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As electric and electric hybrid cars like the Chevrolet Volt work their way onto our roads, the infrastructure needed to keep these cars charged is developing as well. GM’s OnStar division is today opening up a set of proprietary APIs so that power companies can help electric car owners out with their charging decisions. The [...]
Apple wants to reinvent the textbook, or at least change the way students interact with teaching materials. At an event this morning in New York City, Phil Schiller, Roger Rosner, and others from Apple unveiled new initiatives to put the iPad at the center of students’ learning experience. More Interactive Books: iBooks 2 Apple’s eBook [...]
Vizio was a company that seemed to come from nowhere a few years ago and totally shook up the TV market with high quality, low cost products. Now they’re ready to enter the computer business. At CES next week, the company will show off five new Windows 7 computer models – two desktops and 3 [...]
What happens when a robot drummer and an HP scanner decide to form a band and play holiday tunes? YouTube user BD594 has the answer with his creations playing “The Little Drummer Boy”, in a triumph of geeky musical timing.
When chocolate and 8-bit graphics coincide, you know you’ve hit the geeky, caloric jackpot. That’s the case with the Chocolate Invader, a handmade confection in the shape of one of those invading aliens targeted by arcade jockeys of the past. The Chocolate Invader goes from cocoa beans to finished chocolate in a period of four [...]
When you want extended power life on your phone, you fasten an extra battery onto the back of it. It makes it a bit bulkier, but it’s usually a decent trade-off in the extended use it brings. So why not apply the same thinking to electric cars? That’s the plan behind the “Dock+Go” concept being [...]
The twisting saga of HP and webOS took a new turn today, and one that should please fans of open software development. HP announced that they are contributing the code for webOS to the open source community. The future of webOS, and in fact all of HP’s consumer computing assets, seemed in question a few [...]
Do you want to spend your holiday time off playing classic SNES games? How about taking those games with you on a winter road trip? Well, grab those old cartridges, outfit yourself with a SupaBoy, and discover that dreams can come true. The SupaBoy is a handheld system that takes full-size SNES and Super Famicon [...]
Portable media devices that can play video have become very popular exercise companions, and large tablets grant a person on a treadmill a decent sized video screen for catching up with missed TV shows or movies, or reading an ebook. But attaching a tablet to a piece of workout equipment is often a bit problematic. [...]
There’s nothing quite like that sinking feeling when you discover you’ve lost a valuable file from your computer. Whether it’s a personal photo or a project for work that you’ve put hours into. We should all be backing up, but there are times when either we haven’t done a backup recently, or for some other [...]
Okay, show of hands – how many of you used an Etch-a-Sketch when you were kids? It was a major toy in my early life, and a significant lesson in hand-eye control as I learned to make curved shapes from two knobs, one that made vertical lines, and the other horizontal. So what happens when [...]
If you’ve been seeing the growing options in lens attachments for the iPhone, this design shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. The iPhone Lens Dial takes a wide angle, fisheye, and telephoto and puts them on a dial mounted on an iPhone case so any lens is never more than a couple of clicks [...]
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QNAP has donated a multi-bay, Gigabit Ethernet, NAS unit for each workshop attendee! We'll show you how to work it, and you'll take one home at the end of the weekend for fast, reliable and redundant storage.
Belkin has donated a new WiFi router for every participant! You can use it to get your QNAP NAS online!
ProPrompter is donating an iPad prompting bracket for every attendee as well! So you can get your prompt on, after you learn how to use it.
