A Chinese publication has reported a rumor that a slimmer version of Sony’s PlayStation 3 console will be hitting stores July.
Anonymous sources told Economic Daily News that a lighter, smaller PS3 is due in stores July “to cope with extended summer vacation demands.”… Read More
After a mere nine months, I’m dumping my Hackintosh netbook (more precisely, selling it to my editor Dylan Tweney so his children can make better use of it). This is by far the shortest relationship I’ve ever had with any of my gadgets. Why the abrupt end? Oddly enough, the puny, low-powered… Read More
Palm is tightlipped about sales of the Palm Pre smartphone released earlier this month but one analyst claims the device is off to a great start.
About 300,00o Pres have been sold since the launch on June 6, says Edward Snyder, an analyst with Charter Equity Research. That’s the same number of phones sold in one month than Palm did in its entire previous quarter. Palm may have gathered about 70,000 Pre pre-orders in May, estimates Snyder.
An earlier estimate from analyst… Read More
The more cargo bikes I see, the more I want one. They’re immensely practical in any city, and can carry enough junk to make most car journeys pointless. But if you’re already used to a bike you likely think smaller — daily rather than weekly trips to the grocery store, for example. The cargo bike, then, may best be marketed at the guilt-ridden car user.
And this cargo bike might be just the one to pry you away from your gas-fuelled obsession. The Madsen… Read More
Doom, a game that has been ported to every device that contains a microchip, has finally come to the iPhone. And because the usual button-mashing, mouse-thrashing controls would translate terribly to the iPhones touch interface, the folks at Id software have redesigned the game.
Doom Resurrection is based on Doom 3, and departs from other Dooms in that it runs on rails. The game rolls you around through the levels, and youre left to aim the guns by tilting… Read More
Until a review unit arrives at Olympus Spanish PR Office (amazingly just around the corner from my apartment) Im slurping up anything and everything I can find on the web about the EP-1, or digital Pen camera. And its not just journalistic professionalism, either: As an amateur photographer, Im excited by a camera that could actually deliver on the promise of a compact digicam which works as well as an old film compact.
Non-DSLR cameras… Read More
Of these two Nikon rumors, one looks almost certain to be real, and one looks like a bad fake. First, the D300s, a camera which we actually expect to see announced pretty soon. The specs and a screenshot leaked already, pointing to a video-capable upgrade to the D300 with stereo sound and an SD card slot. This picture, though, looks like a poor piece of Photoshoppery, a simple grafting of the D5000’s microphone… Read More
What you see above is not a calculator. Or rather, its not the calculator you think it is. Rather, it is the latest software-only implementation of the classic Hewlett Packard scientific calculator, the 15C.
It gets better. This emulator runs on the iPhone, and is joined there by its little brother, the 12C (a financial calculator). Both calcs are photo-perfect representations of the originals and both run the same algorithms as the hardware versions to do the… Read More
This (fake) Nike ad is all kinds of awesome, but the thing that strikes me is that even parkour-busting robots wear hoodies,… Read More
iPhone 3GS owners (of whom there are already over one million, according to Apple) won’t be able to Jailbreak their smartphones to run unauthorized applications for a little while.
The Dev-Team, who regularly issues software to Jailbreak and unlock iPhones, is delaying the hack for iPhone 3GS. Why? Not enough people own the phone… Read More
Just a week after the release of Apple’s new iPhone, a few users have complained about the handset’s high temperatures, which in some cases are high enough to start browning the white plastic on the back of the phone.
Only a small… Read More
The movement toward adopting a universal cellphone charger that is, one type of charger that’s compatible with all cellphones is becoming a reality in Europe as soon as 2010.
Several major mobile manufacturers, including Nokia, Apple and Research in Motion, have signed up for the universal charger initiative led by the Group Special Mobile Association (GSMA), according to Reuters.
GSMA announced the initiative in February with a goal of pushing… Read More
The BBC convinced 13 year old Scott Campbell to swap his iPod for a Walkman and use it for a week. The first shock came just from seeing the thing:
[My Dad] had told me it was big, but I hadnt realised he meant THAT big. It was the size of a small book.
It gets worse from there. Wearing the 30 year old device on his belt (it is certainly not pocket-sized, unless you have large pockets) Scott felt embarrassed… Read More
This splendid video appears to be a viral ad for La Poste, the French post office. The problem is that it’s in French, a language which,… Read More
The iPhone 3G may, at least for some users, have an additional, undocumented feature: It can be used to toast bread.
Reports are coming in that the new, million-selling iPhone is suffering from overheating issues. The handsets are getting so warm, in fact, that the plastic cases of the white models are discoloring to pink. The picture above is from Ben on the French site Le Journal du Geek.
Its not just anonymous forum posters, either. Melissa J. Perenson… Read More
The iPhone 3.0 software update brought some great new features: search, cut and paste (at last) and background notifications. It also, for many users, brought a return to the bad old days of long, slow backups.
Everyone who upgrades their iPhone to a new OS will have a slow first backup, as the entire thing is redone from scratch. And having an automatic, mandatory backup is a good thing for a very lose-able portable device. But for me and many others, the bad old days… Read More
These CF/SD card adapters are either brilliant or bafflingly bad. The trouble is, we’re not sure which. The widgets let you take SD cards and use them in cameras which usually only accept the larger Compact Flash cards.
This could be useful, we guess, if you happen to have a lot of SD cards lying around. But we wonder if you’d want to. Neither of the two basic adapters (one for SD andone for microSD) lists read/write speeds, and in DSLRs,… Read More
The Touch Book, which first showed its pretty little face at the DEMO 09 conference back in March of this year, is just about to ship. But who cares, right? Its just another netbook, after all.
Well, no. The company behind the little computer, Always Innovating, actually lives up to its name. The standout feature is the detachable touch display, an 8.9-inch presure sensitive tablet which can live separately from the keyboard section. When joined… Read More
Not long ago the best smartphone you could buy was the iPhone. No contest. The uncanny combo of beautiful chassis, intelligent OS, super responsive touchscreen, and app store was unparalleled. There was no device on the market that came remotely close to touching the Jesus phone’s near mythical marriage of hardware and software.
Them days is over.
Now each major U.S. carrier has a device that can legitimately compete with the iPhone. To help you make sense of it, we took three major upstarts and stacked them up against the great white hype from Cupertino. Sprint with its Pre, T-Mobile with its G1, and Verizon with its Storm.… Read More
Talk about targeted marketing. A new ad published by Sprint (right) is forward enough to include the word “iPhone” in big, bold letters.
Similar to Microsoft’s Laptop Hunter ads, which bash Apple for its premium computer prices, the Sprint ad plays up the Palm Pre smartphone by stressing… Read More
Apple has confirmed rejecting an iPhone application that displayed photos of topless women, despite the software developer’s claims that the app was temporarily “sold out.”
The app, called Hottest Girls, was the first app in the App Store to show nudity, according to developer… Read More
Steorn, you may remember, is the Dublin based company which provided us with a good weeks worth of entertainment back in July 2007. The companys perpetual motion machine, the Orbo, promised to usher in a new world of clean, free energy. Sadly, before the demonstration could take place, the precision engineered, 25-year life bearings in all three machines mysteriously broke due to “hot lights”.
Now, Steorn is back, and this time it has a real, shipping… Read More
Hidden under a pile of bad, old fashioned marketing attempts we find this DIY gem: printable filter gels for your flashgun. Appropriately available from the Digital Secrets Site, you have to follow a treasure hunt to get the eBook telling you how to make them:
… Read MoreWhen you click on the image here, you will see a third item, but then when you release that click, whooshoff you go to the detail page [] Click the picture in the previous article to find the magic preorder link.
London, like many large, modern cities, is at a standstill. There are only so many cars and buses that will fit on the roads. The answer? Brand new concept designs of course!
London Garden is a hybrid bike/scooter which folds up to fit into specially designed buses and taxis. Designed by Marten Wallgreen and friends from the RCA, the multi-purpose vehicle is engineered to work in harmony with the city around it. You even pay for you bus ride with the energy stored in… Read More
Remember the LightLane, the laser-projected personal bike lane concept that put a pair of do-not-cross lines alongside the night-rider? It is now real and running as a rather successful looking prototype.
Ryan Bavettas Rocket Board doesnt actually use a rocket, but it does look like one. The home-brew prop-powered skateboard carries… Read More
“Transformers, robots in the sky!” as I erroneously sang back in the schoolyard. These Transfomer cufflinks from Etsy maker Finkstudio do not, sadly, soar through the stratosphere, but they do transform from silver plated Decepticon and Autobot trinkets tosilver plated Decepticon and Autobot cuff-fastenings. Let’s see the giant Optimun Prime manage that.
At just $20 the pair they’re almost criminally cheap, and this particular design has sold out. Check out Finkstudio’s… Read More
Video uploads to YouTube have increased 400 percent a day since the launch of the iPhone 3GS, according to YouTube.
In a blog post, YouTube officials Dwipal Desai and Mia Quagliarello cited three factors driving an overall growth of 1700 percent in uploads in the last six months: new video-enabled… Read More
Sorry Nvidia fans, there’s no Nvidia Tegra netbook on the horizon.
Contrary to reports that Nvidia is planning to release a netbook made by Taiwanese manufacturer Mobinnova under its brand, the company says it has no plans to do so.
“It’s not true,” Derek Perez, director of public relations for Nvidia told Wired.com
Nvidia will focus on getting its Tegra system-on-a-chip into cellphones and mobile internet devices produced… Read More
Apple has finally allowed pornography into the iTunes App Store. The application, called Hottest Girls, costs $2 and includes “2200+ images of topless, sexy babes and nude models”.
Why has Apple, a company which banned an e-book application from the same storebecause it could be used to download the Kama Sutra, suddenly started selling smut? Because the 3.0 iPhone software update now allows age restrictions for applications. Also, when I downloaded the application… Read More
Tidiness is supposedly a virtue. It could also be viewed as a disease, an obsession with order at the expense of utility. I firmly disagree with this second statement: I’m a Virgo, and therefore everything must be in place at all times lest I am thrown into an OCD-stoked rage.
I am also too lazy to actually tidy up, which is why this stool from Berlin design team LLot Llov, cutely named Todd, is ideal. A useless stack of twisted metal out of the box,… Read More
Less than a week after its release, three quarters of all iPhone owners had already updated to the latest 3.0 version of the operating system. These figures come from Tapbots, maker of iPhone software. Tapbots unit conversion application, Convertbot, calls home on each launch to get up-to-date currency conversion rates. It also reports which version of the OS the iPhone is running. As the graph above shows, in the five days from launch the adoption rate is huge, ending… Read More
Poor Pentax. The company puts out great cameras, but they suffer from an image problem. A public image problem. Pentax makes the sensible but dull cameras none of the cool kids want. Which is a shame as the new Optio W80 is a camera that only the cool kids will need.
The 12 megapixel W80 is rugged, with a capital arrrrr. Cold-proof (14F), waterproof (16 feet) and drop-proof (three feet), it is designed for outdoor and sporty use, and the features are… Read More
Apple has updated the software for both Apple TV (v2.4) and the iPhone Remote App (v1.3). Users will see little, though, unless they use both together. When used in conjunction, you can now control the Apple TV by using swipe gestures on the iPhone (or iPod Touch).
As befits a remote control, the gestures are easy and unobtrusive: flick right or left to skip tracks and do the same and hold for fast-forward and rewind. Touch to play/pause and swipe down to access… Read More
