Archive for the 'Technology' Category

March 15th, 2011

Guy Hacks Times Square Video Screens Using iPhone

Damn... Technology is getting serious. 'The way it works is pretty simple: plug in my transmitter into the iphone 4 and play back any video clip. you can play it through the ipod feature or through the camera roll. the transmitter instantly sends the video signal to the video repeater and the video repeater overrides any video screen that ...
February 23rd, 2011

Apple x iPad – March 2nd iPad 2 Announcement

Apple peeling it back and bringing a March 2nd announcement to the table...... Gonna be interesting to see what's added and what gets left behind.
February 18th, 2011

“Dead Drops” in New York

As part of his EYEBEAM residency in NYC, Aram Bartholl created "Dead Drops," an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space where USB flash drives are embedded into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody in public space. from wiki: A dead drop or dead letter box, is a location used to secretly pass items between ...
February 17th, 2011

The iPhone Telephoto Lens

Most of you know I'm a big fan of photography, so this type of product is right up my alley. This 8x telephoto zoom lens for your iPhone is pretty rad. It may look a little odd, or seem like it would be a pain to carry with you. But the ability to zoom in with your camera phone like this creates some pretty interesting opportunities for capturing ...
February 11th, 2011

Discovery Space Shuttle – The Time-Lapse Movie

Finally able to peel back the curtain and see something I've always wondered about.... Space shuttle Discovery gets prepped for flight—in just under four minutes.
February 7th, 2011

Best Non Goal Call Ever – Alajuelense At Limon

You can probably throw Costa Rican side Alajuelense on the top of the list of teams that will support any future form of goal line technology after having this goal not being counted on the road against Limon. To make it even worse, they lost 0 - 1.  And if you don't think that non call didn't fire things up in this match, the referee ended up ...
February 4th, 2011

Blackouts in Brazil Raise Concerns About World Cup Readiness

'A widespread blackout cut power to millions of people across Brazil's northeast Friday, but officials insisted the accident should not raise worries about the energy supply in a nation that will host an Olympics and a World Cup.' (more...)
February 4th, 2011

FIFA Approves Goal-Line Technology Testing

'Soccer's rule-makers will consider the results from tests on 10 different goal-line technology systems when they meet for their annual meeting in Cardiff next month.' (more...)