Pinball Labs wants to bring the pool hall experience to VR
Early
adopters of the soon-to-arrive Oculus Rift and HTC Vive virtual reality
headsets are going to need games, and what better way to waste time
than a few rounds of pinball? Thomas Kadlec, the developer of the Star
Trek Voyager Bridge VR experience... Read More ...
Web status code tells you when sites are censored
With
a few exceptions, web status codes are meant to indicate errors. A 404
page shows up when you tried to reach content that wasn't found, for
example. However, there's now a code for those times when that absence
is all too intentional. The new... Read More ...
Court says ridesharing for flights is illegal
If
you had hopes that the FAA's ban on ridesharing flights would be
reversed... well, you're in for a disappointment. A Washington, DC
court has ruled that pilots need commercial licenses for these services
to work. You're a carrier in that case, n... Read More ...
The first website went online 25 years ago today
If
the web were a person, it wouldn't have trouble renting a car from now
on: the world's first website, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web, went
online 25 years ago today. The inaugural page wasn't truly public when
it went live at CERN on December 20... Read More ...
SpaceX will try to launch and land a rocket Monday night
SpaceX
has been understandably quiet since its last rocket exploded right
after launch, but it's hoping to make up for that failure in style. It's
planning to not only launch a Falcon 9 rocket on December 21st at
8:29PM ET, but attempt its first-ever... Read More ...
'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' broke several movie records
If
you suspected that Star Wars: The Force Awakens would smash box office
records when you saw the lengthy queues at your local theater, you made a
pretty good guess. Disney expects the adventures of Finn, Poe and Rey
to set an all-time domestic debu... Read More ...
Watch Apple show off its design studio and spaceship campus (update)
For
years, most people have only known about Apple's secret design studio
through anecdotes. There's talk of extreme security, loads of
specialized manufacturing gear and other stories that make it sound more
like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory than... Read More ...
Living with the BlackBerry Priv hooked me on its keyboard
When
my colleague Dan reviewed the BlackBerry Priv, he was understandably
cool about it. You're paying a steeper-than-average price ($699-plus in
the US) for a phone whose selling point is its slide-out keyboard.
That's a big gamble when there are mo... Read More ...
The After Math: Baby, it's cold outside
It's
50 degrees and raining here in San Francisco which, by West Coast
standards, constitutes the second coming of Snowpacalypse. With this
sort of weather the only rational choice is to stay inside and patiently
wait for spring. But just because we'... Read More ...
Inhabitat's Week in Green: Elon Musk's solar energy plan
It's
been a good week for environmental news. For starters, world leaders
sealed the deal on a historic climate agreement in Paris, President
Obama announced the largest energy efficiency rule in US history and
congress extended solar and wind tax cr... Read More ...
Tiny microscope lets you see the smallest-ever inkjet prints
No,
that's not an up-close look at a monitor. That's the world's tiniest
color inkjet image made large, and you may not need it blown up to see
it in the future -- if you're willing to lay down some cash. In a
hybrid of scientific discovery and pub... Read More ...
The world's 'most powerful' smartphone isn't, but it's still good
One
smartphone maker is learning the hard way why you shouldn't promise
more than you can deliver. Yu (partly owned by India's Micromax) has
unveiled the Yutopia, which it bills as the "most powerful phone on the
planet." There's only one problem:... Read More ...
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