Author: Jack Loftus

Japanese roboticist Hiroshi Ishiguro is at it again. He’s improved upon his hellish personal twin android with a new model, the uber realistic Geminoid F. It’s totally just like Lt. Cmdr. Data, except you get night terrors. More »

Costing about $1,000 and weighing 33 pounds, the Robo-Skateboard out of the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo will shred pipes of the dream-based variety when it arrives in 2013. More »

PC World’s “iPad Stress Test” starts out kind of lame (shampoo, my man, discover it!), but by the end I had actually learned a thing or two about what not to do with my pending 3G version purchase. Also, donuts. More »

Do I have the time, you ask? No! But I do know that my friend Barry just “checked in” at Denny’s thanks to my Twitter update-pulling Tokyoflash concept watch. Let’s go rob his house! More »

Those deep, curving shots from far outside the table would be impossible with this ping pong door, but that’s OK. When I lose, which happens frequently, I can literally slam the door in my opponent’s face. Imperfection. [Fubiz via Ffffound] More »

Curious about the iPad App Store process and unable to wait until launch day? Take a peak at this video and be satiated. For now. More »

If you want to know what the insides of that beastly Nintendo DSi XL “portable” look like, iFixit did their thing today and removed them all for your viewing pleasure. More »

Hercules, purveyor of various devices, wants you to know the DJ Console Mk4 is the most easily transportable from A to B turntable in existence. Hyperbole? Yes, but there’s no denying this is one diminutive set of 1’s+2’s. Updated. More »

As part of an announcement that should surprise few people, least of all Steve Jobs, Barron’s has named Steve Jobs the “world’s most valuable CEO” thanks to his direct impact on the company’s stock prices and revenue. More »

Apple-loving Lego collectors rejoice: There is yet another (very 1980s looking) dock that combines your love for both things. It’s somewhat gray, but these are Lego bricks—take the basic design and do with it what you will. More »

Chris Anderson is just please as punch that an iPhone friendly non-Flash version of the TED web page is coming soon. “Videos, comments, ratings. Hurrah!” he says. Hey, me too. Nothing like a little inspiration on the go. Updated: Fixed the app-related error. [Chris Anderson] More »

That outage you BlackBerry BIS users may have experienced last night was the March 28 BIS 3.0 upgrade happening—in real time! More »

If anyone has an Ares 1 rocket they need launching, NASA has a brand new, never-been-used $500 million mobile launching pad that’s just itching to hurl something rocket-sized into space. More »

Unfortunately, the razor-saving video tip I wanted to show you today was “old news” from February. But! As I sat there this morning, dejected, I decided to click Google’s very experimental “Transcribe Audio” feature…and nearly crapped my pants with fear. More »

The leaked Nokia N8-00 hardware we spied just days ago got a bit more official today thanks to some intrepid XML file sniffing over at Nokia.com. More »

That luscious HTC HD2, the near-perfect mobile that had it going on in all the right places, save the WinMo 6.5 OS, is seen here doing the impossible: Running a Windows Phone 7 Series ROM. Updated. More »

As iPad launch day draws ever closer, we’ll inevitably start to see more and more dedicated apps for the thing that explain the “magic” and “revolution” (Apple’s words, not mine), it will supposedly deliver. Yahoo! here is a good start. More »

Remember the Loop? It was an accelerometer-equipped remote for media centers that arrived last June. It worked pretty well. Now the company behind it, Hillcrest Labs, is going to try its hand at a web browser called Kylo—for television! More »