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From November 21 to December 28, the fourth annual Wired Store will open its doors to the public in New York City. They will be displaying more than 150 items including the latest electronics, toys and transportation, which could be purchased online beginning November 20. The Wired Store will also recognize four different charities, and…
JD Power and Associates have awarded the iPhone the top spot in their annual survey measuring overall customer satisfaction among business wireless smartphone users. On a scale of 1000 (measured by five key factors in order of importance: ease of operation, operating system, physical design, handset features, and battery aspects) Apple’s iPhone scored a 778,…
Heads-Up Displays, or HUDs, are what you see in front of you when you play first-person video games. You know, it shows you stuff like your health, the map and your inventory, allowing you to have all that pertinent data in front of you at all times. But why leave it for video games? Why…
While AT&T U-Verse lags far, far behind Verizon FIOS in the insane bandwidth race, the boost to 18Mbps downstream for the top tier U-Verse package that starts Nov. 9 nearly doubles the relatively pokey 10Mbps they offered. To put it in perspective though, Verizon has an upstream package that still goes faster than that. And…
Sound & Vision has painstakingly gone through every speaker in the whole wide world and named the best in every class. Some of you will be interested in all of the results, and you should most certainly check out the excellent article. Me? I want to know the cheapest (and coincidentally the smallest) surround sound…
My kind of aesthetic: these half-LCD, half brushed metal watches that get the tech-futurism across without bashing you over the head with binary-encoded time, 60 LEDs, etc. They’re available in four colors on Etsy, the eBay for homemade goods, directly from the designer in a run of 500 for $185 each, which isn’t bad at…
As you know, the allure of Rube Goldberg-style contraptions is well documented. There is just something captivating about watching a ball make its way down a complicated track. If you agree, than you will certainly find something to enjoy in OObjects list of 15 rolling ball sculpture videos. It features everything from commercial kits to…
At the same Web 2.0 Summit where AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega said that 3G tethering was coming to the iPhone, he’s just confirmed that Android is coming to AT&T in December. Update 1: Okay, so Android is a yes, December is a no. That was just TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington messing with Brian…
HTC has always known their biggest weakness: Windows Mobile. They’ve done their best to hide the aged interface in glossy costumes and bolster performance, but they can only do so much—the OS is slow, buggy and can drain battery life on certain hardware. Luckily, Windows Mobile responds well to per-device modification. A dedicated community of…
Click to view If you ever wondered how it looks to obliterate a group of alleged terrorists from an unmanned air vehicle, this video is your answer. What you see here is a group of people trying to put together an improvised explosive device in Iraq, only to be vaporized by a Hellfire missile launched…
AT&T has confirmed what was once rumor. Laptop tethering is coming to the iPhone. At the Web 2.0 Summit today, AT&T Mobility President/CEO Ralph De La Vega has said that wireless modem tethering will be available “soon.” That’s all we know for now, but more details as they come in, of course. [Technologizer]
A startup company named ‘Catch the Wind’ has developed a product that could increase the efficiency of wind turbines by up to ten percent. Currently, wind turbines lose one percent of their operating efficiency for every degree that the blades are out of alignment with the oncoming wind. The ‘Vindicator’ fiber-optic laser system can sense…
I long for the days of pops and hisses and scratches of turntables and analog sound. Nah, I lied. I’m too lazy for vinyl, unless we are talking about vinyl bras. And while most of you probably haven’t ever seen a long play, if you want to buy yet another piece of craptabolous plastic that…
While having Wi-Fi everywhere is a great way to offload traffic from its 3G network, AT&T’s hard Wi-Fi push strikes me as a little anachronistic. Shouldn’t we be talking about super fast, ubiquitous 3G, 4G even? Its $275 million pickup of Wi-Fi provider Wayport now gives AT&T customers Wi-Fi access at McDonald’s, Four Seasons, Marriott…
Designer Rolf Sachs has teamed up with watchmaker Fortis to develop the limited-edition IQ blackboard-style watch. Math nerds will surely love it—especially the glow in the dark hands and markings. Unfortunately, the dreaded “art premium” is tacked on to the price of this watch, so it may be out of the reach of many professor’s…
At long last, Virgin America is finally bringing in-flight wireless internet access to its flights. On November 22, a beta flight above San Francisco will be the first to test the service, with it then rolling out to more flights after that at a rate of one per week. The plan is to have Wi-Fi…
Everybody had a method in college to warn their roommates to stay the hell away when you were lucky enough to con someone into coming home with you. Be it a sock on the doorknob, shoes outside the door or a gigantic X on your whiteboard, it had to be clear enough to get the…
At Australian carrier Telstra’s annual investment day, Steve Ballmer did what he does best: talk crap about the competition. The target? Android. “I don’t really understand their strategy. Maybe somebody else does.” You see, it doesn’t make any money, and that’s why it baffles him. It actually kind of baffles me that it baffles him,…
Phone Arena looks to have leaked a slew of upcoming Samsung phones, and they don’t look half bad. That budget-looking clamshell (Alltel, SCH-R600 Hue II) will feature removable covers and a 2MP camera, while the more premium-looking SGH-A777 is an AT&T slider with a modest 1.3MP camera. OK, now that we have those specs out…
In the growing pile of reasons why Windows 7 will be a thousand times better than Vista, Microsoft has reported internal power specifications in which they tested an identical laptop playing back DVDs to battery failure. All things equal, the Vista configuration pulled 17.9W of power, while the Windows 7 machine pulled just 13.4W. It…