So it turns out all that time spent playing video games might not be useless as everyone’s been telling you. Accodring to MIT economist Erik Brynjolfsson, video games are gaining a new niche: as hiring tools for employers. Turns out games can serve as valuable tools for career placement. Who knew?
You might say the week is never really done in consumer technology news. Your workweek, however, hopefully draws to a close at some point. This is the Weekly Roundup on Engadget, a quick peek back at the top headlines for the past seven days — all …
LG doubled its profits in the last year — and it’s thanking an apparent boom in HDTV sales, not its mobile wares. From October to December 2013, the company made an operating profit of $220 million (238 billion won), more than doubling the operating …
Stratasys’ has a new $330,000 3D printer, but this one has the potential to do a whole lot more than monochrome figurines. In fact, the company says it’s the first machine able to create objects in colored, flexible materials. The Objet500 Connex3 3D …
Screw the Grammys. The only thing I want to see tonight is this tiny short by Wayne Unten showing the imagined takeoff of Olivia Wright in 1903, "the first to pilot the great grasshoppers of North America."
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Sure, Moog is known to many for cranking out stellar analog synthesizers, but the outfit also has a knack for building a stable of Etherwave Theremins. In fact, founder Bob Moog started tinkering with the space-controlled instruments back in 1954. If …
Without saying much, or anything at all for that matter, LG has just confirmed the existence of the LG G Pro 2. The company has also revealed the the smartphone … Continue reading
Vizio! Out of nowhere, the budget TV maker emerged with a laptop and desktop combination that earned plenty of sideways glances and praise. When we pulled the company’s 24-inch All-in-One desktop into our labs, we found that form had taken too much …
This is one of the coolest buildings I’ve seen in a long time: a structure designed to turn everyone into Spider-man by allowing people to climb all over its interior and exterior. It kind of feels like a glitch in the Matrix: a computer-generated mountain that needs more polygons and some textures.
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The wonders of technology certainly does not cease to amaze me – take Microsoft’s Photosynth technology for example. Basically, Photosynth would enable anyone to merge a number of 2D photographs together, resulting in an impressive looking panoramic image. Of course, it is this very technology that was utilized in order to deliver a new 360 degree look at the city of Seattle, where it was made through the merging of 2,368 separate images of 22-megapixels apiece, resulting in a single 20-gigapixel panorama. Try loading that picture onto your smartphone or tablet!
Microsoft Creates 20-Gigapixel Panorama Of Seattle original content from Ubergizmo. 
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