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 …
One of our favorite on-demand music services, MOG, is expanding to one of our favorite set-top boxes, Roku, today. The MOG Channel will stream music at 320kbps and includes MOG’s wonderfully awesome “MOG Mobius” music discovery engine that allows subscribers to listen to true artist only stations or mix it up at their leisure.
To …
Some news out of the Tokyo Game Show for you this Thursday morning, PS3 owners. 3D Blu-ray playback compatibility is coming a few weeks earlier than expected with a firmware update set to go live on September 21. Sony did not divulge whether or not firmware v3.50 will unlock or fix anything else. Still, there aren’t a whole lot of those …
“What’s the big deal? It just has cameras and that eyeball display thing, right?”
Sure, if you want to boil it down to the very basics and judge a book by its cover, then, yes, the latest iPod touch update includes nothing more than the iPhone 4’s Retina display (960×640), a front-facing and rear camera. But like any other …
If there’s one drawback to having newspapers and magazines on the iPad, we can all agree that the lack of a subscription model is the platform’s biggest red flag. But that appears to be changing very soon.
According to the San Jose Mercury News, Apple is gearing up to make such an announcement in the coming weeks. Rather than …
An update to Thumbplay’s iPhone app allows users to cache playlists and albums. Other new features and fixes include: an improved UI, retina display support, shuffle/repeat and integrated player controls.
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And the new camera announcements just keep rolling along.
The Canon PowerShot G12 is a mild update to the G11 and the SX30 IS is nothing more than a tweener with a superduper telephoto lens.
Not much is different about the G12 since it has the same sensor but now it records HD (720p) video and has a high sensitivity mode. Oh, and …
Following up on the NX10, Samsung has announced the NX100, a mirrorless 14.6-megapixel shooter with an i-Function lens. It looks a heck of a lot like the Olympus Pen series, doesn’t it?
According the Samsung, the NX100 shares many attributes with the NX10 from the APS-C sensor to the 3-inch AMOLED screen to the HD (720p) video …
Thanks to everyone who entered our contest to win an Xbox 360 Slim and a copy of Halo: Reach. It was a tough decision as there were a lot of very compelling cases but in the end we decided to go with Moonknight4 and Valve.
I think a lot of the already stated developers are really good ideas: BioWare for their masterful story telling,
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“There’s no way a 1.5-inch touch-screen is going to work.”
Famous last words.
Apple’s iPod nano has always been in an awkward position as the middle child in the iPod family. It’s never had the capacity, flair or diminutive size of its brethren but the sixth generation nano is something different. Think of it like the …
What could make a wearable hands-free full HD camera better? How about GPS?
Seattle-based Contour announced just that this morning with the Contour GPS. Like its predecessor, the ContourHD, the GPS model records in full HD at 30fps with a 135-degree (110-degree at 1080p) viewing angle. A built-in GPS module updates a few times per …
Techland has teamed up with Image Entertainment for an epic giveaway from the fifth dimension. The first season of Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone will be released next Tuesday (9/14) on Blu-ray and we have a box set to give away to one lucky reader. If that weren’t enough, our chums at Entertainment Earth have thrown in Gremlin and …
