Patent firm Lodsys wants a cut every time little Timmy buys a new content pack for Pocket God .?? Photo: Emmanuelle Bourgue/Flickr After threatening last week to sue several iPhone app programmers for implementing a new iOS feature, a patent firm touched off a storm of controversy and even received death threats. Now the company has explained why it’s going after the little guys, instead of Apple: Lodsys says Apple has licensed the patent in question. “The scope of their current licenses does NOT enable them to provide ‘pixie dust’ to bless another (3rd party) business applications [sic],” Lodsys writes in a blog post about Apple. “From Lodsys’ perspective, it is seeking to be paid value for rights it holds and which are being used by others.” Incidentally, Microsoft and Google have also paid for licenses, too, according to Lodsys

I worked a for few years at Wal-Mart, and it’s very weird to shop there when you have worked there yourself. With only one exception, I can tell that the cashier doesn’t want to be there any more than I wanted to. I think we all know that jobs that can be done by machines are usually done by machines, and I believe that cashiering is a job just waiting to be filled by a robot. The robot is here with the PR2 personal robot from Willow Garage.

Florida’s finest: The Segway X2 Golf is sure to be a hit amongst retired dorks What could be a more natural fit than Segways and golf? Players are already happy to embarrass themselves by dressing up in a pastel patchwork of Pringle, so why not make the humiliation complete and jump on the two-wheeled dork-wagon? And because a golfer won’t buy anything unless it is taylor* made for their hobby, the dedicated hole-hound can now get the customized Segway X2 Golf, with built-in caddy. Aside from the regular gyroscopically-balanced niceties of the regular Segway, which will keep you upright no matter how many nips you take from your hip-flask during the round, there are some golf-specific additions.

While electronic cigarettes may seem like a completely new technology in the US, this electrical gadget has actually been around for a few years. Invented by Hon Lik, a Chinese pharmacist, in 2003, e-cigarettes were introduced to the public a year later and the company who owned the original device began export around 2005. In 2006, e-cigs were introduced in Europe and the States followed suit shortly after that.
There has been some controversy over the safety and health risks associated with e-cigarettes, as they’re commonly called, but the Food and …

Every once in a while, we movie buffs and console gaming fan-boys get lost in the pleasant reverie of experiencing our ‘treat’ in a gargantuan HD screen. But how big is really our scope of thinking of a gargantuan screen; is it bigger than being 200-foot wide, 80-foot tall?