Being Watched While You Watch TV: What’s So Creepy?
Would you bring a camera that watched you as you watched TV into your living room?
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Move Over, BabelFish: Computer Program Reconstructs Lost Tongues
What if a computer could produce never-before-seen lost languages from their modern descendants in a fraction of the time it takes linguistic experts?
Nataly Dawn On Her New Album How I Knew Her and Why Kickstarter Fans Can Be Fickle
Musician Nataly Dawn talks about her new album’s Kickstarter inception, how she still went into debt to make it and why she’s frustrated with musician Amanda Palmer’s Kickstarter critics.
App Review: Timbre Is the Classiest Way to Find Local Concerts
I have a feeling Timbre’s going to live on my iPhone for a long time, if only because it’s such a delight to use.
OUYA and the Rise of the Once-a-Year Game Console
What if instead of paying $400-$500 for whatever new tricked-out game box comes along every six or seven years, you could pay just $99 once a year for a scrappy, customizable, upgrade-minded game system?
How Music-Encoding Service Murfie Skirts Legal Muddles and Why Its CEO Thinks Ownership Still Rules
In the second part of my interview with Murfie CEO Matt Younkle, we cover encoding specifics, questions of legal ownership in a digital-only world and the threat from subscription-based streaming giants like Spotify.
We Can Almost Print New Organs Using 3D Stem Cells
File this under unexpectedly cool: organs you don’t harvest, but instead print using an honest-to-goodness printer, just as you might words on paper, except in this case, the “words” are actual stem cells that could save someone’s life.
The Ides of March: Farewell, Sony MiniDisc Player
It’s time to bid a nostalgic farewell to Sony’s MiniDisc format — those of you who remember it at all, anyway.
The Next PlayStation: 5 Lessons I Hope Sony’s Learned
With the next PlayStation reportedly on the way, let’s look at some of the things I suspect we’d all agree Sony needs to do better this time around.
The Looming Living Room Wars: Apple’s Quiet Threat to Console Gaming
Imagine: Your ultra-chic future iPhone isn’t just a sometime mobile game machine, it’s also a wireless vehicle for hardcore gaming on your big screen television.
Are Weak Wii U Sales a Bellwether of Shifting Game Demographics?
The Wii U sales aren’t performing as well as Nintendo predicted, but what does that mean, really?
Murfie Converts Your CDs into a Lossless Online Library, Lets You Sell and Trade Your Music
Want to turn your physical music collection into an ultra-high-quality music library and media bank? There’s a service for that.