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As a large bunch of readers have noticed, the Apple store is down everywhere. If you consider the timing of the iPhone 3G’s and MobileMe’s launch (which has to hit New Zealand nearly a day ahead of the US) some preliminary setup kinda makes sense. We’ll keep you posted. Update: the store’s back up. No…
If you gotta go the desktop route, Acer’s got three mini-PCs packed heavy with ports that don’t take up a ton of space. Measuring 10.6″ x 4″ x 14.4″, about the same as a hardcover book, the X1200s have an HDMI port—like Dell’s leaked mini, aka the green PC, but unlike the smaller Asus Eee…
The 2006 book Future Hype: The Myths of Technology Change by Bob Seidensticker is a fascinating read. From page 103: Schools have had a longstanding immunity against the introduction of new technologies. In 1922 Thomas Edison predicted that movies would replace textbooks. In 1945 one forecaster imagined radios as common as blackboards in classrooms. In…
The next version of the DevilRay unmanned aerial vehicle will feature the ability to dock to and recharge from power lines. Made by Defense Research Associates, the UAV uses down-curled wingtips to make such a low-speed maneuver possible. The four-foot wide, propeller-driven flying wing will use “inverse capped helix winglets” to take advantage of the…
Coverflow isn’t my favorite feature of OS X, but I have to admit it is neat, but that’s about it. There are more efficient ways to organize pretty much any data you can think of, but this idea of applying the technology to your iPhone’s Contacts list intrigues me. Nothing fancy here, it would likely…
The 8AM times previously mentioned as the iPhone 3G sale time applied only to AT&T stores. Apple just updated their retail page to reflect the same time of sale within Apple retail spaces. I think we all assumed this was fact, but now it is. [Apple Thanks Patricio] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-3g-launch-details-get-those-sleeping-bags-ready-5021064
The idea of LED illuminated tiles is a good one in theory, but I’m afraid it’ll end up like fiber optic lighting and Bluetooth headsets in that people with no taste will take it over, ruining it for the rest of us. The waterproof tiles snap together Lego style and have a repeating connectivity scheme,…
Backing up your phone may not be as important as backing up your computer, but one day will come when you leave your cell in a cab and you’ll be really happy you’ve got all your info somewhere else for safekeeping. PIM Backup for Windows Mobile keeps a backup of your contacts, call logs, messages,…
The configuration page for the Voodoo Envy went live today, showing the full pricing scheme for the 133 PC, which starts at $2100 and goes as high as $4000. The low end model features a 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and an 80GB, 4200 RPM HDD. The high end model has a 1.8 GHz…
After a frustrating few months of searching for a solution to the audio problems he encountered while ripping on-screen video with his Dell laptop, a ripten editor discovered that others were experiencing the same issue-and that the problem was not confined to Dell laptops. Apparently, the lack of a sound card Stereo Mix recording option…
Is it hot where you are? OObject celebrates Summer (and this SF heatwave) with a refreshing list of 20 different train-mounted railroad snowplows. Some look simply like giant plows, but the most gadgety look like giant snowblowing window fans. A little research turns up that these powered variants were developed by a dentist in the…
Gadgets are using up the earth’s elements. Like, the basic elements that make up all chemical matter according Armin Reller, a materials chemist at Germany’s University of Augsburg. Gallium is apparently critical for making LCDs. We’ll be out of it in a few years. Hafnium (part of Intel’s breakthrough with Penryn) will be gone by…
Averatec’s joining the XPS One and HP Touchsmart IQ506-among others-in the all-in-one PC game. What’s notable about Averatec’s beside its super generic “All-In-One PC” name? It’s cheap. At just $1249, you get a 2.4GHz Intel E4600 Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, 320GB hard drive, nVidia GeForce 8400, a 22-inch screen and a copy of Vista…
The Nahamer T450 toaster concept from Rob Penny gets a big thumbs-up in the design department with its good looks and viewing window. Plus, instead of popping up, the toast slides gracefully onto your plate-simplifying the mechanics in standard toasters. https://gizmodo.com/the-moaster-is-the-highest-popping-toaster-in-the-wor-5018897 [Yanko Design]
Nokia just sent us the 6205 Dark Knight phone in a promotional box and man, is it cool. The box, that is. As you can see in the clip above, the purple box with pretty green bow on top surprised the hell out of me when I opened it—it cackled in the Joker’s voice. The…
In one corner we have the iPhone 3G-the second coming of one of the most successful and influential gadgets in history. In the other corner we have Hellboy II: The Golden Army-the second coming of a moderately successful comic book adaptation about a big red demon fighting for the U.S government. It’s a (kind of,…
What looks to be the upcoming Nikon Coolpix P6000 has leaked, showing a picture of the high-end point-and-shoot as well as some of the specs and a purported release date of this August. Most notable is an absolutely-bananas 13.5-megapixel sensor, which should provide you with pictures large enough to print billboards from. The follow-up to…
Park your car and tap “Park Me” to take a GPS reading; on the way back, hit “Where Did I Park” for turn-by-turn directions back to the whip. It’ll work for first-gen and iPod touch users (although not as well, I would imagine) via Wi-Fi and cell-tower positioning but 3G users will get turn-by-turn directions…
Thanks to our frequent liveblogging and writing while solely on laptop power, we’re always cognizant of how much CPU load we’re putting on our machines. One thing we’ve noticed is that Flash—the thing that makes YouTube videos move and advertisements blink—puts an abnormally large load on your processor, which makes for a dramatically decreased battery…
A Commodore 64 Expo was held recently, where attendees dusted off their Commodore 64s, networked them together and had an old-fashioned LAN party to play NetRacer – a new C64 racing game that supports eight people over internet or LAN for the first time. Organized by the Cincinnati Commodore Computer Club in Fort Mitchell, Kentucky…
