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Category Archives: Futurist
ModulR Case Liberates Your iPad From Your Lap [Cases]
I like my gadgets how I like my twilight swimming: naked. Cases, like bathing suits, usually just get in the way. But the ModulR case is a little different, letting you mount, strap, or kickstand your iPad in different positions. More »
Springpad Turns Your iPhone Into a Scrapbook for Everything [IPhone Apps]
Are you one of those people who collects stuff? Not material items, but little tiny scraps of information, be they photos, places, products, text snippets, ideas, or plans? Then maybe, maybe, you should try Springpad. More »
Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Best and Brightest Edition [Remainders]
In today's Remainders: excellence. Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as the world's richest man; Battlestar Galactica and the Beastie Boys get mashed-up real good; Everquest data is a motherlode for behavior scientists, and more! More »
The Inventor of the Cellphone Is an Android Man [Android]
Martin Cooper knows a thing or two about cellphones, having invented them and all. And while he's owned an iPhone before, he revealed in a recent interview that his current handset of choice runs Android. Guess which! More »
Mental Math: The PlayStation Move Experience Is Going to Be Expensive [Playstation Move]
Sony barely mentioned pricing with their PlayStation Move motion controller, only noting that the combo pricing with PlayStation Eye and a game will cost less than $100. But by our back-of-the-envelope calculations, the experience is going to be really expensive. More »
Casio G’zOne Brigade: The Toughest Messaging Phone In the US of A [Phones]
The Casio G'zOne Brigade is not a messaging phone you'd want to meet in a dark alley. It's shock resistant. It's water resistant. And like a great kung fu master, its outer strength is matched only by its inner fortitude. More »
Scosche reviveLITE II Charges iPods, Lights Nights [Chargers]
Passat Monster Truck, Ready for The Fast and the Furious: Warsaw Drift [Cars]
Usually it's frustrating to see a kickass video with no background info. This time, I don't care. I don't even want to know how or why someone made a Passat 4x4. I just want to watch that sucker churn. More »
First Peek at the JooJoo Tablet’s Guts [Guts]
When Jason first played with JooJoo's tablet, he caught a fleeting glimpse of a 1.6GHz Intel Atom in the device's BIOS. Via the FCC, now we know for sure: It's based on the Atom processor, and as predicted, Nvidia's Ion. More »
Inflatable Bike Case Protects Your Wheels When Traveling [Travel]
A niche market, yes, but when you reach a certain age and the idea of going on a cycling-and-camping holiday in a foreign country appeals, you've got to consider how to transport your bike over. More »
Cities Go Gaga for Google Fiber [Google]
No one knows exactly how much Google plans to invest in its ISP business, but its reputation as cash giant alone has cities from Anchorage, Alaska, to Sarasota, Florida battling to become the search giant's new test market. More »
The Future Of Camera-Based Input [IPhone Apps]
Not entirely dissimilar to the 2008 patent which showed an iPhone being controlled by camera-based input, is this German student's app, which controls the Maps app being controlled by the camera tracking hand movements through the app. More »
Unreal Engine 3 Got Ported to Palm’s webOS Too [WebOS]
Unreal Engine 3? The graphics engine that powers many, many games (Gears of War, Mass Effect, Arkham Asylum) on consoles today? Ported on to Palm's webOS? Neat, but not as neat as you'd think. More »
Record Labels: Change or Die [Music]
It's a lousy time to be a record label. Profits are tanking, bands are angry—OK Go just ditched EMI—and YouTube and BitTorrent changed the game. Still, some labels are transforming themselves to help musicians in the digital age. More »
Google Mobile Search Reveals What’s In Stock Nearby [Google]
Google Product Search was already a handy shopping aid, but today's addition of local inventory info makes it essential. And like most great ideas, it's only going to get better with time. More »
JooJoo Tablet Gets New Home Screen and Controls [Jooojoo]
Intel’s 6-Core Gulftown Gets Tested, Blows Us Away [CPUs]
Apple iBooks’ Many Ebook Categories Include "Erotica" [Unconfirmed]
Uncovered by research firm Busted Loop, via Forbes, among other data—like 16,700 iPhone apps have been iPad-certified—is a list of possible ebook categories for the iBooks store: More »
I Would Be Happy With Just Half an Infinity Bath [Bath]
Having just a shower in NYC, I miss my large Spanish bath and the tsunamis that sometimes ensued inside. Maybe that's why I got all glassy-eyed when I saw this beautiful Infinity Bath and its custom water-proof touchscreen. More »
















