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And Now, For the Future of Digital Art

And Now, For the Future of Digital Art

Alright, this just kicked my netherparts right off my abdomen. Enter Leonar3do. Before watching the video, I was pronouncing it...

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Mice

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Mice

Earlier today, I posted a piece on a group of researchers who have discovered a major security flaw with any...

Shock and Awesome: New Technology Lets Gamers Feel the Noise

Shock and Awesome: New Technology Lets Gamers Feel the Noise

"Interestingly enough," says Shahriar Afshar, "I'm not a gamer myself. I'm a physics professor." Afshar is not of our generation,...

Email, Reduced to A Series of Tubes

Email, Reduced to A Series of Tubes

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/10777240[/vimeo] This is totally flowing my mind. Developed by Dean McNamee and Filippo Cuttica of the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction...

Because Your WPM is Entirely Too High: Enter the USB Typewriter

Because Your WPM is Entirely Too High: Enter the USB Typewriter

Yeah, maybe I talk about iPads and iPad accessories a bit much, but this is seriously cool, so let's just...

New Toshiba LCD Concept Gives Your Arms a Workout

New Toshiba LCD Concept Gives Your Arms a Workout

Finally. Thank you, Toshiba. I've always found that iPhone pinching gesture to be so unintuitive and weird. I mean, yeah,...

Toshiba Takes a Swing at Yesteryear’s Technology

Toshiba Takes a Swing at Yesteryear’s Technology

Man, gestural interfaces are really starting to gain ground, aren't they? Apparently, touch was never enough. Toshiba's been working on...

Just Like Minority Report, Only Really, Really Ugly

Just Like Minority Report, Only Really, Really Ugly

Hey, speaking of things in 2010 that feel like they came from the 80's - no, not me - check...

Your TV Remote Can Just Stay Lost

Your TV Remote Can Just Stay Lost

[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6698128[/vimeo] With all the ballyhoo Google's brought over Google TV in the last 36 hours, it would seem that people...

Toshiba Promises to Hurt So Good with True Tactile Feedback

Toshiba Promises to Hurt So Good with True Tactile Feedback

Apple really likes to tout the iPod Touch (and, by extension, the iPhone and iPad) as a gaming platform. In...

Apple Patents More Stuff, Continues Sliding Downhill

Apple Patents More Stuff, Continues Sliding Downhill

Hold your horses, guys - I don't mean 'as a company'. Apple is wonderful, we all love Apple. But where...