The Song of the PowerSquid: The Inside Story of the Life of an Invention, Part 3

Hello, my name is Christopher Hawker. I am a professional inventor, specializing in innovative consumer products. My company is called Trident Design, LLC. I have developed many products in numerous industries and have over 20 products on the market. My most famous invention is the PowerSquid, a cephalopod-inspired power strip with outlets situated at [...]

iTablet Rumor du Jour: Steve’s Finally Happy With the Giant iPod touch

Where there’s this many iTablet rumors, there just has to be an actual product Steve Jobs is finally happy with and will be unveiling to the world at a special Apple event in early 2010, right?
That’s what Apple Insider is reporting. The gist is as follows:

10″, 3G networked device similar to “a jumbo iPod touch”
Guided [...]

Report: Steve Jobs Happy With Apple’s Tablet, Fast Tracks It For Early 2010

You may recall back in December, we first reported the news about Apple gearing up for the launch of a large form iPod touch. While there had been no shortage of rumors over the years about some sort of Apple tablet, our sources indicated the device would be akin to Apple’s current mobile devices, the [...]

Shenzhen Worker Commits Suicide over Missing iPhone Prototype – Foxconn Investigating, Apple Comments

As has been widely covered on the net, Foxconn worker Sun Danyong of Shenzhen, responsible for 16 fourth-generation iPhone prototypes, committed suicide on July 16, after reporting one of the prototypes missing three days earlier.
Foxconn is the Taiwanese company that has long manufactured Apple iPods and the iPhone. Colleagues informed the Chinese media that Sun [...]

On the Apparent Apple Suicide

Every once in a while you get a story so strange and horrible that it takes a while to sink in. I’m talking about the suicide of a Foxconn employee who was caught doing something with an “iPhone prototype” and jumped out of the window.
Matt wrote:
So the story goes that a 25-year-old man at Foxconn [...]

Gadgets That Wring Amazing Video Out of Cheap Camcorders [Video]

Joel mentions a handful of gadgets to squeeze incredible video out of cheap camcorders: the Handy35 custom lens mount for 5D Mark II like depth-of-field, Glidetrack for smooth tracking, and the well-known Poor Man’s Steadicam. What’re your suggestions? [BBG]

From Tokyo: Demo of “almost finalized” augmented reality tagging app Sekai Camera (videos)

I attended the inaugural event of the AR Commons in Tokyo today, a new initiative that’s supposed to help set “standards of augmented reality as a public environment”. In other words, the symposium is an attempt to understand what augmented reality, the mixing of the real world with computer data, really is and what consequences [...]

The Saboteur Impressions: A New Way To Kill Nazis [Impressions]

There is a game that will let you shoot Nazis, fire rockets at zeppelins, hang out in a brothel, climb the Eiffel Tower, oh, and try to maintain your career as a race car driver during all this. Sound good?
Novelty is not a predictor of quality. So, really, who knows how good EA’s holiday game [...]