This is a real thing. It’s called the Jicoo The Floating Bar, and you don’t need three guesses to figure out it’s based in Japan.
It’ll also come as no surprise to learn that this bay-riding bar was designed by a manga artist.
I’m waiting for the inevitable film; The Pubseidon Adventure.
[Jicoo via Dvice and Lost at E Minor]
Google Glass, also known as Project Glass, was revealed at last year’s I/O technology conference, promising a new generation of human-computer interfacing.
In simple terms, it’s the voice- and gesture-controlled computerised eye glasses we’ve seen in movies for years.
I’m not sure if Google is the first to produce something of this standard, but hey, it’s Google. That brings some promise of its own.
Glass has just moved out of the super-private beta testing phase, and Google is now offering regular folk the chance to explain why they deserve to be in the next stage of testing, which will include forking out US$1500 for a pair of the Glases.
…I want in.
“They should invent a treadmill with a laptop built in, and unless you were walking, the internet wouldn’t work. Like, you had to be walking on it, you can’t just trick it and stand on the sides. And if you wanted to download something you had to run, and the faster you ran, the faster it downloaded.”
MiniDisc, We Barely Knew You.
It might surprise the average iPod and iPhone user to learn that Sony’s 20 year-old MiniDisc format is was still in production.
That all ended this week, with the announcement that production of the discs has come to a close. And, in fact, sales of Sony’s MiniDisc player range ended in 2011. Continue Reading…
So okay, the glass can crack, it doesn’t have LTE, it doesn’t have expandable memory, but I give no shits.
November 13 can’t get here fast enough.
For all of its flaws, it’s things like this that keep me coming back Android. Replacing the keyboard with third-party options, extensive file management options, universal sharing options, a (slowly but surely improving) universal design language, and so on.
There’s plenty to complain about when it comes to Android, but it does the trick for me.
So hey I found this video of me. I didn’t realise I was being filmed this whole time. Incredible.
Machine Rewards Strangers With a Cookie For Every Tweet.
Who’s a good tweeter? Who’s a good tweeter? Gooood tweeter.
Apple will, it is alleged, reveal a new ‘mini’ version of the iPad in the coming hours.
Here’s a checklist to get you prepared for the big event.
These are not the same computer: one says Chromebook, one says MacBook Air.
Samsung’s Chromebook, a wi-fi notebook stripped of just about everything but its Chrome browser and the apps therein.
Really, I have no idea where all this “Samsung steals Apple’s design language” has been coming from…
If Apple doesn’t push to sue the ass right out of Samsung (and Google)’s pants for this one, I will be properly mind boggled.
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