Technology Blog

No no no no no. NO! I’m not looking! I’m not looking! You don’t exist! I said I’m noooot looking! NOT. LOOKING. OK, I’m looking. Geezuss H. Christ. [This You Never Knew Existed via Presurfer via Likecool]

I know some of you like to transvestite your iPhones: Etch-a-Sketches, Gameboys, NES controllers, Xbox 360s… Maybe you need to accept reality, and show your true colors with this iPhone iPhone case. Or hide your fugly G1 in it. [Walyou]

Bad news for Amazon, who’s hoping that in the future all college students will read their textbooks through the oversided Kindle DX: the first students to use it, at Princeton, are not fans.

Students taking part in the pilot program have all sorts of complaints about the device, mostly centering around the fact that it’s a huge pain to take notes and “interact” with the text. Here’s what student Aaron Horvath has to say about it:

“I hate to sound like a Luddite, but this technology is a poor excuse of an academic tool. It’s clunky, slow and a real pain to operate. Much of my learning comes from a physical interaction with the text: bookmarks, highlights, page-tearing, sticky notes and other marks representing the importance of certain passages - not to mention margin notes, where most of my paper ideas come from and interaction with the material occurs. All these things have been lost, and if not lost they’re too slow to keep up with my thinking, and the ‘features’ have been rendered useless.

Yee-ouch! Further complaints include the fact that the lack of concrete page numbers make citing sources a huge pain in the ass and the fact that you need to charge up the battery for it to work. I guess physical textbooks will be around for a while longer, eh? [Daily Princetonian via Engadget]

Rejoice, exhibitionists of the world, for TweetReel for iPhone will allow you to record videos at 640 x 480 pixels and tweet them. At last, your drunken thoughts and sexual mishaps available to your 26 followers in full high-res detail.

It’s pretty easy: Download Tweet Reel to your iPhone 3GS, open it, make a video, write a tweet, and share with the world using TweetReel.com, much like you do know with pictures and services like yfrog. Perpetual 480p personal embarrassment is only $3 away. [iTunes App Store]

To be, or not to be a comfy place to park one’s barking dogs after a long day at the road—that is the question.

Paris-based design studio Samal Design obviously thinks the answer to that question is “to be” as they’ve created this line of plastic and metal Human Furniture for your eclectic table and chair needs.

The collection is inspired by “men’s beauty and sensuality” and includes poses that are sure to create double takes and blushed cheeks next time the dinner party circuit stops by. [CubeMe]