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If you thought OLEDs were thin already, researchers at the Universal Display Corporation (whose factory we visited last year) have made a flexible display that’s positively anorexic. The ultra-thin metal foil screen is less than 50 micrometers thin, which means it’s even thinner than a sheet of A4 paper. The UDC folks also claimed that…
If you have a Drobo, the storage robot that takes care of your hard drives so you don’t have to worry about reliability—or so they say—you will be interested in the new applications for the platform. Called DroboApps, they will convert your Drobo into a web server, an iTunes media server, a BitTorrent client, or…
We took a look at Asus’s Eee S101 today, and as predicted, it’s the prettiest looking netbook we’ve seen since the birth of the category. It’s 2.2 lbs., extremely light and thin, and the chrome finish on the trackpad area is much better looking than the generic plastic of similar models. The 10.2-inch matte screen…
Good news for BlackBerry users and developers! Research In Motion has just announced an applications store! Bad news for BlackBerry users and developers! It’s not going to be available until March 2009. This sure won’t help the fact that the iPhone is outselling the Blackberry and Android is quickly becoming Apple’s major rival in the…
Don’t get me wrong, the limited edition gun-metal grey PS3 was badass and everything, but as you can see, this MGS4 tribute is on an entirely different level. Crafted by Morpheon Mods—aka, our buddy Ramon who was responsible for many, many other console mods—the entire console and controller is a combination of carbon fiber and…
Maybe you didn’t even realize that the hallowed Exilim EX-F1 super-slow-mo cam got a little brother, the new $600 EX-FH20. We finally got to check it out today and it’s definitely a winner. Slightly slimmer than it’s pricier counterpart, it also has a cleaner UI making it easier for a novice to use. 1000fps slo-mo…
Okay, not really, my desktop won’t fit in my bathroom, but you people really are disgusting. At least according to a survey sponsored by Nokia, 53 percent of Americans have taken a work-related call or email in the bathroom. (Our own results were actually worse.) It doesn’t reveal exactly what else they were doing in…
So you may have noticed, dear commenters, that when you move onto the second page of comments, they’re mostly collapsed. What’s the deal with that? Well, now, when you move onto the second page of comments, the only expanded comments will be those written by star commenters and those written by your friends. Want more…
Many of us are pretty happy with touchscreen implementation in products like the iPhone or HTC Touch. But Microsoft (teaming with HTC hardware, at least in this photograph) has developed a new sort of touchscreen that doesn’t involve touching the screen at all. Instead, IR beams shoot out from the sides of the phone and…
When asked about netbooks during his “special guest” appearance on Apple’s quarterly earnings call, at first Steve Jobs seemed pretty down on the whole category, saying that there are “not a lot of them getting sold,” and Apple’s “entrance into that category” is the iPhone. But then he admitted that Apple is going to “wait…
Even though the great state of West Virginia is only at threat level orange for having the closest thing the average American has to a voice tampered with, in at least three counties, voters have complained that when they tried to vote for Barack Obama, the touchscreen voting machine cast their vote for John McCain.…
I’ll admit—it is not unusual to feel a little anxiety when your cellphone is dying. However, breaking into a stranger’s home to charge it is a sign that you have a serious dependency on your gadgets. It could also mean that you are high and/or a complete moron. It appears that 24 year old Scott…
I have this thing about instruction manuals. For some reason, I refuse to look at it when setting up a new gadget no matter how complicated things are. I break down eventually when I get stuck, but there is no reason why I shouldn’t go to it right off the bat and save some time.…
Though Apple’s live broadcast of its fourth quarter earnings doesn’t start for another few minutes, they’ve already dumped the numbers on us. Here are the important ones: 6.9 million iPhones, 2.6 million Macs, and 11 million iPods. Wryly noting that “we sold more phones than RIM,” Steve Jobs says they’re still not sure how the…
Before the wireless instruments came bundled in Rock Band 2, users needed to utilize a 4-port USB hub to connect all of the instruments. It was inconvenient, but no big deal. That was, until one user had his adapter catch fire randomly after being plugged in for just ten minutes. Had he left the system…
Eve Tahmincioglu, a career columnist for MSNBC is questioning whether or not Circuit City’s decision to fire 3,400 of their highest-paid clerks and replace them with lower-paid substitutes last year had a major impact on their recent decline. Let’s face it, customer service in Circuit City is far from stellar, and ditching highly qualified personnel…
At least a few people who got their T-Mobile G1 in the mail today—one day before the official launch—are having issues activating the data plan with their SIM card. One person was told by customer service that they simply couldn’t use it until tomorrow, although T-Mobile PR has assured us that’s not the case, and…
The specifics have not been announced, but Sprint will finally join Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T in pro-rating their early termination fees starting as early as December. That means the fee drops each month you spend with the service instead of paying a flat $200. [Physorg]
Is your life completely devoid of meaning? Are you so unable to motivate yourself that you require some quotation from a famous person that was taken out of context to sound more general and vague, therefore more relatable to weak-brained schlubs such as yourself? You make me sick. Oh, and here’s a gadget for you:…
I was immediately drawn to this E-Ink cellphone concept by Anthony Reed—probably because it’s so shiny. And for a moment, I was completely sold. That was, until I realized that the buttons were stagnant, not necessarily designed for constantly altered layouts but instead resembling any old run of the mill handset. Still, the concept really…