Tag: EVENTS

Share Shortly after Facebook unveiled its expansive, Internet-swallowing Graph API system last week, people began raising questions about how the social networking site would weigh its grandiose ambitions against persistent concerns over user privacy. One curious engineer took it upon himself to investigate the new system more carefully, and, as it turns out, Facebook flunked. Google ...

The iPad No "One More Thing" this year. Steve Jobs took to the stage and proceeded to rocket past months of tablet hype by finally confirming the 9.7-inch iPad. He concluded by claiming, "[The iPad is] our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price." Once revealed, Apple's entry into the tablet space seemed more like a big iPhone or iPod touch than the ...

Material ConneXion, an innovative consultancy group that focuses on new materials for product, interior, and industrial applications, opened the Bits 'n Pieces show at its New York showroom last night. The exhibition features the work of a variety of designers, architects, computer scientists, and materials researchers, curated to highlight the interaction between analog designs and the latest ...

Earlier this month, New York City hosted the Cut & Paste Global Championship, the culmination of a series of digital design competitions held around the world. Designers from 16 cities contended for the grand prizes in 2-D, 3-D, and motion design, in 15-minute battles pitting their creativity and skill against the clock. Switched photographer Matthew McMullen Smith was there, and managed to ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/10/13/tech-and-design-get-together-at-areawares-the-drop-2012'; The name 'The Drop' comes from a date in the Mayan calendar that was expected to bring a shift from one phase of life to another, a window in time in which new things could begin to take shape. The number, 2012, is the year the Kyoto Protocol expires, and is added to inspire a sense of ...

We've spent the past week here in Tokyo taking a look at some of the latest gadgets on display at CEATEC, the annual Japanese Consumer Electronics Show. It's a great place to see everything from cutting-edge TV technologies that'll end up stateside next year to stylish mobile phones that'll (sadly) never find their way out of Japan. And then there's the oddball stuff that probably shouldn't ...

If the Nintendo DS and a random laptop hooked up, the Sharp Mebius would be their love child. The unique-looking netbook features two different LCD screens, the main one being 10.1-inches, and the second being 4-inches and doubling as a visually-enabled trackpad-cum-touchscreen. The 'trackpad' screen is the world's first optical sensor LCD, which essentially means it stays bright and can handle ...

Call us crazy, but we think increasing hype around 3-D movies and TV is ill-deserved -- didn't this goofy technology that requires users to put on special glasses die out in the 1950s? Sure, today's version is much improved -- and in HD, no less -- but it still reeks of gimmickry since you still have to put on those glasses to get the full effect. Well, whether you like it or not, 3-D HDTV ...

Okay, this is our last post from that Vintage Computer Festival, we promise, but we thought there was something kind of beautiful about all those retro keyboards we saw, especially after seeing them through the lens of Matthew McMullen Smith's camera. Take a look at the gallery below and let us know if you agree. (We call first dibs on the all-turquoise and PET computer keyboards!) ...

Last week, we showed you the biggest exhibitions we saw at the Vintage Computer Festival East 2009. Still, we also became mildly obsessed with all the logos we saw on those retro PCs. So, we asked our photographer, Matthew McMullen Smith, to shoot some close-ups of as many retro logos (and vintage fonts) as he could find on the various restored computers that were on display. If you're a ...

The people of Conflux -- an annual art and technology festival held in New York City in September -- are obsessed with "psycho dynamism," or the art and science of fusing the virtual world with the real world, like doing virtual things in physical space (for example, organizing the first ever iPhone drum circle). To get our heads around this fascinating event, we checked out the Conflux '09 ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/09/24/vintage-computers-get-the-classic-car-treatment-at-vcf-east-6/'; We trekked down to the New Jersey shore a couple of weeks ago to attend the Vintage Computer Festival East 6.0, an annual gathering of serious computer enthusiasts who prepare and exhibit working, restored computers from '50s, '60s, '70s and very early '80s ("essentially nothing later ...

While the rest of you are heading off with your families for a pleasant, pre-fall long weekend, serious game geeks are in Seattle at the Penny Arcade Expo, a video game convention for the die-hard. Premiering today, Ubisoft showed its new ad for 'Splinter Cell: Conviction,' featuring the tough guy protagonist Sam Fisher getting played off by none other than that electronic maestro himself (or ...