Skinput Turns Your Body Into a Touchscreen [VIDEO]
Forget LCD, OLED, and AMOLED: the next trend in touchscreens could be your skin. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft’s Redmond research lab have developed a working prototype of a system called Skinput that effectively turns your body surface into both screen and input device. Skinput makes use of a microchip-sized pico projector embedded […]
Twitter Speeding Towards 10 Billion Tweets
About one year ago Twitter reached a huge milestone: one billion tweets. Four months ago, 5 billion tweets were served. And now, in about one day, Twitter should reach another very important milestone: 10 billion tweets. Notice the trend? Although Twitter has been somewhat struggling with traffic (compared to its earlier immense growth) in the […]
Could Netflix be Coming to Your iPhone?
Netflix streaming support is on tons of devices — computers, media centers (like Boxee), electronic devices (like the Roku), Blu-ray players and game consoles (like the X-Box 360, the PS3 and soon Nintendo’s Wii). The next device on that list might end up being the iPhone. Last fall, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said that the […]
10 Fantastic Places for Finding Designers Online
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. Unless you are a creative agency, most small businesses don’t have the luxury of having an in-house designer. There are literally thousands of freelance designers and design agencies out there that […]
Google Expands Click-to-Call Mobile Ads to National Advertisers
Google advertisers can now add click-to-call phone numbers to their mobile ads. The move expands the offering from just local advertisers to national advertisers. The setup is quite simple and means that all advertisers running mobile ads can add a phone number via the adwords phone extensions menu (make sure to select the “iPhones and […]
iCyte Creates Sharable Bookmarks from Highlighted Text
This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: iCyte Quick Pitch: iCyte saves webpages with highlights, tags and notes. Search and […]
Google Secures Broad Patent for Location-Based Advertising
Google, the world’s largest search engine and the owner of the world’s largest online advertising platform, has been granted a major U.S. patent for “determining and/or using location information in an ad system.” In other words, Google now owns a key patent for location-based advertising. The patent, which was first discovered by Venturebeat, was filed […]
Online Gaming Faceoff: Xbox LIVE vs. PlayStation Network
It’s time once again to pit two contestants against each other in an all-out battle for the hearts and minds of Mashable readers. In this week’s Web Faceoff, we wanted to get a sense of which online console gaming service Mashable readers prefer: Microsoft’s Xbox LIVE, or Sony’s PlayStation Network? Last week we saw HTML5 […]
Upgrading to Windows Phone 7 May Not Be Possible
Yes, most of us want Windows Phone 7 to be very different from Windows Mobile. And Microsoft promised that it will, indeed, be different — closer to the latest generation of Zunes than to a Windows Mobile 6.x phone. But it comes with a price: Chances are owners of Windows Mobile 6.x devices won’t be […]
10 Reasons You Should Attend or Watch a Global Ignite Week Event
What was once just a Seattle event — first started by Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Media and Bre Pettis of Etsy.com in 2006 — Ignite has grown to become an ongoing series of International geek gatherings where the brightest minds get five minutes of stage time to make their point. Today marks the start of […]
OK Go Allows Embeds With New Version of Their Music Video
Last month, we spoke with pop rock band OK Go about the controversy that arose when EMI put the kibosh on embedding the video for their latest single, “This Too Shall Pass.” Today, a second video for the song will premiere on their website — this time sponsored by State Farm, and, consequently, it will […]
10 Firefox Add-ons to Beautify Your Browser
You’ve clearly made an educated decision in choosing the Firefox browser, so why not make further decisions about how it looks? As you may know, Firefox can give you a totally personalized browser experience, with plenty of options to customize its look and feel. We’ve trawled the plethora of available add-ons, themes, and features to […]
5 Best iPhone Apps For Controlling Your Mac or PC
With more than 140,000 apps in the iPhone App Store, finding task-specific apps or utilities for your iPhone or iPod touch (and soon iPad) isn’t the hard part. The hard part is finding the best app for the job. That’s why we’re launching a new series here at Mashable, where we raid the App Store […]
PlayStation Network Down [PSN]
Sony PlayStation 3 owners in multiple regions (including North America, Europe, and Australia) are facing the inability to sign into the PlayStation Network online gaming service, corrupted user data and inability to play some games online or off. The problems are accompanied by the 8001050F error code. When they try to load up certain games […]
Google Launches Chile Earthquake Person Finder
Google today launched a person finder to quickly connect those looking for missing people in Chile and those who have information. The simple interface lets you choose between two options — “I’m looking for someone” and “I have information about someone,” then either query the database or enter new information. At the time of writing, […]