If you aren’t tired of accessing Facebook and Pandora through your phone, laptop or Chumby, there’s yet another gadget that promises to help you stay constantly plugged in to the electronic universe.
HP launched a new category of devices called DreamScreens that are a cross between the traditional digital picture frames and PC displays.
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A piece of computer and science fiction history will go on auction next month: An early Macintosh computer, which belonged to Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry.
The computer, with the serial number F4200NUM0001, was a gift to Roddenberry from Apple.
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On the left, the beautiful Olivetti Valentine, a portable typewriter from 1969. On the right, a modern-day re-imagining of the portable typewrite as laptop.
Some of the carry-over features look genuinely useful, even today: The carrying handle on the back and the slide-out keyboard for instance. Other design cues from the original are cute, like the cooling slots which fan out and look like the spokes of the typewriter’s hammers.
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Listening to some of the haters out there, you might believe that the fixed-gear “trend” is over, as if something that dates back to the dawn of biking could be considered a trend to begin with. I guess somebody needs to tell the bike companies about this, and while they’re at it, they might have a whisper in the ears of the thousands of cyclists who find a simple, low maintenance, and fun to ride fixie* to be the perfect city transport.
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An argument could, quite successfully, be made that everything should contain a bottle opener. Board-shorts come with on on an elastic cord for easy surf-and-suds. Bike wrenches are often notched with a lid-popping slot, and there are even bottle-opener/cigarette-lighter combos.
You may notice a trend. All of these tools are likely to be owned and used by already calm, relaxed people. The poor, stressed, cubicle-manacled office worker, the person who… Read More
There is one thing you need to know about cellphone radiation: without it, you don’t have a cellphone. Or at least, you don’t have a cellphone that can make calls. The radiation is the signal.
If you block that signal, the phone will pump up its output in order to carry your call. Remember the last time you flew and forgot to switch off your phone? The battery was dead when you arrived, right? That’s because, searching for a network,… Read More
The iPhone 3GS has a great camera (for a cellphone) especially with the new easy-edit video function. But holding the lightweight handset steady isn’t easy. Joby already addressed this by rebranding it’s smallest bendable tripod as the Gorillamobile (sadly, not a car for big apes), and that remains a great multi-purpose option.
But if you want some thing for half the price, and with a single minded focus, you can now try the Blur Tripod, another poorly named accessory… Read More
First, an apology to all those who supported the Save the Massi Campaign. Your protests to protect a lovely, 1990s Italian road bike were heard, but not heeded. But in pre-emptive response to the hate mail that will surely follow this post, no bikes were hurt in the making of this conversion.
The conversion is, of course, the final stage of the… Read More
When Kyle Wiens and his colleagues flew to New Zealand two years ago, they weren’t on vacation. They had a serious mission: to purchase one of the first iPhones and then ruthlessly tear it apart.