‘Technology’ Archives
Tokyo vending machine obsession now includes a hamburger machine.
CNNGO - Tateishi Burger is an old-school hamburger joint with a faux-modern twist: Patrons can order burgers through a coin-operated 'vending machine.' In a country obsessed with vending machines this one takes the love affair to a new, albeit technically inferior level. Pop in ¥100 and out drops the Tateishi Burger. Plop in ¥300 to the [...]
Some people need help to kick their internet obsession, says article you can only read on the internet
Boston Globe - The trouble signs are all there. They don’t sleep enough, they don’t eat right, they’ve lost touch with their friends, and their school performance has dropped off a cliff. Their worried parents bring them to the doctor, fearing drug abuse or depression, but the evaluations come up empty. A doctor at Children’s Hospital [...]
For some reason this has Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy written all over it. Oh and thank you for the fish.
Gizmodo - Repair work on the Large Hadron Collider is making serious progress, with a test run of particle beams already completed. Scientists are hoping to attempt full world-ending experiments next month. The results of that first test, a run of particle beams through the 17-mile tunnel, showed the machine in perfect working order. The [...]
2010 may be the apocalypse for Hulu
Gizmodo - AllThingsD's Peter Kafka is busy dousing concerns that recent statements by News Corp's Chase Carey—that "It's time to start getting paid for broadcast content online"—mean that Hulu is going to die, dead. He makes a good point: Read More
10 Things You Need to Know About Apple Today
Gawker - Cupertino released a lot of new products today, and it was easy to miss a lot in the press release onslaught. To stay versed in the Tome of Apple, here are 10 things you need to know: Click Here to Read More
Neato! 2010 olympic medals to be made from old circuit boards
Technabob - It’s already pretty awesome to get a gold medal. Really – it means that for at least one day, you were the best in the world at something, and there’s no arguing with that. But Olympic medals have become increasingly more beautiful, too, and the medals for the 2010 Vancouver winter games are no exception… and it doesn’t hurt [...]
The Inventor of the Web Is Really Sorry About Destroying So Many Trees
Gizmodo - Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who usually gets the cred for inventing the world wide web, says there is one thing he'd do differently if he did it all again: He'd dump the double slash that follows http in web addresses. He apparently laments all the trees and time that's been killed by people having to type and print out "http://" instead [...]
CERN researcher arrested for links to al Qaeda and possible plot to destroy the Earth
BBC - The 32-year-old man of Algerian descent was one of two brothers detained in the south-east town of Vienne on Thursday. Police believe they had been in contact over the internet with people linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and had been planning attacks in France. Cern's Large Hadron Collider is aiming to recreate conditions of [...]
Comcast is so not Comcastic when it comes to the FCC.
Gismodo - As soon as FCC's Julius Genachowski takes out his mighty sword to kill internet providers' greed-driven traffic filtering, the fat cats are already attacking. A Comcast fat cat named David L. Cohen, who of course is playing the FUD card. Cohen is Comcast's executive vice-president for broadband, who believes that FCC should get their [...]
iPod Nano 5G reviewed.
- I like the idea that the nano is trying to be but since i have an iPhone 3G (I really wish I had the 3GS) it's def not something I'm interested to buy. But one thing for sure for all you out their sans-iPhone/iPod Touch this could be a nice new purchase. Gizmodo - The newest iPod Nano is incontrovertibly a step up from last year's model, [...]
