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While stuffing the svelte MacBook Air into a case may seem to defeat the point of buying an Air in the first place, some of you will do it anyway. And this Agent 18 MacBook Air Shield looks like a decent compromise. Constructed of durable, lightweight polycarbonate, the Shield leaves your USB port and ventilation…
Boeing has just tested its new thin-disk laser, the most powerful solid-state laser ever made. It fires at over 25 kilowatts, with the scalability proven to go up to a 100 kilowatt laser in the coming years. A 100 kW laser would be the most powerful ever made, one that has a lot of challenges…
It’s only a matter of time before all the major manufacturers flood the market with multi-touch screens ready for Windows 7, but Albatron is ready to show off their technology now. Their flagship 22″ LCD (1680 x 1050) that has a sensor on each side of the display and promises to cost only 20% more…
Windows Vista hasn’t been adopted joyfully by the masses, but consumers don’t always have a say when it comes to the next Windows OS they’ll be using. Most of us have to run whatever comes preinstalled on our machine of choice. And according to Microsoft, starting June 30th of this year, that OS will be…
I just got my hands on the Flip Mino and I’m impressed with it so far. It’s way thinner than it’s big brother Ultra, but remains almost the same height and width, which is good because it’s not small enough to lose. The USB placement is well hidden on this design and I think it’s…
Click to viewThis is a security cam video of a guy who, to put it lightly, is sick of working in a cubicle farm. If you’re looking to get yourself fired in a way that’ll legally prevent you from ever entering the office or interacting with any of your former coworkers again, with a free…
While paying over $100 for Aliph’s latest Jawbone may be a bit out of your financial means, their last gen model-which is still pretty great-has gone on clearance. Sixth Avenue Electronics is offering the Bluetooth headset today only for just $48.88 (plus $3.95 shipping). Red color only, but hey, red is flashy and you could…
Forget the boringly-plastic iPod boomboxes we’ve shown you before: I want one of these. It’s in period aviation “Spirit of St Loius” style: wooden cabinet, shiny dials and satisfyingly chunky switches, meant to look like a WWII battlefield radio. Inside there’s an iPod dock, CD player and AM-FM radio that’s also an alarm clock. It’s…
It’s one of those things that makes sense, but we’d never tried before. One tablet-happy artist decided to plug in his Wacom tablet into his PS3. The result? It was essentially plug ‘n play. While a combination of the PS3’s firmware and third party game design mean that it could never be used play 90%…
Okay, okay: I know what they look like, but since the official description is “bullet-like,” that’s what I’m sticking with. These 7.5-inch tall, cylindrical, smooth-tipped speakers are USB bus-powered and have music-reactive color-changing LEDS in the top, making them “very nice to listen to your favorite music at night” apparently. They pump out 2 x…
Today AMD officialized its Puma notebook platform—AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core mobile processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 graphics—”for superior 3D performance and HD image quality, with industry-leading wireless for greater throughput and range.” As we’ve noted in the past, it’s a consumer-grade laptop play, and performance-wise it’s aimed a bit lower than the upcoming…
TUAW reports that they’ve gotten some insider information that Apple will unveil OS 10.6 (the successor to Leopard) next Monday at the WWDC keynote. So what’s so special about this iteration of OS X? Before our fanboys get too excited, know that we’re not supposed to expect a Leopard-like slew of features. According to the…
Sure, ergonomic designs are sometimes more whacky rather than useful, but I reckon the Kinesis Freestyle Solo falls into the latter category. Apparently it’s the first Mac keyboard that allows you to fully separate it into halves. Why’d you want to do that? To adjust the keys into a wrist-friendly, RSI-reducing position, that’s why. There’re…
Dilemma of the day: Blam has been asking us to keep an eye on the tone of the site recently, saying that we need to be more highbrow. However, there doesn’t seem to be much happening in mundo gadgeto. Although there is this delightful gallery of booth babes at Computex. So, to keep you guys…
These watches sit somewhere between the confusing displays of Tokyo Flash digital watches and the amazing mechanical-digital Meccanica DG. Inside they have two wheels that spin relative to a marker line: and that’s where you peek to work out how many hours and minutes of the work day remain (that’s the main reason for wearing…
A Japanese science and engineering team have created this crazy artificial houseplant with high-efficiency organic thin-film solar cells as leaves. Developed by the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, it’s got about 9 square inches of power-generating area, and each flexible leaf has a complex structure protected by a thin plastic layer. This…
The guys over at RobotsRule.com have just come up with this review of WowWee’s new Wrex the Dawg toy robot. And sure, it’s no Aibo, or even the robot dog from yesterday, but it’s got a certain something. It’s remote-controllable, programmable and has a suite of 18 tricks to act out, depending on its mood.…
Since I don’t have either a microwave or a desktop computer, I don’t know why this PC-microwave hybrid with an LCD bolted to the door speaks to me, but it just does. It could possibly be something to do with the fact that I still haven’t had breakfast and it’s way past breakfast time here…
We spoke about Canonical’s rejigged version of Ubuntu last week, and the Netbook “Remix” as they call it, is on show at this year’s Computex. Although it won’t be available until later on in the year, the company is already working with OEMs to include the new software on portable devices. Full press release is…
Just yesterday we brought you the cheap Eee 701 touchscreen hack, and now it looks like the same guy who did that mod has been ferreting around inside an Eee 901, with some unexpected results. In fact, it looks like the 901 is even more moddable than the earlier models, with some extra functions inside…
