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Cloth Is Where Instagram And Your Closet Collide

Fashion and social networking belong together, but so far no one has found the perfect balance between user-generated content and a focus on edgy fashion. That's where <a target="_blank" href="http://

The Futurist: Why Vizio Is Now The #1 Flat Panel Maker In The US

Quick question: As of today, which company is the top-selling flat panel HDTV brand in the US? Sony? Nope — your Bravia may be nice, but it’s not number one. Panasonic? Nah. And nope, it&#

The Futurist: What We'd Like To See In A Google Phone

The fact that Google is trying to take a bite of the Apple pie–that is, prepping a launch of its own mobile phone–is perhaps Silcon Valley’s worst-kept secret. As the rumors currentl

The Futurist: Why Isn't Bluetooth Standard On MP3 Players?

Over the course of a couple of years, Bluetooth on cell phones went from a foreign fantasy to a crippled luxury to a standard (if still often crippled) feature on virtually every new cell phone. Putti

The Futurist: One (or Two) Sentence Reviews Of 18 Wii Games

I believe in the Wii, I really do. I don’t care that it’s basically a GameCube with a white case and fancy controller. I don’t care that the graphics made the original Xbox look l33t

The Futurist: Simple Ways Gadgets Could Be Better

We love gadgets. And, like everything we love, gadgets piss us off. So many times, I’ve held a product and thought to myself: “This would be perfect, if only…” The fact is, eve

The Futurist: Nintendo's Hit Molded Plastic, Sony Bizarrely Still Believes In UMD

The new E3 Lite is rocking LA. And with it, the Big 3 gaming houses have given us key glimpses into what the next year holds for them. Last year, Nintendo and their warehouse-long Wii lines stole the

The Futurist: In The End, Everything Is A Commodity

Awhile back, I read a story in The New Yorker about luxury ketchup. If the idea of “luxury ketchup” makes you guffaw, you aren’t alone. While customers have been knife-fed high-end m

The Futurist: When Gadgets Become Emulators

On Friday, as the entire literate world knows, Apple will release the iPhone to much hoopla. And when the mix of the unemployed and the wealthy who could wait in line on a workday to finally get their

The Futurist: How The iPhone Will Change Mobile Devices

I’ve spent the past few weeks as the resident naysayer of the infallibility of the iPhone. And while there’s certainly a lot to be skeptical about here, there are a lot of things about the

The Futurist: Why The iPhone Reeks Of Planned Obsolescence

To follow-up on last week’s maelstrom of anti-Appledom, my opinions regarding the iPhone have not changed: the device will eventually be pretty awesome, but paying $600 (the effective cost is cl

Seth Porges Ha8s on the iPhone on Attack of the Show

Hey, Seth, angry much about technology that EVERYONE LOVES AND YOU ARE TOTALLY WRONG ABOUT? Sorry. Just kidding. Seth was on G4TV on Tuesday and he kicked that Dummies book guy in the pooper. Hi-res v

The Futurist: We Predict the iPhone Will Bomb

Until June 29, it’s hard to tell too much about the iPhone, but I can tell you with near-certainty one thing: the product was almost certainly rushed to market before Apple’s engineers wou

The Futurist: The 9 New Rules Of The Technology Industry

With the launch of every new search engine or cell phone, there is inevitably a torrent of exclamation mark-filled press releases and boasts proclaiming the new release to be REVOLUTIONARY!!! and LIFE

The Futurist: The Impending Liberation Of Mobile Phone Designs

Much of a phone’s form factor is a result of the need for the device to, above all else, work as a phone. That is, it must be held against your face. Of course, this is changing. The past few ye

The Futurist: The Future of Pandora is Mobile

Thanks to the Copyright Royalty Board, beginning in mid-July, all Internet radio stations will see substantially higher royalty fees. Fees so high, that it isn’t difficult to imagine vast swaths

The Futurist: The End Of The Line For Obvious Patents

There’s an old episode of The Simpsons where the designers of Barbie stand-in Malibu Stacy are gathered in their smoky room trying to come up with a killer app to take on a new competitor on the

The Futurist: Why New Technology Means Better TV

As a general rule, journalists (particularly us of the tech stripe) go gonzo when trying to proclaim something a new “trend.” We take one example of a hit YouTube video and proclaim it to be the d

The Futurist: What's Next In Cellphones, Apple and RIM Edition

Cell phones — everybody’s got them. Even your 12-year-old nephew whose parents keep tabs on him via the inboard GPS carries a RAZR. So what’s next in this omnipresent device? In this

The Futurist: Is Verizon Trying To Destroy Our Nation's Telephone Infrastructure?

It wasn’t so long ago that the only way you could talk to your friend down the block was over a landline. In a flash, nearly the entire world became blessed with the gift of wireless, and cell p
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