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A new design, a new place to get answers, and tons of new gear – it’s been a busy couple weeks at Uncrate. Here’s what’s new. This week at Uncrate: We celebrate the launch of Uncrate Answers, a new place for men to seek and share information, cook up some breakfast on Lodge Pre-Seasoned Cast…
Some folks on the MSI Wind forums are reporting a huge increase in battery life for hacktintosh netbooks after upgrading to 10.5.7. Why would Apple care about power management on Atom-based hardware? Dunno! https://gizmodo.com/mac-os-x-10-5-7-released-5251147 Of course, this could be a symptom of wider software optimizations or just a false alarm altogether. If it’s true though,…
CNET got their hands on a Memorex TouchMP, an 8GB, $100 touchscreen PMP. And they really liked it. From the review: The TouchMP isn’t going to be mistaken for an iPhone anytime soon, but Memorex does a surprisingly good job keeping the onscreen interface simple, legible, and intuitive…The Memorex TouchMP is the first MP3 player…
The meticulous folks at gadgetell dug through the contest rules of an upcoming Sprint-sponsored Palm Pre giveaway. And according to the fine print, the Pre is valued at $542.01 without subscription subsidies. Surely this fact was listed only for tax purposes, but it’s interesting to note all the same because Pre buyers who back out…
Sony’s posted a full-year loss for the first time in 14 years—98.9 billion yen ($1 billion)—fulfilling doomy prophecies—which was better than expected. Sony thinks next year will be worse. https://gizmodo.com/sony-looks-set-to-lose-1-1-billion-in-fiscal-2008-5130127 What a very unhappy birthday week. Its original charter, with the credo,”we must avoid problems which befall large corporations,” and the drive to “create and…
Fujitsu opened this year’s Fujitsu Forum conference by kicking Intel squarely in the groin, debuting a new processor that’s 2.5 times faster than anything the CPU giant has on offer, and one third as power-hungry. Called the SPARC64 VIIIfx (sexy codename: “Venus”), this eight-cored slab of processor can crunch a staggering 128 gigaflops. This is…
If you are a blogger and want to sell a subscription to your blog, now you can sign up for the Kindle Publishing for Blogs beta program. Amazon will convert your full RSS in a Kindle-friendly stream and put it up for sale in their store. Right now, blog monthly subscriptions are $2. Of that…
It wasn’t popular in the US, but in Europe it was huge during the 80s. Black, sleek, slippery when wet, rainbowy. I loved its rubber keyboard. Just like the new Boing Boing Gadgets‘ redesign. [BBG]
Oh, those White House press corps kids and their baggie pants and rap music and ringing cellphones. You can tell that—behind that smile—principal Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is pissed off. [Thanks OMGPonies]
Yes boys and girls, this tapered sliver of a machine really is an Eee PC. And it’s really a netbook. It’s $429. Here are the specs: https://gizmodo.com/this-gorgeous-laptop-is-actually-an-asus-eee-5164085 It feels like it’s from a third generation of netbook—at first you had the crappy 7-inchers, then larger, better models like from HP and Dell, and now you…
Most of us haven’t grown up to possess our own dragon, settling for the mundanity of riding a mid-class Ford, Hyundai or Toyota to work. What if I said that can all change for you? (What if I just exaggerated a bit for effect?) The German-crafted Steam-Powered Dragon is powered by a nickel-plated brass boiler…
In an effort to scoop up some of those people who are tethered to their current webmail services by nothing except the sheer inconvenience of switching, Google has implemented easy migration tools for straggling Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users. The service does their current POP3 import feature one better, grabbing contacts as well. The feature…
During an otherwise dry TechED conference panel about Windows Mobile 6.5 development, Senior Project Manager Loke Uei Tan made a surprising admission: 6.5’s semi-vaunted new interface was severely rushed, and isn’t even finished. UPDATED From his mouth: The reason why we couldn’t complete the interface on Windows Mobile 6.5 is because of time. We only…
From June 1st, customers of Vodafone, the world’s second largest wireless carrier, will be able to text and call from over 35 countries at no extra charge. Attention American carriers: Be more like this. The service, called “Passport”, will be available as a three-month summer trial for UK subscribers, and can be activated for free.…
Dredged from the Far East of the blogosphere and spreading rapidly, these photos are said to be of a new, smaller version of the PS3. They’re plentiful and clear, but could they be real? UPDATED https://kotaku.com/are-these-the-first-pics-of-the-ps3-slim-5253475 Sony has a history of miniaturizing their game systems after a while, as in the cases of the PS2…
To seasoned Woot veterans: You know what to do. To everyone else: There’s cheap stuff here, for a limited time. [Woot!]
Despite Asus’ earlier announcement, Toshiba is the first manufacturer to bring a laptop with a 512GB SSD to market. The 12.1″ screened laptop also boasts a 12-hour battery in a svelte body. We want. Badly. https://gizmodo.com/asus-s121-netbook-packs-a-512gb-ssd-optional-5124921 The Toshiba Dynabook SS-RX2, anchored with a Core 2 Duo proc, is less than 25mm thick and weighs less…
All the details leaked out a few days ago, and now Verizon’s officially announced the 10.1″ netbook and its sorta-pricey plan. It’ll be available online and in stores May 17th. [Boy Genius Report] https://gizmodo.com/hp-mini-netbook-on-verizon-to-launch-may-17th-alongsid-5247349
But I think we’re clear on the sound quality front. The HifiMAN HM-801 is a digital audio player, yes, but its modular design allows for a portable amp to be popped right inside. The lower half of the player is taken by a removable Burr-Brown amplifier, but can be easily removed and replaced with another…
Using the front screen of 52-inch rear-projection Mitsubishi TV as their drawing board, here’s a fully-working Etch A Sketch that can hopefully be controlled by doodlers over the Internet some day soon. Besides the backlit TV, makers Fatman and Circuit Girls also use $9 Harbor Freight drills for the twisty knobs, screen-door pulleys and tent…
