Archive for April, 2011

Unbelievable right? Studies show that social media sites such as Facebook trigger the release of hormone oxytocin. Guess what other action triggers this hormone? Cuddling! Dr. Paul J Zak, a professor at Claremont Graduate University, performed a series of blood tests on people before and after they used Facebook. And the results show that after using Facebook, there was an increase of the hoormone oxytocin in their blood stream. More »


One Single Life holds an interesting concept where you only have only one life to play and see just how far you can make it. The tagline question reads, “If everything was on the line, would I have what it takes?” and is apparent in the game play as you control a figure to run and correctly time your jump to make it on to the next level. More »


Touchscreen can be efficient, but your fingers don’t always live up to expectations when it comes to performing contextual actions. However, that all changes with Ringbow’s “mouse” device, a mouse ring for your finger. More »


We’ve all heard about electronic bombs being able to disable everything technological wise around it, but defense contractor BAE Systems, is trying to achieve this feat a High-Powered Microwave (HPM) gun aimed towards disabling small boat engines. If this proves to be successful, the technology may also target ships, UAVs, and missile payloads. More »


Casio is has started shipping their Tryx cameras to Best Buy stores in the US. The 12.1-megapixel camera is available in black and white, both priced at $250, with the latter being exclusive to Best Buy. More »


Did you know that you could use the front camera of the iPad to make a pretty convincing 3D effect? Jeremie Francone and Laurence Nigay from the Laboratory of Informatics of Grenoble have put together a video showing just how to do so: More »


eBay will celebrate Earth Month by paying customers for small broken Apple electronics until April 30th. Prices will be paid for up to $150 for iPads, $100 for iPhones, and $50 for iPods. More »


It has recently been reported that Twitter is currently in talks with TweetDeck to acquire the Twitter client for around $50 million. Earlier in February there were also reports on UberMedia offering between $25-$30 million for TweetDeck. More »


According to Ming Chi Kuo, an analyst at Concord Securities, the iPhone 5will support both GSM and CDMA and it will look like the current iPhone 4. It will also come with an improved antenna. Furthermore, it will be powered by a Qualcomm chip. More »


If you think that toilet’s can’t be smart, think again! Although you usually don’t hear about technological innovations in a bathroom due to highly dangerous hazards of being electrocuted, Kohler has brought in a high tech toilet system called Numi. More »


Today’s unique USB, courtesy of BubblyMe, features a Galaxie 300 bowling ball flash drive. Man, this has got to be one of, if not, the biggest USBs I’ve ever seen. More »


Or queen, if you name your iPad 2 a “she”. But Consumer Reports has announced that Apple’s iPad 2 has topped its tablets ratings. No surprise there. More »


Voxy, a service that allows you to learn a language “from life”, has just updated its iPhone app in the App Store. But there’s a difference, as Voy’s ESL app Aprende ingles now uses your location to help you learn a language. More »


From Htcyou: Google is a world leading search engine but to the Korean search engines Daum and Naver (created by NHN), they view some of Googles actions as unfair. According to their complaints to the Fair Trades Commission, Google has been blocking off access to mobile search competition on Androids and also sets itself as the default search engine making it difficult to change. More »


From Wirebot: Meet the Razer Switchblade, a small portable PC with the ability to customize the keyboard for gaming (as featured above). It will come out first in China, along with a plethora of games developed by one of China’s largest Internet and gaming companies, Tencent. More »


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