The Way i Go

FaceCash: The New Credit Card

Greenspan demonstrated FaceCash today for VentureBeat, by using it to demonstrate how he could pay for a lunch he had at the Indochine Thai restaurant in Palo Alto, Calif. (See videos below for short demo). Here’s how it works: You can download the FaceCash application on any leading smartphone — it will be available on iPhone, BlackBerry or Android phones beginning next week. Then you type in...

Winscape: Apple-Powered Fake Windows

Here’s a technology that’s arrived before its time, I think. Winscape is a set of two plasma televisions set up behind window panes, and hooked up to a Mac Pro. The Pro is running the custom Winscape software, which controls the “view” out of the windows according to a sensor (they show it in the video below attached to a baby, and it actually looks really large and pretty...

Apple’s 4th-Generation iPhone Revealed

Well, we told you so. The fourth-generation iPhone prototype that leaked its way out into the world over the weekend has found its way to Gizmodo, and they’ve examined it exhaustively enough to prove that it’s the real thing. Not only does it show up in iTunes, Xcode, and System Profiler, but it has different product identifiers than the 3G or 3GS, and it’s packed with Apple-labeled...

The Ultimate Hi-Tech and Interactive Mirrors

The Interactive Mirror at the DIESEL GINZA Store (Japan) is what every girl dreams off! It is able to take high-resolution shots of you and then you can decide whether your butt looks fat in a dress or not! Check out the super cool video below. Philips is all about designing for the future and that is why we simply love them. Check out their Interactive Mirror, which even makes chores like brushing...

The Most Important iPad Question Of The Day

Days after the launch of the much-lauded iPad, the various merits of its very existence are still being debated. Will it change the face of computing? Will it save the publishing industry? What does it mean for video games? What about comics? Should you even buy one, or is Cory Doctorow just being a killjoy? Frankly, I could give two good shakes of an Etch-a-Sketch about all that. Everything...

14 Most Beautiful Fountains and Water Sculptures

The grace and beauty of flowing water, along with its ability to induce calm, are the biggest reasons we’re drawn to artful displays of H2O.  From simple gravity-driven fountains to elaborate displays of dancing water and lights, these fountains, waterfalls and water sculptures are among the most celebrated, the most beautiful and the most interesting in the world. Dubai Fountain – Burj Dubai,...

iPhone Desk Phone

The Desk Phone Dock is set to first appear at the China Sourcing Fair taking place next month. With a nod to retrospective design, the dock allows users to sync and charge their iPhones while being enclosed in a polished housing complete with traditional desk phone handset.

Samurai robots serve humans in Hajime restaurant, Thailand

These are the robots of the Hajime restaurant in Thailand. The owner, Lapassarad Thanaphant, decided that she wanted a Japanese restaurant, and instead of hiring a wait-staff, she set her place up for samurai robots. That’s right, robot samurai, and not like the robot samurai like the ones in Robocop 3. No, these robot samurai are very cute with their big round eyes. Not only do they deliver the...

Facebook’s Amusingly Cruel CAPTCHA

Literally laughed out loud. We’ve all seen our share of amusing CAPTCHA’s – if you haven’t, you simply haven’t seen enough of them in your life – but this one takes the cake. Way to depress people, Facebook.

Walking with Dinosaurs in Japan

Walking with Dinosaurs will be touring Japan in July and August. To help promote their arena tour, they sent one of their dinosaurs to appear on Fuji TV’s morning “Mezamashi TV” show earlier this week. Watch as announcers react with fear:

Google Translate for Animals Hits Android Market

Google’s Reto Meier hinted the London Android team was working on a “pretty incredible” app and now we have learned the details. Available now on the Android Market, Translate for Animals bridges the gap between humans and animals by using the power of Google Search to generate cross-species translations. Current translations are available many species including cat, dog, bird, rabbit, guinea...

Google To Go Nuclear? Maybe it’s an April Fools Joke !

Google has acquired a company that has created a new process for highly efficient isotope separation. The primary use of this technology is uranium enrichment. Enriched uranium is a necessary ingredient in the creation of nuclear energy, and one source we’ve spoken with at Google says that this is part of the Google Green Initiative. The company will use the new technology to enable it to design...

Why You Need To Be Very, Very Careful About What You Name Your iPhone App

Privacy issues aside, helping people protect their children from sex offenders is an admirable goal. But the name needs some work.

Infinite USB

Gonglue Jiang’s concept for the Infinite USB managed to snag the iF Concept Award for 2010. Comes in pretty colors and looks like it belongs to a Mac. Now that’s good design.

Robotic Dentistry Patient

Hanako will respond when greeted and asked several questions, and will react to the dental student working on its mouth. She can open and close her mouth when ordered, perform random actions such as a sneeze and even discharge saliva. Touch sensors in her mouth will have her wincing in pain if a press is too hard or an instrument goes somewhere it shouldn’t, or gag violently if things go south.