There’s a lot of talk these days about Google Glass, Google’s new futuristic wearable computer that functions like a set of cyborg glasses, overlaying a HUD of Google products and search services over your life. It certainly sounds impressive, and early reviews from the usual techno-nerds are positive. But what would Steve Jobs have thought [...]Show More Summary
With Windows Phone, Microsoft has shown us how difficult it is to launch a new mobile product without an expansive app ecosystem available right out of the gate. Thanks to the early buzz Google is creating around Google Glass, the company’s upcoming connected eyewear likely won’t face the same challenge. Show More Summary
There might have been plenty of buzz surrounding Google Glass for quite some time already, but it will not hit the market for quite some time down the road, and here we are with something which could very well take [...] Like It, +1, Tweet It, Pin It Original content from Ubergizmo.
As far as dubious honors go, this one is probably the most dubious of them all.
A Twitter image update produces an accidentally satirical error: Here is the intended image, which is pretty funny. (via Jesse Walker)
Corning intros a second-generation glass substrate.
Asus has shared that the company intends to roll out a spanking new Ultrabook sometime down the road later next month, when Computex kicks off, that is. According to Asus, the Asus Zenbook Infinity (as it will apparently be called) [...] Like It, +1, Tweet It, Pin It Original content from Ubergizmo.
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5-19-13
Danny Brown is a magnetic but troublesome figure in hip-hop. In the past month he's fallen under heavy scrutiny for receiving a blow job while performing i...
TVSpy is in a glass case of emotion over the release of the trailer for “Anchorman: The Legend Continues,” otherwise known as Anchorman 2. The movie is a follow up to “Anchorman,” a documentary style look at local news in the 1970?s....Show More Summary
Why Do I Own This? is a column exploring the weirder pop-culture flotsam and jetsam that washes up in the lives of A.V. Club writers, the impulses that drive us to acquire such things, and the motives for clinging to them long afterShow More Summary
Silver investors are as beat up as John McClane. Can they pull the glass out of their feet yet? Silver and its Miners have been a volatile and disappointing trade for 2013. However the shorts have poured into these stocks and raked in massive returns. Show More Summary
Didn’t know you needed a luxury foosball table? That’s because you didn’t know this thing existed. The Cristallino foosball table, from Teckell, is $18,000 worth of crystal glass and aluminum. Naturally, each unit is handmade “as a unique...Show More Summary
Glass Animals were one of the bands I was most looking forward to seeing in Brighton. I first wrote about them years ago, when there was no more than a couple of songs on their MySpace page (yes, that long ago), but they’ve been distinctly slow-moving since then. An EP was digitally released a year [...]
If you're going to have a glass of orange juice and brush your teeth (a good idea), there's only one order in which to do them. It makes sense that your minty toothpaste-mouth would make OJ taste weird, but why so down-right heinous? Read more...
This week, Cesear’s Palace became the first casino to ban Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Glass. The ban comes from a more broad law in Nevada that says that the use of recording devices and computers isn’t allowed when gambling. Similarly, movie theaters ban recording devices, and recently even a bar in Seattle banned users from using [...]
ASUS' Transformer Book hybrid may have just graduated from our review testing, but the company already has a new product to tempt you. The Zenbook Infinity will be the "world's first Ultrabook with a lid made form Corning Gorilla Glass 3" and will be revealed in full at Taipei's Computex 2013 in a few weeks. Show More Summary
Enter now for a chance to win one of five Kinkajou bottle cutters. These kits make it easy to convert your old glass bottles into drinking glasses, vases, lampshades, candle holders and more. (Contest Ends 5/26.) Link
If it’s not the hot coffee lawsuit of a lifetime, it’s still a major claim that McDonald’s mucked up pretty fierce: A gospel singer living in Brooklyn alleges in a new lawsuit that McDonald’s is responsible for ruining her voice, after she claims she bit into a piece of glass while eating a chicken sandwich. The woman tells the New … [More]
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Google Glass by design is a social product. Customers wear the glasses everywhere and therefore they have the option to easily stay connected on the go. With that real-time connectivity it was only a matter of time before social networks jumped on-board. Announced at Google I/O the product is now receiving social connectivity via Twitter, [...]