Palm Pre will be the first device to feature the new webOS from Palm
Palm is yet to release its much-awaited Palm Pre phone but there are already reports of another device in the works running the same operating system that Pre is based on.
A new phone from Palm called the Palm Eos is likely to debut on the AT&T network, says Engadget. Palm Eos will run webOS, the new operating system first shown on the Palm Pre earlier this year.
Apple’s recent hiring spree of chip designers reveals the company’s plans to manufacture computer processors in-house.
TheWall Street Journal cites profiles on professional networking site LinkedIn, which lists more than 100 Apple employees with past expertise in chips at companies such as Intel, Samsung and Qualcomm.
These recruitments, coupled with Apple’s 2008 acquisition of semiconductor… Read More
Relax, lean back in your comfortable chair and join me on a journey. Imagine, if you will, that you own a beautiful, brake-free fixed-gear bicycle. The exquisite paint-job,iridescentin the shimmering sun, is rivaled only by the clean lines of your ride. From front to back, there is nothing to distract… Read More
Flip has announced two more low-cost, single-purpose camcorders. Both of these cameras are as simple as those which came before, although the Flip lineup itself is started to get crowded to the point of confusion.
First is the Flip UltraHD, previously seen turning up on a customers doorstep before being announced. The $200 UltraHD comes… Read More
Say what you like about Adobes Creative Suite icons, theyre nothing if not distinctive. When these plain colored boxes with simple letters first showed on the CS4 beta, we thought that the icons were beta versions too. But these elemental logos were the real thing.
Now, you can have a periodic plushie, your favorite CS4 application rendered as a cushion. Better still, even the full suite is cheaper than the real thing, at just $80 instead of over a grand, and individual cushions are a reasonable… Read More
It looks like Lowepro might have finally solved my camera bag problem. But then, I say that about every new bag that I see.
The new TopLoader Pro range is a set of three bags tailored for a different camera and lens combo, from body plus short prime to body plus long zoom. As you can gather from the name, the bags load from the top, and from the pictures it looks like Lowepro has managed to make these openings easy to access. You get the full zip-around closure… Read More
With a name like PeeWee, you might not expect to find this rebadged Intel Classmate PC very kid friendly (Im talking Paul Ruebens PeeWee, not the kids sport kind). And youd be wrong. Despite the price, which at $600 is around $100 more than the Intel, this tough little mother is perfect for the little uns.
First, specs. Its a netbook, which means a 1.6GHz Atom processor, which is coupled with a memory card reader, 60GB HD (which is, very weirdly, PATA not SATA beware… Read More
Two-finger touch or multi-touch? Users don’t have to choose. It can be touch anywhere says French start-up Sensitive Object, which offers a touchscreen technology that goes beyond the traditional display area.
The company’s ‘Anywhere MultiTouch’ platform is based on the recognition of sound waves propagated in an object when the user touches it.
A user’s touch on a glass surface produces a pattern of sound waves that creates an acoustic… Read More
The BeBook Mini will be smaller and cheaper than its earlier version.
Dutch company Endless Ideas is set to launch a new version of the BeBook e-book reader in Europe with a 5-inch display screen that will be priced at $200 or less.
The new BeBook reader is expected to be available in the next few weeks and will be similar to its predecessor in almost every way. The orginal BeBook reader retails for 298 ($395) and has a 6-inch display. It runs Linux operating system… Read More
Motorola handset codenamed Calgary will be available on Verizon
Beleaguered cellphone marker Motorola has been betting big on the new Google Android mobile operating system. Now it looks like the first Android-powered handset is ready to hit the market this year.
The Motorola phone codenamed ‘Calgary’ will feature a QWERTY slide-out keyboard and will focus on social networking tools such as Facebook, according to… Read More
You, like me, are the perfect shopper. When we go to the store to buy a gadget, were all about the businesslike efficiency. We have researched our options on the internet (most likely by reading the excellent Gadget Lab) and are going to the store because we want the item today (or in my case, because online retailing sucks in Spain). The only time well take is to perhaps compare the feel of a few different items in the flesh.
Like I said, were perfect. Its that other… Read More
Theres a small but growing breed of handheld espresso machines, of which the Twist is the latest. They all have a similar concept using pressure to pump pre-heated water through the grounds. The pre-heated water is key, as the lack of a boiler is what makes these gadgets so small.
When you first look at the Twist, and read its name, you will probably make the same assumtion I did that you somehow twist it to wring the coffee out. Instead,… Read More
PreThinking, the forward-looking Palm Pre dedicated blog, has been sent a fistful of new screenshots of the WebOS in full effect. The first thing that hits you is the design these interfaces are polished and pretty. Whether this means that the Pre will be an iPhone killer (which everybody in the world but me seems to believe) or even successful enough to keep the debt-collectors from Palms door, remains to be seen.
Complicity mechanism; residual ladder; spatial corrections. These are some of the products and categories on the Worst Website in the World promoting the design company Ludens. Tucked somewhere deep inside the Flash monstrosity, youll find the Mexican Army Shelf, a modular wall unit as awesome as its name suggests.
Appearing as a simple block of wood when spied from afar, the shelf unit folds out like the offspring of the Swiss Army knife and the… Read More
The Lego shape is simple yet iconic. From afar, it is a single block of plastic with nodules on the top. The internal technicalities are more complex, of course, but these outer aspects can be copied with ease to make anything from awful iPod speakers to brick-shaped hard drives.
Or, of course, a candle. The sheer size of this thing can be seen by the tiny minifigs standing atop. Were sure that it wouldnt actually look like Lego for long, either after a few hours the nubbins would have… Read More
When something is too good to be true, it often is. That’s why we don’t believe for a second that the video above is a legitimate depiction of how Denmark police treat bicyclists without helmets. Free helmets and a free hug? What the hell is this, a utopian… Read More
The second Android mobile operating system based phone from HTC, the HTC Magic, will be available in Europe through Vodafone. Earlier this month we posted a quick hands-on… Read More
Touchscreens are already a big hit with cellphone users. But PC users largely remain chained to their keyboards and mouse. N-Trig, which provides touchscreens for HP and Dell machines, hopes to change that by putting the technology into the hands of independent software developers — the same people whose apps helped propel the iPhone to massive success.
N-Trig has introduced a touchscreen kit for… Read More
Microsoft could be working on creating a new smartphone of its own
Apple has its iPhone. And Microsoft may have ‘Pink,’ a new Windows Mobile-based cellphone that it is reportedly developing in partnership with Verizon.
A phone born out of the ‘Pink’ project could be available early next year, according to a report in the Read More
There is a small subset of people who both remember the 1960s andyet were there. Of them , some will remember the lava lamp, a hippy device whose psychedelic lure was strong enough to distract the stoned away from their junk food munchies for whole minutes at a time.
Mathmos is still the English maker of the lava lamp, but another product in the lineup is much more impressive. That is the Airswitch range of lights, closely related to its rather lower class,… Read More
When Amazon launched the Kindle 2, many of us thought it looked a lot like the iPod, with its slick white body and shiny metal backplate. It also mimicked another iPod trait the slow sloughing of in-box accessories, in this case the case.
The Periscope (or the Periscope Lighted Folio for Kindle 2 to give it its rather stupid full title) fills this gap for a hefty $50, but for that you get a hefty leather-bound flap along with a flip-out reading light (the lack of a light… Read More
Airfoil Speakers Touch does one thing, and it does it well. The iPhone application receives audio wirelessly from your computer and plays it either through its built-in speakers or via the headphone jack. To owners of Apple Airport Express users, this might seem familiar. Thats because it is. Essentially, this… Read More
Baskets on bikes are very useful, and so are handlebars. Unlike handlebars, baskets are pretty easy to steal. The Bike Porter from Danish designer Goodmorning Technology mashes the two together into something that looks like it could be used for mobile cage-fights. Between very small opponents.
The concept is a good one the basket is built into the handlebars themselves, making stealing it hard even on the brakeless fixie in the photo, which has no cables… Read More
One place where film can still score over digital is in the medium format realm, especially for hobby photographers. With the fairly specialist, big-sensor camera bodies going for $1,500 and up, savings on film only become apparent if you shoot a lot of pictures. The best way is to pick up a cheap, second hand model, but if you can’t stand pre-fingered goods, you could try Voigtlnder’s new Bessa III, due in stores in May.
Amazon has done the right thing at last, and made an honest application of iPhone e-book reader Stanza (our favorite iPhone reader here at the Lab). Amazon has bought Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza. It now joins the Kindle (in the US at least) as one of two Amazon-owned readers for the iPhone. So what will change? From the Lexcycle blog:
We are not planning any changes in the Stanza application or user experience as a result of the acquisition. Customers will still be able… Read More
Here’s the wildest iPhone rumor we’ve heard in a while. According to BusinessWeek, two sources “familiar with the matter” say Apple and Verizon are working to offer two new iPhone-like devices: a smaller, less-expensive calling device (perhaps an “iPhone lite”), and a higher-end, unnamed media pad, which can place calls over Wi-Fi, display photos, and play music as well as high-definition video.
Picture a single disc large enough to store your entire DVD collection. GE Global Research has done just that with its latest breakthrough that can put 500 Gigabytes of storage capacity in a standard DVD-size disc.
GE researchers said Monday that by using a micro-holographic storage material they can create capacity of 20 single-layer Blu-ray discs or 100 DVDs in a standard disc. GEs micro-holographic discs will also… Read More
Is hacking a netbook to run Mac OS X really worth the trouble? Two tech journalists today expressed grief with their Hackbooks, so I felt like chiming in with my thoughts about my somewhat controversial MSI Wind Hackintosh. In short, my Hackintosh and I have been pals for six months, but it’s been a pretty bumpy ride.
When I first bought my Wind in October, I was thrilled after successfully hacking it to run Mac OS X Leopard. I loved the… Read More
Two London marathon runners documented their cardiovascular treks in real-time, and they didn’t need a camera crew to follow them.
CNN news producer Peter Wilkinson and Latitude Group CEO Alex Hoye stood out among 35,000 runners at Sunday’s London Marathon in the digital world, at least, where they tweeted their progress with their cellphones.
“To you’se enjoying marathon w/ a beer, a) chers! b) cam u shield your beverage… Read More
This week’s Gadget Lab podcast kicks off with a sad note about writer Brian Chen’s drowned iPhone, and his pathetic attempt to resurrect it by sprinkling rice on it.… Read More
Nearly six months after the first Google Android mobile operating system powered device made its debut, a second Android phone has been announced.
Samsung showed off an Android-based mobile device, the I7500. The I7500, Samsung’s first Android phone, features a 3.2-inch AMOLED screen (ctive matrix organic light emitting diode screen known for its luminosity and lower power consumption), 7.2Mbps HSDPA and WiFi connectivity.… Read More
Two-finger touch or multi-touch? Users don’t have to choose. It can be touch anywhere says French start-up Sensitive Object, which offers a touchscreen technology that goes beyond the traditional display area.
Stanford student Luke Ekkizogloy is writing an iPhone app that controls the lights in his house, but he has bigger dreams.
You, like me, are the perfect shopper. When we go to the store to buy a gadget, were all about the businesslike efficiency. We have researched our options on the internet (most likely by reading the excellent Gadget Lab) and are going to the store because we want the item today (or in my case, because online retailing sucks in Spain). The only time well take is to perhaps compare the feel of a few different items in the flesh.
The Lego shape is simple yet iconic. From afar, it is a single block of plastic with nodules on the top. The internal technicalities are more complex, of course, but these outer aspects can be copied with ease to make anything from awful iPod speakers to brick-shaped hard drives.
There is a small subset of people who both remember the 1960s andyet were there. Of them , some will remember the lava lamp, a hippy device whose psychedelic lure was strong enough to distract the stoned away from their junk food munchies for whole minutes at a time.
One place where film can still score over digital is in the medium format realm, especially for hobby photographers. With the fairly specialist, big-sensor camera bodies going for $1,500 and up, savings on film only become apparent if you shoot a lot of pictures. The best way is to pick up a cheap, second hand model, but if you can’t stand pre-fingered goods, you could try Voigtlnder’s new Bessa III, due in stores in May.
Amazon has done the right thing at last, and made an honest application of iPhone e-book reader Stanza (our favorite iPhone reader here at the Lab). Amazon has bought Lexcycle, the company behind Stanza. It now joins the Kindle (in the US at least) as one of two Amazon-owned readers for the iPhone. So what will change? From the Lexcycle blog:
Is hacking a netbook to run Mac OS X really worth the trouble? Two tech journalists today expressed grief with their Hackbooks, so I felt like chiming in with my thoughts about my somewhat controversial MSI Wind Hackintosh. In short, my Hackintosh and I have been pals for six months, but it’s been a pretty bumpy ride.
Two London marathon runners documented their cardiovascular treks in real-time, and they didn’t need a camera crew to follow them.
