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Facebook has posted a huge preview of the next version of its iPhone app. Due in September, Facebook for iPhone 2.0 will look and feel a lot more like the real Facebook. The News Feed will be exactly the same and profiles will use tabs and the combined Wall/Mini-Feed from the site’s latest redesign. Perhaps…
This phone, inspired by the multiple layers of wooden sandwich in plywood, is of multiple slider design. Inside, and separated by tabs, are a printer, projector, gamepad and sliding downward, a dialpad. It’s as cool as it is impossible to build, and so KDDI labs should feel proud for making an imaginary device with so…
While Comcast’s new network management scheme-to slow down heavy bandwidth users’ entire connection–started back in June, we’re just getting some of the grislier details. People hitting their pipe hard-whether it’s watching a boatload of streaming video or FTP or whatever-will see their top speeds cut for 10 to 20 minutes at a time. Under the…
A man in Utah shot himself in the chest with a hunting rifle and died while his ex-girlfriend watched over a webcamera. Watching a loved one hurt themselves has to be terrible, but watching over the internet, helpless to stop it, has to be a lot worse. Terrible. If you struggle with suicidal thoughts please…
By surrounding its thin (and hopefully sturdy) steel legs with movable blocks, the somewhat cleverly named UnsTable creates the illusion that it’s on the verge of collapsing. The novelty would probably wear off pretty quickly, and the table doesn’t have a great deal of mileage as a prank device. I mean, you’ve got to lure…
Following up on rumorage that pre-sales for the HTC Dream/G1 would start Sept. 17, TmoWorld says they’ve got the full skinny on T-Mobile’s Android debut party: Supposedly, pre-orders will be online only for eligible post-paid customers-lasting through Oct. 3-who will get the phone on Oct. 13, the public launch day. TmoWorld says the subsidized price…
Enticed by those tricky ads, Alabama resident Jessica Smith rushed out to get one faster than the iPhone 3G’s Google Maps could tell her where to go. After a month of it being slower than she expected, only able to touch 3G 25 percent of the time and an “inordinate amount of dropped calls,” Ars…
Wii Music, Nintendo’s “answer” to the music and rhythm games, is considered by many (including us) as one of the worst things Nintendo has ever put out. Good thing Sarcastic Gamer of Wii Fit and Microsoft Surface parody fame is on the job. Even though the general tech audience has resigned themselves to the fact…
Ars has the first solution we’ve heard for the app-crashing problem bad enough Steve himself said Apple was working on it. Tests by Jaime Hosticka, who used to work for Apple, show that downgrading to iTunes 7.7 fixes the crashies for some people. He also got a more detailed email response from Steve Jobs-six whole…
I’m not quite sure where the name “Kayak” came from because it obviously does not resemble a small boat, but this speaker from Sonance is still a unique looking piece of equipment. The system was designed by the gurus at NACSound and they claim that the Kayak offers stereophonic sound from a single speaker (like…
I’m not sure if the Peek emailer is a great idea or a stupid one. Basically, the Peek is a stripped down handheld device with a QWERTY keyboard that does nothing but handle your email. The shaky logic behind the device is research that shows roughly 90% of email users are not checking their email…
For those of you who like to take a gadget apart to see how it works, the folks behind the CNN.cn store have done a thorough job of dissecting the new BlackBerry Bold. They even offer handy tips on how to do it yourself—if you are stupid curious enough to do that sort of thing.…
Only a month or so after announcing intentions to dabble in the SoC game for embedded systems, Intel’s showing off its first iteration at the Intel Developers Forum. The CE 3100 (previously known as “Canmore” in Intel speak) combines HD video processing, “home theater quality” audio and 3D graphics with the internet connectedness to run…
A week from today the Mythbusters say they’re going to tackle “one of the biggest myths of all”: that the moon landing was a hoax. Um, isn’t it the other way around? Waaay more people seem to think we took a tin can, loaded it up with rocket fuel and successfully shot ourselves to the…
Brazilian blog Zumo unearthed these pics of the Classmate Tablet PC at IDF, but the touchscreen netbook apparently isn’t the Classmate 3.0. Zumo says this is a Classmate 2.0 in tablet form. The touchscreen netbook will have a 1.6 GHz Atom Processor, SSD, 8.9-inch screen, SD card slot, 2 USB Ports, and VGA out. Details,…
Having easy access to your office 24 hours a day can be both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, you will never miss a beat. On the other, it may seem like you are always stuck at work. With that in mind, check out the T6 concept workaholicmobile designer Alexander Zhukovsky has…
Obviously, one of the biggest advantages to owning a flat panel TV is that it is usually light enough and thin enough to be wall-mounted. It reduces clutter and it makes the TV less of an eyesore when it is placed in a tastefully decorated room. For those reasons, I prefer a wall-mounted TV over…
Palm’s Treo Pro was announced today, and we just got one for ourselves. The most noticeable thing about it is how small and light and shiny it is for a Palm phone. As a comparison, it sits between the BlackBerry Curve and the iPhone in terms of size. Could this be the king of the…
New York City is testing a small batch of LED streetlights that redesign not only the light, but the entire lamppost as well. With current bulbs rated for about 24,000 hours, the new LED models, which rate for between 50,000 and 70,000 hours, would be a huge improvement. In addition to lasting longer, the LEDs…
The BlackBerry Bold has been out in Chile and Germany and drops in Canada tomorrow, so as much as analysts talk out of their ass, Citigroup analyst Jim Suva might not just be blowing hot air when he says that the Bold is plagued by the same 3G connection issues as the iPhone 3G (though…
