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| Violin Made of Lasers Actually Sounds Lovely | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:55 PM | PSFK |
| Technology lecturer Dylan Menzies doesn’t play the violin in the traditional sense. Instead he uses software and lasers to translate the positioning, speed and motion of a traditional wooden bow into music. His optical sensor-driven O-Bow is encased in copper with a groove for the bow.
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| Wearable Cat Ears Respond to What You're Thinking | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:25 PM | Emily Price |
| What if you could tell whether or not a friend were paying attention to you based on the position of his ears? That’s the idea behind Necomimi, a pair of cat-like ears that track your brain waves and move based on what you’re thinking. The ears are being shown off on the floor of this year’s Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
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| Study Reveals Adults Are Texting While Driving Even More Than Teens | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:53 PM | Charlie White |
| Contrary to conventional wisdom, it turns out that adults are worse than teenagers when it comes to texting while driving. That's according to the results of a survey conducted by AT&T and published in USA Today, showing that 49% of adult drivers admit to texting behind the wheel. Compare that with 43% of the teen respondents admitting that they text while driving.
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| Facebook Announces Android Event April 4 | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 8:20 PM | Emily Price |
| Facebook sent out invitations to press Thursday for an Android event to be held at its Menlo Park campus next week. The event invitation simply invited press to “Come See Our New Home on Android,” with no further description of what’s in store.
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| Activision Reveals Animated Human That Looks So Real, It's Uncanny | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:39 PM | Charlie White |
| Activision showed off the state of the art of real-time graphics on Wednesday, releasing this mind-boggling character demo. The character's skin, facial expressions and eyes look so real, it's uncanny. When you watch this video, see if you think this character has reached the other side of what's commonly called the "uncanny valley," a term first uttered by early robotics guru Masahiro Mori in 1970.
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| Google's New Open Source Patent Pledge: We Won't Sue Unless Attacked First | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 1:40 PM | Christina Warren |
| Google took a stand of sorts against patent-lawsuit theater Thursday with its new Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. As explained by Google's Duane Valz, under the OPN Pledge, Google promises "not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked." Now, Google isn't making all of its patents available for others.
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| Google Glass Applicant Who Would 'Throw It at Your Face' Is Disqualified | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 11:09 AM | Pete Pachal |
| Did Google actually read the ideas people submitted for its Project Glass contest? From two of the applications that Google has now disqualified, it doesn't look like it. Google decided to rescind some of its selections for winners in its #ifihadglass contest, which asked interested developers to share their ideas via Twitter or Google+ in 140-character snippets.
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| How 3D Printing Actually Works | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:55 AM | Matt Petronzio |
| Now that 3D printing — the process of making three-dimensional solid objects from digital designs — is available and affordable to individual consumers, it's piqued a lot of interest across the tech space in the past few years. From scale models, gifts and clothing to prosthetic limbs, hearing aids and the prospect of 3D-printed homes, the possibilities seem endless.
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| Apple Patents Smart Pen | | Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:10 AM | PSFK |
| [Update: Mashable got the inside scoop on this patent and "Apple’s Smart Pen Patent Is Not What You Think"] While there has been lots of buzz over a potential Apple smartwatch, a new patent shows the company is also thinking about other kinds of portable computers. It reveals a computer embedded within a standard pen, which has a small LCD screen for displaying emails, texts, alerts, etc.
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