Comparable to Snake’s suit in Metal Gear Solid, the Photo Veil is an exterior wrap that is able to create site-specific, high-resolution camouflage for vehicles and soldiers out on the battlefield.
Technology always helped bring the listener closer to the music. Progressing from wax tubes, to records, to cassettes, to CDs, each jump has benefited the music fan. But maybe it’s gone a bit too far.
If Ford can put Sprint 3G in their cars, and now, Opera browsers, what the hell is taking the rest of the industry so long? SHAME!
Mike Elgan, former editor-in-chief for Windows Magazine, writes a great column on how gadgets blogs fail readers. It’s solid feedback and tough love. Here’s my list on why Tech Magazines are failing readers:
Mentalfloss has a list of eight tech product names, their origins and what they could have been called. For example, TiVo could have been Bongo, and Hulu means butt in Indonesian. Haha, butt. [Mentalfloss]
Those of you who have been part of the Giz family for a while will remember our good friend Seamus — he launched Giz AU, helped us cover the Aussie iPhone launch and even took the mantle over at Kotaku while it was without an editor. Well, he’s just launched a brand new podcast called Midnight Update, which covers the tech and gaming news each weekday. As you may have guessed, it hits the webs at midnight…
Even though it’s only six episodes old, Shay’s still managed to start giving stuff away, as well as interview members of the Australian Cricket team. I tell you, the guy’s got influence. So make sure you head on over to the site to check it out, and subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.
The folks at Popular Mechanics have put together a collection of 16 high-tech materials that we could find in future products. Of that group, we have selected some of our more obscure favorites.
According to an article published on the KHQ station website out of Washington State, taxpayers support former Presidents to the tune of $US2.9 million per year. The biggest spender? Good ol’ Bill Clinton.
Judging from his uber-dark, mech’d-out artwork, Kris Kuski probably had a disturbing childhood (or dropped acid in graveyards). But it doesn’t make his pieces any less awesome. galleryPost('apocmechart', 4, '');
Now that the New Years hangovers have well and truly subsided, it’s time to look forward to another fantastic year of gadgets, gizmos and technology. Our question to you today is what are you most looking forward to this year? Is it an Apple netbook? Windows 7? Australian Android phones? The final rise of our new robot overlords? Let us know in comments…
