Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines….
We've previously written about what could now be considered “antique” game consoles, along with their cartridges, fetching auction prices that put our yearly salaries to shame. Well, now some guy has sold a copy of a hard-to-find Atari game called 'Air Raid' for $31,600. Apparently the game, one of only thirteen known copies, kind of blows, which is why the cartridge is in such unused condition. [From: Technabob]
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There's a load of great tech news happening out there everyday, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
Matt Stone and Trey Parker typically appreciate and immediately recognize instrumental moments in pop culture, and the current season of 'South Park' has so far adhered to that socially informed, trendsetting brand of satirical comedy. This week's episode, ……
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We were, by turns, underwhelmed and pleasantly surprised by the much anticipated Apple keynote this afternoon. To distill it down for you, Apple is releasing a preview of the iPhone OS 4.0 software for developers today, and you can expect to see it available for your mobile device starting this summer. But there's a caveat: only certain devices (the newest ones, to be exact) will get all of the fancy new features that we will describe in detail below. 3G iPhones and second-generation iPod to……
There's plenty of anecdotal and scientific evidence that should tell you that driving while using your cell phone is pretty dumb. Yet plenty of you continue to do so, and freely admit to it, too. We can only assume that you all believe you belong to a sect of individuals researchers have dubbed “supertaskers.”
A new study being released in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review (.PDF) suggests that there is a small subset of the population who actually do excel at multitasking. In a sample group of 20……
Is your desk unnecessarily cluttered with telephones? You've got your personal cell phone, your business mobile and the land line all at your desk. (Actually, all of our Millennial readers can skip this post, since having more than one phone sounds positively nutty to us.) As a result of all this, you're constantly juggling handsets and touchscreens and speed-dial buttons, strangling yourself with corkscrew cords, all while trying to conference call The Head Office. The perils of modern life!
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Facebook's population officially outnumbers that of the entire United States, and Twitter has obviously become firmly established within pop culture. That being the case, the creation of specifically marketed social networks capitalizing on the online networking boom should be completely expected. Some of the demographically geared services cater to white collar professionals and others to nerdy sci-fi fans, but one target group is experiencing a dramatic period of success that has escaped previous at……
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
We're not quite sure how we missed this last year, but Segway tours now have a competitor for sheer nerdiness. The ElliptiGo 8S is the world's first elliptical bike, with a peddling mechanism tied directly to the elliptical motion. This, of course, enables you……
As if phishing scams and identity thefts didn't already make the Internet unappetizing, hackers are apparently getting still more industrious in ways that leave us feeling queasy. According to The New Scientist, we now have to worry about “a burgeoning cyber-crime industry, one which lets people with next to no programming skills steal a fortune in cash or get hold of sensitive government documents.” Whoa, nelly! Do you mean to tell us that our freedom-loving Grandpa Joe can simply buy a hacker's ……
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Several of us Switched writers live in New York, where kitchen space is a precious resource. But despite the fact that we cook in spaces the size of coat closets, we like to prepare dishes that make our friends jealous and our significant others fearful of losing us. [Ed. note: Matt is speaking for himself. We rely on him to feed us. Seriously.] And, while no kitchen appliance will ever magically transform you from Sandra Lee to Escoffier, a little know-how and ingenuity with the aid of some ……
The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless.
According to the 2008 National Health Interview Survey Provisional Report, approximately 25 million Americans have repo……
