You'd think that smartphones would have made traditional credit cards obsolete by now, but since they haven't (in the US, at least), Morphie's iPhone credit card reader may be the next best thing. Its full details will be shared with us next week at CES, but the system will consist of a hardware scanner [...]
Regardless of your feelings about whaling, you have to admit the fight just got a whole lot more interesting. Check out this video of a Sea-Shepherd-manned (from Whale Wars) carbon-fiber, biofuel-powered EarthRace Trimaran blinding a Japanese whaling boat with lasers. Looks to us like the laser is mostly for warning and intimidation, which [...]
PSSSSST! Hey, Time Warner Cable! If you tell everyone how to watch Fox shows from their PC, they'll probably start doing it for all your other programming, too! Self-defeating bitterness really is the perfect way to say goodbye to 2009. The spat between Time Warner and News Corp has been escalating [...]
Chicago police officer Darren Pedota is at the center of a lawsuit filed by a diabetic man who was Tasered 11 times over the course of a minute while suffering from a diabetic seizure. This isn't the first time an officer has found himself in a similar situation, although in many of those cases [...]
The US Coast Guard has released their best videos from 2009, and this crewman emergency medical rescue mission—using a MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter over a moving nuclear US Navy submarine—just blew me away. Check them out in the gallery. Video Gallery " id="img1013958796"> " id="img1013958810"> " id="img1013958824"> The Coast Guard [...]
Unichal's Dixau DX3 digital dictionary saves you all that trouble of typing out words you don't understand. Instead, it takes a picture of the offending verbiage with a pop-up digital camera and automatically translates it. How efficacious! The Dixau DX3 seems less cumbersome than the Dixau Text Scanner, which required a PC [...]
Only in Japan would you find an arcade with the theme of playing in China's "backstreets." Called Your Warehouse, the whole complex is basically eight stories of rusted scum...that actually provides amenities like towels to sweaty DDR players. [Kotaku] Send an email to Mark Wilson, the author of this post, at < [...]
The New York Times has a fascinating obituary on Kim Peek, the man who was Dustin Hoffman's inspiration for Rain Man's character Raymond Babbitt. Some of his powers were absolutely uncanny: • He could read two facing pages simultaneously, one with each eye. • With that ability, he read 12,000 [...]
An ex-Seagate employee turned whistle-blower claims that Seagate not only stole hard drive-silencing technology from the MIT researchers who developed it and they company they formed, Convolve, but destroyed blueprints to hide the evidence. [NYT, Image via Scoblizer] Send an email to matt buchanan, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@ttam [...]