In Jack Womack’s future-past slipstream novel Elvissey, a couple from a future Earth society goes back into the past to an alternate Earth, 1950s era, before that Earth’s Elvis Presley became famous, and then takes him unwillingly back to the future to worship him. In Bradley Denton’s science fiction novel Buddy Holly Is Alive And [...]
Don’t know how many of you ever saw a TV ad for an American chocolate + peanut butter cup treat (Reese’s ™), but it went something like this: Two people trip. One’s carrying a chocolate bar, the other a jar of peanut butter. One says “you’ve got peanut butter on my chocolate.” The other says [...]
If you’ve seen the aurally annoying animated VoIP commercial that Vonage runs, you just might like this alternative (above) for a softphone called iPhox. I guess Sex still sells in the UK (the background does look like the UK). What’s even crazier is that apparently you can call the young woman in the video for [...]
You’ve probably heard by name that Apple announced yesterday not only updated iPods but a new iTV device. We didn’t hear about the iPhone, though. The iTV will let you wirelessly stream video content from your computer (Mac or PC), through the iTV, and to your TV. Pretty cool. Apple also announced updated iPods, and [...]
Dimdim is a startup with a difference. Aside from it’s business plan, notably absent from many of their peers, Dimdim offers users of their technology to make voice and video conferences from within a web browser. Currently Dimdim is only available to Windows IE users, but they are working on expanding support for [...]