Jess Zimmerman explains: This combination bike and scooter is nominally the work of fancypants designer Philippe Starck, but that’s partly because “everyone in Bordeaux, France” doesn’t have as much label cachet. (More than “everyone in Normal, Illinois” or something, but still.) Before Starck got his hands on the brief for the bike, which will be […]
Read more at Forbes.
Matt Burns captions the above trailer: Back during the heyday of CrunchGear (now known as TechCrunch/Gadgets), we couldn’t get enough of Borderlands. The game masterfully combined the game play of a FPS with the best elements of an RPG. In a scene full of Call of Duty clones Borderlands is completely novel. Gearbox just released the […]
Read more at Forbes.
Like the future, our biology is inescapable. As advances in technology give us greater control over our own biology, the debate over science and bio-ethics keeps heating up. In a review of Jonathan D. Moreno’s new book, The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America, Ronald Bailey writes: Our biopolitical and bioethical struggles span human concerns from […]
Read more at Forbes.
The new Windows 8 logo has been surprisingly controversial. My own take on the new logo is here. Basically I said that it’s a pretty disappointing redesign – a washed-out attempt at elegant simplicity. 99designs.com has a contest up for enterprising designers who want to take a crack at the logo themselves. Here’s one I […]
Read more at Forbes.
Is ‘s addition of a leaderboard feature into its Latitude service a direct shot at the competition? Terrence O’Brien, writing about Google’s quiet launch, notes that, ” didn’t exactly offer much fanfare for this new feature — as far as we can tell, it still hasn’t been officially announced. With the latest update to the Maps app, Mountain […]
Read more at Forbes.
Kevin Smith’s new reality TV show on AMC, Comic Book Men, is meeting mixed reviews. I haven’t seen it yet, and I’ll be honest out the gates: I probably won’t but I plan to… I just can’t make myself care about Smith’s work these days. Of his entire film repertoire, only Dogma stood out as anything […]
Read more at Forbes.
The thing I enjoy about the above concept video is that none of it is really that far-fetched. In fact, some of the innovations predicted in the above video are already coming true. That’s not surprising, given the video is a couple years old already. The concept is the product of TAT’s open innovation project. […]
Read more at Forbes.
In January, the New York Times published a controversial and troubling report about working conditions in Chinese FoxConn factories where products are manufactured. Beneath the smooth exterior of the iPads and iPhones that have so captured the American imagination was a supply chain riddled with workers’ rights issues. CEO responded by saying that cares “about every […]
Read more at Forbes.
TVs are disappearing off of store shelves and they’re not being restocked. Gabe Gagliano predicts a March reboot of the TV box-top set. He sees the refresh as a natural step to take alongside the new iPad with its high-definition display. “Now, every time does a product introduction, they feature partners who have developed apps to […]
Read more at Forbes.
It’s not just the Windows UI that’s getting a complete overhaul with Windows 8. has released their redesigned logo for all the world to see. The plain, light-blue logo is reminiscent of Windows 1.0 – a throwback, in some ways, to that classic design. “We wanted the new logo to be both modern and classic […]
Read more at Forbes.