Best Buy accidentally announced the Olympus TOUGH TG-1 iHS, a new flagship waterproof rugged camera to lead the TOUGH lineup on it’s website a week ago and eventually took down the info. While today the announcement became an official release. The TOUGH TG-1 resembles the previous versions of the TOUGH brand, this camera is a [...]Read More

The Plant, an urban “aquaponics” farm was being created was a story reported by the Associated Press. In the middle of a Chicago “food desert” an old meat-packing warehouse is being turned into a state of the art food factory. Everything that is produced in one part of the plant is recycled in another part [...]Read More

The documents were finally unsealed in the seizure against this domain and they proved quite interesting.  The good folks over at Wired, The EFF, and the California First Amendment Coalition were so kind as to go after the unsealing of the documents (Thanks Guys!) and did pretty great write up’s on them so be sure [...]Read More

The entire country stood up and pushed back with a voice that stunned Congress in January over the SOPA/PIPA bills, but the shock and awe seems to be wearing off. As many just witnessed with the passing of CISPA in the House our elected officials just do not seem to respect the will of the [...]Read More

HIV patients that have been treated with genetically modified T cells have remained healthy up to 11 years after initial T cell therapy, Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania report in the new issue of Science Translational Medicine. The results provided by these tests could be our new non toxic treatment of HIV, cancer, and [...]Read More

Remember SOPA and PIPA? Just because the bills effectively died (at least in this Congress) doesn’t mean it’s not a hot issue still being discussed. In February, The Copyright Society of the USA’s NY Chapter held a moderated debate titled “The SOPA OPERA: the Stop Online Piracy Act, the Protect IP Act, the OPEN Act [...]Read More

Your 3D television isn’t true 3D because it has a flat screen and you cannot see the objects at a 360 view. It seems like a true 3D projector has always been in the works but now a group of developers from the Human Media Lab in Queen’s University, in Canada developed display system that [...]Read More

The Windows Live branding has been a part of Microsoft since 2005 is being phased out and Microsoft plans on making windows live disappear over the next couple of months. Instead of the windows live system Windows 8 will have a cloud system to replace the Windows live brand. The Email system will introduce uniformity [...]Read More

The four-door all-electric Ford was introduced at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Focus Electric’s mileage on one charge is competitive with other similar all-electric vehicles such as the Nissan Leaf. The Nissan Leaf has a range of up to 100 miles before needing to be hooked up to a power outlet. [...]Read More

Angry birds have taken the world by storm. Rovio announced today that angry birds space reached 50 million downloads in 35 days. Angry Birds continues to break all downloadable application records. If you haven’t checked out the space birds yet, you can check it out here Angry Birds Space is available for iOS, Android, PC, [...]Read More

The biotech company Monsanto, who’s genetically modified crops have been getting banned worldwide has earned another asterisk that money can’t buy. Monsanto is the leading biotech company when it comes to selling seeds, herbicides and pesticides to the farmers. They have mastered the art of crossbreeding seeds by taking one genetic characteristic and adding it [...]Read More

During the Avant/Garde Diaries Transmission LA: A/V Club festival created by Mike D of the Beastie Boys Mercedes Benz unvealed a new kinitec lighting system for it’s coupé. The car features a high tech lighting system that makes the Benz look like it has moving eyelashes and the yellow signal lights move back and forth, [...]Read More

Nikon announced the launch of the new D3200 HD-SLR camera it is a 24.2 megapixel HD1080p all purpose cam. It takes a 24.2-megapixel picture it is designed for professional photo jobs if you are ready to step up to a D-SLR or it is good for the family memory keeper with an active lifestyle who [...]Read More

This is the Cinema EOS series third model it’s a upgrade of last year’s C300. The C300 model is available for pick up right now but the C500 hasn’t been approved to hit the market as of yet so a 2012 release is still up in the air. This Cinema camera has a $30,000 price [...]Read More

This came out of nowhere! It looks like social network giant Facebook is set to acquire the popular photo streaming service Instagram for a reported $1 billion. We don’t know how exactly Facebook plans to use the photo-sharing service, but Mark Zuckberg promises to keep the company independent. This is the first time Facebook has [...]Read More