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It’s all rumor and speculation, but a picture paints a thousand internet links. This alleged HTC Touch HD is a fullscreen touch device with WVGA (800X480) resolution—essentially taking, say, the Touch Diamond‘s razor-sharp screen and making it longer. As another metric, if you think the iPhone looks nice, realize that screen runs in 480×320. Other…
Sony’s AW Laptop isn’t really meant for the average technology set, but its ocean of storage space, high quality screen and HDMI out seem to indicate it’s more for a designer who needs color accuracy, or a photographer who has to run through a lot of shots. And with a palm rest that matches the…
Sprint already confirmed some HTC goodness recently with the Touch Diamond, which drops in September, and today added the Touch Pro to their official lineup, available on October 19th for $300 with contract, deliciously un-gimped compared to the phone expected to hit Verizon. Sprint just officially announced that the HTC Touch Diamond and HTC Touch…
Humans make walking look easy, but that’s only because walking is a very efficient process in which our tendons and muscles work in conjunction to store and release 40% more energy than we exert. Obviously robots want in on this action. Oregon State University researchers have developed a leg that uses motors to drive a…
With yesterday’s refresh to Apple’s iPod line, it was hard not to feel at least a little deja vu. I’ve been following new iPod announcements—which often come more than once a year—since 2001, when the first iPod showed up in stores for an astronomical $399. In the iPod’s seven years, a sort of price mean…
If that headline made no sense to you, no worries. Carry on with your cushioned world of neutered iPhone apps. If it did, then you may be pleased to know that SlingPlayer Mobile is now available on Symbian phones running the UIQ interface. And just because we’re so thoughtful, we pasted the currently supported phones…
Everyone who has owned a cellphone over the last 10 years should at some point pour one out in thanks to Cliff Kushler, one of the inventors of the T9 text entry system that knows you mean “DONKEY” when you type 366539 in an SMS. Now Cliff is smartly shifting his focus on touchscreens with…
When The New Xbox Experience update hits at an unspecified time this fall, gamers will be able to install full titles to their system hard drives. And there’s no doubt—every game will load faster because of the faster transfer times compared to DVD. But some will see marked improvements while others will be moderate to…
Freedom isn’t free, my friends, so sooner or later you knew that you’d be paying for iTunes. In iTunes 8, Apple has disabled the option to turn off those little arrow links that point your music tracks to the iTunes Store. Upon upgrading, one of our readers suddenly found himself inundated with arrows, lost in…
Aircell, the company behind American Airlines and later Delta’s in-flight Wi-Fi services, has just signed up Air Canada to be the next airline to offer its passengers the web in the air via Gogo. They’ll soon begin fitting their Airbus A319s with the necessary gear, and the service will begin on select flights that cross…
If you tuned into Giz yesterday, you may have noticed, if you looked really hard, that Apple released a few new iPods. And if you are a college student, maybe you realized that since the new iPods were available as of yesterday, they slipped right in for Apple’s Back to School promotion (buy a new…
New York City fashion week may be a strange place to debut the average new laptop, but it’s very fitting for HP’s Vivienne Tam Special Edition machine. She was approached by HP to design them a new laptop, and she came up with something that’s apparently a “true reflection of the needs of a modern…
Sony Ericsson‘s upcoming Xperia X1 smartphone is due to go on sale at first in Europe in just 20 days. It’ll hit the streets in the UK, Germany and Sweden then, followed by many other countries throughout the remainder of 2008. To “start the countdown” SE will be launching a live global webcast on September…
A New York City school teacher that went missing almost two weeks ago was recently spotted at the 5th Ave Apple Store. Looks like 23-year-old Hannah Upp was just as obsessed over the Let’s Rock event as we were—only instead of pulling a disappearing act three days before the start of the school year, we…
Gearheads at Carnegie Mellon University are partnering up with tractor-maker Caterpillar to build the world’s largest robotic dump truck, a 700-ton ground mover capable of hauling 240 tons of earth. In case you can’t wrap your head around that amount, that’s like 33 African bull elephants worth of dirt. The trucks are completely driver-less, and…
Looks like iTunes 8 is really not playing so well with Windows. Users of both 32-bit and 64-bit Vista are reporting getting the blue screen of death whenever they plug in an iPod or iPhone. Downgrading back down to 7.7 appears to solve the problem, but not without some weird, but easily fixable, app-erasing hijinks.…
The BlackBerry Storm / Thunder, which should be coming to Verizon sometime in November for $199, has finally been caught on video! At roughly 2:55, BREW Ninja whips out the touchscreen-y smartphone and shows off some of its apparently underwhelming (to him, at least) features-an accelerometer, a screen that functions as a button, and an…
RIM just got official on its BlackBerry Pearl Flip (aka the Kickstart). Still a kinda clumsy-looking piece, the Pearl Flip is just like the candybar Pearls, but you know, fliptastic, with an an external display for previewing incoming texts, emails and phone calls. Watch for it at T-Mobile soon. RIM Introduces the First BlackBerry Flip…
Apparently some Vudu beta testers are being asked to check out new HD downloads that are supposed to match Blu-ray quality. These new HDX flicks are so data heavy, you’ve gotta wait two to three hours just for the flick to start. This actually jibes with what we heard a few months ago-that Vudu was…
China’s HiVision has debuted a Linux-based laptop that makes the OLPC seem ridiculously expensive. For $98, you get a MIPS-based processor, 1GB flash storage, 3 USB ports, Ethernet, an SDHC card reader, WiFi, audio in and out, voice-chat and Firefox browser support on a Linux user interface. No word who this is being marketed towards,…
