Changing user behavior. It’s a dangerous game. Sometimes it works and you succeed, sometimes it doesn’t and you fail. More often than not, the latter is the case. It’s with this in mind that I approached theNovation Twitchcontroller for Serato Itch with caution. As a long-time DJ, coming from an analog world of records and turntables, it’s already difficult for me to get used to the idea of a controller versus a typical mixer setup....

TLDR:HotSpot Shield has been named the fastest VPN on the web — and now, it’s also on sale at hundreds off its regular price. Making the claim to being the world’s fastest VPN is no small boast. With dozens of VPN providers on the scene, it takes some serious firepower to be the one that allows users to blaze across the web faster than with anyone else. However,HotSpot Shield ($89.99 for a 3-year subscription, 80 percent off, from TNW Deals) brought the receipts to back up the claims....

Designer and musicianYuri Suzukihas created an extraordinary soundscape for EVs as part of a research project, reportedDezeen. And it sounds… brilliant. Suzuki aims for his vehicle acoustic environment to make “quiet” electric cars more audible to pedestrians, while promoting an emotive interactive driving experience. To accommodate that, the sounds change based on speed, location, time and the driver’s activities. As a matter of fact, the well-known noise of the conventional internal combustion engine is what alerts us of a passing car....

Want to experience the Toyko Marathon 2011? Joseph Tame aka@tamegoeswildaims to bring the marathon to you through his new invention code named iRun. Tame’s project will stream the marathon from the multiple devices strapped to the iRun, and will broadcast the event on Sunday Feb 26th (6pm EST) from hissite. Tame calls iRun a “social media studio”. It sports four iPhones, an iPad, an iPod, an Android, rotatable mounts, 3 wifi units and a bird-feeding dish....

Nuance, makers of popular speech-recognition apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, Mac OS X and Windows, lifted the covers from its updated NDEV Mobile program for developers, with added support for Windows Phone 7 in the Dragon Mobile SDK,Engadget reports. The program now features three levels of service—Silver, Gold and Emerald—that will give developers increasing levels of access to the company’s speech-to-text technologies. The program had so far included Android and iOS and is now available to Windows Phone 7 developers as well....