January 31st 2010
Portland, Oregon is so into the green movement that they’re going to cover their federal building from floor to ceiling with a 200-ft. wall made from living, breathing vegetation.
The living wall is…
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Tags: Energy Saving, Ft Wall, Green Movement, Portland Government, Portland Oregon, Vegetation
January 31st 2010
Comedian Stephen Colbert is hosting the Grammys, and to mark the occasion of “Song of the Year” (Put a Ring On It), he pulled out his shiny new iPad.
Notable because it’s one of the first out in the…
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Tags: Apple Ipad, Comedian, Grammy, Grammys, Hosting, Occasion, Stephen Colbert
January 31st 2010
In this case the burning sensation is “delicious,” not “first degree and could result in your death.” And apparently it really works too, although the advertised “time to awaken” period seems a bit…
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Tags: Burning Sensation, Fire Alarm, Fire Alarms, First Degree
January 31st 2010
Amazon has given in to Macmillan, and will switch to a pricing model that sees bestseller and new hardcover releases offered to customers at $12.99 to $14.99. The official statement is as…
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Tags: Amazon, Bestseller, Macmillan, Pricing Model, Sell Ebooks
January 31st 2010
Boss: “Jensen, I wouldn’t wipe my ass with your TPS reports, such is my disdain for your work.” Jensen: “That’s too bad, sir, because you just did in the restroom!” You see, readers, this scene…
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Tags: Boss, Disdain, Jensen, Restroom, Toilet Paper, Tps Reports, White Goat
January 31st 2010
The Unclaimed Baggage Center, a real, live place where—wait for it—unclaimed airline baggage goes to market, is a smorgasbord of eclectic lost gadgets, guidance systems and diamonds, oh…
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Tags: Diamonds, Gadgets, Guidance System, Guidance Systems, Lost, Navy Guidance, Odd, Smorgasbord, Unclaimed Airline Baggage, Unclaimed Baggage Center
January 31st 2010
The comparisons to another recently revealed tablet are unavoidable, but believe you me the similarities end with the aesthetics. Inside there’s Windows 7, flash support and multitouch. In fact, the…
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Tags: Aesthetics, Flash Support
January 31st 2010
There’s nothing new coming your way in terms of aesthetics from MSI’s line of “C” laptops, but under the hood we’ve got Core i Series processors. One of these fellas even sports an ATI Radeon HD5470…
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Tags: Aesthetics, Ati Graphics, Ati Radeon, Budget, C Line, Fellas, Graphics Cards, Laptops, Line Features, Msi, Radeon Graphics, S [...]
January 31st 2010
Today’s secret word is “serving tray.”
[Funny or Die]
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Tags: Humor, Ipad, Pee Wee, Playhouse, Secret Word, Serving Tray
January 31st 2010
Lumix will flood the market with a new series of F-line point and shoot cameras next month. Officially revealed at CES, the line already had its specs spelled out, but not pricing or release window….
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Tags: Ces, Flood, Point And Shoot Cameras
January 31st 2010
Our platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. The biggest news in the e-book world this week was unquestionably the launch of the Apple iPad and the iBooks application. The iPad will do many things, but Apple is [...]
January 31st 2010
Lumix will flood the market with a new series of F-line point and shoot cameras next month. Officially revealed at CES, the line already had its specs spelled out, but not pricing or release window….
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Tags: Ces, Flood, Point And Shoot Cameras
January 31st 2010
During that Apple town hall meeting we mentioned earlier this week CEO Steve Jobs reportedly had some choice words regarding Google that left little doubt about how the outspoken executive sees the…
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Tags: Apple Town, Bulls, Ceo Jobs, Choice Words, Doubt, Google, Mantra, Quot, Steve Jobs, Town Hall
January 31st 2010
Future comic book heroes may be referred to as Men of Spongy Steel if one researcher’s experimental metal makes it out of the lab and into real-world applications.
There’s no fancy name attached to…
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Tags: Ass, Comic Book Heroes, Experimental Metal, Fancy Name, Real World, Researcher, Science Book, World Applications
January 31st 2010
The writing was on the wall as recently as 2 a.m. this morning, and an open letter from Macmillan CEO John Sargent has confirmed everything we suspected: Macmillan books were pulled from Amazon store…
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Tags: Amazon Store, Books Amazon, Ceo John, Deletions, Ebooks, John Sargent, Macmillan Books, Price War
January 31st 2010
So says Mark Cuban, opining about the potential for children’s entertainment and media consumption with the iPad. The man owns a basketball team and was on Dancing with the Stars, people. Technology…
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Tags: Basketball Team, Dancing With The Stars, Deep Thoughts, Ipad, Mark Cuban, Media Consumption, S Entertainment, Team Owner
January 31st 2010
There’s no getting around it: Microsoft’s original Xbox 360 wireless adapter was a colossal piece of crap and a complete waste of money. It was extremely expensive at $100, and on the off occasion it would actually hold a connection it was unreliable. Instability led to terrible latency issues that hindered high-def streaming and made [...]
January 30th 2010
As data visualization has become more popular, bad infographics have started to crop up more and more frequently. Thankfully, we can always rely on Michael Paukner to make very, very good ones. Here…
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Tags: Data Visualization, Earth, Infographics, Satellites
January 30th 2010
This could very well be the world’s first Swiss Army Knife. Bearing a striking resemblance to modern multi-tools, it has at least six distinct functions and originates from the Roman Empire circa 200…
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Tags: Distinct Functions, Multi Tools, Roman Empire, Striking Resemblance, Swiss Army Knife, Swiss Bearing, Swiss Knife
January 30th 2010
I think Mozilla just set a record for the fasted progression from a release candidate to a final version of software. Has anyone else done that in a two days? Mozilla did with the final release of Firefox Mobile for Maemo, which followed Release Candidate 3 of the mobile browser by 48 hours. Then again, [...]