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You’ve got pockets, Canon’s got cameras for ’em. The PowerShot ELPH 500 HS is the touchscreen-sporting successor to the affordable low-light champ SD4000 IS, and the SX230 HS has 14x optical zoom and GPS to keep you all orientated. The 12.1MP PowerShot Elph 500 HS picks up on the promise of the SD4000 IS: respectable…
Media mergers and acquisitions are usually not our bag. (Booooorrring.) But AOL just swallowed the Huffington Post for $315 million. I just wanted to warn you guys. You could be next! [HuffPo, NYT]
The Motorola Xoom sure has a lot of whizbang stuff inside: Crazy dual-core processors! Nvidia graphics! HD camcorder! 1GB RAM! Front camera! 3G that’s somehow magically upgradeable to 4G! But, uh, it’s eight hundred dollars. And it gets worse. The worse being fine print in the leaked Best Buy ad that says: To activate WiFi…
That strangely off-putting Android ad with the human thumbs was trying to tell us something after all, people. Mainly, that the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play phone is arriving soon. Soon, as in February 13th. OK, so maybe it’s actually the company’s Facebook page that told me this. But the ad ran again this evening during…
First it was there and then it was gone: The mysterious white iPhone 4, seemingly as rare as a completed Green Bay Packers 2nd half pass, was spotted in placard form at a Houston Best Buy. The link has long since been taken down, but the images remain, courtesy a tipster over at Engadget. Price?…
Allergic to iPad? Do not stay at The Plaza Hotel in New York City! Every room has one, you see, and the entire 5-star stay would most likely be ruined by your sour mood! For those of you with plenty of dough and an insatiable lust for these 10-inch tablets, however, here’s some additional info…
Water conservationists (most of us, right?) will likely love this design out of Yonggu Do, Dohyung Kim & Sewon Oh. The conceptual faucet only gives the user a liter-sized burst before forcing them to wait for the reservoir to refill. Aptly named the One Liter Limited faucet, this conceptual water-dispenser dolls out just enough water…
Lovers of failure, train your ears on this fine list of failing hard drive sounds that Boing Boing discovered this weekend. Hard drive lovers, perhaps you should just move along. [Data Cent via Boing Boing, Image: Flickr]
Why even watch the game? All the hotly anticipated Super Bowl advertisements leak early nowadays. Like this one, from up-and-coming community buying powerhouse Groupon: Updated. Groupon regulars will no doubt appreciate the ad’s humor, much as they do the clever ways its copywriters promote the products featured on the site. Other people, stuffier people, might…
A grainy, slightly blurry update for last year’s HTC Desire—otherwise known generally as a leak—was spied this weekend in someone’s hand as well as in the inventory listings of Vodafone Germany. What’s new here? The screen is allegedly Super AMOLED (resolution not known) and the software onboard is Android 2.3.1. The tactile buttons seen on…
Advocates argue that 3D is totally the future, it just needs to be a bit more convenient and glasses-free—you’ll see! Unfortunately for these advocates, Toshiba’s latest numbers are not helping the cause, at least in the near-term. Toshiba, if you’ll recall, was the first major manufacturer to sell a glasses-free set to consumers back in…
Designer Jon Eicher‘s Military Grade iPhone 4 Case looks like it may be one of the few cases whose tough looks and promises of protection might actually live up to the hype. Updated. This one-of-a-kind $99 case, you see, is comprised of a variety of military-grade shock absorption and vibration-reducing materials (Military Standard 810-G to…
The iPad 2 launch is imminent, of this we can be sure, but time and date have thus far avoided the usual rumor-mongering channels. Until now? Updated. Citing a Saturday report from the previously accurate macotakara.jp, AppleInsider reports that the latest Apple tablet will arrive at a low-key launch event sometime in March. Whether this…
From the way people are already drooling over tonight’s tweetable, social media-savvy Super Bowl ads, you would be forgiven for thinking that the famed Lombardi Trophy will be awarded to an ad agency, instead of the usual football-playing recipient. But it’s not! Sporting event integrity, saved. Nevertheless, the annual Super Bowl ad buzz is again…
The folks at Inner City Bikes put a fixie and a unicycle into a dark, sexy room, played some light jazz and let nature happen. Out popped this minimalist, chain-less bike. Practical? We’ll see, but she’s certainly a looker. Now, whether that look you’re giving is one of love or disgust probably depends on your…
Watch very closely as the camera pans around this landscape and try to locate the horde of soldiers—twenty? thirty?—hiding in plain sight. Apparently, some people in the military need no stinking magic cloaking technology to become invisible. [Thanks Karl!]
Don’t ask me why but Nike has decided to release a pair of Zoom Kobe VI 3D for the upcoming All-Star Game. People, 3D televisions, movies, and commercials are NOT enough! We need 3D everywhere! Check it out: Yes, that’s a stitched pair of 3D glasses on the inside of the tongue. Aaaaand a THREE…
An F-16 taxiing on the ground while a B-1B bomber accelerates to take off on a nearby runway results in one of the most ridiculous and comical airplane accidents I’ve ever seen. The video saw the light for the first time last Thursday—discovered by Stephen Trimble at The Dew Line. According to the comments, the…
Recently an updated version of the the Greenpois0n tool became available for Mac users and allowed for untethered jailbreaking of iOS 4.2.1 devices. Now Windows users are finally able to get in on the fun as well. As Engadget points out, the official Greenpois0n website is not able to keep up with the volume of…
Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that suppressing a single hormone may eliminate the need for insulin injections and may make the condition completely asymptomatic. Truth is, there’s still a ways to go in “curing” type 1 diabetes since the researchers only conducted lab tests with mice. But they found that suppressing the…
