Angles Mirror reflects the viewer’s silhouette with its motorized spokes

Those looking for a cool piece of art to clamor over this weekend can visit NYC's bitforms gallery to witness the Angles Mirror copy your silhouette.

Smart Home News         April 4, 2013

No reservations: How a restaurant took social media’s power back into its hands

Restaurants are tired of customers ruining their Web reps with Yelp complains. Instead, they're using social media for more than just gratuitous promotion.

Smart Home News         April 3, 2013

These modern Smart Playhouses will make you wish you were 5 again

The Smart Playhouse is the kind of secret clubhouse we wish we had growing up thanks to its design to resemble modern architecture.

Smart Home News         April 3, 2013

Three engineer students invent an electrifying anti-rape undergarment

Three students from one of India's most prestigious engineering universities have created a device capable of delivering shocks to potential rapists.

News         April 3, 2013

Bloc the wooden Apple TV holder makes the device part of your furniture

When attached to an HDMI cord, does your Apple TV tend to skew sideways thanks to the heavier weight of the cord? If so, Bloc is here for the rescue.

News         April 1, 2013

Emoji, blogosfear, and more tech lingo you need to know

On this fine April Fool's day, let's have a look at silly-sounding words and determine their true meanings in our weekly tech lingo lesson.

Smart Home Guides         April 1, 2013

Not Aladdin’s magic ride: Artist creates carpet sculpture from computer parts

Miami-based artist Federico Uribe has assembled an e-carpet using old computer components to design an ornate sculpture.

News         April 1, 2013

The snooze button is bad for you, but why? [Video]

The idea that the snooze button will help ease your body into waking up will actually do more harm than good, reports the latest ASAP Science video.

Smart Home News         April 1, 2013

Kinect-powered virtual therapists can fully decode a patient’s body language

Psychiatrists can't always keep their eyes on you while making notes. Enter SimSensei, a virtual therapist that uses the Kinect to detect body movements.

News         March 29, 2013

Egyptian divers arrested for cutting underwater Internet cables, that’s not how you phish

Three Egyptian divers were arrested Wednesday after coastguards found the men attempting to cut underwater Internet cables belonging to Egypt Telecom.

News         March 28, 2013

Grab your apocalyptic go-bag, a vial of deadly virus from bioterror lab went missing

A scene straight out of a movie has just plagued America. A vial of an obscure, deadly virus has vanished from a University of Texas Medical Branch lab.

News         March 26, 2013

Game, set, match: Student solves three Rubik’s cubes while juggling them [Video]

YouTube sensation Ravi Fernando wows the Web with his latest video in which he solves three Rubik's cubes... while juggling them.

News         March 25, 2013

King of the Nerds episode 102 recap: A honey badger in a room full of kittens

Fantasy land is over as our contestants begin to show their true colors by behaving like little kids fighting over the last chocolate milk in the cafeteria.

Smart Home News         March 25, 2013

King of the Nerds episode 105 recap: Angry nerds are scary nerds

We're five episodes into "King of the Nerds" and this is a challenge that'll truly test their IQ: Sudoku, Rubik's cube, and Memory games!

Smart Home News         March 25, 2013

King of the Nerds season one finale recap: One nerd takes it all

The season one finale for "King of the Nerds" has finally crowned its winner, but is it who you think it is?

Smart Home News         March 25, 2013

New Orleans becomes the first city to offer cabs with built-in vending machines

New York City may have wanted to modernize its famous yellow cabs, but it's New Orleans that beat it to the punch. The southern city is now offering cabs with built-in vending machines for passengers' soda fix.

News         March 22, 2013

Is Disneyland planning a Star Wars Land? We discuss if the force is strong with this one

A recent survey sent to Disneyland Annual Passport holders asks whether they'd be interested in a 'Star Wars'-themed section of the park.

Smart Home News         March 22, 2013

New Chrome Experiment converts any website into a playable 3D maze

Chrome's World Wide Maze will take any website and turn it into a 3D maze. All that's left is for your mobile device to act as an external controller.

News         March 21, 2013

BitTorrent makes nice with artists and fans: ‘We’re not The Pirate Bay’

With two new products recently launched, BitTorrent aiming to change its rep by collaborating with artists directly to provide legally distributed content.

News         March 15, 2013

What we’ve Shazam-ed at SXSW 2013

Here are some of the tracks we've Shazam-ed during SXSW 2013 so you can formulate a playlist hip enough for Austin.

Smart Home News         March 14, 2013

Dating apps at SXSW hope to make serendipity happen

SXSW'ers looking for love have apparently come to the most technological place to find it, with tons of dating apps advertised across festival grounds.

Smart Home News         March 14, 2013

VHS-collecting filmmakers urges you to ‘Rewind This’ movie for nostalgia’s sake

Rewind This!' - a documentary highlighting the life and times of VHS format - aims to remind people of the tapes' nostalgia effect.

News         March 13, 2013

Notorious Facebook hook up app invades SXSW to the chagrin of … SXSW

The notorious Bang With Friends app has made its way to Austin, but SXSW organizers were not impressed with team using the festival name without permission.

Smart Home News         March 13, 2013

Despite legal battles, SideCar fights the law in the name of carpooling

Don't get it twisted – SideCar may be giving out ride shares at SXSW, but it's not a taxi service. Passengers need not pay anything unless they want to.

Car News         March 13, 2013

Backstage at a Bravo TV live show taping: Making television more social on the Web

We were invited to attend a taping of Bravo TV's Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen at SXSW. Naturally, we couldn't say no.

News         March 12, 2013

MoviePass CEO Stacy Spikes on how film can win the TV market back

With TV shows becoming more theatrical, the one way film can win back its viewers is to get social, local, and enhance the overall movie-going experience.

News         March 11, 2013

Since Facebook won’t add a dislike button, here comes the Hater app

Everything is always a bit fluffy on Facebook, where you could only Like statuses and photos. That's why Jake Banks launched the Hater app in time for SXSW.

News         March 10, 2013

Break out your calculator, because to win at online dating, you’ve got to do your math

She wanted a husband, so she took to online dating. But to find the lover of her dreams, it would take more than just JDate to churn out random guys.

Smart Home News         March 10, 2013

Inside the #SXSWTechCab, where I traded my digital sins for a free ride

Kendo UI is giver SXSW attendees free taxi rides for a small fee: Confess a technological sin with host Irina Slutsky and she'll be your chauffeur.

Smart Home News         March 8, 2013

Expanding the social barrier: Q&A with Suicide Girls co-founder Missy Suicide

We sat down with Suicide Girls co-founder Missy Suicide to talk about new extensions of her website in the era of mobile apps and microblog platforms.

Smart Home News         March 8, 2013

How New York City is giving payphones a 21st century revamp

The City of New York wants to reinvent the payphone, with design ideas involving kinetic energy, air quality sensors, solar panels, and augmented reality.

News         March 7, 2013

How to survive the wild, weird weeks of SXSW

SXSW is the Wild West of digital and social festivals, mixed with music and film - and a lot of partying. Survive with the help of our SXSW 2013 guide.

Smart Home Guides         March 5, 2013

King of the Nerds episode 107 recap: Let’s get physical

In our last episode before the finale of "King of the Nerds," contestants are finally challenged to do something relatively nerdy: Solve physics problems.

Smart Home News         March 5, 2013

Supercapacitor, SoLoMo, and more tech lingo you need to know

South by Southwest is quickly approaching, so it may be a good idea to learn about these SoLoMo apps people keep buzzing about.

Guides         March 4, 2013

Go home, robot, you’re drunk: Boston Dynamics’ BigDog can now hurl cinderblocks

Watch out, enemies. Mess with us and you may have to face the wrath of Boston Dynamics' BigDog robot, who can now fling cinderblocks in your direction.

News         March 1, 2013

‘Help Sony President Name His Pink Balls,’ pleads Sony. Yeah, really

Sony U.S. President Phil Molyneux posted a blog last night, requesting the help of Sony fans to "name his pink balls." Excuse me?

Smart Home News         February 27, 2013

Chrome Super Sync Sports lets you simultaneously kick your friend’s ass on smartphones and computer

Google's latest Chrome experiment comes in the form of a desktop game that allows players to sync their mobile devices and use them as the controller.

News         February 27, 2013

Heat-sensitive, color-changing jeans won’t so much as let you hide a fart

Those looking for a pair of jeans that changes as their body temperature shifts can rest easy knowing these Naked and Famous denims exist.

News         February 26, 2013