Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5 Billion
I feel bad for Skype, well as much as I can feel bad about any business that was just purchased for a sum I will never see in my life. 8.5 billion in cash. the company has been passed around a lot. it seems the service is great but the marriage had its…
Judas of Anonymous
With Playstation Network still offline, Sony is strongly pointing the finger at Anonymous, an internet hacking group. If you are unfamiliar with the group, they are recently known for attacking the Sony website in response to the lawsuit against George Hotz, who was…
Review: Prophecy by Deborah Jaeger
My husband, Paul asked me a while back if I wanted to review the book “Prophecy.” I was a little hesitant at first because I am not a big reader. He forwarded me the synopsis and I thought why not? I’m a Catholic and this book seemed to play…
Bulletproof Clipboard
Anything can be a clipboard, all it needs to be is flat, reasonably smooth and portable. Well a sheet of polished body armor meets all of the requirements so if you plan to meet with insurgents, take dictation from a dictator or you know just have some really rough…
‘Flora’ digital flower vase by Yoshiki Matsuyama
Flowers are a wonderful gift the problem with the gift is that they can only be enjoyed in one place, and that shipping them from place to place is exensive and hard to do. Flora is a digital flower vase, with a 3D projector and scanner in the base. So any flower you…
TomTom GPS Data, Police wonderland
We have had a raft of stories about how ordinary citizens use GPS datasets to get out of tickets, argue their presence or non presence for a crime. It was only a matter of time before the police attempted to access this datastream, hey they just got myspace down last…
Bento Laptop Tablet by René Woo-Ram Lee
We all have phones, some of us have laptops, and an even smaller subset of people have laptops, phones and tablet devices. No matter what the tech heavy media tries to tell you it is hard to offord all of those things on a modest budget. Which is why you won’t…
True DIY Computer
Steve Chamberlin is more than your average potatoe clock inventor. He has done more than pulling a how to guide off instructables, he is the cheif architect behind Steve’s Big Mess O’ Wires (BMOW) computer, and it is is more than just another off…
James Hance – Relentlessly Cheerful Art
James Hance is the brains and brush behind one of the most wonderful confluences of art I’ve seen in the recent past. His Wookie the Chew stories are heart warming, and unbelievably drawn. a fantastic mix between Star Wars and Winnie the Pooh. I bought a book…
HDTV Retro game fixer
Retro games have a well worn niche in modern popular culture. Some companies like Nintendo even make most of their money off of old IP. How many times can we see Mario and the princess in their little dance with bowser ect? I want a game that breaks the mold….
