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Okay, the S60 actually has two buttons: power and the shutter. Everything else is done on the massive 3.5-inch touchscreen, but a lot of the functions are actually automagical-auto-scene selection, one-touch portrait zooming, which automatically zooms in and frames a portrait, and an autofocus and exposure lock. The camera also comes with a stylus for…
Rounding out Nikon’s fall point-and-shoot lineup-feast your eyes on the headliners above-we’ve got four other pieces of camera newness: •The S710 crams 14.5-megapixels into a tiny body. Sounds like a recipe for noise stew, but it’ll do up to ISO 12,800 at a resolution of 3MP (maybe 3MP of white fuzzies, but still). The 28-101mm…
If you’re interested in the recently announced Lenovo IdeaPad S10, and you’re in the US, we hope you like Windows XP. The US market won’t get the Linux option the rest of the sub-notebook’s customers will, but any self-respecting Linux user would wipe the drive and put their own favorite flavor on, right? [IT World]…
Forget the OLPC laptop, MIT’s new hotness is the $12 desktop computer for developing countries based roughly on the NES. The goal is to create an equivalent of the Apple II from the ’80s for less fortunate students across the world, likely to complement the OLPC laptop initiative. The designers imagine schools with computer labs…
The Night Coaster is a small device you keep on your bedside table to host anything you might need during the night, like eyeglasses or your cigarettes or keys for the handcuffs. The neat bit is that it has a motion sensor that makes the coaster glow as you reach over to it, but not…
A June 29, 2006 Slate piece by Reihan Salam reflects on futurism and had some fascinating insights. An excerpt appears below. Even so, it’s not fair to say that all futurism is misguided. Just most of it. In his 1976 Time essay “Is There Any Future in Futurism?” Stefan Kanfer wrote that you could divide…
If you’ve been wanting an iPhone 3G but haven’t had any lucking finding one in stock, your waiting might be over. According to Apple’s iPhone 3G inventory tracking tool every Apple store in the US has the new iPhone in stock as of today. As expected, the stock levels normalized once the initial rush ebbed.…
With all of the heat a serious gaming rig can produce, it was only a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to turn a grill into a PC case. There isn’t any information as far as specs are concerned, but we can see that this QuakeCon competitor has a decent sized monitor…
The Delay Clock looks complex and threatening, but if you take a look at where the three circles (hour, minute and second) meet near the middle, you can find the time pretty easily. This arty Dutch clock is made from stainless steel and aluminum, and its cogs are a more essential part of the design…
A 23-year-old student named Craig Feigin is facing possible felony charges in Florida for allegedly putting spyware of the worst kind on up to 10 women’s laptop computers. The programs, which he apparently wrote himself, would cause the integrated webcams on the laptops to take snapshots at certain times when a person was close and…
The story between iRobot and former employee Jameel Ahed has everything: military robots, betrayal, lies, stolen plans, lawsuits, big money, private investigators and destroyed evidence. But up until now there was one critical element missing…revenge. iRobot has completed that final act in this real-life drama by stealing back the “Negotiator” robot that Ahed made with…
Sure, we like the design, but we love that despite the muddy, spontaneous pewter finish of this homemade Gears of War Xbox 360, the creator very carefully negotiated all of the Xbox’s machined ventilation holes. All-in-all, it’s a pretty decent-looking mod, and those red lights are actually pretty quite when they’re not signaling a melted…
Modern Mechanix found this 1938 issue of Popular Science with a really, really fun baby branding gadget designed to make sure hospital mixups were a thing of the past. Did it work? Oh, I’m sure it did. Did it eliminate hospital baby mixups? No, because somebody somewhere along the line though it was a bad…
Apparently a proposal in the middle of the Amazonian rainforest wasn’t enough for Brits Darren McWalters and Katie Hodgson, seen here taking their vows under the guise of a rearward-facing wing-mounted priest above the English countryside. The magic words were exchanged with a combination of hand signals and radio headsets, which were also simulcast to…
Tests conducted for the UK’s Times Online have concluded that the new high-tech e-passports being distributed around the world can be hacked and cloned within minutes. A computer researcher proved it by cloning the chips in two British passports and then implanting digital images of Osama bin Laden and a suicide bomber. Both passports passed…
Electronics manufacturer Hoshino has just announced “the world’s first biodegradable USB disk.” It’s constructed of the corn-based plastic polylactide, and just in case you forget that fact, they’ve shaped the drive like an ear of corn. We don’t have a lot of information on the device, but it appears they’ve figured out how to make…
By now, we’re well aware that Apple can make apps vanish without a trace (or explanation) from the App Store. But Jonathan Zdziarsi, the author of iPhone Forensics, says that Apple can actually remotely disable apps installed on your iPhone. Apparently, there’s a blacklist URL in the iPhone’s OS that he says “suggests that the…
If you thought talking on a Bluetooth headset in public makes someone look crazy, get a load of this Hair Dryer headset. It plugs into Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson cellphones and it will virtually guarantee that you get some breathing room in a crowded subway train. Nobody wants to sit next to the lunatic…
A lot of people (one of my friends included) jumped on a mixup on Lenovo’s site that appeared to let you pack a 128GB SSD drive in an X200 for the tasty price of $0. It was a mistake and they’re not honoring it (boo), but to make up for it, they are offering everyone…
For some of us, the cheapest lamp at IKEA will do. For others—especially those of us with doctors’ orders to only read by illumination from insect—not any old fixture will work. No, those with Insect Luminance Disorder (ILD) require constant attention by lightning bug butt. However, when the bugs aren’t mating, we can only recommend…