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Fresh from the Mobile World Congress, here’s the latest on Sony Ericsson’s brand new Vivaz Pro, including white hot rear shots! The phone is an update on the Vivaz line, adding a QWERTY slide-out keypad, 720p video recording, and a 720Mhz processor. The 3.2-inch screen has touch, and the aforementioned video-capable cam boasts 8.2 megapixels.…
Hmm. Maybe we should let the robot overlords take over a few things. Like solving our Rubik’s Cubes using nothing but Lego. I’m cool with this, especially if they do it as fast as this robot, and with trance music. The robo solver is run by Lego Mindstorm, just like the ARM-powered one we saw…
The X10 was Sony Ericsson’s first Android phone and had really decent specs, yet failed to impress us. Dumbing it down and adding a “Mini” and “Mini Pro” tag doesn’t sound too promising. https://gizmodo.com/sony-ericsson-xperia-x10-hands-on-why-arent-my-pants-o-5407805 They’re both on sale in the second quarter of 2010, and run Android 1.6, with a 2.6-inch touchscreen and 5.0-megapixel camera…
Mobile World Congress isn’t just about smartphones and dumbphones. Oh no. Samsung’s going to be showing off a 4G netbook, a version of the N510 which we first caught wind of last August. https://gizmodo.com/samsung-n510-ion-netbook-arriving-next-month-for-599-5334738 Samsung’s been showing off 4G demos since 2006, with plans to roll our products in 2010. It’s now the second month…
It was hardly a well-kept secret by any stretch of the imagination, but at MWC Samsung’s Wave S8500 has raised its head. It’s running the new Bada OS, and has one of those 3.3-inch SUPER AMOLED screens we saw before. https://gizmodo.com/samsungs-touchscreen-amoled-phone-shown-off-ahead-of-bi-5466561 The SUPER AMOLED screen is a 3.3-inch capacitive job, with an 800 x 480…
There was love in the air at the atomic level over at the University of Birmingham’s Nanoscale Physics Research Laboratory this week, where Palladium atoms placed on a carbon base spontaneously formed into an eight nanometer heart. [Physorg]
No pics or concrete release date to speak of on this item at the moment, but we do know that Samsung will introduce a 10-inch Chrome OS-powered netbook sometime in 2010. And the specs? Specs! Here: – 10.1 inch screen – 2GB RAM – 64GB flash storage – similar in design to the N210 (pictured)…
Sure, online checking accounts are but a mouse click away, but that’s how the Facebook crowd does banking. I want the future. Real-time Rainbows End type banking, with account information presented on the card itself, for all to see. The designers say the tech powering the card would be e-ink and RFID. One displays your…
I know next to nothing about this oversize Lego minifig-shaped solar flashlight, other than it appeared in the official Lego booth at the 2010 Nuremberg Toy Fair. I assume the discerning Lego collector would illuminate their darkened home with nothing less. Also, AC adapter charging brick…get it? [Hobby Media – Thanks, Francesco]
The world’s largest production OLED TV is headed Stateside later this year, said LG reps at the ISE-2010 LG Electronics show this week. LG is aiming for mid-2010, with an expected stratospheric $2,500 price tag. Presumably, given what LG has said on the subject, the 15-inch EL9500 would be a precursor to the 19- and…
Remember the Google Nexus One‘s “sorely needed” 3G reception fix? Remember how Google promised a quick fix? Yes? Well, Happy Valentine’s Day! A solution has tentatively arrived in the form of a leaked firmware upgrade. https://gizmodo.com/sorely-needed-nexus-one-3g-fix-coming-in-the-next-week-5457412 But don’t get *too* excited just yet, dear readers. While the firmware update does appear to address the Nexus…
So the preceding tweet from Office for Mac’s official Twitter account asked for Macworld attendees to swing by the Microsoft booth and say “I love Office for Mac,” but to an uninformed reader, that reads like something else entirely. [ChrisPhin]
Though the dust has hardly started to settle after the privacy shitstorm that immediately followed the launch of Google Buzz—Google claiming it was going to untangle Buzz from Gmail and then denying that it had any such intentions didn’t help matters—the Don’t Be Evildoers have in fact made some tweaks to the system. Here’s what’s…
Planning on dumping your dame (or dude) anytime soon? Make every future Valentine’s Day extra special for your ex by giving them a breakup memory they’ll never forget! Here are a few high tech ways to get the message across. Check out the original post and more great stuff on the Scordit blog. Based in…
The good people at MobileMag got a chance to review the new Addonics pocket NAS 2.0 NAS2XU2, and they report that for the price and the size, it’s worthy of your attention. You guys showed some interest when we got our first look at the NAS2XU2 back in November, and MobileMag reports that by and…
The old videophone sci-fi concept is now portable wireless reality, and it’s not just politicians and celebrities who are doing naughty things in front of cameras. Our resident love doctor explains if and when it’s okay to bring it up. Far too many people have had their sex lives exposed thanks to sex tapes—and not…
Not a day goes by that I don’t lament my inability to hook up my Blackberry to a full-size monitor and keyboard. OK, I’ve never actually thought that, but the REDFLY dock from Celio can pull it off regardless. In a new demonstration video, Celio shows off their REDFLY Moab, a small box that gives…
Last week we saw a neat concept for a wall that employed spinning triangular panels to change its appearance. Hungarian designer István Kulinyi’s Mobil Pixel Lamp employs the same general idea, except it’s a lamp. And it’s real. https://gizmodo.com/why-paint-your-room-when-you-can-get-a-color-changing-w-5467015 Inspired by the pixels you’re looking at right now, Kulinyi’s lamp comprises a five by five…
Analog means more than digital. It’s real, for one thing. Something real is maimed in the process of recording. And it’s slow. Pulp doesn’t teleport, like bits. If you write somebody a letter, you mean it. Bits are circumspect, at best. They’re alterable. Transient. Intangible. Destructible. A letter that’s typed is smashed onto paper, one…
Wayne Coyne, frontman of the acclaimed rock band The Flaming Lips, recently renovated his Oklahoma compound, and the new space gives the group’s music a run for its money in terms of psychedelic flair, playful construction, and sheer imagination. The last we saw of Coyne, he was, naturally, sitting in a bathtub on Google Street…
