Archive for June, 2011

Unless you’ve been living without a TV for the past several years it would be hard to miss watching a Studio Ghibli movie. One of the most recent anime releases from Hayao Miyazaki‘s studio is the unforgettable Ponyo. The movie follows the story of a goldfish that becomes friends with a little boy and attempts […]

In just a few days, HP’s first TouchPad units will be showing off their webOS sexiness on retail shelves across the U.S. — and then heading quickly to the U.K., Ireland, France, and Germany. Canadians (yours truly included) will be able to pick up their 9.7″ slabs on July 15th. HP has done a good […]

One of the difficult things about being an amateur radio fan is that you generally have to procure and set up your own gear, and that includes laying your own antenna. Normally, it’s done with pressurized rifles or using a bow and arrow tied to fishing line to get the antenna uncoiled and into the […]

HP is well aware of the fact that challenging the iPad won’t be easy, but the company has a few tricks up its sleeve when it comes to the TouchPad. Enterprise customers will no doubt find HP’s extensive business integration experience a plus, but that’s certainly not going to motivate consumers to shell out $500. […]

Facebook’s numbers are just growing and growing–to the point that everyone these days is a member of the social network. In fact, Facebook’s worldwide growth just hit 750 million monthly active users. Though Facebook hasn’t confirmed it, TechCrunch reported the information from a “source close to the company.” Facebook hasn’t actually shared much about its […]

Google has yet to publicly show the full breadth of its social strategy so that it can truly compete with Facebook, but the pieces are starting to come together. We’ve already seen the +1 social rating system rolled out, and now it looks as though Google is set to take a serious interest in games […]

You have to be a serious Mass Effect 2 fan to put together a costume this intricate and detailed, and that’s exactly what Robert Rodgers is. Rodgers, an artist and consume designer from Florida, built the costume from scratch. He’s self-taught, but you wouldn’t know it from the quality and love he put into this […]