By Killian Bell |
There are a huge collection of application in the App Store that introduce a handy scanner to your iOS device, and contrary to popular opinion, some of them work incredibly well. That 5-megapixel camera on your iPhone 4 will actually do a pretty impressive job…
By Killian Bell |
This Electrolux Laptop Kitchen is by far one of the craziest inventions I’ve seen in a long time. It fuzes your boring old laptop and your kitchen stove into a device that will allow you to edit your Excel spreadsheets while you knock up a quick omelette. The…
By Emily Price |
My grandmother used to have a really nice persian rug in her living room. Growing up I can remember having to take off my shoes before walking on the rug, and having to enjoy all snack and especially beverages far enough away that nothing…
By Killian Bell |
How often do you write up your shopping list on your iPad? We do it all the time in our house. We used to use the iPhone, but it’s so much easier on the iPad’s larger screen. However, we don’t like the idea of carrying…
By Emily Price |
One Toyko man decided to “Think Different” with a extra special tribute to former Apple CEO Steve Jobs who stepped down last week– a run in the shape of an Apple. Using RunKeeper and two iPhones the man embarked on a 13 mile run through…
By Emily Price |
A few months ago, I finally purchased an 11-inch MacBook Air. While most of the time I’m working from home and could probably use a machine of any size/weight, the time I do travel is typically spent on show floors toting around my computer as well…
By Emily Price |
Remember that spaceship Steve Jobs wants to build in Cupertino? Apple hopes to house 12,000 employees in the circular building, that will also feature thing like a 1,000-seat auditorium and a fitness center. While a Cupertino city councilman has already said “there’s no way we’re…
By Mike Perlman |
Jon Rettinger and I recently flew to GM’s stomping grounds in Detroit for hands-on demos of the new Chevy Cruze and Chevy Sonic compact cars. But what we experienced far exceeded our base expectations, which consisted of taking the automobiles for a brief spin throughout…
By Emily Price |
If I Love Lucy star Lucille Ball were still alive, today would be her 100th birthday. To celebrate, Google has turned its logo for the day into a retro television set that plays clips form the classic television show. “Google” replaces the portion of the…
By Emily Price |
If you follow me on Twitter, you know my bathroom recently underwent a pretty huge renovation. During that renovation my maintenance man disclosed to me his million-dollar plan to retrofit toilet seats with a suction fan of sorts that would “suck out the stink” before…
By Sean P. Aune |
YouTube today unveiled Cosmic Panda, a new redesign and set of tools for the site. And before you even ask … we don’t grasp the meaning behind the name either. If you head over to http://www.youtube.com/cosmicpanda you’ll find the option to try out this new design,…
By Adriana Lee |
When the world becomes a little too stress-y, and the spouse or significant other starts getting on your case, where can you turn? Why, your very own personal cave, of course! Normally, I wouldn’t advise separation as a way of dealing with life, but sometimes,…
By Adriana Lee |
According to Chinese officials, three suspects were imprisoned in China for stealing iPad 2 designs from Apple vendor Foxconn. The theft took place at its Guangdong plant late last year, when two workers took the plans and sold them to Xiao Chengsong, a legal agent…
By Emily Price |
Looking for a way to kill time this afternoon? Google has made its Les Paul Google Doodle available permanently. The Doodle originally replaced the Google logo on its homepage last week in celebration of Les Paul’s 96th birthday. The playable guitar was so popular that…
By Jack McGrath |
Created in 2003 by Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal, the annual D: All Things Digital conference has become a platform for major players in the technology sector to make significant announcements. Microsoft recently made the decision to utilize the event’s…
By Sean P. Aune |
There have been rumors circulating that Apple has brought in outside help to work on notifications and widgets in iOS, but there was no hard evidence out there of what was going on. Well, it seems that possibly the “outside help” has been pinpointed, and,…
By Emily Price |
Yesterday Google announced the winner of its annual Doodle 4 Google contest. The contest is open to K-12 students, and has students create their own redesign for the Google homepage logo. The winner, Matteo Lopez took home a $15,000 scholarship from Google, and had his…
By Adriana Lee |
Love them or hate them, there’s little doubt that Apple takes pride in the look and utility of its retail locations. And for those of us who enjoy tooling around in them, it looks like we may have a treat in store for us. There’s…
By Adriana Lee |
Is it me, or does the mobile future look a little bendy? Two items caught my eye recently that suggest that flexible form factors could get some play someday. Researchers at the Queen’s University in Canada and Arizona State University developed a paper phone, operable…
By Joey Davidson |
Roughly a month ago, Google launched “A Google a Day,” a site specifically built to give your search engine skills a test. Users are prompted with a daily search engine task as Google dishes out a solveable piece of trivia. You’ll take to the Google…
By Jon Quach |
The 2011 iMac spring update is running the new Sandy Bridge Intel processors, also known as the second generation of the “i” CPUs. The July 2010 iMac update was running the first generation of these systems, and only saw a quad-core option on the the…
By Emily Price |
Yesterday Google launched a new Google Docs application for Android. The application allows you to edit documents from your Android phone or other Android-powered device, as well as share items you have stored withing Google Docs with the contacts you have in your phone from…
By Jack McGrath |
“When something exceeds your ability to understand how it works, it sort of becomes magical.” – Jonathan Ive, Senior VP of Industrial Design at Apple, Inc. When speaking of Apple’s cutting-edge design laboratory, former executives paint the picture of a scene analogous with Batman’s lair.…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Android Nom TechnoBuffalo wallpaper is just one of several free wallpapers we have for our readers to choose from. If you watch any of Jon Rettinger’s videos on the jon4lakers YouTube channel, or right here on TechnoBuffalo, you’re sure to have noticed his computer wallpapers.…
