Saturday, March 13, 2010 - Page 2

GuitarBud Plugs A Guitar Directly Into An iPhone

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:


Say Goodbye To Unlimited Wireless Data Plans

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.


Gadgets

Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Take A Look Edition

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.


Wheelie Robot Is Adorable But Performs Useless Task

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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?”


First Reviews Of The Panasonic TC-P50VT20 3DTV

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.


Science

The Void Between Protons And Electrons Makes Us All Phantoms

Are you real? You may seem real and solid, but you are mostly made of empty space. To demonstrate it, someone enlarged an electron to the size of one pixel, proportionally showing its distance from an equally scaled proton.


Online

Mosspuppet Discovers Chatroulette And We All Throw Up A Little

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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.


Gaming

PlayStation Move Requires A Scant 1-2MB Of RAM

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.


Insert The PlayStation Move Wand Into The Situations It’ll Let You Simulate

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 Is This?

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.