Have a loved one overseas or business partner that requires sending consumer electronic goods back and forth across the pond? If USPS is your current shipping choice, you’re going to want to find another. According to FastCompany, after May 16th, the USPS is refusing to ship any electronics with lithium batteries abroad due to the batteries’ highly volatile nature. The USPS also cites two fatal airline incidents since 2006 which authorities say were caused by...
We already knew Barnes & Noble was looking to spin off their digital book/ereader device business from an announcement made earlier this year. What we didn’t see happening was Microsoft becoming a key player seeing as how they’ve been pretty litigious with Barnes & Noble over their use of Android and various cases of patent infringement. But that’s all water under the bridge now as Microsoft has announced a $300 million dollar investment in...
Many of you out there in internet land have no doubt gotten that super agent/spy “itch”, most likely after watching your favorite secret agent movie. For us, James Bond and the Bourne series are our favorites in recent memory. And every time we watch said movies, we get that fantasy of ours going thinking about just how awesome it would be to live out the lives of a secret agent. Thanks to hammacher-schlemmer, we can stop dreaming and start living. Their $49.99...
What if you could take Facebook pokes and bring them into the physical world? If given the chance, would you? Dutch Designer/Developer Jasper van Loenen has created a way to do just that! He calls it the Poking Machine. It’s a wearable device that pokes you, physically, whenever you are poked on Facebook. Creating a custom circuit, van Loenan enables a motorized lever connected to a 9-volt battery and a Bluetooth chip, to extrude and resembling a human finger, poke the...
UPDATE: After further consideration, it appears as if I was wrong about this. Many users state that it is only the traffic view. Inside of iOS 5.1, Apple gave users very few new (major) features. And among those new features, only a small handful were announced. After the weeks following it’s release, journalists and iOS users worldwide have continued discover new features. Just yesterday, Zac alerted us to a new feature with Siri and Yelp™, allowing users to open...
It isn’t exactly rare for another company to copy some of Apple’s exquisitely designed pieces of technology. It’s been happening since the beginning of Apple’s smartphone days. When Apple released the Smart Cover, other companies looked at it with the same envy as they did with Apple’s electronics. Mostly Chinese, the companies produced cheap knockoffs that would often fall apart after light usage. On the 20th of March, Apple was granted...
