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Apple Locks In Multi-Touch Patent
Palm and other smartphone manufacturers are super-fucked right now. “Why?” you ask? It’s quite simple, really. See, Steve Jobs and his crew at Apple designed and invented multi-touch gesturing on a device. Don’t believe me? Might want to check out United States Patent Number 7,479,949, which states: “Touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics.” Yeah. Well. Shit. If I worked for Palm right now, I’d pretty much fucking quit. How you going to... Continue reading
Batman’s Latest Spy Technology
Is this a spy cam created by the military or is it Batman’s latest gadget? Of course it’s a piece of technology made by the military; Batman is a fictitious comic book character. The Army has awarded the University of Michigan College of Engineering a five year $10 million dollar grant to develop this robotic spy plane which bears an uncanny resemblance to a bat. It’s called the COM-BAT and it’s concept was conceived by the US military for the... Continue reading
Hollow Spy Coins For Spies: Win A Coin Toss, Everytime
In the days of the Cold War, espionage was a big deal. This was back when spy bots didn’t exist and spies relied on obtaining information personally. If you weren’t a spy, you might as well have swallowed cyanide because during the Cold War everyone was a spy. That’s why Brian Dereu wants to cash in on spy-wannabes everywhere. He’s started a new business selling hollow spy coins for 20 bucks a pop. It’s a coin that’s been hollowed out... Continue reading
Sony Accepting Applications Playstation Home Beta
The main reason you bought a Playstation 3 was probably due to Killzone 2 or Playstation Home, Sony’s new online service that’s supposed to be something like Xbox Live meets Second Life. You and your friends can meet up with your avatars, talk, chat, shoot the shit and so on. Oh, and more importantly, you can play games together too. As of today, Sony is accepting applications for the closed beta test of the Home service. Right now it only... Continue reading
