This cake is not a lie

3 hours ago by Scarlett Madison | 1 comment

We normally don’t look at cooking as a way to generate tech discussions or exemplify geek awesomeness, but this sort of cooking does the trick. Fans of the game Portal should be very familiar with the concept of “the cake’s a lie.” If you played the game, you probably cannot look at cake (or the promise more »

Samsung unveils the smartest window you've ever seen at CES

6 hours ago by Connor Livingston | add comment

“Quite frankly, I feel like I’m in Minority Report and that’s really awesome,” said Ashley Esqueda from Mobile Nations. If there was any doubt that technology was reaching a tipping point where things from our imaginations were becoming a reality, the Samsung “Transparent Smart Window” technology may be enough more »

Website owners, here's how to protest SOPA on January 18th

7 hours ago by Sal McCloskey | add comment

Social news aggregator Reddit.com took the lead and announced that they were “going black” on January 18th to protest SOPA and PIPA. Despite backpedaling in Congress, the need is greater than ever for people to learn what the bills will mean if passed. Other websites need to follow Reddit’s lead. Several more »

Visualizing the answers to the ultimate showdown: "Geeks vs Nerds"

15 hours ago by JD Rucker | 1 comment

For much of the 70, 80s, and even 90s, “nerds” and “geeks” were synonymous for most who used the terms. The words could be interchanged and nobody would give it a thought. After the turn of the millennium, it became clear that the two groups became distinct (if they weren’t already) and headed in different more »

90s kids in 45 years

Yesterday by Scarlett Madison | add comment

If you ask older people today, many would use phrases of disappointment akin to “weeping for the future” or “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.” The perception of the future for the younger generation isn’t much different; cynicism is strong and our future doesn’t seem as bright as it once more »

Samsung Galaxy Note starts the tablet/smartphone hybrid race

Jan 10 by Sal McCloskey | 3 comments

Those of us at CES know have seen a million gadgets and gizmos in the last few hours. We’ve seen cool booths, inventive advertisements, and enough touchscreens to make our fingers bleed. There are many standouts at the show, one of which being the Samsung Galaxy Note. Is it a small tablet or a large smartphone? more »

Link's Love Nest

Jan 7 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

Ah, young love. It warms the heart to see young gaming characters finding each other after a long quest and heading into the world of everlasting relationships as it so often does in gaming lands. Unfortunately for Link, his humble abode may not be exactly what Zelda had in mind. (Via: GabeDraws) more »

Ericsson's vision of a "Networked Society" is beautiful, terrifying

Jan 6 by Sal McCloskey | 5 comments

There’s a fine line between technology that enables a better world and technology that makes us head in the wrong direction. Movies like The Matrix, Terminator, and iRobot have given us a fiction view of what could happen if technology connected us all and eventually had the ability to take over. more »

Internet access IS a human right

Jan 5 by JD Rucker | 19 comments

Technology and philosophy have been at the center of more debates lately than ever before. It’s clear that technology is advancing faster than anyone would have imagined a decade ago, while an argument could be made that the philosophies that brought the world this far are starting to regress more »

Fighting America’s "Brain Drain"

Jan 5 by Tommy Swanson | add comment

The new global economy isn’t defined by the battle for the newest machines or precious ore, but a battle of ideas. Not ideas like concepts, fantastic new technologies, or complex economic models, but innovators and inventors–thinkers and entrepreneurs. With world markets shaky and the more »

Fun and frightful UFO video for the skeptic in all of us

Jan 5 by Sal McCloskey | add comment

Most people fall in the “maybe” category. There are others who are absolutely certain there are no extra-terrestrial UFOs, that they’re just government experiments, fabrications of modern video editing, or misunderstood phenomenon. Others are positive that there are visitors from other more »

Google tosses its hat in the political ring with Google Elections

Jan 2 by JD Rucker | 2 comments

With Iowa deciding on their choice for GOP candidate tomorrow, Google’s timing is much better this election season to roll out their political news and trends trackers at Google Elections. In 2008, they had a similar offering but didn’t release it until just before the conventions. The Dashboard above is, according to Frederic Lardinois of more »

Internet killed the outlet store

Jan 1 by Rocco Penn | 2 comments

The concept of “Factory Outlets” was a brilliant one. For better or for worse, they are dying a rapid death thanks to the internet and the rise of “Flash Sales” in particular. Originally, factory outlets were designed to sell 2nd-grade products directly to the public. The first known outlet store more »

The major video game companies may be off the SOPA list but they still support it

Jan 1 by JD Rucker | 5 comments

It’s one thing to distance your company from a list that had proven in the last couple of weeks to be detrimental to those on it. It’s another thing altogether to come out and oppose something because it’s fundamentally wrong even if doing so has a negative effect on your bottom line. Most of the big more »