This is neat! BeetBox by Scott Garner is an electronic drum set that the player controls by tapping on six fresh beets. The beets are wired to a Raspberry Pi with a capacitive touch sensor and an audio amplifier stuffed into a handmade wooden box. Of all the vegetable, pun-centric, instruments on the market this has to be my favorite. [...]
For what it’s worth: Twitter is slowly rolling out the option for users to download a complete archive of their tweets. As well as an HTML file organized by month, the zip contains the tweets in both JSON and CSV files — complete with all the metadata. I can’t wait to see what Andy Baio [...]
Now that Google has released a Maps app for iOS we can officially put an end to the great maps debacle of 2012. You now have your pick of the liter from Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia and probably like 30 others I’m not even aware of. The general reviews of the app seem to be [...]
In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the prestigious technology company will start making some of its computers entirely in the US in 2013. Apple CEO Tim Cook announced one of the existing Mac lines will be manufactured exclusively in the United States next year. Mac fans will have to [...]
Mat Honan: You have a secret that can ruin your life. It’s not a well-kept secret, either. Just a simple string of characters—maybe six of them if you’re careless, 16 if you’re cautious—that can reveal everything about you. Your email. Your bank account. Your address and credit card number. Photos of your kids or, worse, [...]
Google Fiber is being rolled out all over Kansas City right now and it’s finally gone live for some customers. The first question is how fast is it? Apparently, the $80 per month plan is crazy fast. People with Google Fiber can expect 700 Mbps down on ethernet and about 200 Mbps down on Wi-Fi, [...]
The Infinite Jukebox, by Paul Lamere, is a bit difficult to explain, but easy to grasp once you start listening to songs and get tangled in its infinite beat loop. The app works by sending your uploaded track over to The Echo Nest, where it is decomposed into individual beats. Each beat is then analyzed and [...]
Antivirus pioneer John McAfee, 67, is on the run from murder charges in Belize after “allegedly” gunning down American expatriate Gregory Faull at his home in San Pedro Town on the island of Ambergris Caye. It’s possible the crime might have something to do with McAfee’s love for bath salts. Anyway, incredibly, he spoke to [...]
