Concept: Walnut MP3 Pla...

The Walnut Player is a strange concept design for an MP3 player, but it does have a reason behind it. We’ve all seen those Chinese exercise balls that you roll in your palm as a form of exercise, and the Walnut Player is designed around this concept, allowing you to keep it charged...

Google Hopeful Of 2010 ...

We all know Google Music is coming , it’s just a question of when – and what it’ll look like, of course. According to Reuters , Google hopes to launch the service as early as December 2010. Citing unnamed ‘people familiar with the matter’, Reuters says...

Twitter For iOS To Get ...

It seems that Twitter has already begun to test push notifications internally for its iOS app. It isn’t immediately clear what notifications will be pushed, but it should at least offer real-time updates on DMs, replies, and perhaps specific tweets. Some random users have...

SkyFire Browser Submitt...

The folks over at Opera had quite a tough time getting Opera Mini approved for Apple’s iOS, but they finally managed to get approval. With that in mind, we’re interested to see if SkyFire will encounter similar resistance, not to mention that SkyFire will indirectly support a...

iPod touch enters fourt...

The iPod touch has long been touted to be an iPhone without the phone bit thrown in, but lately there has been accessories that turn it into an impromptu iPhone , although you would be better off getting the real thing. Entering into the fourth generation now, what does Apple have in...

Smartphones Safer Than ...

Despite the growing catalog of official third-party apps available on app stores like the iOS App Store and Android Market and apps that are available as sideloaded content, a recent study finds that smartphones, for the time being, are still safer than PC against malicious codes and...

Chatroulette is Back, B...

After being down for an entire week , popular random video chat service Chatroulette is back with a new version. The transition to version two wasn’t exactly graceful; Chatroulette was supposed to be down one day, but the extended downtime, during which the site was nothing more...

7 Services That Will Su...

“Unlimited choice” can “produce genuine suffering,” argues Barry Schwartz in The Paradox of Choice. His research basically sums up what your mother has been telling you for years: You don’t even know what you want. Thankfully, the Internet does know what you...

Survey Says Facebook Fe...

In a rather small survey conducted by a young psychologist, Facebook was shown to have some interesting correlations with self-esteem and narcissism in young adults. In a survey of 100 college students, young people with narcissistic personality traits were shown to exhibit Facebook...

Facebook’s “Platmob...

Earlier this evening, Facebook held a developer’s garage event at their headquarters — sort of like a State of the Union for third-party developers. Notably, they announced a new partnership with Y Combinator that has the goal of creating new startups with deep integrations...