friends you have is correlated to the size of your amygdala, the center used to process the memory of your emotional reactions in your brain, according to a new study published in Nature Neuroscience. The volume of your amydala has been connected to the size of the circle of those you come in contact with even …
Embarrassed by your Google search results? Old blogs and newspaper archives can be haunting, but cleaning up your search engine reputation is thorny. Google will only remove a search result from its queue if you can prove that the web page can be used for identity or credit card theft.
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A new video on the Playstation blog reveals a little more insight into why the Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception team decided to take their protagonist to the desert. Game Director Justin Richmond doesn’t remember who suggested that they should set the next chapter in the game series in the sand, but said the whole team liked the idea of …
The latest round of iPad 2 rumors to trickle out of Asia point to three different connection options: Wi-Fi, UMTS, and CDMA.
DigiTimes reports that “upstream component makers” have revealed the varying chipsets will be available options for Apple’s next tablet in an attempt “to satisfy market demand” for broader cellular network …
In an effort to improve phone service, AT&T is rolling out new public wi-fi hot spots for their customers in popular areas in San Francisco and New York City. Subscribers will be able to access the service in San Francisco’s Embarcadero area near Rincon Park later this year, according to the press release. For those in NYC, the Times …
From highly anticipated titles like Marvel vs. Capcom 3 to the last part of the Mass Effect trilogy, we’re eagerly playing our current titles in preparation for 2011’s upcoming releases in gaming. Next year’s most anticipated games will not only showcase vast technological advances in animation and new techniques in gameplay, they also …
Someday we’ll all look back on the Great Holiday Blizzard of 2010 and laugh. Some of us more maniacally than others. Those of us trapped in Minnesota until what seems like the end of time, especially.
“You’ll be on the next flight out,” says Delta. “It’s a sure thing,” says Delta. “Nothing we ever tell you is a sure thing,” says …
As more of our existence seems to transfer to a digital realm, our vulnerabilities will also make the shift. Here are the things to look out for in 2011.
Recipients won’t just judge your e-mail, they’ll judge you – or so says a new study Illinois’ Knox College that looks into the effect of e-mails on how others perceive you. It may seem redundant to school readers of a blog called Techland on proper e-mail usage, but as I receive more and more e-mails in my professional life that …
