Looking Forward to 2012: The Continued Demise of Cash
How mobile payments, NFC and person-to-person apps will change the way that people pay each other in the coming year.
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‘WTF? I Wanted an iPhone!’ Comedian Retweets Messages from Angry, Entitled Kids
Sure, we’re in the worst economic slump since the Great Depression, with 8.6% unemployment, plummeting home values and Europe on the brink of collapse, but hey, I really wanted an iPhone! That’s the message our country’s youth so …
Buyer’s Remorse: What to Do with Tech Gifts You Don’t Want
Just because you didn’t get the perfect gift during the holidays, it doesn’t mean you can’t get what you want
Anti-Theft Chair Recognizes the Unique Signature of Your Rear-End
Just like a special snowflake, your tuckus has its own unique pattern. Shigeomi Koshimizu of Japan’s Advanced Institute of Industrial Technology has a developed a chair that can identify people’s rear-ends to do things like start …
The Airing of Grievances (Day Five)
YouTube Lets It Snow with Special Holiday Snowflake Button
Have you ever seen a cat play the piano? Ah, but have you ever seen a cat play the piano covered with snow? Yes, YouTube is jumping on the holiday functionality bandwagon with its new snow button, which makes snowflakes fall from …
Google Maps Easter Egg: ‘One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor’
Are you as excited about the new The Hobbit trailer as we are? Sure, it looks exactly like all of the other The Lord of the Rings films and Peter Jackson seems to be going kind of heavy (pardon the pun) on the dwarf physical …
Occupy Wall Street’s New Drone: ‘The Occucopter’
Drones have been utilized by police in the past to monitor large crowds of protestors but this might be the first time a drone has been used by protestors to monitor the police. Tim Pool has modified a Parrot AR Drone to provide …
Where’s Our Rosie? Why We Don’t Have Domestic Robots Yet
What it will take to develop a multitasking, humanoid domestic robot—and whether we even really need one.
NFL Announces Super Bowl to Stream Online and on Mobile App This Year
Going to be away from home on Super Bowl Sunday this year? No need to miss the game. According to the Associated Press, for the very first time, the NFL is going to be streaming NBC’s broadcast of the Super Bowl on the network’s …
Google’s Festive New Easter Egg: ‘Let It Snow’
Google, maker of such hit Easter eggs as “Do a Barrel Roll” and “Tilt,” has apparently gotten into the holiday spirit: Open up Google (it’s a search engine, very popular with the kids these days) and enter “Let it snow” into the …
Regular Citizens Now in Charge of Sweden’s Twitter Account
Oh those crazy, free-wheeling Swedes. It appears the country has decided to allow regular citizens to man its official Twitter feed.
That’s right, instead of boring government announcements and links to policy proposals, …