From the VCR (my parents used to have a top-loading VCR similar to that one way way back in the day) to the compact disc (CD) to the personal computer itself, a lot of the technologies that we take for…
If Video Games Were Realistic
The beauty of video games is that they’re not in any way real or realistic. Even games that strive for “realism” are far from it, and in many cases the results that would come from trying to bring some of…
Apple’s Rock and Roll Event Recap
I’m following the live stream at Gearlog to stay on top of the events being announced right now at the Apple Rock n’ Roll event, but already some of the best announcements have been made. iTunes 9 iTunes 9 is…
Palm Unveils the Pixi, The Pre Gets a Price Cut
This morning brought news that Palm had unveiled a new Web OS phone to stand up with the already well known Palm Pre: the Palm Pixi! Think of the Pixi as a smaller, lighter version of the Pre – in…
Cyborg Exoskeletons May Soon Become as Common as Bicycles
Over at H+, there’s an interesting article that runs down some of the cyborg exoskeleton technologies that we’ve heard about in recent years but haven’t seen much more of than a few promo videos and loose articles over. There are…
Turn Your Old Game Boy into an External Hard Drive
Sadly, the page where this project originated doesn’t translate horribly well, but this is what I can gather it says: Thank you _n3o_ for our forums to have carried out this MOD. This Old Gen comforts, the good old gameboy…
How to Build a Hackintosh with Snow Leopard, Start to Finish
Happy 40th Birthday, Internet!
(video courtesy of Boing Boing) 40 years ago today, something remarkable happened. Scientists gathered in a UCLA lab to watch as ARPANET, the predecessor of what we know today as the Internet, sent bytes of dummy data between two computers…