There are two things that will make your fingernubs smile. One is slamming them fist first into fresh strawberry jam. The other, a wearable 3D mouse… that fits on your fingertip. Now, it could be that you’ll interface with machines with a device that hangs around your neck, but a four-button 3D mouse with programmable…

Shocking and amazing. Creating something on the iPad, instead of absorbing the limitless digital content, browsing design variations instead of movie options, sending in an order of that design to be printed instead of sending in orders for a large deep-pan pizza. The iRing3D iPad app has done it. It’s all simple and quite basic…

Two pieces of good news. You now have a good excuse for both staring point-blank into a stranger’s eye hole and strapping a concoction of electronics and LED’s to your face. Eye-tracking. Eye-Tracking tech for design isn’t even close to being recent news, but it bears mentioning to show you where eye-tracking tech in regard…

I tell you what. There’s nothing like the thought of riding atop a container of -195˚ Celsius liquid nitrogen, while its vapor spews from a small tube positioned between your legs. Nope, no problem with that. Why? Because it’s the future and it goes along quite nicely with ice pants. It’s called the MagSurf and…

Remember Lytro? They’re the company that promised to give us a camera that takes refocus-able pictures for an affordable price. Of course, “affordable” is relative and the original press release wasn’t giving up the goods. Well, today emails went out to those who signed up for Lytro’s mailing list allowing priority for pre-orders. The camera’s range from…

So, I was sitting in at my desk gnawing on a loose router wire, when I received the following message from our good friend Jason Corl (@jcoeng). “I’m in China now, but on my way, passed through Hong Kong… I like to check out all the tech that doesn’t exist in the US and found…

I know you have them, thousands of them. Photos, the 2D type… and even more images you’ve cut out of magazines and library books. If you’re like me, you’re fine with gluing them on odd shaped creatures and giving them out as gifts. If you want something more, you may be interested in 3Defy, a…

The lonliness that consumes you when the CNC operators talk shop is all about to end. You may not know how to bolt a billet of aluminum into a chunk without removing half your arm skin, but you can download a program with less trauma and bring a CHUCKle to a machinists face. A fresh…

Steve Jobs – (1955-2011) 1985. An awesome year. Goonies, Cherry Coke and my Dad brought home our first computer. It was a Mac. I play my first computer game (Dark Castle) where, instead of punching each other, my lil’ brother and I would sit down and play it together – I on the keyboard, he…

The viewing area is six inches smaller than my television. The front of it is sitting six inches from my face… give or take a few inches. It’s an HP ZR30w 30″ Monitor and, well, it’s massive. I had the opportunity to receive one from HP and the subsequent joy of basking in 1.07 billion…

After I wrote about the ThinkPad Tablet last week, I was contacted by Lenovo and offered a unit to review for a month or so. Of course I took them up on the offer. This is a quick post which will be followed up in a few weeks with an in-depth review.

Excitement. That’s what I look for in a good computer mouse – edge of your seat clicking, here… then THERE, real fast like. You too? The Penclic Mouse may be all you desire, but not really, but really. It combines both mouse and pen into one desk sliding implement of adventurous delight. Europe has been…

What’s better than setting up shop in your local cafe, slapping that laptop on the table and plugging in your various USB powered devices? One thing, monitors. LOTS of monitors. AOC is making it possible for you to use all of your USB ports and hubs, for that one thing. Their new 16″ portable monitor…

It’s been around over a year and was shown at SIGGRAPH 2010, but the RePro3D is suddenly showing up all over web town for the single reason that it’s, well, stinkin’ cool. Little do most people (or researchers) realize the possibilities that lie in store for such advances in jabbing wee fairy creatures with a…

I used to keep a watch on every sub-$700 tablet coming to the market. I was looking for a magical combination of specs that would make it the perfect budget Cintiq. After CES 2011’s disappointing announcements, the closest there was to what I wanted was the 7″ HTC Flyer. So, having found the best capacitive…

With the typical excitement that goes along with yanking USB cords from your mouth, Microsoft presented Windows 8 this week at BUILD conference Aneheim, with a precision and five-fisted blur of app-kickin’ karate chops that dropped the jaws of Windows users and Apple users alike. Microsoft is showing Windows 8 to be an OS that…

Engadget’s Sharif Sakr spent some hands on time with Wacom’s newest two products the Cintiq 24HD and the Inkling. If you’ve got a space of 15 minutes, you can watch videos and demos with a Wacom rep after the break. After reviewing the info available on both of these products, these are the most notable…

This week, TechCrunch Disrupt is showcasing new start-ups and emerging technologies that are bound to make a few of your face pores foam. Out of all of them though, none are making the impact that Bitcasa could. Infinite storage. However, there are two aspects to their technology even more interesting than mass amounts of storage…

Another WednesDAY, another dollar. Only this time it’s slightly less dough for you to spend OR eat. A fresh can of mold release should be able to help. Shake off the mid-week doldrums by taking a peek inside your favorite and perhaps not-so-favorite gadgets. Grab your toolbox and get inspired! This week’s entry: Logitech Trackman…

Today Wacom announced the Inkling,  a new digital/ballpoint sketch pen that captures your real world sketches digitally for easy manipulation/refinement later. Say what? It digitizes your sketches so you can skip the scanner and go straight to work. Those familiar with the Livescribe note-taking pen will be familiar with the concept already, but this time,…

10 pounds of dual screen laptop! ORDER UP. They’ve done it. GScreen, the Alaska-based hardware company, has finally announced a launched date for their screen-stretching LED backlit powerhouse. After two years of being taunted by photos and renderings, gScreen has named November as the month you will finally be able to take up two tables…

In what makes the first real Wacom news I’ve heard in a long while, a Cintiq 24HD was just givent the stamp of approval. This is according to Engadget, the tech blog whose writers devote more time combing through FCC filings than I spend combing through my hair. The new tablet has the nomenclature “24HD”…

I love my 3DConnexion 3D mouse, don’t get me wrong. But even the recent version 10 drivers have left me wanting more. I want to control reality like I do my viewport. As it turns out, that might be doable. 3DConnexion posted a video on Youtube, showing them controlling a Parrot AR Drone with a…

Why mess with printing petroleum-based plastic when there are whole deserts full of sand? Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter Project converted a hot dog cart constructed a 3D printer that uses a giant Fresnel lens to sinter sand into 3D glass objects. Done as part of his MA studies at the Royal College of Art. There…

Apple doesn’t let its biggest seller just hang out with any ol’ accessory, it makes them go through the full father-cleaning-his-shotgun interview before a device can woo the heart of iOS and its customer base. So perhaps it was in response to the Android Accessory Development Kit (ADK) announced at Google IO that Apple decided…

Metrix Create: Space – a collective of evil geniuses in Seattle Washington – recently posted their first results out of their current project, Big Robot. It’s an old CNC machine repurposed to carry a scaled up version of the plastic extruder from the RepRap open source 3D printer project. Aside from being built from mostly…

Does the idea of a 6 foot long, 16 inch wide robotic worm crawling beneath your epidermis frighten you? Not to worry because Dr. Jordan Boyle, post doctoral fellow at the University of Leeds, is working on making it smaller. His focus is also on creating a robot that can manage it’s way through small…

Ever built a CNC machine? I have. You never, ever hit your budget. Usually it’s because you don’t count on shipping costs or having to deal with sourcing hardware/parts from many different distributors. If you’re trying to recreate a project from instructables, you obviously missed the part where the author failed to mention he spent years…

Prepare your nubs. Not by sticking them in the sauce… or your mouth. Prepare them for 5 flexible ways of moving your 3D data about. We often choose to have the two halves of our brains split by the keyboard, a 2D mouse on one side, a 3D mouse on the other. What if you…

While it can’t prevent your mother from cutting the heads off of subjects, Lytro’s Light Field Camera will allow her—and you—to choose a new focus subject in photos after the fact. “What?!?!” you ask, “What black magic is this?” Lytro’s secret-keeping explanation simply says the camera has the ability to capture incredible amounts of light…

It came to my attention this morning that Wacom, the purveyor of drawing tablets for your computer, has issued yet another iPad product under their Bamboo brand: Bamboo Paper. It’s pitched as “a natural and realistic writing and sketching application tool” as a “perfect complement to the Bamboo Stylus for iPad.” After playing with it…

Scoreloop, a social gaming platform company based out of Munich, announced today they have been acquired by RIM, the company behind Blackberry and the Playbook. The acquisition was as much for the Scoreloop personnel as the technology behind the world-wide scoring system for mobile gaming. This gives an indication of RIM’s new direction, but does…

In the amazing world of all things oozing Apple, a ripe, pasty white “industry-leading offer” was announced during today’s WWDC. Apple is launching iTunes Match, a service that, get this…matches your music library with that of iTunes, and makes it all available online via their new iCloud mass storage service. The cost? $24.99 per year…

I’m excited. We’re so close to having a single robot that can jump, cut, fly and eat flesh… and yet so far. Fortunately there are teams dedicated to making fear happen. One such group is compressing airflow to supersonic (Mach 3) levels and creating low pressure vortexes to allow tiny robots to crawl on just…

You see that guy? He’s enjoying life… enjoying the heck out it. Just look at him. He’s jabbin’ his meat nub against that 27″ touchscreen screen and loving it. Whoa! He just moved that skull slice with multiple fingers?! He’s dangerous and he knows it. Who’s making all this possible? I’ll give you one guess…

Hear that buzz? It’s the sound of your eyes glazing over in the pasty radiance of light while the capacity of your ocular cavities is subjected to the era of 3-dimensional space upon the screen of a hand-held device. That sentence may have been slightly too long, but when you’re viewing 3D on a 2D…

Of all the things that Google announced yesterday at the Google I/O developers conference, the one I find most exciting is their new Android Open Accessory standards and the Accessory Development Kit (ADK) that goes with it. The best nerdy part of this nerdy story is that the ADK is centered around the Arduino open…

How does Facebook build their massive server infrastructure? You don’t care? You might after you hear why, see how and download the 3D models they use to make the servers that store all your private information. This is Facebook’s bread and butter. They’ve opened up how they build their data centers and how they’ve developed…

I’m sorry, but instant death by sudden penetration of a recoiling swarm of caterpillar robots is not my idea of a enjoyable science experiment. Even if cake was involved. Nevertheless, an ambitious group of researchers at Tuft University are fascinated at the possibility of using Biomemtrics to capture the “balistic rolling” action of the Crambidea…

You may be familiar with the new crowd-funding product design craze. It’s ridiculous. The number of projects achieving funding is amazing. We’ve featured some on here and know of others who are preparing to launch their ideas into the crowd cashing cosmos. Recently, two interesting projects popped up which show how a small team is…

Ok, now this is more like it. I’ll try to tell you without choking on the beauty of this, but since my larynx is already convulsing, you may have to proceed on your own. I know, you’ve probably had your fill of web-based 3D modeling applications. What’s that? There aren’t any? You mean, they’re weren’t…

I’m making a list of programs I’ll pay for on a monthly basis. Programs downloaded from or accessed via the web, used only when I need them. Just like boxes of cereal, which I also have a list of. Adobe products are first on my list. Well, actually last at the moment, right below services…

This is just too good not to pass along. Office Depot, the store I often go to just to take a nap in the chair displays then get asked to leave by a stockboy with a box knife, is offering a Seagate 3TB External Hard drive for just $150. This is 50 to 75 dollars…

It’s all about the information… kind of. It’s more about not succumbing to twisting apart LCD screens and keyboards because you can’t find the information. Inforbix is here to address just that – finding data… anywhere. As I’ve said previously, the difficult part is often the finding. Now, for the first time, you’ll be able…

Who woulda thought!? Hard drives getting smaller? and thinner? Absolutely unheard of. Things (we) usually get fatter and uglier over time, not thinner and sleeker. Leave it to Seagate to shake up the universal trend and leave us inspired with a cool, compact design of technology. You saw it at CES. Now, Seagate has announced…

Do you remember days spent carving a stick down by the river and you’d swear it could do everything? I do. That stick could kill the undead, make sweet gravy biscuits out of thin air or be used to vault over a ravine of feral hogs. Yes, it could do it all. Much like a…

You know those days when you look left, then right, then left again, then tear a massive flashlight from your chest, shining it in your eyes with a scream that makes invisible spheres appear? That may be the precursor to the augmented reality tech your about to turn you crispy fried eyes upon. It combines…

You may have just shaken the dust of an old set of gloves, slipped into a memory of days gone by. Days spent hitting your brother after hogging all the Nintendo playing action with your new Power Glove. “IT’S MY TURN!” No, not until I beat this dragon… WITH MY FIST!! That’s right. You were…

Quickly now. Stick your hands against the screen. Now, lift them off slightly and move your head to either side. Did you see that? A physical 3-dimensional object rising from the aether around your digits? No, no you didn’t, because it hasn’t happened yet… but it could. Three technologies have surfaced showing how we may…

There are only a few things that get me excited: mild shocks, alligator punching and web-based 3D. I wish I could say the following combined all three, but two outta three ain’t too shabby. Benjamin Nortier from London, UK has done the unthinkable. He’s taken it upon himself to develop a free, parametric 3D modeling…