The Board of Awesomeness is now lugging groceries at a Whole Foods in Texas. Last month, Chaotic Moon Labs’ Board of Awesomeness was one of the stars of CES in Las Vegas.
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Microsoft Kinect Games Grocery Shopping at Texas Whole Foods
This week on the Gadget Lab podcast you’ll meet new members of the Gadget Lab family as the gang talks about Google’s rumored augmented-reality glasses, the Nike FuelBand and the latest rapper-endorsed audio gear.
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Gadget Lab Podcast: Google Glasses, Nike FuelBand, 50 Cent’s New Headphones
According to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, the Evi digital assistant app will not be booted from the iTunes App Store as long as the app’s developer makes changes relating to the software’s user interface.
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Evi Can Stay in App Store if Developer Changes the UI, Source Says
Coyotes of the Ice Age were far bigger and stronger compared to today’s species, but suddenly shrunk after wooly mammoths and other megafauna died out. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek reports the latest ideas about this mysterious shrinkage
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Honey, I Shrunk the Coyote
Coyotes of the Ice Age were far bigger and stronger compared to today’s species, but suddenly shrunk after wooly mammoths and other megafauna died out. Laelaps blogger Brian Switek reports the latest ideas about this mysterious shrinkage
We’ve noted before the cloud watchers’ penchant for seeing Apple’s bear-hug of the cloud with OS X Mountain Lion as the next big thing. And Microsoft wasted no time with its on-schedule-but-nonetheless-pressing announcement that Windows 8 was also on track for cloudification. So the next step in this tale of Mac vs
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Will Apple’s Mountain Lion Make Microsoft, Facebook BFFs?
Public acceptance of climate change was at its prime in the mid-2000s, yet political bipartisanship also hit a high point. As the economy began to plummet, people began listening to politicians on climate change instead of scientists, new opinion-poll-based research suggests
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Americans Listening to Politicians, Not Climate Scientists
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Twitter Pulls Plug on @OscarsAudioGuy Spoof Account
In the movie Fantastic Voyage , a crack surgical team is miniaturized inside a ship. Their mission: to destroy a blood clot in the brain of a Soviet-era informant. Given the relatively vast distances covered inside the body, however, movie makers probably should have equipped vessel with rocket motors instead of propellers — and engineers have now designed nanorockets that would’ve fit the bill.
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Video: First Nanorockets Might Shuttle Drugs, Robo-Surgeons
Facebook is developing a mobile payments system that, while limited, could blossom into a powerful, cross-device, inherently social mobile shopping platform, giving it access to real-world revenue and shopping data that would make Google blush. Then cringe. Then probably get really mad
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Facebook’s New Initiative Promises to Make Cross-Platform Mobile Payments Real
As rumors swirl around Google’s plans to announce head-up display glasses by the end of the year, the company has quietly begun advertising for a designer and engineer responsible for augmented-reality mapping.
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Google Hiring Augmented-Reality Experts Amid Rumors of HUD Glasses
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No Bully For You, Kid: F-Words Earn Bullying Doc an ‘R’
In one sense, the U.S.-led coalition has itself to blame for the riots and killings that have raged across Afghanistan in the wake of last week’s accidental burning of the Koran by American forces. Too many U.S. troops habitually disrespect their Afghan trainees, according to some of the elite forces who head up those training sessions
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Cultural Cluelessness Threatens U.S. Commando Strategy
If you haven’t gotten the message already, Michael Dell wants you to know that his PC company is “not really a PC company.” Nowadays, Dell is a server company and a storage company and a software company and a services company and even a networking company. “It’s not really a PC company. It’s an end-to-end IT solutions company,” Michael Dell said on Monday morning at a press event in San Francisco as the company unveiled a new collection of hardware gear for big businesses
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Michael Dell: My PC Company Is ‘Not Really a PC Company’
As an individual’s wealth and status rise, so does their tendency to be unethical, concludes a new study of the relationship between socioeconomics and ethics.
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Greed Isn’t Good: Wealth Could Make People Unethical