Japanese inventors have come up with a gizmo called the SpeechJammer. It silences people. You can imagine a lot of situations where it would be handy to pack a SpeechJammer–construction sites, NASCAR races, assembly lines, war zones, droning airplanes, and droning politicians, to name the obvious. And it could be a protest control tool that every dictator must have dreamed of. …
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U.S. Spent $1.3 Trillion Last Year on Mobile Tech
In CES’s keynote address this week Qualcomm CEO Dr. Paul E. Jacobs mentioned that last year consumers bought $1.3 trillion worth of mobile devices. That’s 1.3 trillion with a T, and only mobile devices. So what does that mean? When people start talking about trillions of dollars, my mind starts to fog over. Trillion is [...]
Monsterous Slithering Snake Meets Giant Mondo Spider
We’ll admit it from the git-go. The real reason groovyPost is running this story is so that we can show a video of a giant mechanical snake encountering a giant mechanical spider. Some things are their own justification, you know. But because sometime in a future existence we may be called up on to justify [...]
New Samsung Tablet, AT&T Android Phones and is RIM’s Demise Imminent? groovyNews Tuesday Wrap
Top of the news, for me, anyway, was Minecraft. It’s now available from the Android Market. To find it, search “minecraft pocket” or just click this link. Minecraft Pocket sports the groovy little 3D grass square we all know and love, made by original Minecraft developer Mojang.Surprisingly, the app is nice and compact at just [...]
Is Netflix Doing a Titanic? Angry Stockholders and Subscribers Jumping Ship
We at groovyPost.com just recently conducted a reader poll to find out what you thought about the Netflix price hike in July and spin-off of its DVD mailing service into its new Quikster subsidiary. The results? You were all dead on — and that’s bad news for Netflix. The majority of readers polled said they [...]
Groovy Gaming News and Deals
Ubisoft hasn’t said a word about its once widely expected I Am Alive plans for a good year or more now. Despite amazing trailers it showed for the game in 2009, the game’s been in development for way too long. Most gamers figured Ubisoft killed it. But no! Today, maker UbiSoft announced plans to roll [...]
Path : A New Private Social Network App Reviewed
This past week we’ve seen a lot of buzz around the social network that just popped up on the grid: Path. After seeing that they had acquired path.com, a domain name which was without a doubt very much taken before they got to it, I had to take a look for myself. After all, anything [...]
Google Voice For iPhone Has Finally Been Approved By Apple
Want to use Google Voice on your iPhone? Finally, there is an official app for that. Earlier today Apple and Google finally worked through their differences and brought the real Google Voice to the iPhone. The app works as expected, much like what many Android users have been enjoying for some time now.
Chrome 8 Has A Groovy Built-in PDF Reader
On Thursday the Google Chrome team rolled out a new feature for Chrome 8 Beta, a PDF viewer. Say goodbye to adobe reader and other PDF plugins, Chrome is taking over. If you’re running the latest beta version of Chrome you can already test it out and view PDF files without any extra plugins.
AWS S3 Free Trial: Amazon Web Services Offers 5 GB of Free Storage for 12 Months
Starting this November, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering a few of its most popular services for web application hosting, including 5 GB of Amazon S3 storage, one Amazon E2 Micro Instance, 30 GB of AWS data transfer and others bundled into a free package for new customers. They’re calling it the AWS Free Usage [...]
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