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Americans and Brits might chuckle at their respective understandings of words like chips, pants and biscuits — a search engine, however, can’t be quite so discerning. As it turns out, Google actually thinks it can, and has been working on its Knowledge Graph project to prove it
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Google launches Knowledge Graph today, wants to understand real things (video)
Nick Yulman has been doing the whole mechanical music thing for sometime.
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Bricolo mechanical music system hand-on (video)
Sure you love your dog , but having him watch you sit on the sofa doesn’t constitute playtime. Standing up and even running around outside together will surely get the job done, but why get up for exercise when you’re perfectly comfortable on the couch?
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Go-Go Dog Pals lets you exercise Rover without tapping your precious calorie reserve
T-Mobile decided to transform their cute little Carly in magenta dresses to the sexy black leather Carly. The concept does catch many attentions
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T-Mobile New Commercial Capture The HTC One S
You know the old saying: one man’s trash is another man’s oscillographic synthesizer. The de/Rastra project from Kyle Evans takes an old CRT set and turns it into an audio / visual work of art, courtesy of four force sensing resistors, an accelerometer and several switches. Evans’s goal with the project was unlocking the “capabilities intrinsic to all CRT devices” in order to “[break] down the device’s ‘consumption only’ nature.” The result is a rather spectacular performance art video
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The de/Rastra oscillographic synthesizer will make you wish you hadn’t tossed out that old TV set
Electronic mail, or email to those in the know, has become so ubiquitous and transparent that many take for granted the effort and engineering required to make this near-instant communication medium a reality.
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A day in the life of a Gmail email
This was probably a given, but there won’t be any freakishly detailed social profile overlay as you pass strangers on the street in the initial iteration of ” Google Glasses .” Instead, current prototype functionality includes features like photo sharing (directly from the eyewear to Google+), and… well, that could be it
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Google’s Project Glass prototypes can transfer still images, do little else
Google first teased live tab syncing in Chrome 19 beta , and it’s now available for all of us who tread the safer path of Stable releases. If you weren’t living on the bleeding edge for long enough to try the syncing early, you’ll be glad to know that it lets you see and quickly sync all the tabs that are open on any device signed into your Google account. That includes your phone or tablet, if you’ve got Android 4.0 and the Chrome for Android beta loaded up.
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Google Chrome 19 Stable arrives, shares live tabs across your computers and phones (video)
As Tizen’s open-source OS continues to make its first steps into the world, there’s some good news for anyone concerned with a weak app line-up. It looks like both Android versions and Samsung‘s own Bada SDK will be supported through an application compatibility layer (ACL) which works along similar lines to the Android app player on BlackBerry’s Playbook.
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Tizen OS will run Android apps — with a little help from third-party software (video)
You might not know this, but you can literally never have enough all-terrain quadrupedal robots… at least according to us (John Connor might disagree). So, while HyQ from the Italian Institute of Technology might bear more than a passing resemblance to Boston Dynamic’s Big Dog , we won’t hold it against the creators.
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HyQ is the latest all-terrain quadruped bot, tells Big Dog to bring it on (video)
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
