George Weiss has been inventing for over 50 years, and at the age of 84, his one invention that made it to market has now also been made into an iPhone app. Weiss invented Dabble – The Fast Thinking Word Game – where players get 20 letters each and in five minutes, have to use them to spell out five words. Weiss is no stranger to failure though. Weiss spent the last fifty years coming up with 80 inventions that never got anywhere....

There’s always that moment of question when we see a supposedly official video that debuts a product that people have wanted for a long time. It seems, though, that Razorianfly hasfound a demo videoof the app that was placed on YouTube. So, before we get into the details, take a look at the video: Now, it’s worth noting that the video was reportedly put up bySkypeand then taken down (ormade private) almost immediately....

We’ve started to see the rumors flying hot and heavy over the past couple of weeks, but this is the first time that we’ve seen a device instead ofa caseor words from “sources familiar”.9to5mac believesthat what they’ve seen here is a genuine iPhone 5, in the hands of someone who is “likely an Apple employee”. There’s not a lot else to be said about the device, other than it is said to be larger – “almost EVO-like in size....

This is an incredible piece of animation history. It’s one of the first 3D digital rendered films that were ever made, and may actually be the first. It was created by the founder of Pixar and current head of Walt Disney and Pixar animation studios,Ed Catmullalong with Fred Parke andRobert Ingebretsen. It comes to us via an 8mm reel that has been digitized andshared by Robby Ingebretsen, whose dad worked with Catmull in the early days....

Twitter recently “improved” its website bychanging search to find people based on interest. Search a topic and related users will pop up. Twitter’snew homepagewelcomes new visitors by encouraging them to “discover their interests”. But that’s not what Twitter is really about, is it? By defining only one rule (140 characters is the limit), Twitter has allowed its users to go wild. Over the years, people have started posting pictures, found ways to post longer messages by linking to them and have started using Twitter in different ways....