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Pulse: Night surfer uses LED lights to ride big-wave

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

Surfer Mark Visser didn’t just lean on any old lights to illuminate the way for his history-making ride in the dark. LED company Solus used NASA submarine lighting.

Pulse: Smile! It’s the emoticon keypad :-)

Wednesday, January 26th, 2011

Here’s a keypad that could make it faster and easier to fill your correspondence with digital representations of your emotional state.

Pulse: Kinect hack lets you see your own skeleton

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Add this one to the long list of Kinect hacks: a system that acts as a virtual x-ray, letting viewers see inside themselves in real time.

iDeath: Artist’s ’shots’ of Apple products

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

A San Francisco-based artist bought a load of Apple tech, just to destroy it in the name of art.

Pulse: David Hockney ditches the easel for the iPad

Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010

More than 200 Hockney images of plants and cut flowers created on the iPhone and iPad will be on display through January 30 in Paris.

Pulse: Hello Kitty wraps American Smarts

Sunday, October 24th, 2010

Hello Kitty invaded gift shops 35 years ago and since then has killed everything in its path - speakers, keyboards, phone chargers and even chainsaws - with cuteness. Now American Smart car owners can wrap their vehicles in the iconic Japanese feline.

Pulse: Airbag for cyclists without helmet hair

Thursday, October 21st, 2010

Swedish designers have come up with the Chieftan, a collar disguising a protective airbag for bikers that activates upon impact.

Blizzard u-turns on plan to require real names on forums

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Game developer Blizzard has backed down on a plan to require users of its official online forums to register with real names, just days after announcing the move.

Pulse: Brain-controlled games boarding planes soon?

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

Ever found yourself struggling to stabilise that mobile device for optimum in-flight entertainment? Toronto-based InteraXon says it may have an alternative in the form of thought-controlled in-flight games that let you keep your hands (and gadget stands) tucked away.

Pulse: Robots to teach English to Koreans

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

After a series of trials, South Korea will spend approximately US$45 million for an “R-Learning” program that places English-speaking robotic teaching assistants in preschools and kindergartens.

iPhone 3GS jailbreak, ‘purplera1n’, hits web

Sunday, July 5th, 2009

As America celebrates Independence Day, the news comes that iPhone 3GS owners are getting some freedom of their own.