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Smarter Handsets Aren’t Necessarily Better Phones: Report

The dissonant implication of Pew’s findings is that powerful, expensive handsets are not necessarily serving as better phones

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What A 3D Printed Assault Rifle Means For Safety, Copyright

A firearm enthusiast believes he may have been the first to test a 3D-printed gun assembly, which he has used to build and fire a pistol and assault rifle.

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Kinesis Brings Gesture Control To App Developers

Indian startup Kinesis is working to build a native framework to bring gesture and depth-based modeling developers, on the Kinect and likely soon other platforms.

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Innovative Self-Replicating 3-D Printers Could Wipe Out Factories

Today, emerging 3-D printing projects such as RepRap, Fab@Home, and UltiMaker could soon unleash a second industrial revolution, this one rendering many factories obsolete. Instead, the bulk of manufacturing could be done in the comfort of one’s home, and a broken piece is just a download and print away.

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‘Feel Me’ Smartphone App Creates Digital Intimacy

Feel Me is a smartphone application that believes the kind of communication that breeds true connection is just as much about the content shared as is it is about connecting with the presence of the other person.

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Refugees From The Etsy Police Flee To Storenvy

Coverage has unearthed an uneasy underbelly to handcrafted and vintage e-commerce monster Etsy, where a team of “young detectives” play cat-and-mouse with peddlers who blatantly disregard the site’s authenticity requirements.

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The Voice Of The Network: Douglas Coupland’s Audio-Visual Representation Of Online Data

In a pairing with telecommunications company Alcatel Lucent and musician Paul Humphreys, tech conscious author Douglas Coupland has created an artistic audio-visual representation of internet traffic data.

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Twitter’s First Bird Logo Cost $15. For the Latest, It Poached a Designer From Google

Twitter’s first iconic bird logo came cheap. For the latest, the company spared no monetary or metaphorical expense.

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Sparrow’s Advisor John Maeda Shows Importance Of Design Centered Startups

My email situation is a serious mess. I’m sure you can relate. I have four different Google Apps accounts and an Outlook account. I’ve given up on checking all but.

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Typecast: A Designer’s New Best Friend

Typecast gives users the ability to design programmed web pages in their browser with beautiful web fonts and real content.

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