By R.J. Huneke | Apr 8, 2012
That’s right, the augmented-reality glasses are reality, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin was wearing them all around town (or at least at a San Francisco charity event).
Just imagine driving a Back to the Future-like flying hover car and having the directions of your mother-in-law’s famous ham dinner destination streamed via Google Maps directly to your glasses.
This is not Star Trek: the Next Generation; Google is really testing Project Glass all over the west coast of the US.
Rumors began to spread last December that Google was working on high-tech glasses with a wearable head-up display that could tap into cloud-based location services and detail users’ surroundings.
The details are still up for speculation, but the lightweight glasses seem to place a mini-computer onto the frame’s right side of the coolest hipster glasses imaginable.
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By R.J. Huneke | Mar 29, 2012
Riding the wave of solid-state chips, Morphlabs had introduced the world to the first ever all solid-state drive (SSD) private cloud platform to be far faster and more reliable
In a steadily growing virtual world, the Cloud – whether it be Amazon’s or Apple’s or anyone else’s – has revolutionized the use of computer data storage.
Using an innovative new “mCloud Data Center Unit (DCU),” the company has kept its pricing in line with the cost of Amazon or Rackspace by combining compute, networking and storage tech — but with 10-times the input/output operations per second (IOPs) performance, thanks to the SSDs,” Morphlabs VP Yoram Heller told Cloudline.
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By R.J. Huneke | Mar 14, 2012
Following a trend of free promotions that began with the free iBook download of the New Avengers #1 comic, Marvel has started to offer traditional comic buffs a new technological incentive: readers now receive a free digital copy of every $3.99 paper comic book they buy!
Avengers Assemble!
There are certainly myriad comic book connoisseurs that have already preordered the first true High Definition retina-like screen wielding iPad from Apple, and now they will have all of the ammunition to soak up the gorgeous clarity and vivid coloring of the tablet with any of the Marvel super hero comics.
Are we in the middle of an Iron Man-like technologically innovative Tony Stark revolution?
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By R.J. Huneke | Mar 7, 2012
At just over eighteen miles-per-hour, DARPA’s funded and Boston Dynamic’s newest animal-based robot, the Cheetah, is the world’s fastest bot and can run with the likes of Usain Bolt and a couple of other extraordinarily talented freaks of Olympic nature.
One of the most fearsome and suspenseful characters in Ray Bradbury’s masterpiece Fahrenheit 451 is the fireman’s ultimate weapon: their artificially intelligent robotic dog. This creature is made to run down any transgressors trying to escape from a book hoarding crime scene in a future where books are outlawed and ruthlessly burned by the fire department.
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By R.J. Huneke | Mar 2, 2012
The technological advancements storming out of Japan now include two researchers’ methods for building a conversation ending SpeechJammer gun.
Imagine the board room meeting droning on for hours on end, and the very second a couple of the corporate clowns bend their heads down to joke with one another at a whisper (so that they can placate themselves and not lose their sanity in such a dry environment) the director points a radar gun-like device at them and – BAM – silences them instantly.
The device created by Kazutaka Kurihara, from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tskuba, and Koji Tsukada, at Ochanomizu University is not science fiction. On the other hand, it is simple, easy to engineer, and fully functional. It can stop people from talking in mid-sentence.
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By R.J. Huneke | Feb 14, 2012
We are watching you! Stop Google, Facebook, and every other servant to advertisers from collecting your personal information now!
The cameras are on, the eyes in the painting move to follow us as we traipse about the bedroom, and even our search – for which movie won’t tank on Rotten Tomatoes – is being recorded.
Then it is being scrutinized and put into information banks by browsers, search engines, social media sites, and anyone else that has advertising ads online.
Does this sound like science fiction, or a 1984 time descended upon us upon us in the twenty-first century?
This is the state of many countries around the world, including the US, where there are no laws protecting Internet users from surrendering personal information.
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By R.J. Huneke | Nov 2, 2011
Energy is something that everyone has to struggle to think about daily, because of wasted fuel and high costs, but what if it did not have to be that way? What if the heating and cooling brain in the consumer’s living space, the thermostat, could program itself?
Welcome warmly, or coolly depending on the weather, the Nest Lab’s newest creation: the Nest!
The new company from Tony Fadell, the designer for eighteen iPods at Apple, launches the sexy wall item, the Nest Learning Thermostat, in November for $249.
The Nest, for all intensive purposes, thinks about how the user likes their temperature. All that is required is for the energy-minded to continue to turn the thermostat up and down according to when they leave the home, or go to sleep, or the seething summer heat requires A/C, or the frigid pre-November snow asks for more warmth ASAP.
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By R.J. Huneke | Sep 6, 2011
When did the societal socialization of the human species go from talking to texting (vocal-chords not required) to instant messenger via touchscreen-happy smartphone?
September 1st was the day.
Facebook Messenger has long been a trick to the trade of up keeping various friendships, regardless of busy schedules, contrasting time zones, and imposing work queues. The free “Facebook Messenger” App mobilizes the instant messenger everyone is using incessantly!
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By R.J. Huneke | Aug 23, 2011
Streaming has been revolutionized again!
The Roku 2 XS is the newest TV streaming component to hit the shelves this month, and Roku, the original device company for Netflix, has spared no expense.
When it comes to TVs and you–the consumer’s–system, folks, small and thin is sexy.
Roku has beautifully crafted their newest streaming device to rival the Apple TV, but at a cost of less than ninety-nine dollars. And it is smooth, silky black, and shaped to be roughly the thickness and overall size of a hockey puck.
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By R.J. Huneke | Aug 11, 2011
Waiting on endless summer lines at the ice cream shop have never been so bloody, or so filling, as they are with the “Hungry Shark Part Three” App being handy.
The third installment in Future Games of London’s hit “Hungry Shark” series offers up a fun way to get out any frustration on the iPhone or Droid. Simply fire up the free “Hungry Shark Part Three” App, and let the tilt-a-phone touchscreen controls guide a great white to chomping onto anything that could resemble food from a shark’s point of view (and this includes people, folks).
The intuitive game controls allow phone tilting to move the vicious-looking shark about in the water, as it scours the floor for scampering crabmeat, or the surface for bikini-clad appetizers. The gameplay takes a little getting used to, and care is needed because the great white can be beached, which will slow down the toothy predator and hurt its health.
The “Hungry Shark Part Three” App’s HD graphics are beautiful. The animated people that haphazardly run away, the vitreous water backgrounds, and the baby white shark that grows into a gargantuan great white, after consuming a steady diet of swimmers and sea creatures, are all impressive to the eye.
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