GuitarBud is a $US29 adaptor that allows you to plug a guitar right into an iPhone. How is that useful? Well if I ever learned to play that guitar in my closet, I could:
You know how you pay a fixed monthly fee for your phone, and can check email and Twitter, surf the web and the Yelp app anytime you like without counting minutes or megabytes? Yeah, well that’s all gonna end.
In today’s Remainders: sights! Visit Paris in your browser with a magnificent 24-gigapixel photograph; behold America, circa 1972, in the EPA’s 15,000 photograph Documerica project; learn why octopuses like HDTV just as much as you do, and more.
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I should be in awe of this autonomous, two-wheeled prototype robot by Toyota, dreaming of The Jetsons and Wall-E. But instead, all I can think is, “Who needs a robot that just balances crap on its head?”
After seeing it at CES, there was little doubt. The 50-inch Panasonic TC-P50VT20 wouldn’t just be among the first 3DTVs on the market, it would be among the best. The first two reviews are in, and they are glowing.
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I’ve got to hand it to Mosspuppet: he’s always on top of the latest trends. This time out: Chatroulette! And while it ends with Mosspuppet’s most cherished dream fulfilled, it’s also. Totally. Gross.
Sony’s XMB may be a bit of a RAM hog, and Microsoft’s Project Natal will require about 15 per cent of the Xbox 360′s resources. But the new PlayStation Move controller? Its footprint looks light.
For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I want you to take Sony’s new PlayStation Move and put it in some real contexts. It’s supposed to let you pretend to play with guns, swords and other objects, right? Let’s see it.
What could this be? A futuristic mood ring? The view from inside a wormhole? Nah. Those are too abstract. This is based on something all too real and totally inescapable.