CTA Digital unleashes official US Army gaming peripherals, gets your adrenaline pumping

Although this time it isn’t the inflatable Wii accessory you fell deeply in love with, CTA Digital’s bringing you something a bit more on the rugged and wild side — à la Rambo. In a partnership with the US Army, the company’s unveiling a flood of official gaming accessories to make you feel like

Cornell scientists perform optical illusion, herald invisibility through bending of light (video)

Taken at face value, you’d almost think that Cornell scientists had successfully bent the fabric of time. With gobs of fiber optics at their disposal, the researchers have devised a method to distort light in a way that makes events in time undetectable to observers. Initial success in this Pentagon-backed

Andreessen Horowitz, Salesforce Put $1.4M In Real-Time Messaging Infrastructure Startup Flotype

Flotype, a startup that offers a suite of technologies that simplify real-time messaging for cloud and mobile applications, has raised $1.4 million in seed funding from Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Yuri Milner, Salesforce, and Y Combinator.

Flotype, which was part of Y Combinator’s Winter

Ford to demo beta of MyFord Mobile app at CES, lets you tweet about your Focus from afar

Still giddy about taking possession of that electric Focus that you pre-ordered back in November? Well, before Dearborn gets the chance to airdrop that electric hatch into your driveway, know it’ll be previewing a new beta of the MyFord Mobile smartphone app at CES. For those unaware, that’s a mobile

Former Homeless Woman Becomes Twitter Celebrity

Alone and homeless on the streets of Chicago, AnnMarie Walsh found comfort in Twitter.
“It feels so good to know there is someone out th…

iShower water-resistant Bluetooth speaker being unveiled at CES, aims to improve those shower jams

We don’t blame you for being surprised when you first met the iGrill meat thermometer. We mean, how couldn’t you be? But now, the creators of the temperature indicator are hitting you with yet another peripheral, and this time it’s heading to your shower — that’s right, your shower. The iShower is

Mogees contact microphone brings out the musician in you

Contact microphones turn vibrations into electrical signals, and can then be transcoded into sound waves. This is precisely what the Mogees project does, and it does it well. The gadget can stick to any surface and turn it into your musical playground. There are multiple settings to help produce one’s

Una start-up promete una revolucionaría batería para la red eléctrica

Eos Energy Storage afirma que su batería de cinc-aire puede almacenar energía para usarla en las horas pico por menos dinero.

Digital Detox Vacations: Dream Trip or Personal Nightmare?

Caribbean nation St. Vincent and the Grenadines is challenging travelers to leave smartphones, tablets and other gadgets behind as a part of th…

Animoto Learns To Play Friendly With Instagram, Now Pulls Photos In Directly

It’s not a bad day for Instagram. First came the announcement that they were 2011 Crunchies Finalists. Shortly thereafter, they finally figured out how to push fullsize Instagrams to your Facebook Timeline. Capping off the day, automatic video slideshow service Animoto has launched full, built-in Instagram