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Alcatraz was designed to be impossible to escape from by being out on an island in San Francisco Bay. And this vertical prison concept has the same idea: if you want to escape, it’s a long way down. The design, which was the winner of Evolvo Magazine’s 2010 skyscraper competition , probably won’t be built anytime soon.

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Vertical Prison Concept Hides Prisoners Up In the Sky [Design]

I thought I’d never forgive Time Warner for their abominable service before I switched to FiOS—but I just might, if their plan to lease their pipes to AT&T and Verizon makes using an iPhone in NY actually tolerable. AT&T’s iPhone problems are two-fold. There’s the wireless aspect, which is having enough towers with enough spectrum for everybody—that’s probably what you’re familiar with

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Time Warner’s Plan to Make AT&T Suck Less [IPhone]

You can learn a lot about the psyches of internet users through Google’s search suggestions, as we’ve seen . But What Do You Suggest? lets you explore these suggestions in a much more in-depth way. The site allows you to start with any word you want, opening up visual trees showing what words people usually type next.

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Explore Google Search Suggestions Word-By-Word [Google]

This Google Monster was created by Asaf Hanuka for an article about groups protesting Google’s plan to scan every book. I think it’s the way many thinks about its insatiable hunger , including myself. Well, actually, I see it like this: [ Tropical Toxic via TheDW ]

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Google Wants to Eat Everything and Everyone [Image Cache]

People of the world who hate hate HATE going to the dentist, rejoice: DentalVibe is a new device that completely eliminates the pain when they are sticking a stainless steel needle into your gums. All by cleverly fooling your brain. Developed by Dr. Steven G

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New Gadget Eliminates Pain in Dental Injections [Gadgets]

OK Go ’s new music video for ” This Too Shall Pass ” is four minutes of pure Rube Goldberg insanity . And as these behind-the-scenes videos show, it was every bit as monumental an undertaking as you’d expect: What started with a two-paragraph synopsis of the band’s vision quickly ballooned into a massive-scale project requiring 20 engineers. The work was headed up by Syyn Labs (formerly Mindshare), a collective of “creative engineers” who explore the intersection of art and technology. The planning started last November, according to Wired , with actual construction not beginning until January

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How OK Go Built the Craziest Rube Goldberg Machine Yet [Music]

TiVo may have invented time-shifting, but the past few years haven’t been kind to this company unsure how to cut a profit. Then, someone inside TiVo HQ must have realized, oh right, INNOVATION! That’s the ticket! What You Need to Know • The TiVo Premiere (320GB, $300) and Premiere XL (1TB, THX certified, $500) are the new Series 4 TiVos • They have completely new widescreen HD software built on Flash • This software will not come to Series 3 models (or earlier) • The Premiere is less a DVR than a completely integrated video machine • Available in early April Why I’m Excited The TiVo Premiere is the smallest TiVo yet, a thin and diminutive box that holds only one CableCard and still lacks Wi-Fi (a $90 802.11n adapter will be available this May, plus you can pick up a $30 TiVo powerline adapter). It hides a multicore processor inside that drives a new, HD UI that previews your program at all times.

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TiVo Premiere Details and First Hands On: Like IMDB On TV [TiVo]

When we saw Vizio’s gargantuan QWERTY remote at CES, we knew a new era was upon us. Now TiVo debuts their premium QWERTY remote slider and, yes, the day in which you change the channel with a Sidekick has come. Joking aside, TiVo’s upcoming QWERTY remote is an interesting evolution of their classic peanut

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TiVo Premiere QWERTY Remote Requires ANOTHER Dongle [TiVo]