http://www.gadgetgoblin.com Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:30:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In her TED Women talk from December 2010, anthropologist Amber Case explores the social and personal interfaces we’re building out of technology, arguing that as a result of this activity we’ve become cyborgs. Thanks to smartphones and tablets and GPS systems, she argues, we’re now so fully augmented that we’ve ... http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/cyborgs-r-us/ Gearfuse already knows the work of Vi Hart, whose knack for illustrating tricky math by combining deft and elegant doodling with Internet-video vernacular is winning and effective. In the video above she loosely adapts the conceit at the heart of Flatland, Edward Abott Abott’s Victorian novella-of-ideas about life in two ... http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/marooned-in-mobius/ RC cars were always fun to play with as a kid. Except for those ones that only turned if the car was going in reverse. Well naturally, as time goes on and our technology advances, [...] 174 words | permalink | No comments | digg this Original post by Scott http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/tiny-tankbot-can-be-controlled-by-your-iphone/ Here is an interesting bit of news. It would seem that Yahoo will soon no longer require a Yahoo account in order for you to use their services. You can instead use either a Google [...] 138 words | permalink | No comments | digg this Original post by Scott http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/yahoo-to-let-you-login-to-their-services-with-a-google-or-facebook-account/ Dogs are a man’s best friends. They play with us, provide company, and even save us from time to time. Their poop however, is something that dog owners wish they could get around, or avoid [...] 191 words | permalink | No comments | digg this Original post by Scott http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/dog-dung-vacuum-makes-quick-work-of-cleaning-up-after-your-dog/ The more we know about our surroundings, the safer we feel. When we can tell what the temperature is outside, as well as who is near our thermometer, we can rest easy. Right? That’s why [...] 117 words | permalink | No comments | digg this Original post by Scott http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/thermometer-features-hidden-motion-activated-camera/ We like being able to do fancy things with our phones. All the fancy apps and games we get to download just make us giddy. There are a lot of useful apps out there, such [...] 167 words | permalink | No comments | digg this Original post by Scott http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/pay-for-your-starbucks-drinks-using-a-smartphone/ If you like to talk on your phone in the car, you must have also heard at least one warning from friends or family about the dangers involved. If you don’t have a car phone [...] 136 words | permalink | No comments | digg this Original post by Scott http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/nt3-throat-microphone-set/   A timely visualization by Information is Beautiful‘s David McCandless and friends, Horoscoped applies word-cloud analysis to daily astrology forecasts. Programmer Thomas Winningham wrote a Python script to scrape 22,000 horoscopes archived by Yahoo’s astrology channel, Shine. To the resulting data dump, McCandless and crew applied the off-the-shelf world-cloud generator ... http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/data-mining-the-zodiac/ This little film promotes the what one wants to call the reboot of Feiyue, the Chinese sneaker favored by martial artists since the 1920s. In 2006, a French company bought rights to the brand, retooling the kicks for a Western market by essentially engineering out everything that appealed to Shaolin ... http://www.gadgetgoblin.com/from-counterfeit-to-scifi-reverse-engineering/