A researcher at Yale University has developed a new safety system for cars, that is designed to alert you of a potential danger, and instead of using either sound or something visual the system uses touch.
The car seat is lined with vibrating motors from cell phones which slightly vibrate when you are moving along the road, there are then sensors fitted on the outside of the car.
Sprint is the only carrier in the US at the moment with a 4G network, and sales of the first Android 4G smartphone, the HTC Evo 4G on the network have been good, with some analysts reporting as many as 300,000 units sold since launch.
The HTC EVO 4G is currently sold out on Sprint, and the shortages of the Evo 4G may end up having an effect on Sprint, as it may hold them back in their lead against other carriers on their 4G network.
Developing a successful application for the iPhone can make developers a fair bit of money, now one developer has shared their earnings from the first day of their new application using Apple’s iAds platform.
The developer made a total of $1,400 on his first day through iAds when his new free application went live on iTunes, and the application was only a simple app that controls the cameras flash on the iPhone 4.
According to a report over at Tech Crunch, Google [GOOG] has invested $100 million in Zynga. Zynga makes social networking games like Farmville and Mafia Wars which are hugely popular on Facebook.
It looks like Google may be planning to launch a new service called Google Games, in an attempt to chip away at Facebook’s social media dominance.
The guys over at Lifehacker have put together a handy guide to show you how to play SNES games on your iPad.
If you want to do this yourself you will need a jailbroken iPad,, and a Wiimote, check out the video of it in action below.
Google [GOOG] has released a new tool that is designed to make it easy for anyone to develop applications for their Android platform called App Inventor.
App Inventor is a tool that is designed to create Android applications visually, rather than having to use code, and you can even include phone functions and GPS in your applications.
You will now be able to watch YouTube videos in a much higher resolution, as Google has now added 4K video to YouTube.
The new 4K video resolution means that you will be able to view videos in 4096 x 2034 pixels, which is about four times the resolution of HD video in 1080p.
Fring has launched a new version of their iPhone application that lets users make video calls over 3G on the iPhone 4, and you will be able to video chat with your friends who own other smartphones like Android and some Nokia smartphones.
The application is free and the video chat works over both WiFi and also 3G, and it also supports Skype and is iOS 4 compatible so it will alert you to an incoming call.
Google [GOOG] has released a new Android application called Open Spot, which works with Android 2.0 and above. The Open Spot application lets you search for unclaimed parking spaces that have been reported to the service by other Open Spot users.
Once someone has left a particular parking space they can report this to the service, and then other users will be able to find the vacant parking spaces in their area.
A judge in California has give the go ahead for a class action lawsuit against Apple [AAPL] and AT&T [T], and basically the judge has said that civil lawsuits filed against Apple and AT&T since 2007, which addressed antitrust concerns could be consolidated into a single class action lawsuit.
The lawsuit could cover anyone who has purchased an iPhone in the US and signed up for a two year contract with AT&T.
Some people like to text, a lot. They even do this while walking which is quite dangerous especially in busy streets (watch out for the manhole!)
Enter Road SMS, an Android app that lets you peer through the camera of your smartphone so you can see where you are headed while happily thumbing away.
Toyota is one of the leaders of the pack when it comes to making hybrids but they still have to crack the puzzle of electric cars. Tesla is helping them out in this end by creating two prototype electric vehicles for the Japanese car maker.
