Following today’s Google I/O keynote, Sony CEO Howard Stringer mentioned that Sony’s Android device was dominating the iPhone in Japan. When Eric Schmidt reminded him that “Google doesn’t dominate,” Stringer responded with this, some weird opposite of a backhanded compliment. More »
The Russian art collective Electroboutique erected this curving iPhone tower to provoke dialogue on the relationship between art and industrial design. I totally got that, right after I thought how much it looked like a giant iPhone slap bracelet. More »
IPhone – Handhelds – Smartphones – iPhone 3G – Wallpapers and Themes
I’m sure there were a lot of pretty things on display at this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, but I’m thinking that Crystal, a snap-together LED light by QIS Design, had to be the prettiest. [Designboom] More »
Here’s a surprising fact: 99% of intercontinental data travels through underwater cables (not satellites.) But a report by the IEEE says that those cables, which are essential to international commerce, are vulnerable to sabotage and in urgent need of securing. More »
The Google I/O developers conference kicks off at 12EST/9PT—as in, like, now. We’re on the ground at the conference and we’ll be posting all the best nuggets we can find, but in the meantime you can watch a stream of the keynote over on YouTube. More »
In the snowy Swiss Alps, behind a three and a half ton door that could withstand a nuclear attack and beyond a maze of passageways, scientists are depositing a capsule containing everything future generations will need to decipher our data. More »
Swiss Alps – Puzzle – Switzerland – Travel and Tourism – Technology
If Todd Davis’s face looks familiar, it’s because it’s plastered all over subway stops and billboards—right next to his social security number—on ads for the personal security company LifeLock. His lifelock? It’s been picked 13 times. More »
LifeLock – Identity theft – United States – Todd Davis – Social Security
Last month, Twitter bought Tweetie—our most favorite of all iPhone Twitter apps—with the intention of rebranding it as the free, official Twitter for iPhone app. It looks like that change is imminent—Tweetie 2 disappeared from the App Store this morning without a trace, and presumably Twitter for iPhone will show up sometime soon—possibly even today or tomorrow—to take its place. We’ll have a hand-on when it does. More »
If you’ve been waiting for the iPod-compatible Nike+ heart rate monitor to really start exercising in earnest, well, you’ve been waiting a really long time. But now you can dust off those running shoes and start planning your jog on Google Maps—June 1 is the first day of the rest of your life. More »
A lot of augmented reality applications we’ve seen thus far have seemed a little, well, excessive. But if AR can put me at peace with spiders, snakes, cockroaches, and the rest? That’s a feat deserving of a Nobel Prize. More »
Virtual reality – Philanthropy – Companies – Insect – Phobia
By the end of 2011, two thirds of U.S. airline passengers will be asked to step through one of 1,000 new Rapiscan X-ray machines. But some scientists are concerned about the unprecedented radiation exposure coming along with them. More »
As if making money magically disappear from your bank account wasn’t easy enough, DeviceFidelity’s new In2Pay case, which will let iPhone users make contactless transactions on Visa’s payWave system, will turn you into the Dumbledore of mobile payment. More »
Seagate’s senior product manager Barbara Craig confirmed rumors that the company will be releasing a monster 3TB drive later this year. That’s a lot of disk space! But sorry XP users, the drive will require a 64-bit OS. More »
YouTube turns five this month, and to celebrate the site is taking a look at the many lives it’s reached over the past half decade. With two billion views every day, it’s hard to imagine an internet without it. More »
People – Television – Arts and Entertainment – Events – Ethnicity
If you think your gear runs out of juice at inopportune moments, consider the infantrymen of the world, whose lives depend on their gadgets maintaining a charge. Thus the MetalCell, a magnesium-based battery that charges with salt water. Or urine. More »
This week’s NYT Magazine cover story, penned by Wired’s Gary Wolf, is about people who obsessively collect data on themselves—how much they eat or sleep, how happy they feel, etc. Are numbers the path to a happier life? More »
Four years in the making, the Acadalus tripod head uses motors and an inclinometer to relieve you of fiddling and make sure your shots are absolutely, positively straight. Of course, that perspectival perfection comes at a price: $5000. More »
