Archive for December, 2011
Google, Apple, other vaguely familiar tech names top Nielsen’s ‘Tops of 2011′ list
Those perpetual rankers over at Nielsen unveiled their “Tops of 2011″ list this week, revealing the most popular brands and products across all manner of categories. There’s nothing particularly shocking over on the digital side of things — Google topped the list of Top US Web Brands, followed by Facebook. Perhaps a bit more surprisingly, […]
Quadrocopters don creepy eyes, build synthetic Christmas tree of envy (video)
First we let them play music, then they started juggling. Now quadrocopters are feeling emotions as well; namely, jealousy. One of Flying Machine Arena’s dainty quadrocopters, nicknamed Juliet,
De Tomaso sells Deauville production rights to China
We all got a little excited when news emerged that De Tomaso was being reborn. After all, what could it hurt to have another storied Italian exotic automaker in the world, right? But then came the Deauville.
Ed Hardy headphones hope to ink up your ears
Celebrity headphone endorsements are very a la mode right now, and we’ve seen Ed Hardy’s trademark tattoo stylings defacing gadgetry before, so, if you were the one lamenting the glaring omission
Activision sends cease-and-desist to Skylanders hacker
The very first time we saw Activision’s Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure figures at a pre-E3 event earlier this year, it seemed only a matter of time before some enterprising enthusiast cracked open both the toy figures and the “portal” base unit, and figured out how they wirelessly connected. Sure enough, a tinkerer named Brandon Wilson recently […]
ComScore: Android up, RIM down, water wet
Stop us (oh, oh, oh stop us) if you’ve heard this one before, but in the world of cellphone market share: nothing’s changed — or at least almost nothing. The quarterly data from ComScore say you all still love Android and iOS only slightly more than you used to. Of the 91.4 million smartphones in […]
Halo: Eye of the Storm is anything but calm
You know, the younger crowd has more ways than ever to pay homage to their favorite games. Back in our day, the only “machinima” we could produce were crude sketches of Chrono and the Battletoads in our Trapper Keeper. Now kids can produce short films about their favorite game using their favorite game!
UAW targeting VW and Mercedes for U.S. organizing drive
The United Autoworkers Union is struggling – and it is the first to admit it. With its membership dwindling after three decades of workforce cuts by Chrysler, Ford and General Motors, the union has pinned its future on organizing one of the transplants. Efforts to convince workers at Japanese-owned plants, like the Nissan factory in […]
GM addresses Escalade’s most-stolen status with new security features
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so Cadillac is rolling some new anti-theft technology into it’s flagship Escalade. While the ‘Sclade is pretty long-in-the-tooth these days, it’s still one of the most stolen vehicles extant.
The new security features include a new encryption system for the key, key cylinder and ignition system, […]
Valve: Any Half-Life 3 clues are ‘community trolling the community’
So your friend heard from his friend who used to go out with a girl who was a cousin of a Valve developer that Half-Life 3 would be released as a Steam exclusive this March? Or maybe you just crawled across a convincing website which seemed to point to another, long-awaited iteration in the Half-Life […]
