Archive for category: Gadgets

Alarm Clock Will Ruin Your Morning, Run Up Your Water Bill
/ August 28, 2012 1:48 pm

Alarm Clock Will Ruin Your Morning, Run Up Your Water Bill

The newest morning torture device is in an alarming class of its own.

iPad University
/ August 17, 2012 12:45 am

iPad University

Beginning this fall, every new student in the BFA program at Philadelphia’s Moore College of Art & Design will receive an iPad preloaded with all the art and design apps needed to bring their education into the tablet age. Moore College is a women’s visual arts school founded in 1848.  Its mission states: Moore is committed to adapting to the [...]

Ouya This and Ouya That – Will It Last?
/ August 13, 2012 8:00 am

Ouya This and Ouya That – Will It Last?

Tech and gaming geek have revelled this past week over the mind-boggling Kickstarter success that the creators and developers of the Android-based Ouya have created. The campaign had asked for $950,000, and they ended up getting $8,596,475 -not bad. So what is it with this newly-proposed console that has earned such an over-whelming reach of support? Well, it’s not very [...]

Protean Echo: The Future of Credit Cards kg
/ August 6, 2012 3:36 pm

Protean Echo: The Future of Credit Cards kg

The Protean Echo may very well be the future of credit cards.   It looks like a flashy platinum card, but it’s oh so much more.  With this card and a smartphone, you can leave your bulky wallet behind. The Echo has the capability to function as any card you own in just a few simple steps. Scan your cards using [...]

Steampunk Xbox 360 Controller For Sale on eBay
/ July 27, 2012 10:57 pm

Steampunk Xbox 360 Controller For Sale on eBay

We've all seen Steampunk console controllers before, but there's something about this subculture that doesn't get old. eBay seller, trioxin kustoms has created a disgusting-looking Xbox controller.

Wi-Fi Robot-Tank Repeater
/ July 27, 2012 8:00 am

Wi-Fi Robot-Tank Repeater

A group of students from Boston’s Northeastern University have built a robot with an antenna array mounted on top of it. It’s basically a mobile hotspot that can keep extending its network by dropping repeaters. Essentially, it’s a reconnaissance thread-driven robot with a deployable Wi-Fi network. It’s all part of a science project called Capstone Design Program lead by Glen [...]

Google Turns Ordinary Humans into Superpowered Cyborgs
/ July 26, 2012 8:44 am

Google Turns Ordinary Humans into Superpowered Cyborgs

Project Glass made an extreme entrance into Google's I/O Conference with wearers skydiving, rappelling, and BMXing, proving that Google, with its ability to make even super-awesome extreme athletes look like geeks, is the world's greatest innovator.

CA-Fi Brings Gingerbread to Car Stereo
/ July 20, 2012 11:13 pm

CA-Fi Brings Gingerbread to Car Stereo

As a young tech enthusiast I envisioned Car Messaging, a system that would allow drivers to communicate. The world skipped from car phone to cell phone to smart phone before I could bring my vision to life, each innovation bringing persecution for its behind-the-wheel use. 110 million Americans own smartphones. If they’re anything like me, they’re not going to put [...]