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The HP veer has the same body-shape as the Palm Pre and Pre 2, but is smaller—the size of a credit card. It’s got a 2.6-inch screen, Flash, 5-megapixel camera and a slide-out keyboard. It’s HSPA+, which means it’s AT&T or T-Mobile. Tiny phone means tiny resolution—320 x 400—and we’ll have to see how tappable…
The Awl has a nice interview with Edward T. Hall III, a sensitive young man who made a splash in the news recently for trying to sneak past airport security by crawling on the luggage conveyor belt. But it’s OK! He was doing it for love! Or, more specifically, to make it on a flight…
Tomorrow, AT&T will offer free mobile to any mobile calling with an unlimited texting plan. That means any call you make to T-Mobile, Sprint, and all your friends who will ditch AT&T for Verizon should be free. Specific details will come out tomorrow (which coincidentally is Verizon iPhone Day). [AT&T via BGR] AT&T Introduces Unlimited…
Not to be confused with your laptop’s trackpad, the very highly anticipated (an soon to be officially official) webOS tablet will be called Touchpad. That’s according to PreCentral, who cleverly overheard a rehearsal in which the tablet was called by that name and identified as being 10 inches and 13mm thick—familiar dimensions to iPad owners.…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s EA fire sale, Capcom’s got some great $1 titles of its own—including Street Fighter IV (!), Resident Evil 4 (both iPhone and iPad), Phoenix Wright, and Devil May Cry 4 Refrain. No word on exactly how long the sale will last, but Touch Arcade suspects we’re looking at about…
You take a photo. But without advancing the film, you take another. Double exposure is a classic insta-art technique in the film world, but the results are possible to simulate in digital as well. The Challenge For this week’s Shooting Challenge, use film or digital to execute or simulate multiple exposure of a single frame.…
Who wants to ski over snow when you can ski down a gigantic sea wave? That’s what fearless pro freeskier Chuck Patterson asked himself before heading to Jaws, the terrifying wave reef on Maui Island, Hawaii. Skurfing looks like a lot of fun indeed. [YouTube via Kottke]
This is a clip of a young Steve Jobs appearing on a local TV show, it’s probably one of the first times he appeared on TV and it’s just awesome. But I can’t figure out what I like most about the video. Is it the lovely 70’s facial hair? The shock on his face and…
At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, scientists are building RoboEarth, a sort of Wikipedia for robots that will let them independently share instructions for tasks they’ve mastered. Needless to say, Oh shit! Dr Markus Waibel, a RoboEarth researcher, explains that a lack of standardization is keeping robots isolated and largely ineffective at…
It looks like one of Dell’s most beautiful (and one of the most portable!) laptops, the Adamo, is going to be officially killed off. People don’t like paying a lot for a little it seems. [CNET]
New York’s 110-year-old Willis Avenue Bridge was replaced last summer when a new 2400-ton bridge span was shipped 136 miles on two welded-together barges and installed between Manhattan and the Bronx. Watch this gorgeous time-lapse of the installation. [Jalopnik]
Buckingham Palace expressed that the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton won’t be broadcast in 3D as rumored. It was noted that the limited space and demand for 3D in the UK were among the deciding factors. ZDNet
President Obama is calling for $53 billion in funding for developing trains that travel at speeds of up to 250mph in a bid that follows his State of the Union speech about “winning the future.” [The Huffington Post]
A 20-year-old British woman died Tuesday after having a silicone illegally injected into her buttocks at a Hampton Inn in Philadelphia. Police are still determining the credentials of the women responsible for giving the enhancements.[Jezebel]
Photographer Todd McLellan likes taking things apart and revealing the dizzying bits that comprise our gear. I’d have never guessed so many tiny pieces could be stripped away from the thing—and when arranged so precisely, they’re quite gorgeous. McLellan has several prints in the same vein as this dissected Pentax—breaking down equipment into their smallest…
This fall, there’ll be a new version of Monopoly called Monopoly Live that places a 10-inch tower right in the middle of the board. Why? Because that tower controls every aspect of the game: it rolls the dice, it calculates rent, it knows whose turn it is and where your piece is on the board,…
A 7-year-old kid came closer to realize every kid’s dream than any of us: He bought a real Harrier fighter jet for $113,000 on eBay. Yes, a Harrier Jump Jet T-Bird Aircraft XW269. The whole shebang, weaponry not included. Sadly, his dreams were broken the same day, after his dad found out about the purchase…
The sting of China’s supercomputer dominance is still fresh, with the Tianhe-1A still laying claim to world’s most greatest. That is, until IBM’s Mira is completed. Because at 10 quadrillion calculations per second, she’ll be four times faster than Tianhe-1A. USA! USA! That is, assuming it hasn’t been leapfrogged by the time they actually build…
It’s not the pokes. It’s not the event invites. It’s not even Farmville. This, friends. This is the real reason we hate Facebook. And I feel totally justified. [The Doghouse Diaries]
If you’re a student at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, you don’t just go outside and look at the Swiss Alps—you build a continuous 720-degree spiral viewing platform out of which to view them. The viewing platform, dubbed the Evolver and constructed by the institute’s Alice Studio, required 24 wooden frames to be deposited…
