Word on the tubes is that Facebook is about to drop live, in-browser video chat next week. According to Zuck, Facebook will be unveiling an as-of-yet-secret, ...
GPS tech turns on a light for the blind
The visually impaired don't get a lot of help when it comes to next-gen tech to help them better live autonomous lives. For generations, the most cutting-edge ...
Valve + Nintendo = Gaming heaven?
Valve and Nintendo have sort of been gaming chalk and cheese in the past - but that may not be so forever! Valve co-founder Gabe Newell has whispered what is ...
Foursquare hits the big one-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
Your service is probably pretty fly if you've hit ten million users, and Foursquare as of Monday has become such a service. Foursquare, in case you're dead, ...
Maybe Jobs was right when he used the term ‘magic’ after all…
Magician Marco Tempest has coined possibly the coolest term you're gonna hear all week: technoillusionist. What is a technoillusionist? Why, a magician aided by ...
Kinect
The designers at Loft117 and programmer Jason Belmonti have teamed up to tap the Kinect for something that has been suspiciously absent from its ever-growing ...
Where ‘toy’ ends, and ‘badass’ begins
Add to your personal list of things that don't need to exist (everyone keeps one of those, right?) this remote-controlled car, which has the singular ...
Driving to a different tune with Soundtracks
Are you about ready to throw your car stereo in the trash? You're about to be. Students Robbin Ingvarsson and Waldemar Wegelin have designed what they hope to ...
Twitter hops into bed with iOS 5 for some ‘deep integration’
Monday is going to be an interesting day, to say the least. Rumours surrounding WWDC '11 concern all sorts of neat stuff, including but not limited to what the ...
Photography past meets present – best iPhone accessory ever?
It doesn't get more awesome than this. It does not get more awesome than this. I don't think anyone can argue that the iPhone already takes pretty swell ...
Location-based album launches musical elitism to new heights
Do you exist? Do you like music? If you answered yes to both questions, you'll likely find this pretty neat. Bluebrain, a band based out of Washington DC, have ...
Interaction design taken way, way, way too far
I'm not trying to say the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy, but guys: the folks at the Hasso-Plattner Institute are crazy. Introducing the ...
Infographic of Microsoft’s vast legacy of acquisition
Courtesy of information designer Robin Richards, check this out: a visual map of all 264 companies Microsoft has acquired in its endless quest to dominate the ...
Lego Super-8 camera only further proof that Lego really can solve every problem
I dream of a world wherein we've built everything out of Lego, simply because we can. A post-apocalyptic future after which we've rebuilt humanity from the ...
iPhone 5 dropping on November 21st?
According to British gadget mag T3, the iPhone 5 (or 4S, depending on which rumours you're believing) could be on its way to the UK on November 21st - which ...