Fraunhofer FIT touch-free gesture-control for multiple users (video)
It seems like everyone is cooking up their own touch-free gesture-based control technology, just like every blogger is destined to refer to it as “Minority Report-like” or “Minority Report-esque,” or “Tom Cruise-tastic!” Fraunhofer’s FIT, the newest s…
ExoPC nabs improved screen and e-book app, still on track for a September release (video)
Still pining for one of the best Windows 7 tablets we’ve seen to date? Yeah, we’re talking about the 11.6-inch ExoPC. Well, we’ve got nothing but good news: the company’s still on track for a September release and has been putting the finishing touche…
RIM: BlackBerry 6 to handle media just as well as e-mail
RIM has recently begun revealing details of its upcoming BlackBerry 6 mobile operating system. Yesterday on the Inside BlackBerry blog, the team working on the multimedia capabilities of the updated OS detailed several upcoming …
Archos 8 Home Tablet gets unboxed and examined
We’ve already gotten our hands on the Archos 7 Home Tablet, but the Archos 8 has been considerably harder to come by, and hasn’t made much of a public showing since a brief appearance courtesy of the FCC back in May. The folks at Archos Lounge have no…
HULC exo-skeleton ready for testing, set to hit the ground running next year (video)
Its lack of jetpacks means Heinlein’s visions of future warfare have still not come to pass, but we’re getting closer with word that Lockheed Martin’s Human Universal Load Carrier (HULC) exoskeleton is ready for military testing. Since last we heard o…
Fits.me shape-shifter models the huge pectoral muscles men want, smaller ones they have (video)
While online shopping has taken over most facets of modern retail, buying clothes via the interwebs is something more of a hard sell. The Fits.me shape-shifting mannequin is here to make that a little easier — for men, anyway. Earlier this year the c…
"Universal DRM" renamed UltraViolet, beta starts this fall
The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem (DECE) is moving forward with a brand name and a beta test for its cloud-based “digital locker” system. The name for the technology will be UltraViolet and the beta test will begin this fa…
Josh and Jimmy get busy in hot 4X action (video)
iPhone 4 and Motorola’s Droid X, together on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon in some kind of weird erotic mashup. Gadgets, a band, celebrity impersonations, and more awkward sexual innuendo with an ex-supermodel than a nerd can shake a retina display at…
iPhone 4 drop test yields results (video)
There’s been a lot of fuss about the iPhone 4′s Gorilla Glass “custom glass” comparable in strength to sapphire crystal but 30 times harder than plastic. Sounds incredible, right? But make no mistake, that front glass panel will still break if dropped…
You Bring Your iPhone Paddle, I’ll Bring My iPad Ping Pong Table [IPad Apps]
We’ve seen iPad games that use iPhones as controllers, but Ping Pong Battle has to be one of the most fun looking ones in the bunch. It turns your iPad into a ping pong table and two iPhones into padd…
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