In addition to satellites and computers smaller than a giant room, Arthur C. Clarke also predicted mobile touchscreen devices that could be crumpled up like a handkerchief and stuffed in a pocket. Thanks to researchers at Japan’s Semiconductor Energy Laboratory company , we’re almost there. Read more…
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Tri-Fold Touchscreen OLED Could Give You Way More Smartphone Real Estate
The same team who released the kind of sketchy iOS 7 jailbreak has released a jailbreak for iOS 8.1. Currently, it’s Windows-only, in Chinese, and doesn’t install Cydia by default. Read more…
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iOS 8 Jailbroken, We Recommend Holding Off for Now
Some people sure do work quick. Team Pangu has just made available a jailbreak for iOS 8.1—and it works on iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and the iPad Air 2, along with older devices. Read more…
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There’s Already an iOS 8.1 Jailbreak For the iPhone 6
The folks at Carnegie Mellon’s Future Interfaces Group have made something really cool. Essentially, they are using small lasers to paint icons onto your skin through the bottom of a watch. The icons are touch sensitive and can be projected in any shape. The team consists Gierad Laput, Robert Xiao, Xiang Chen, Scott E. Hudson, and Chris Harrison, researchers at CMU’s… Read More
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Skin Buttons Are Working Buttons Projected Onto The Skin
Apple has a second big event planned for this fall, and it’s happening this Thursday, Oct. 16 at its own Town Hall theater in Cupertino. The event promises to deliver a few different new product announcements, likely including new iPads, and new Macs, as well as the public introduction of OS X Yosemite, Apple’s next major desktop operating system. iPad What we know so far suggests… Read More
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What To Expect From Apple’s iPad And Mac Event
iPhone: Google has updated the Chrome browser for iOS with a new download feature. It also gets better support for the iPhone 6/6+. Read more…
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Chrome for iOS Now Downloads and Save Files in Supported Applications
As part of Yahoo’s ongoing mid-life crisis, the company very quietly announced today that it’s killing off the original internet directory that gave the company its name. Read more…
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Yahoo Very Quietly Kills Off Yahoo
One of the six simple machines, a screw is nothing more than an inclined plane wrapped around a center pole. While today screws come in standard sizes, and typically are tightened by turning clockwise (and loosened by turning counterclockwise), this is a recent invention. A great example of how things that seem simple can be really hard to do right, the development of the predicable system we enjoy today took 2, 000 years to invent. Read more…
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Why Screws Tighten Clockwise
The sprawling Hermitage Museum has long reigned as the world’s largest museum—but China has plans to come close to it with a huge new building for the National Art Museum of China , the design plans for which were recently released by French architect Jean Nouvel. Read more…
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China’s National Gallery Will Be One of the Largest Museums on Earth
This week, people camped outside Apple stores for days anticipating the iPhone 6. But those line-waiters weren’t all frenzied Apple fans high on the joy of a new smartphone: As filmmaker Casey Neistat portrays it , many of the line-sitters were buying the new iPhone to immediately resell it on the black market. Read more…
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The Reality of the iPhone Line Is a Black Market Nightmare