Daily Tech and Gadget

Does your dead-eyed Home avatar lack a bit of that buccaneering spirit ? LucasArts has a sure-fire way to fix your lack of nautical flair: During its pirate-themed party at GDC , the company announced that Monkey Island costumes (pictured above) would soon make their way to PlayStation Home. Now, we rarely get excited over virtual duds for our ..Read More

It’s tough to completely screw up painting a room—dump the paint on the floor maybe?—but painting a room really well isn’t that easy, either. Home blog Re-Nest’s guide to painting a room efficiently offers a few expert tips. Re-Nest’s guide to room-painting guide covers everything from making sure to remember to remove all the fixture and switch covers before ..Read More

The following is part of our “Your Stories” series on different ways Facebook is used across the world. If you have a story you’d like to share with us, please submit it here . David Slade’s fiancée Kelly was the first to find the lost little dog. Standing in the driveway on her way to shop for wedding dresses ..Read More

We can always count on the guys over at TokyoFlash to come up with new and different ways to tell the time. With their modern approach to product design, they’re now asking shoppers to weigh in on prospective designs before they go ahead and create the real watches. In trolling through the aisles of ToykoFlash’s new product design blog ..Read More

The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that Sony is involved in a pair of intriguing products: first, a phone that could download and play PlayStation games, as well as an iPad-like tablet device. The entire story is written in the so-called “voice of God”: no sourcing, except for an unknown number of people “familiar with the matter”. But there ..Read More

Only a couple years after users were banned for trying to import their Facebook contacts into other services, Yahoo! has launched a new service which enables you to import all of your Facebook contacts’ email addresses. Interestingly enough, this has nothing to do with applications that were granted access to users’ emails as Facebook recently enabled . While Yahoo! ..Read More

Wyatt Earp meets Matthew Brady when you strap on the Shai Gear Spider Holster , essentially a cavalry gunbelt for your camera. Rather than slide your camera into this holster, you lock it in place onto the holster with a sturdy metal pin attached to the camera base; it hangs next to your hip. The Spider Holster is for ..Read More

Microsoft gained over 400,000 Facebook fans on their Bing fan page yesterday thanks to a single advertisement in FarmVille. The fan page, which grew by five times in size from around 100,000 users to now above 500,000 users, was part of a promotion by Bing, where Farmville users could gain virtual currency by becoming a fan of the Bing ..Read More

WifiEye is an application for the Nokia N900 that scans for available wireless networks and displays them in a nice way. Currently it has 3 views: Channel view: Show channels overlaps Time graph: Show wireless strength over time List view: List-view of available wireless networks Download the app from our forums N900 application section [Thx Daniel]

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The headline for this post leaves out a salient point in this discussion, and it also hits at another that affects all of us who love our mobile gadgets. The point left out is that what John Herlihy of Google is referring to is that most consumers will be using mobile gadgets to consume information and entertainment. The translation ..Read More