Intel’s smart TV remote will recognize you, tailor content to your wishes

It’s all about how you hold it, apparently. Intel’s Labs have churned out a proposal for a new user-identifying system to be embedded into remote controls.


Pulsar clocks spin closer to reality

Contrary to popular legend, Pulsar wristwatches don’t use the light of dying stars to keep time.


RIM’s Blackberry Tablet might be seven inches, feature dual cameras and 1GHz CPU?

The rumor mill’s been churning out quite the picture of RIM’s Blackberry tablet over the past several months, and it’s a research analyst who’s most recently picked up the brush — Ashok Kumar of Rodman & Renshaw, to be precise, who anticipates a 7-inch touchscreen device with a 1GHz processor, plus front- and back-facing cameras for video chat. Since that’s a good 1.9 inches smaller than the slate rumored a couple months back, this latest spiel fills us with doubt… but hey, it’s not like we had confirmation that RIM was even producing such a device, anyhow.


Christie creates baffling 3D HD CAVE ‘visual environment,’ or your average Halo display in 2020

Whenever the word ” Christie ” is involved, you can generally count on two things: 1) you can’t afford it and 2) you’ll want to afford it. The high-end projection company is at it once again, this time installing a truly insane visual environment at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York


Shocker! Apple approves apps for using LED on iPhone 4 as flashlight

Nah, your sarcasm detector isn’t busted — we genuinely are surprised that Apple has lifted the iron fist and allowed a piece of hardware on its handset to be used for something other than Jobs himself intended. It may seem trivial to those who haven’t witnessed Apple block the most sensible of programs in the past, but allowing applications that enable end-user control of the LED camera flash is a pretty big deal .


125cc motorcycle + DIY fiberglass fairing = 214mpg, super cool looks

While the quest for alternate fuels goes on, so too other peoples’ search for the ultimate in economy while running on good ‘ol petrol.