5 Home Devices That Connect to Twitter

More About: alarm clocks, smart appliance, smart refrigerator, Twitter, YouTube

Custom PC desk / case combo ditches glass, metal for wood

Desk case PC mods have lit up our radar before, but a modder by the name of Pirate — who’s no stranger to us — has dropped the typical glass and metal enclosure for medium-density fiberboard. Though the material choice was an effort to avoid buying a new desk, it created a need for a robust cooling

Reimagining Home Improvement: Houzz vs. Better Homes and Gardens

We’re running a series based on Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends report mid-year, in which she listed 50+ industries that are being "reimagined" by social and mobile technologies. One of her slides was about the home improvement information industry, which up till recently revolved around broadcast media

PLX’s XWave Sport gives brainwave interfaces a casual look, triggers ’80s flashbacks

Brainwave-guided interfaces are common. Most of the time, though, they’re not what we’d call subtle. PLX Devices hopes to have that licked through the XWave Sport, a brain interface that disguises all its sensors through a fuzzy, exercise-friendly headband. Underneath the incredibly 1980s-retro (but

Microsoft accentuates the positive, gives Windows Phone 7.8′s new start screen a closer look (video)

Reactions to news that Windows Phone 7 devices would never turn into Windows Phone 8 handsets were decidedly mixed, but the company is now making sure people know just what’s in the coming "pattern of upgrades." Company evangelist Ben "The PC Guy" Rudolph shot this video of Windows Phone 7.8 running

OLED Lego train station emerges from Adafruit and Arduino gear, minifigs to get home on time

Who knew Lego characters had to be somewhere in a hurry? Adafruit did, as it just whipped up a minifig-sized train schedule. The invention mates one of Adafruit’s own 1-inch OLED boards with an Arduino Uno controlling the schedule behind the scenes. It looks to be a straightforward project for the DIY

Social Media-Connected Teens Seek Time Offline [STUDY]

More About: Facebook, online, Social Media, social networking, teens, Twitter

Box’s OneCloud comes to Android

Enterprise-centric cloud storage provider Box has announced a key enhancement to its growing OneCloud platform – Android support. OneCloud is a feature that allows users to keep their Box files synced even when they’re using third-party apps. A whole slew of ANdroid app providers are compatible

Google Ventures-Backed Cliqr Brings Old-School Business Apps To The Cloud

In all the talk of cloud computing, Cliqr Technologies CEO Gaurav Manglik says there’s one area of enterprise technology that’s been sitting out the transition — business applications. The cloud has led to an explosion of new apps, but (to pick two random examples) chip design and medical imaging apps

Tres preguntas para Patti Maes

Maes, cuyo grupo de investigación estudia la interacción humano-computadora, señala que los dispositivos móviles pronto podrán espiar a sus propietarios para anticiparse a sus necesidades.