Sick of your bike light getting stolen? Check out the Gotham Bicycle Defense Defender [Video]

Man, KickStarter is sure kicking it these days, what with incredible support for new game ideas and now we have this crowd-funded effort to bring the ultimate bike light to your handlebars. Apparently in the big cities the problem of having your bike light stolen is a common occurrence and after this happened to a colleague of one of the developers the idea of the Gotham Bicycle Defense Defender was…
Read more...How’s this for a neat trick – a disappearing car door [Video]

Over the years we’ve seen a few interesting ideas when it comes to how we get in and out of our cars. From gull wing doors to suicide doors we’ve tried different ideas but John Townsend from California company Jatech has come up with one I don’t think you would ever expect to see. The Disappearing Car Door.
Read more...Privacy and Apple – Then and Now [Video]

It is really strange that we are having this type of discussion about privacy and Apple because if there is one single company in tech that appeared to value privacy; especially its own, it had to be Apple. For Steve Jobs privacy was an immovable object that you just didn’t mess with. As a company everything they did was shrouded in secrecy and privacy was a cornerstone of the company….
Read more...Real-time computer rendering breakthrough – ultra realistic skin [Video]

It might not seem like much of a big deal unless of course you play a lot of games; or you are a developer of games of course, then this news is a really big deal especially since the breakthrough is based on code that will work on run of the mill computers – like yours and mine. Graphics researcher Jorge Jimenez came up with the process called separable subsurface…
Read more...Don’t let camping put a damper on your gadget love thanks to this clever portable charging unit [Video]

We joke a lot about how geeks are a pale shade of white because we never go outside and do things like camping. Well, there’s a good reason for that and it’s all about battery life, our gadget’s battery life to be specific. You see there is nothing worse than coming across a geek in the fetal position in the middle of a forest trail blubbering about dead batteries and…
Read more...Judge’s rejection of a preliminary injunction in EMI versus ReDigi a big deal in more ways than one

The was a rather interesting decision handed down yesterday in the court case involving a company called ReDigi who is being sued by EMI. The back story is pretty simple, ReDigi is a web company that lets you sell your ‘used’ MP3 songs that you have bough on iTunes and of course EMI is saying that this is copyright infringement and ReDigi needs to be shut down. Now everyone is…
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