A wise man once asked, “They can put a man on the moon, but they can’t make killer robot police?” Actually, I think it was The Onion. Regardless, the answer to the question question has come to haunt the residents of a downtown Atlanta neighborhood. As ABCNews.com reports, Rufus Terrill, 57, owner of O’Terrill’s pub, has been using a “300-pound, waist-high robot, marked ‘SECURITY’” to guard his business against loiterers, the homeless and thieves. Read More »

Last weekend I met a girl. She is beautiful and funny – we exchanged numbers, and things were looking good.Then at the end of the night as I was falling asleep, my phone chirped to inform me of a new text, from my new girl, “Great 2 meet u.”

Damn. And she had so much potential.

I know, I know, it is a sweet thing to say, but my problem is not with what she said, it’s how. I am the first to admit that I being extremely judgmental, but as an English major and someone who thoroughly enjoys words, I really hate to see them butchered. Read More »

Contrary to popular belief, single unlaid men have plenty of options to score with women. Problem is, they almost all exist online. But if the usual surfing around for 15-second clips of free porn and desperate, immediate Casual Encounters on Craigslist isn’t getting you off properly, maybe you, single unlaid man, should try the alternative: finding a woman in prison…online!

Getting to know Women Behind Bars on relationship terms seems like a very bold, odd, uncomfortable situation — and guess what? IT IS, or so it seems. Read More »

Everybody and their mother knows that Wii loves mothers (families in general, but they love moms a lot), from the perpetually PG vibes of their first-party games, to the undercurrent of low quality kiddie titles that would weigh down their entire library if anyone ever took notice.

While I’m in the camp that thinks Nintendo needs a little roughing up — Medal of Honor and other sloppy ports just won’t do — a Pole Dancing Wii game may not be the bridge they’re looking for, either.

From Tech Digest:

“Currently seeking a partner to help license their concept, Peekaboo Pole Dancing has sent out an email announcing their idea for a Wii game that’d have you ’shake your booty’ and ’spin your thing’.

Little else is said about the project, only that it’s a concept, and ‘A-list celebs’ like Carmen Electra, Kylie Minogue, the Spice Girls and Pussycat Dolls are already fans of the company, who currently sell portable dance poles.”

THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN. Still, it’s a fun thought, Nintendo endorsing a pole dancing title featuring the world’s most famous tramps. The mind boggles at the Wiimote’s possibilities.

(Photo Credit: Jamillia Deville - Pole Dancer, Julio Arenas - Photographer)

YouTube recently started offering video playback in higher-resolution, better-sounding formats like MP4, and that bump in quality can now be downloaded for desktop use as well.

Once on your desktop you can rip them to DVD or upload the video to your Facebook account.

Check out Lifehacker’s “How To” YouTube MP4 guide.

Truth be told, I’ve owned about three watches worth mentioning in my lifetime, all of them being poorly-designed Tag Hauer knock-offs bought at the local flea market for $20 apiece. You can’t buy class, I say…or at least you can’t by it on a 17-year old’s budget.

Now that I’m older and wiser, I know a classy watch signifies power and good taste. And if money isn’t a factor, Ven Der Led’s WM2 watch/cell phone hybrid will bestow these characteristics unto you (”unto”…now that’s a classy word right there).

You want gadgets in your gadgets? Well, you’re inquiring about the right product, then: Van Der Led WM2 comes equipped with a 1.3 inch color display, Bluetooth compatibility and 1GB of memory.

Oh yeah…did I mention that it’s a WATCH AND CELL PHONE IN ONE? How amazing is that? I’ll tell you how amazing — very much so. If you’ve ever fancied yourself a secret agent on the lam (or a tech-obsessed geek with Linux mapped in your veins) Van Der Led’s Swiss Army-esque product should suffice…that is, until our lives are controlled with holograms, which I predict will be sometime in September at this rate. THE FUTURE!!!!!!!!

The UK’s Times Online is reporting an incredible technological breakthrough as scientists from Cern have set into motion a new technology that could soon make the internet obsolete, or at the very least, 10,000 times too slow for our forward-thinking times.

The scientists who pioneered it (the internet) have now built a lightning-fast replacement capable of downloading entire feature films within seconds.

At speeds about 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, “the grid” will be able to send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britain to Japan in less than two seconds.

The latest spin-off from Cern, the particle physics centre that created the web, the grid could also provide the kind of power needed to transmit holographic images; allow instant online gaming with hundreds of thousands of players; and offer high-definition video telephony for the price of a local call. [UK Times Online]

David Britton, a professor of physics at Glasgow University says, “With this kind of computing power, future generations will have the ability to collaborate and communicate in ways older people like me cannot even imagine.”

OtterBox cases were designed for all the klutzy, spontaneous, chaotic, graceless individuals who have broken a device or valuable due to their active lifestyle.

I’m one of them!

In my life I’ve got through a dozen cell phones and if you think I’m making this up feel free to ask any of my Facebook friends.

I got my Blackberry Pearl almost 14 months ago and I am proud to say it is the longest I’ve ever gone without losing or destroying a phone via bathroom toilet or 6 story fall out of a windowsill.

My Pearl is like my new 3rd arm and like any responsible ‘parent’ I wanted to most reliable, best of breed protection for my baby.

That is why I requested an OtterBox case. Read More »

Anything that helps me talk to cops less wins. Especially if it’s free, and doesn’t involve hiding in a an abandoned bunker somewhere. And I’m guessing, if you like to drive fast, you don’t much enjoy their company, either.

Fortunately, Trapster (no, not the supervillain), a new wireless service, simply provides users with text messages and/or emails when they are coming up on a speed trap. Using GPS already in your cell phone or WiFi, Trapster knows immediately when you are getting close to a reported trap.

Red-light cameras and locations where police often set-up camp are recorded in Trapser’s database indefinitely. However, like many Web 2.0 applications, Trapster is reliant on user-submitted data for the service to work. Read More »

It’s the moment I feared: Nintendo Wii, like the GameCube before it - and the Nintendo 64 before that! - has reached a point where selling consoles to their demographic has hit a consistent peak without releasing any noteworthy games, outside of first-party titles.

First off, let me admit to being a Nintendo ‘fanboy,’ whatever that means. I align with the style and ingenuity of their titles, and think their idea of what gaming should be about - a surreal experience that’s fun without being too complicated - is sincere. With that said, all titles that fall outside of their quality imprint fall short. Far too many weak, cash-in ports plague the system, and their stable of AAA franchise revivals lacks inspiration at times. What the Big N needs is a SNES-like revival of equal parts quality and quantity - but can that happen within their niche market? Read More »