#nerdgasm

Google Voice Founder Tackles Conference Calls
Liz Gannes, allthingsd.com

Uber­con­fer­ence debuts today as a new inter­face for con­fer­ence calls — you know, those ter­rif­i­cal­ly annoy­ing occur­rences that peo­ple in busi­ness deal with on a daily basis.

What’s notable about the prod­uct is it comes from Craig…

Goodbye #ICFF!
design_milk, instagr.am

And Now, At Last, The Winner In Our Porsche 911 Challenge Is…
By Cliff Kuang, fastcodesign.com

“It had very little description, because it just explained itself. And I think that’s the mark of a good product,” said Porsche designer Grant Larson.

When we announced our Porsche Next Design Chal­lenge a few months ago, we were pret­ty ner­vou…

Day Maker alarm clock pops up your iPhone like a toaster
By Scott Lowe, theverge.com

Smart­phone dock alarm clocks are dime a dozen, but a new Kick­starter project offers a unique toaster-style design that springs your iPhone upward when it’s time to start your day. It’s called the Day Maker and it can house up to two iPhones at…

Nevada DMV grants first self-driving car testing license to Google
By Bryan Bishop, theverge.com

Neva­da has been mak­ing a name for itself late­ly, becom­ing the first state to put in place rules and reg­u­la­tions for autonomous vehi­cles last Feb­ru­ary. It’s now moved on to the next step, approv­ing the first test­ing license under the ne…

Disney’s ‘Touché’ touch sensors detect gestures on flesh, furniture, or water
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Dis­ney Research, which pre­vi­ous­ly came up with the Side­By­Side wall-based gam­ing con­cept, is back with what looks like a fair­ly sophis­ti­cat­ed touch-sensing tech­nol­o­gy. The sys­tem, called Touché, works by detect­ing a range of…

RT @verge: Disney’s ‘Touché’ touch sensors detect gestures on flesh, furniture, or water http://t.co/2WHoqApM

Jailbroken iPads getting text editing tweak via SwipeSelection keyboard
By Sam Byford, theverge.com

Daniel Hoop­er’s pro­to­type design for text edit­ing on the iPad key­board has been catch­ing a lot of buzz over the past few days, and though it doesn’t seem like­ly that Apple would ever imple­ment the changes, you may be able to try them out f…

Catnip For Tech Geeks: A Perfume Smells Like An Apple MacBook
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

An art collective aims to create a business, by bottling the scent of a freshly unboxed MacBook.

I’ll never for­get open­ing my first Apple prod­uct. It was a G4 tower, the first com­put­er I’d ever unpacked that had a pur­pose for absolute­ly…

Panasonic teams up with NHK on 145-inch 8K Super Hi-Vision plasma TV
Richard Lawler, engadget.com

We thought the 8K 85-inch Super Hi-Vision LCD we saw dur­ing CES was impres­sive, but Japan­ese broad­cast­er NHK is already look­ing to sur­pass that by going even big­ger. To that end it worked with Pana­son­ic (above: that’s Pana­son­ic’s Keish…