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Larry Page On Google Self-Driving Cars: Think About Your Children Larry Page On Google Self-Driving Cars: Think About Your Children
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Google CEO Larry Page spoke at the Zeitgeist 2012 event this week, talking about Google’s Glasses, search, and various other topics. He briefly touched on Google’s self-driving cars. In his talk, he played up the safety factor, and called upon …

Google Glasses Make Another Appearance Google Glasses Make Another Appearance

Soon after Google announced Project Glass, its concept for futuristic glasses, co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted (and photographed) at a charity dinner wearing them. Image credit: Thomas Hawk This week, Google’s CEO (and other co-founder) Larry Page wore the glasses …

Brit: Meet the New Brand That Marries Tech & Domestic Living Brit: Meet the New Brand That Marries Tech & Domestic Living

If you enjoy being creative, are all about Pinterest, and have a techie streak in you, chances are, you’ll be interested in a new lifestyle brand founded by Brit Morin. The brand, simply called Brit, puts a new spin on …

New Portable Charger Gives You “Several Weeks” Of Charges New Portable Charger Gives You “Several Weeks” Of Charges

“It’s like having a plug in your pocket,” says Mouli Ramani of Lilliputian Systems. “This new power system will transform how consumers use their CE devices.” For everyone that has run out of juice halfway through the day, and for …

Bing’s Putting the Human Touch Back in Technology Bing’s Putting the Human Touch Back in Technology

Here’s a problem that’s totally born of our modern age: at work I use Macs and at home I use a Windows-powered laptop. Every single day when I go home, I have to re-adjust my motions on the scroll pad …

Women Who Tech TeleSummit Makes the Case for More Women In Tech Leadership Women Who Tech TeleSummit Makes the Case for More Women In Tech Leadership

The technology world has a well documented problem of having very few (if any) women leading the industry although women are solidly the majority of consumers in the tech world. Women comprise the majority of bloggers and blog readers and …

Study Finds That People Aren’t Physically Interacting Much Anymore Due To The Internet Study Finds That People Aren’t Physically Interacting Much Anymore Due To The Internet

I’m going to be straight up with all of you – I think I’m addicted to the Internet. While my job involves my sitting at a desk working online all day, I can’t get away from it once the work …

Google Self-Driving Car Makes a Trip to Lake Tahoe Google Self-Driving Car Makes a Trip to Lake Tahoe
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In case you misplaced the self-awareness that working at Google will always be cooler than your job, Sebastian Thrun, Google Fellow and Vice President, took a moment to remind you today and uploaded a photo to his Google+ account announcing …

Facebook Engineers Discuss Time Travel Facebook Engineers Discuss Time Travel
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There’s a very interesting thread on Quora, in which people of varying backgrounds are discussing time travel. Specifically, they’re addressing a pretty good question: Why are people from the future not time traveling to our period? There is a lot …

Google Glasses: Which Parts Are Unrealistic? Google Glasses: Which Parts Are Unrealistic?
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Google got a lot of people thinking when it unveiled Project Glass and its promo video showing how Google glasses of the future could work. It was cool. Plain and simple. Of course as they often aren’t, things aren’t really …

Google Glasses: 2Pac Is Only One Reason You Should Be Excited Google Glasses: 2Pac Is Only One Reason You Should Be Excited
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A couple weeks ago, Google captured the imaginations of many with a slick promo video for Project Glass, a futuristic pair of Google glasses that put the capabilities of a smartphone directly into your field of vision. Though Google has …

QAMA Calculator Reveals Answer After You’ve Made an Educated Guess QAMA Calculator Reveals Answer After You’ve Made an Educated Guess
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For someone who is genuinely awful at all sorts of mathematics and calculations, the intellectually-stimulating QAMA calculator is a little intimidating. When I sit down with one of these devices, I need answers, and I need them now. Unfortunately for …

What Will the JOBS Act Do for Startups & the Tech Industry? What Will the JOBS Act Do for Startups & the Tech Industry?

Last week, President Obama signed into law the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act, more commonly known as the JOBS Act. The White House administration is hoping that small businesses and startups will drive recovery and create new jobs.

Project Glass Parody Video Ends With User Unzipping His Pants Project Glass Parody Video Ends With User Unzipping His Pants

The Project Glass parody videos are just not stopping. Luckily, I’ve been able to gain some bit of amusement out of each one so far, so I guess it hasn’t jumped the shark quite yet, though I’m sure it’s just …

Project Glass Engineer Teaches You How To Program Driverless Cars Project Glass Engineer Teaches You How To Program Driverless Cars

Sebastian Thrun is a Google Fellow and VP, a Stanford Professor, and the co-founder fo Udacity.com. He’s also on the Project Glass team, which last week, unveiled the much talked about Google glasses. He was one of the names that …

Science Fiction Stacks Up To Real Technology [Infographic] Science Fiction Stacks Up To Real Technology [Infographic]
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One of my favorite genres of fiction is science fiction. It’s fun to see what writers see as being the future of technology. From the original Metropolis to Star Trek to The Fifth Element, mankind has always imagined the next …

Project Glass Engineer Presentation Makes Google Contact Lenses Seem Likely Project Glass Engineer Presentation Makes Google Contact Lenses Seem Likely
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Remember Solve For X – that Google-hosted event earlier this year, where smart people gathered to discuss technology and solutions for real world problems? One of the presentations was from Babak Parviz. That presentation was about building microystems on the …

Project Glass: Are The Google Glasses Even Possible? Project Glass: Are The Google Glasses Even Possible?

This past week, Google unveiled Project Glass in the form of the following promo video: The video has already been parodied a bunch of times. You can peruse our Project Glass coverage here to see some of those. We know …

Project Glass: Google Glasses Parody Gets Terminator Involved Project Glass: Google Glasses Parody Gets Terminator Involved

The parodies of Google’s Project Glass promo just keep coming. So far, we’ve seen the one where the user runs into things while walking, one where the user falls off a balcony, one where the user gets hit by a …

Project Glass Gets Man Hit By Car (In This Parody Video) Project Glass Gets Man Hit By Car (In This Parody Video)

More and more parodies of Google’s Project Glass promo video are surfacing. Many of them are pointing out the potential for bodily harm, though so far, from the ones I’ve seen, they’ve mostly done a good job at still being …

Project Glass: What If Google Fills Our Eyes With Ads? Project Glass: What If Google Fills Our Eyes With Ads?
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Parody videos about Project Glass have been coming out of the woodwork. Some of them are disturbingly realistic. They include things like people running into telephone poles or falling off balconies and whatnot. Some may find this one startlingly realistic …