Author: kevin

Apr 09, 2011 Silent Film App Can Make You a Techie Charlie Chaplin

Nothing adds nostalgia to a just-taken iPhone video like retro visual effects and silent film-inspired title cards. The Silent Film Director app for iPhones can transform any video you take into a ’60s-style home movie or a 1920s-esque silent film, taking that Instagram effect and amping it up a few notches. The app is available in Standard...

Apr 08, 2011 Latte Art

Apr 08, 2011 New Engine Sends Shock Waves Through Auto Industry

Despite shifting into higher gear within the consumer's green conscience, hybrid vehicles are still tethered to the gas pump via a fuel-thirsty 100-year-old invention: the internal combustion engine. However, researchers at Michigan State University have built a prototype gasoline engine that requires no transmission, crankshaft, pistons, valves, fuel compression, cooling systems or fluids. Their so-called Wave...

Apr 08, 2011 Silicon Valley Needs More Philosopher-Kings

Now that computers have progressed to the point where they can challenge humans on Jeopardy! and defeat a Grandmaster in a game of chess, it's time for us to ask serious philosophical questions about what it means to be "human" during a time of accelerating technological change. If the Singularity is near, what impact will...

Apr 08, 2011 Animated Movie of Tim Minchin’s Beat Poem, Storm

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Apr 06, 2011 Tigers On Surfboards

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Apr 06, 2011 Simple Life Manhattan: A 90-Square-Foot Microstudio

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Mar 30, 2011 Flying Robots Juggle Ping-Pong Balls

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology programmed racket-equipped quadrotors to volley ping-pong balls at each other in the school's Flying Machine Arena. Via io9...

Mar 28, 2011 A Social Business Card

BACK IN SEPTEMBER 2009, a group of 25 students, neighbors and professionals from companies like Google, Apple, Yahoo! and Intel met up at the Los Gatos, California, home of Denny Mayer—“a classic Silicon Valley neighborhood gathering,” he said—to fiddle with a tiny new product called Poken, which allows users to exchange contact information and links...

Mar 26, 2011 Ten Creative New Uses for Old Tennis Balls

Pencil pouch Mobile phone sleeve Mini bag Change holder Check out more creative uses here...