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With the possible announcement of the 3G iPhone only a week away, many current iPhone owners are itching to upgrade, which takes money. Other people, finally bitten by the iPhone bug, are eager to buy one, only they are harder to find in stores. This creates a nice, natural supply-and-demand formula that we managed to…
The good news: those of us still looking forward to Sony’s virtual world platform called PlayStation Home will be happy to know that it’s arriving in 2008. The potentially bad news: it’s arriving in “open, working beta” form. You know, like Google Everything. (To their defense, Sony actually fessed up to this obvious comparison, describing…
I kind of like the BTM-118 from Brando, with its weird fusion of Bluetooth headset and FM radio in one gizmo. Maybe because I use a similar clip-on headset (partly to avoid fashion geekiness.) I guess this might be useful if you’re into radio but your cellphone doesn’t do it: most ones with built-in radio…
Acer has just announced their new 8.9″ Aspire One ultraportable laptop. With a starting price of just $379, configurations include an Intel Atom processor, up to 1GB of RAM and either 8GB of flash storage or an 80GB hard drive as well as a choice between Linpus Linux Lite and Windows XP. Nothing here is…
Although it’s not as scary as the spooky Big Dog—actually, it looks as friendly as the hilarious Fake Big Dog—I can imagine this prototype of a security robot dog developing into something capable running at 50mph behind you and tearing apart your thorax with pure steel fangs and claws. Fortunately, for now the rest of…
And now for the real Nvidia meat this week: The GeForce 9M series. Besides promising 40 percent faster performance than its last gen of notebook graphics cards (8M if you’re keeping score), the 9M series brings Hybrid SLI to notebooks for the first time—the high performance GPU kicks in when needed, or it drops to…
The 10″ MSI Wind has just been priced at $399 (Linux) and $499 (XP). Asus just got some real competition. Here are the full details: https://gizmodo.com/msi-wind-gets-final-specs-packs-an-atom-390414 The 2.6 lbs Wind features 5+ HR battery life, Windows XP, ergonomic keyboard, and 80G hard drive all for under $500 CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA – June 3rd, 2008…
Just a few weeks ago I showed you the Infection watch, which was very much in the vein of befuddling time display that importer Tokyo Flash has become famous for. But now there’re the new Scramble and Progression watches from Nekura, and it looks like their LED-backlit LCD displays are slightly more straightforward, if still…
We first brought you leaked mock-ups of Samsung’s upcoming i900 cellphone in January, along with a single pic and some specs. Until now, that’s all we have to go on, but now Chinese site pconline.com.cn has got their hands on a real model and some more details on what the touchscreen phone will have inside.…
We have seen some amazing LEGO aircrafts in the past, but this F-14 Tomcat has to be the most awesome LEGO plane to date. In fact, it’s so technically complex—most parts, including cannons, swing wings, landing gears, brakes, flaps, air intake doors, are electric and pneumatically controlled—that builder Jeroen Ottens got a dream job in…
People love to mod the Eee PC it seems, cramming everything you can imagine, including a touchscreen, into the diminutive cheapo notebook. But perhaps none have been so cheap and easy as this straightforward $70 touchscreen hack. It takes just 9 steps (including unscrewing the Eee 701 and putting it back together) to slot a…
As we reported yesterday, Apple’s Back to School deal is up and running today, and this is what you get: a free 8GB Nano or 8GB iPod Touch after your rebate. Students or teachers using the deal will get $100 off a MacBook, $140 off an iMac, $200 off a MacBook Pro, and $230 off…
Buzz Lightyear is now part of the International Space Station crew, after astronauts from mission STS-124 boarded the orbital outpost yesterday at 3:36PM EDT—bringing in the 12-inch to guard us against Emperor Zurg, who has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet. Or maybe just teach kids about…
“Good computing punch and excessive endurance” is Laptop magazine’s verdict of the MSI Wind. The 500-buck UMPC was put through its paces by the team, who put together a bunch of pros and cons. Among the UMPC’s favorable features were its relatively big 10-inch screen, a fast boot time and a long battery life—over five…
Wearing Bluetooth headsets is always a risky fashion statement, but it may be that the slenderness of Bluetrek’s Metal headset reduces the fashion-geek effect. It looks even skinnier than Apple’s offering, being a scant 0.16-inches deep, and weighing a mere 0.01-pounds. Nevertheless, the skinny earbud-like device will give you five hours talk and seven days…
SanDisk’s new pSSD is a pATA drive aimed at the low-cost notebook PC sector— that range of ULPCs, MIDs and the like. Using Multi-Level Cell and Single-Level flash chip designs, the pSSD will have a read speed of about 39MB/sec and a streaming write speed of about 17MB/sec. Though there’s no pricing info available, they’ll…
It’s hard to believe that Asus’s Eee PC 901 and 1000 didn’t officially exist until this moment. But now they do! Officially. ‘Course, there are few surprises left (except for battery life, they’re claiming up to 7.8 hours), which takes the fun out of it: Atom processors, 12 or 20GB (up to 40GB SSD for…
The motto of the 1939 New York World’s Fair was, “Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms.” And you wonder why 1930’s America was afraid of automation! It was practically the theme of the ’39 Fair that Man would adhere to the will of whatever Science and Industry dictated. An international fear of robots in the…
Buckminster Fuller might best be known for the molecules named after him and dome designs that inspired structures such as the Epcot center. But even more impressive is The New Yorker’s rundown of Fuller’s life and forgotten inventions, such as his three-wheeled, all-terrain car with a periscope, cities designed to float in the clouds or…
Sure, Nvidia’s crashing into the mobile market Intel wants to dominate. And Intel is running into discrete graphics (not to mention ruling with integrated graphics). But you know, it’s friendly right? Wrong. It’s total war. Nvidia’s continuing to hold out licensing SLI support for Intel’s boards, notably its next-gen Tylersburg chipset for the Nehalem CPUs.…