In what will hopefully one day become a TV movie, a little boy in China was rescued from a well with the help of an iPhone.
The two-year-old fell down a narrow, 40-foot well in Mengzi City, a small city in China’s Yunnan …
Apps & Web
Maybe You’d Be Better Off Without Filters, Instagram
I’m not sure if I have a favorite smartphone app, but I can’t think of one which has given me more pleasure than Instagram.
I like using it to take photos with my iPhone 4S; I like sharing them; I like seeing the photos which …
No Joke: Instagram Is Finally Available for Android
The wait is over. Instagram has finally released an app for Android, available right this second on Google Play.
It’s no secret that Android users coveted the app, which was previous only available on the iPhone. According to …
Galileo Robotic iPhone Dock Lets You Pan and Tilt Video Chats Remotely
Galileo is a Kickstarter project billed as an “iOS-controlled robotic iPhone platform with infinite spherical rotation capability.” Translation: You dock an iPhone into it, which can then be tilted and panned remotely via another …
Flying Cars: Finally Here… Kind Of
Whenever I imagine a flying car, which is quite often for some reason, it usually looks like something out of The Jetsons or Back to the Future. Sadly, today’s flying cars look more like lackluster Transformers.
Not that the …
‘Kinect Star Wars’ Horrifies Fans with Cheesy Dance Minigame
A long time ago at a convention center far, far away, Microsoft promised gamers a Star Wars adventure using the Xbox 360’s Kinect motion-sensing camera. You’d wield a lightsaber by swinging your arms, while tossing Stormtroopers …
Why Groupon’s Fuzzy Math Should Worry Investors
What is it with daily-deals website Groupon and accounting?
via Why Groupon’s Fuzzy Math Should Worry Investors | Business | TIME.com.
April Fools’ Day 2012: The Best Pranks from Around the Web
Each April 1, websites attempt to fool us all with the latest-and-greatest product that in the end turns out to be simply a joke. But it doesn’t stop us from hoping that someday these “breakthroughs” become more than just a …
25 Years of IBM’s OS/2: The Strange Days and Surprising Afterlife of a Legendary Operating System
Big Blue’s next-generation operating system was supposed to change everything. It didn’t. But it’s also never quite gone away
MC Hammer Turns 50: The Relative Rise of an Internet Participator
Today we celebrate the birth of Mr. Stanley Kirk Burrell, known the world over as MC Hammer, who came into this world 50 years ago. This parachute-panted musical hero Hammer-danced his way into our hearts with 1990’s Please …
Pair: A Social App That’s Just for Couples
If you and your significant other were the last two people on Facebook, it’d probably look something like Pair.
The app, which launched this week for the iPhone, lets you communicate with one other person–ideally a spouse or …
Paper: Beautiful, Basic Drawing for the iPad
For a product that never got out of Microsoft’s labs, Courier, the two-screen concept tablet, has certainly been in the news this week.
On Tuesday, an iPad app called Taposé — which tries to realize the Courier dream which …