| Hands On With Project Shield, Nvidia's Powerhouse Game Controller | | LAS VEGAS — One of the big surprises of CES 2013 was Project Shield, a handheld game controller that Nvidia unveiled in dramatic fashion earlier this week. We got a little hands-on time with a pre-production model of the device, which the company hopes to transform into a full-fledged gaming platform, while at the show. The Shield certainly seems to have the goods to do what Nvidia promises.
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| Facebook Charging $100 to Message Mark Zuckerberg | | We knew Facebook was eager for new revenue streams. We just didn't know they were this eager. If you try to send founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a message on Facebook, Mashable discovered Thursday, the social network may offer to keep the message out of his "Other" Inbox — for a cool $100. In our tests from multiple accounts, it appeared to be the case that users only get this message if they're not one of Zuck's 16 million followers.
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| Control Your Lights From Anywhere With WeMo Light Switch | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 11:38 PM | Kate Freeman |
| LAS VEGAS — It seems iPhone owners aren't the only ones who forget to turn off light switches now and then. WeMo announced the launch of a new product that now gives Android smartphone owners the ability to turn off their lights when they're gone — or just too relaxed to get up from a chair, like their iOS-using counterparts.
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| Trip Tern Will Create Your Travel Itinerary | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:59 PM | Veena Bissram |
| Trip Tern's goal is to make travel planning easier by automatically creating an itinerary that includes information about your city, hotel and interests.
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| Attention Men: This Is Why You Have Nipples | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 10:20 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Sorry to break it to all you bros out there, but back in the day you were just one of the ladies. And while we're sure you'll be happy to finally release the goddess within, take a moment to learn how you grew up to be oh so manly. It has something to do with chromosomes and skin overlapping ... and all that other stuff they taught you in 7th grade science class, but you were too busy making paper airplanes to listen to.
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| This Robotic Spider Dress Will Make Your Skin Crawl | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 9:41 PM | Camille Bautista |
| As if spiders weren't creepy enough on their own, now you can wear one. High-tech fashion designer Anouk Wipprecht created an unsettling robotic spider dress, complete with animatronic arachnid limbs that jerk and twitch. Teaming up with Austrian software developer and hacker, Daniel Schatzmayr, Wipprecht makes hexapods haute. The dress has six robotic legs on its shoulder pads which respond to nearby movement.
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| Mobile Is Changing the PC Culture at Federal Agencies | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:44 PM | Nextgov |
| Federal agencies are facing substantial outlays to manage mobile computing devices as they shift from a culture of PCs and laptops to smartphones and tablets. But there is a silver lining. Agencies are likely to save money if they don’t have to maintain their own systems to secure and support employee mobile devices. And vendors offer discounts for volume purchases of their software and services.
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| 'Cats in Pajamas' Music Video Will Haunt Your Nightmeows | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:24 PM | Annie Colbert |
| Oakland, Calf.-based band GnarBoots hacked up a hairball of bizarre to create the music video for their tune, "Cats in Pajamas." Cats, pajamas — what could go wrong? So much. The peculiar video looks like a scene out of a child's nightmare, or possibly a scene cut from Donnie Darko. Either way, it's something you won't forget.
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| Fitbug Launches New Suite of Health Trackers | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 8:06 PM | Kate Freeman |
| LAS VEGAS — You may not have heard of Fitbug before, but the wearable fitness tracking device maker was one of the first companies in the now booming fit-tech space. Launched in 2005, the UK company moved to the U.S. in 2010. Fitbug originally sold its product to companies and healthcare providers but now it's reaching out to the consumer market.
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| This Picture Shows Everything Wrong With 'Booth Babes' at CES | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:45 PM | Chris Taylor |
| 'Booth babes' have been one of the more unfortunate features of tech trade shows for years. Women (we've never seen any male booth babes) chosen for their looks are paid to hang around a company's booth and attract the mostly male, mostly older attendees. Sometimes the women are well paid, sometimes they get minimum wage, but their relationship to the product in question is usually gossamer-thin.
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| Europe Will Likely Force Google to Change Search Practices | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:41 PM | Alex Fitzpatrick |
| Google may have gotten off with a slap on the wrist in the United States for its search practices, but it doesn't look like it will get off so easily in Europe. Joaquín Almunia, the European Union's competition chief, told the Financial Times Thursday he believes European regulators will demand Google change the way its own products are displayed in search or else face hefty fines for "diverting traffic" away from competitors' products.
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| Mashable's Favorite Tech From CES 2013 | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:33 PM | Christina Warren |
| As International CES 2013 draws to a close, Mashable's CES team members have racked our tired, sleep-deprived, Red-Bull-fueled brains to come up with a list of our favorite tech items from the event. Whittling the list down wasn't easy. We saw smartphones, humongous Ultra HDTVs, smartphone cases, Bluetooth speaker systems, advanced gaming systems and accessories, 3D sensors and more.
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| Easily the Grossest Thing You'll See Today | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 7:15 PM | Sam Laird |
| Man kills spider. Gigantic, slimy worm crawls out of spider. This video is the nastiest thing you'll see today, if not the grossest thing ever.
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| Training for a 10K? Try CES 2013 | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:46 PM | Nora Grenfell |
| A team of Mashable writers, editors and photographers have spent the week barreling through the Las Vegas Convention Center that houses CES 2013. With new tech and gadgets being unveiled every minute, our staff has been racing against the clock to see as many products as they can. They have also been racing against each other as part of Mashable's CES Challenge.
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| Hands On With a Window-Cleaning Robot | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:15 PM | Lance Ulanoff |
| Ecovac's Winbot robot window-cleaner does a pretty good job of cleaning up the mess I made at CES 2013.
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| 3 Kickstarter-Backed Films Earn Oscar Nods | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:03 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| Sprinkled among the high-budget films nominated for Oscars are three films with humble financial beginnings. They all got monetary boosts on Kickstarter.
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| Make Your 2013 Oscar Predictions Here | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:56 PM | Jeremy Cabalona |
| One of the best parts of Academy Awards season is making your own predictions for who will win. Make your 2013 Oscar predictions here.
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| Watch Water Balloons Smash Into a Shirtless Dude in Slo-Mo | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:55 PM | Neha Prakash |
| Photographer Pablo Vicente filmed a — ahem — ridiculously attractive, shirtless guy having water balloons thrown at him. And he put it on YouTube in slow motion. SEE ALSO: Scramble to Watch This Slo-Mo Egg Destruction Feel free to play this on repeat for the next few hours. No judgement here, just tell everyone you enjoy the "cinematography." Photo via YouTube, Pablo Vicente.
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| How Wireless Gadgets Are Breaking the Internet | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:38 PM | MIT Technology Review |
| Behind all the dazzling mobile-ready electronics products on display at the International CES in Las Vegas this week is a looming problem: how to make the networks that support all these wireless devices function robustly and efficiently. With less fanfare than you’d see in Vegas, potential solutions are arising in labs in like Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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| 'West Wing' Star Will Follow You on Twitter if You Donate Money | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:36 PM | Zoe Fox |
| Do you have any celebrity followers on Twitter? Would you like to get one? West Wing alum and current Scandal star Joshua Malina will follow you on Twitter for a year if you'll donate $10 to Mazon, a Jewish hunger-fighting charity, in honor of his 47th birthday Jan. 17. "A minimal kick-in gets you a heartfelt thank-you and a year's worth of being followed by me on Twitter," he says.
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| WikiVoyages Might Be Your New Destination Guidebook | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:24 PM | Kate Freeman |
| Wikipedia, the site you have probably used countless times to find out information on literally everything, is launching Wikivoyage tentatively sometime next week, reports Skift. The free worldwide travel guide is currently in beta and made waves when it was first made official in September.
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| Why Are People Still Buying CDs? | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:08 PM | Todd Wasserman |
| Amazon announced AutoRip on Thursday, a free service that gives consumers a cloud-based backup for every CD they've bought from the company since 1998. For Amazon, it's another move towards ensuring that consumers consider the company their primary stream of content, whatever the format.
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| Laptop Vending Machine Offers Safety for Students | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 5:01 PM | Kate Freeman |
| A laptop bag might protect your computer from the elements but it could also act as a bullseye for muggers. For students on late-night studying binges, schlepping their tech around campus might not be ideal. Drexel University in Philadelphia has an interesting solution to that problem. The university installed a MacBook vending machine in the library, reports VentureBeat.
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| IBM's Watson Memorized Entire Urban Dictionary, Then His Overlords Deleted It | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:59 PM | The Atlantic |
| Humans talk funny. We invent words. We smash words together, tear them apart, abbreviate them one way, then another. Which is great and fun, if you're a human. Not so great if you are a machine or the kind of human who programs machines to understand language. When IBM's famous artificial intelligence, Watson, he/she/it of Jeopardy-winning fame, was in development, its head researcher had a great idea.
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| Orange You Glad This Beagle Is So Cute? | | Thursday, January 10, 2013 4:43 PM | Christine Erickson |
| What could be more perplexing to a dog than a sour lemon? Another member of the citrus family. Maymo, the adorably derpy beagle, is known for his extremely cute reactions to everyday objects like cabbage and water bottles. SEE ALSO: This Is the Ultimate Dogshaming Video — No Bones About it When given half an orange, Maymo does not know what to do with it — or himself.
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