If I was walking through the streets to find this McDonald's coffee themed lamp post , three would be my thoughts: One, I shouldn't have had that last Manhattan. Two, I need coffee. [...more]
Foxconn has suspended a security official and turned over its probe into a worker's recent alleged suicide to police, who are currently investigating the possibility of murder. This already messy story could be about to get much, much messier. Reports say that 25-year-old Sun Danyong was subjected to brutal treatment—including torture—by Foxconn security after a shipment of prototype iPhones turned up at Apple's door one device short. [...more]
Office Team Lead: We need something really cool to make people excited about Office 2010. [...more]
Gear Live found a roundabout, but clever, way of streaming Zune tracks onto your iPhone. Why would you do that? Because Zune Pass gets you a basically unlimited amount of songs, and they don't play natively on the iPhone [...more]
As far as weather stations go, the + ECO Clima Control weather station is pretty enough to put out in the open—and its wealth of features are completely powered by the sun. •Built-in solar panel converts sunlight energy into electrical energy for the 600mAH rechargeable battery •Future weather forecast with graphical icons: Sunny, Partly Cloudy, Cloudy, Rainy and Snowy •Displays temperature and humidity for up to three different remote locations •Radio-controlled clock and calendar •LED backlight and mold alert alarm The problem is I find weather forecasts to be largely unreliable. [...more]
You know those videos where someone puts a rugged gadget through a battery of tests that would destroy regular hardware, but the device comes through the other side unharmed? This is not one of those videos. N97Geeks ran their unit through a harsh regime of durability tests, starting with a key'n'coin scratch test, followed by a cereal dunking and water submersion tests [...more]
I'd really like this spectacular video to do most of the talking here, but here's the rundown: the Wireless Game Gun mounts a screen on an accelerometer-enhanced toy gun, and allows you to control first person shooters, commando-style. The video doesn't delve too deep into how the gun works, though the basic mechanics are fairly evident. The gun depends on an accelerometer (or similar device) to determine its orientation, which is seems to relay as a raw mouse/keyboard signal, hence the "no drivers" claim [...more]