Crying babies, recycled air, inedible food… but do you know what would instantly make air travel much better? 3D movies. Or, at least, that’s the hope of MasterImage 3D, which is apparently close to sealing deals to put glasses-free 3D on planes and in cars.
MasterImage EVP Roy Taylor is playing coy about which airlines are in …
Remember the moving photos that appear in newspapers and magazines in the Harry Potter stories?
Well someone’s come up with a digital equivalent that could bring news articles to life on tablet computers, phones and e-readers.
Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg worked together to create subtle animated GIF images for the web. They’re …
Had enough of Liking? That’s cool, because Facebook’s just announced a new trick: Sending.
The new feature was unveiled yesterday on the site’s developers blog, and it’s been introduced to deal with something Facebook isn’t well known for: sharing privately.
The Like button, as used on Facebook itself and on thousands of other …
When Facebook Groups launched last October, it came with a fatal flaw for those worried about keeping their activities private: Any group member was able to invite other people in without permission.
It was an idealistic approach to social networking that assumed groups would regulate themselves according to societal pressure. Invite …
Look out, it’s another app trawling for attention by mimicking felonious real-world activities. Meet Dog Wars, a game designed to play just as it sounds: Pit your virtual pooch against others in violent, bloody pit brawls.
“Raise your Dog to Beat the Best!” reads the description, boasting that Dog Wars is “A GAME THAT WILL …
Ever wondered exactly what counts as indecency on television? So do the networks, who’ve been operating without a set of clear definitions since 2004, when the Federal Communications Commission updated the rules and caused considerable confusion about what was and wasn’t acceptable for broadcast. So much confusion, in fact, that the …
Kate who? Royal wedding? What? Internet?! No! Huh?
GigaOM has an interesting post up on whether or not Prince William and Kate Middleton’s nuptials might actually — God forbid — break the Internet. British Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt guessed that over 2 billion sets of eyes across the globe will tune in, which isn’t as wild as it …
When the debut issue of Action Comics, cover-dated June 1938, introduced Superman, it became the first superhero comic book as we know it. Action has been appearing more or less monthly ever since–and sometimes more than monthly. (It was actually weekly for most of 1988.) This week, Action Comics #900 comes to comics stores, making it …
It’s Monday! Time for some handpicked gadget deals.
Refurbished iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G: $329 at AT&T
Yama hama—I thought the first-generation iPad was a good deal when Apple was selling the refurbished Wi-Fi versions for $349. I’d categorize AT&T’s $329 Wi-Fi + 3G refurbished iPad in the well-deserved, yet seldom-referenced …
“It may be difficult to conceptualize the idea of digital paper, but in fact, we believe that’s what’s going to happen,” says then Knight-Ridder director Roger Fidler in this eerily prescient video from way back in 1994. That’s over 16 years ago, in a world where Aol was still America Online and you had to use a screechy landline to sign …
It’s beginning to seem as if Google can’t help itself investing in green technologies. Not only has it decided to build a tower of solar power-collecting goodness and invested $100 million in an Oregonian wind farm, now the company has signed a power purchase agreement for wind energy in Oklahoma.
The agreement is for all power …
The State Department isn’t the only governmental department thinking about how useful smartphones can be, as it turns out; the Defense Department is also working on making sure that every soldier in the US Army and Marine Corps can stay connected with their very own, custom-made, smartphones. And their choice of operating system? …
