At this past week’s Google I/O event in San Francisco, Google brought a contraption it calls the “Holodeck,” for event-goers to experience. Basically, it’s a near-360 degree way to view Google Street View in fast motion, high definition video. Danny Sullivan posted a bunch of...

Music service Last.fm shuts its doors for the afternoon, claiming “datacenter temperature issues beyond our control” required them to go offline. The outage began around 12:30 pm PST, so we’re at two hours and counting. Updates are on their Twitter account . Crunch Network : CrunchBoard...

One thing I love about Facebook spokesperson Randi Zuckerberg - she says exactly what she thinks, and she isn’t afraid to use the power of Facebook to back up her opinions. Mean bar bouncers can lose their Facebook pages (this was later retracted but remains funny). Meanwhile, Holocaust deniers...

SlashGear has been hanging out with Google this week, at the I/O 2009 conference.  You can read our first day and second day highlights for the full details, but perhaps the most interesting news was Google’s Wave demo for iPhone and Android, and Andy Rubin’s confirmation that there should...

When Fotonauts debuted at last year’s TechCrunch50, I called it a “gorgeous photopedia” because it promised to turn your photo albums into collaborative Web pages about different topics and subjects. Fotonauts is a desktop photo client which helps you tag, organize, and share your...

I have an Eton radio that along with regular AAA batteries or a rechargeable battery pack can be powered by a Dynamo hand crank that folds into its body. UK-based Ecotronic took the same technology and put it into a line of electronic toys that don’t require batteries to light up or make sound...

(Credit: Aerovation) Planning on flying with your laptop on a summer vacation? You should definitely consider a TSA checkpoint-friendly bag. There is no shortage of options , but this new model from Aerovation makes one important change to the typical design so getting away from the checkpoint is even...

Hell yeah! It’s the first images of the next generation iPhone in the wild! The more I’m learning from the handful of [blurry] pictures that have just posted on a Hong Kong blog, the more I’m convinced they are the real deal: the magnetic compass, autofocus camera, video recording...

By Andrew Liszewski Growing up I had a nasty habit of bouncing my leg under the table during dinner which I’ve since solved by simply eating my meals on my living room couch instead. But seeing the Constant Shaker chair created by Alice Wang as part of her Chairs for the Dysfunctional exhibit,...

Facebook will soon be allowing all users to claim a vanity URL pointing to their regular profile page, we’ve heard from a reliable source. The announcement should come sometime later this week. Afterwards, at a certain date and time, the landrush will begin. Users will be able to grab a vanity...

We’re excitedly anticipating the release of Mass Effect 2 for the consoles but in the meantime, there has been a release of pre-buzz content for the iPhone which acts like a prelude of sorts. To differentiate it from the main franchise, this version is a top down shooter with cartoonized graphics....

Getting ready to hit Los Angeles and the Electronic Entertainment Expo for the 11th time, I was inspired to peek back at photos I had taken over the years at E3. Most of these are from the years 2002-2005 — considered the heyday of the show’s over-the-top displays. From … More here: E3’s...