United puts the kibosh on in-flight video chat, one family seriously ‘bummed’

It may not be illegal to tuck your kids into bed via iChat while taking advantage of United’s in-flight WiFi, but that didn’t stop a flight attendant from ending John Battelle’s (admittedly precious) use of the service during a flight two days ago. It seems that the airline has a policy that prohibits “two-way devices” [...]

Wacom Cintiq 21UX hands-on

It almost too much to take in all at once. Sure, the $1,999 Cintiq 21UX pen display is priced out of reach for most of us mere mortals who “don’t draw good,” but the pure lustworthiness of this unit sure makes us try to forget that inconvenient fact. The expanded movability of Wacom’s latest is [...]

FCC comes through with a Consumer Broadband Test app for iPhone, Android and the home

We talk about the FCC a lot here, but usually the ways ye olde Commission affects our lives are indirect. A little extra spectrum here, a nice leaked image there, that kind of thing. Not this time, though, as the FCC is getting involved directly with its own Consumer Broadband Test app, designed to probe [...]

HDI headquarters walkthrough: details galore on the new face of in-home 3D

Call it an inexplicable fascination, or call it all-out geek lust over a screen with three digits in the “diagonal screen size” specification field — either way, we had little choice but to shuttle over to HDI’s nondescript Los Gatos, California headquarters in order to check out what even Steve Wozniak has been quoted as [...]

PlayStation Move Requires a Scant 1-2MB of RAM [PS3]

Insert the PlayStation Move Wand Into the Situations It’ll Let You Simulate [PhotoshopContest]

iPad mute switch magicked into a ’screen rotation lock’ overnight, a flurry of other tidbits emerge

Apple’s pushing out a few more scraps of info about the iPad in conjunction with the launch of pre-orders. One of the quirkier details is that what was previously known as the mute switch on the iPad — similar to the one on the iPhone — is now known as the “screen rotation lock” on [...]

Himalayan Paragliders Post Live Updates with iPhones and GPS

Filed under: iPhone, Web

Not all of us have the time, money or (let’s be honest) the cojones for extreme adventures, like paragliding the entirety of the Himalayan mountain range. Thanks to modern technology though, we can all live vicariously through the Himalayan Odyssey Team’s trip of just that nature, as we sit comfortably in our [...]

Is Your ISP Lying? FCC Offers Tools to Test Surfing Speed

Filed under: Web
Have you ever had a sneaky suspicion that your broadband speed might not be as fast as your Internet Service Provider (ISP) claims? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will help you figure out if the wool has been pulled over your eyes. According to Wired, the FCC’s new site Broadband.gov will let users [...]

The Litany of iPad Submission [Apple]