GeekSix

But will the poor birds hear it coming?

Joe
Monday
12:47 pm

Boeing hasn’t worked on anything particularly fun since the Sonic Cruiser was axed after 9/11.  This new plan for hybrid jetliners isn’t quite GEE WHIZ EXCITING but it could still be pretty cool.  The only problem is they don’t expect them to enter service until, at the earliest, ..read more

Bring on my e-comics

Jason
Tuesday
11:45 am

Given the client base for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse and their fellow comic book publishers, you would think they would embrace the trends and technologies their readers are so quick to latch on to.

Historically however they have always just stood in the wading pool, letting their products and superheroes sell themselves. Their biggest tool to generating sales are the mega-events we have become accustomed to. You know, Civil War, Blackest Night, Secret Invasion, those guys. Once in a while a certain writer or artist will generate some sales. But in the long run there has been no revolutionary poptech advancements in the comic book industry.

I suppose one can point to ..read more

Macbook Decals

Christy
Thursday
3:31 pm

These decals from Crafty Gal Decals are almost enough to persuade me to buy a Macbook.  Well the decals, AND the easy movie making (the Flip software just isn’t cutting it) AND the lure of finally getting the video chat to work on AIM…

Here are a few of my favorite ..read more

Unmanned space shuttle…or something far more sinister?

Joe
Friday
12:12 pm

The best part of the Cold War (and that’s pretty high praise) was the underlying suspected accumulation of spy gadgetry that quietly accompanied the nuclear arms buildup.  “Dude, the KGB has exploding remote control gnats!”

But these days, we have to create our own hi-tech enigmas, as  America’s current enemies aren’t exactly the subtle technological wizard types.

Meet the new mystery.  Straight out of an elongated West Wing story arc and much more concrete than the Aurora, the Air Force has launched the X-37B.  What is it?  Other than looking like a sleeker, smaller regular space shuttle, that is open to debate.  The Air Force says it’s just an unmanned device ..read more

J.J. Abrams up your phone photos with Lens Flare app

Blain
Wednesday
10:36 am

Yes, that’s right. The bastard child Photoshop effect that makes artists and designers giggle and moan is now an iPhone app. Now you can add lens flares to what ever you desire without having to leave your phone. Congratulations. Now your smart phone can do everything but heal bear attack wounds. Well, you can at least use it as a weapon against a bear I guess.

And who do we blame for this? Probably Mr. Abrams’ Star Trek for popularizing the technique to a mass audience. Just for the record, I though they weren’t that distracting and liked the look it added to the movie, but thats just me.

Anyway, ..read more

Meet the new Commodore

Josh
Thursday
1:23 pm

Commodore was one of the most successful computer companies of the 1980s (and my personal love story), but its machines eventually lost out to the IBM and Apple lines of computers. In 1994, the once-gigantic company filed for bankruptcy, and its assets were liquidated.

The brand, however, lived on, going through various companies eager to latch on to the famous brand name, before it finally became known as Commodore Gaming in 2007. The company now produces Windows PCs focused on the high-end games market.

But the venerated brand still has at least one trick up its sleeve.

Meet the new Commodore.

Very little is known about this computer, and ..read more

My Next Great Invention: Spy Contacts

Joe
Thursday
8:25 pm

Did you know that terror suspects, mob enforcers and women get spooked when stared at in public? Do you wish you could ogle/keep tabs on/both ogle AND keep tabs on these people?

POOF

Feast your eyes with the new Spy Contacts (not yet in beta)!  The idea is that these are one-way see through contact lenses that have a digital image of an iris on the front, and sensors on the back.  when your actual eye looks in a direction, the iris projection on the contacts looks in the other direction.  It’s like in post production of Episode 1 when Lucas changed which way Jake Lloyd was looking.  Only not really.

So now, ..read more

Windows 787 is quite the upgrade

Joe
Thursday
11:25 pm

Boeing’s oft-delayed new jet, the 787,  has many useful attributes.  Like it is really light, so it saves on fuel.

I don’t care about ..read more

This whole Amazon-Macmillan spat

Jason
Tuesday
9:55 am

At the end of last week the books and eBooks of  the America’s largest publisher Macmillan disappeared from the pages of America’s largest online vendor, Amazon.com.

What would bring on such a happenstance?

Well it all started earlier in the week with the announcement of the iPad. See Steve Jobs promised the world that with his iBookstore the publishers would hold more control over the prices set for the book. Macmillan was one of the publishers who had signed on to provide content for the iPad.

Shortly thereafter Macmillan sat down with Amazon and outlined their view on increasing the cost of eBooks for Amazon’s Kindle, somewhere in the range of $3-5 for ..read more

The really big point that iPad haters are missing

Josh
Thursday
10:32 am

As we — and the rest of humanity — noted yesterday, Apple launched a new device called the iPad.

The device is essentially a super-sized iPod Touch, and was the culmination of more than a decade of rumors.

The tech geek world promptly started peeing all over it — and not in a positive, possessive or fetishistic way — the pee was filled with hate and derision.

“Where is the multitasking environment?” they shrieked. “It’s a closed-ended architecture — it’s not even a real computer!” they cried.

Listen up, geeks and haters, because I’m only going to say this once — take it to heart:

Don’t take ..read more