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blackberry pearl flip review

BlackBerry Pearl Flip Review

If it hadn't been leaked so damn much, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 would be something of a surprise. Not simply because it's the first-ever clamshell BlackBerry, but the fact that RIM went in this direction at all, especially when you look at the rest of its new phones, with their clean, almost aerodynamic lines, and compare them to this beefy slab of a phone. Landing on T-Mobile today, the big-boned Pearl Flip is aimed at people graduating to their first smartphone, and it definitely has its own kind of charm. More »

2:00 AM on Mon Oct 13 2008
By matt buchanan
348 views, 2 comments

Latest by pwhitsa: Finally a b-berry that fits into a pocket so you can use it on weekends. Mine will be on order more »

Sunday Eye Candy

Awesome F-35B Video Shows US Marines Already Have Transformers

While we have seen glimpses of how the F-35B—the short take-off vertical landing variant of the F-35 Lightning II—works, here's an amazingly detailed video showing its transforming capabilities in flight, which was posted anonymously in YouTube last week. According to Flight Global, this sophisticated war machine—which is now in its testing phase—won't see real action any time soon, as its engine is getting redesigned turbine blades. [Flight Global]

11:24 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jesus Diaz
5,530 views, 63 comments

Latest by FlyRyan: @seldon452: To be fair, this is the JOINT Strike Fighter. While the US is investing the most money (because it's being more »

Black Silicon

Black Silicon Discovery Could Change Digital Photography, Night Vision Forever

With the accidental discovery of "black silicon," Harvard physicists may have very well changed the digital photography, solar power and night vision industries forever. What is black silicon, you say? Well, it's just as it sounds. Black silicon. It's what this revolutionary new material does that's important, starting with light sensitivity. Early indications show black silicon is 100 to 500 times more sensitive to light than a traditional silicon wafer. More »

6:00 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jack Loftus
27,589 views, 80 comments

Latest by iamnomad: It's so sensitive, it will see back through time. more »

Leaked Documents

MacBook and MacBook Pro Repair Document Leaked, Confirms "Late 2008" Update

In case you needed more, here's a proof that seems to completely confirm that—as expected—both the MacBook and MacBook Pro will be updated this Tuesday at the Apple MacBook 2008 event in Cupertino, where heads may be rolling after a PDF document referring to the "MacBook/MacBook Pro (Late 2008)" line was accidentally posted today in their support site. The document—now gone from Apple servers—details the full procedure for replacing the display in the new notebooks. [MacRumors]

5:39 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jesus Diaz
9,644 views, 33 comments

Latest by VakeroRokero: @LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M: Glad someone here still has money. more »

lego

20-Foot-Long Lego Battlecruiser Can Probably Sink Oil Tankers on Impact

This is a 20-foot-long Lego model of the HMS Hood, a Royal Navy battlecruiser built in 1920 and sunk by the German Kriegsmarine Battleship Bismarck in 1941. This stunning piece of brick engineering, built to minifig scale, has a robotized mast and is actually bigger than the 16.4-foot-long Lego U.S.S. Harry S. Truman. Check the gallery to really get get the idea of how gigantic this thing is. More »

5:30 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jesus Diaz
18,239 views, 22 comments

Latest by banmojo: Blows my mind. Kudos to the builder. Any idea on the cost of this thing? more »

space

Spectacular Video of Jules Verne Apocalyptical Re-Entry

Here's the video of the fiery re-entry of the Jules Verne Autonomous Transport Vehicle, the huge European Space Agency spacecraft that carried almost five tonnes of food, air, water and fuel on board the International Space Station. It was taken in high definition from a NASA's DC-8 at 37,000 feet, 90 miles north of the entry path. The debris was scattered through a 157,000-square-mile corridor about 1,250 miles east of New Zealand, where hobbits everywhere thought it was Sauron was coming back to eat them all deep-fried. [Aviation Week]

5:00 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jesus Diaz
10,012 views, 31 comments

Latest by PornoDaddy: all that money for NASA to fly that DC8 up there to capture this (or just happening to be in more »

turntables

$56,000 Four Arm Turntable is an Octopus DJ's Ticket to Fame

DJs or other beat mashing fiends with more than two arms are being held back by today's traditional turntables, so it's a good thing Highwater Sound is around to create $56,000 four arm Frankensteins like this thing. The table is built around a TW-Acoustic Raven AC and implements three motors. The arms were assembled from parts from Breuer Dynamic, Graham Engineering, Triplanar, and Ortofon, and the cartridges are the work of Dynavector, Ortofon, and Miyabi. We imagine that if you're a DJ, that last sentence caused the ol' heart rate to increase just a tad, among other things. [Highwater Sound via DVICE]

4:30 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jack Loftus
4,020 views, 24 comments

Latest by johnnyabnormal: @TorrentFox: Even funnier would be if the mix was split into 4 stems so you could hear each through it's more »

it's alive!

Computer Nearly Passes Turing Test for Artificial Intelligence

Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. The experiment is called the Turing Test, after mathematician Alan Turing, and Sunday's saw six Artificial Conversational Entities (ACEs) trying to ace the exam. Word is there was one human dunce in the mix, as all six computers managed to fool at least one interrogator into thinking they were speaking to another person, but none of the machines could officially pass Turing's strict standards. More »

4:00 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jack Loftus
12,956 views, 61 comments

Latest by iamnomad: Skynet now has your name nosauten. Damn, mine too. more »

airpod

AirPod is Like a Smart Car Full of Hot Air, and That's the Idea

This post is almost half a Retromodo, in that compressed air cars have been peddled by companies like MDI for the last 20 years. But this compressed air-powered pod, the AirPod, is all new. The three-seater is powered by MDI's proprietary compressed air system, which uses electricity to force the air to power the engine's pistons. The car might appear in U.S. cities by 2010, and possibly India and Europe a bit sooner. More »

3:30 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jack Loftus
5,331 views, 17 comments

Latest by urbanturban666: @zamafir: weighs allot less and is cheaper to maintian....its air... more »

cartel

CarTel Device Attacks Traffic Jams with Fleet of Networked Smart Cars

Researchers at MIT are using computer networks and cabbies to tackle a routine problem that I, personally, can attest to: Boston area traffic jams. Called CarTel (get it?), the system creates a network by way of cell phone-sized black boxes. The boxes currently sit on board 50 cars and taxis in the Boston area. Drivers access the CarTel web portal for real-time info on their own vehicle as well as those around them. "Everybody's data is contributing to collective views of what congestion looks like," said MIT associate professor Samuel Madden. More »

3:00 PM on Sun Oct 12 2008
By Jack Loftus
1,306 views, 10 comments

Latest by KypFox: @KoRnholio8: I have no idea what's wrong with ouzome there, but take it from someone who actually commutes; sitting in more »