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Rock Band Drum Kit accessibility mod helps everybody rock harder

May 31, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
While we of course rock oh-so-very-hard on Rock Band’s drums, the pedal just never felt right under our weakling calves. The problem is naturally exacerbated for folks in wheelchairs, since there’s no way to avoid the kick drum or re-route it to another button — at least out of the box. Some folks at Kinetic Commun…

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10 Million iPhones in 2008: How?

May 31, 2008


Granted, the iPhone gets a lot of news any day of the week, but today the New York Times, Ars Technica, and Information Week are all raining on Apple’s parade, claiming that Jobs’ prediction of 10 million iPhones in 2008 was way beyond the mark. Macworld steps in with an editorial showing how it is nearly impossible that Apple won̵…

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Napa Valley winery flips on Flotovoltaic solar array

May 31, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Chalk another one up for Sharp. The company has landed yet another partner willing to utilize its solar panels in order to construct news, wow onlookers and give Mother Earth a modicum of a break. Napa Valley winery Far Niente has flipped on its self-coined Floatovoltaic installation, which was developed by Thompson Techn…

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Check Mac Warranty (AppleCare) with Serial Number

May 31, 2008


My work is a Mac shop. Everyone has a Mac, some humans even have two (desktop and laptop). Anyway, I recently decided to do an stock to see what we had and what was/was not under warranty.
I started by making a Google docs spreadsheet and named it “Office Macs.” (Creative…I know). I next went around to each workstation and rec…

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FreeHand puts a pocket on your wrist, L on your forehead

May 31, 2008

Filed under: Wearables
that day and age, there’s really no excuse to have too little room in your average pair of cargo shorts for all the gadgets needed in a day. Convergence and shrinking PCBs have left us with do-it-all handhelds that can fit in the rear pockets of size 2 jeans on a size 4 gal, so really, you have precisely zero reasons to actua…

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Computer designed to read thoughts from brain scans

May 31, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Frighteningly sufficient, that isn’t the first (or second) moment that we’ve seen scientists pat themselves on the back for creating a mind-reading machine, but a committed team from Carnegie Mellon has just announced a computer that “has been trained to read people’s minds by looking at scans of their brains as they thou…

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Utah Teen Courts Apple with Multi-Touch Display

May 31, 2008


“Multi-touch is the future. The mouse and the keyboard has had too lengthy of a reign, it’s day to de-thrown them,” says Bridger Maxwell, a 17-year old from Orem, Utah, who took 4th place in a national science fair for creating a multi-touch display. Apple has already “expressed interest in” him being an intern next y…

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