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We’ll probably hear finalized details tomorrow when it’s officially unveiled at Computex tomorrow, but here’s the first shot of the Gigabyte M912. An 8.9″ convertable touchscreen laptop packing an Atom processor, it’s supposed to be another promising entrant to the lightweight, budget laptop ring. Hopefully we’ll know just how budget Gigabyte means within the week.…
Sure, this all-in-one from Earth Trek is no good-looking gadget stand like the iClooly, but it’d be hard to beat it for convenience. You can use it to prop up your cellphone (though how does it stick on? … magic? love? glue?) and also charge it through a range of swappable connectors. It’s also a…
Leave it to the Flash game makers of the world to treat a public egging with all the sensitivity and care of a mother kitten. While Steve Ballmer may have been attacked in Hungary, his sacrifice for Microsoft will not be forgotten. In Egg Attack!, you can play as the breakfast assassin or big Steve…
Today Western Digital announced its Scorpio Black 2.5″ drive line, which reach 7200rpm, though at 5400rpm power demands. Like certain Fujitsu and Hitachi drives announced earlier this year, the speedy drives will ship in capacities from 80GB up to 320GB. The top model, with built-in free-fall sensor for drive protection, costs $250. [WD] https://gizmodo.com/fujitsus-7200rpm-2-5-inch-drives-first-to-hit-320gb-371368
We’ve brought you inventions that aim to replace the scary-looking hypodermic syringe before, but this new design reinvents the device in a kid-friendly package. Designed by Christopher Holden, a student at Northumbria University in the UK, MediDome combines drug and needle in a stick-on blister, designed for a single use only. So it reduces the…
I loved the glowing Full Moon sideboard from the other month, but I wasn’t able to convince my wife it’d make a good addition to our home. I reckon I’d have more of a chance with Horm Voltaceleste, from designer Salvatore Indriolo as it’s a touch more subtle but just as astronomical. The doors are…
Anyone out there with a fetish for hoovering in the dark (anyone out there with a fetish for hoovering, call me, because I need a new cleaning lady) might like this hacked Roomba. Ron Tajima has created the Pacma, using 448 yellow LEDs, and a control unit made of an MPU that connects to the…
According to Quanta Computer—who will be the manufacturer—Sony will join the low-end ultra-mobile PC bandwagon with a notebook based on the VIA OpenBook reference design. As shown in the image, Sony’s machine will use a 1.6GHz C7-M VIA processor, and while at this point it looks quite generic, it will be interesting to see if…
Spanish site Apple Weblog has discovered a hidden iPhone page from Movistar—Telefónica’s mobile arm. The page officially confirms what we already said two weeks ago: Telefónica will sell the new JesusPhone. The launch day was not mentioned in the site itself—which was supposed to be secret, and has been taken down already—but the date that…
This iPod Touch-only stand from Rockridgesound blows the iPhone Xtand out of the water in its iMac-alike styling— it’s even got the drive slot there on the right-hand side. Handy for propping the iPod up when you’re watching movies, the iClooly’s got tilt and rotate functions, and you can connect up the dock connector and…
The UFOTO UF735, a digital photo frame from Asus, has another use than just holiday snaps: its sub-display function lets you hook it up to your computer and use it as a secondary display. The seven-inch hi-res (800 x 480) screen has 128MB of internal memory, a USB 2.0 port and earphone jack, and supports…
Long unofficially official, Asus is finally showing off its Atom-based Eee PC 901, which is remarkably speedier than the 900 with a 1.6GHz Diamondville processor. Expected to launch tomorrow, besides the predicted addition of Bluetooth, the specs are otherwise the same: 1GB RAM, memory card slot, 12GB of storage for the Windows XP flavor, 20…
Nvidia’s launch of its Tegra processors makes World War Mobile official, with multiple major players cramming serious juice into tiny, ultra efficient chips for a range of mobile devices. Nvidia is calling Tegra “the world’s first computer on a chip for mobile visual computers” which squeezes a CPU, GPU, system memory and more onto a…
In 1962 the French weekly l’Express postulated about a technologically advanced utopia in the year 2000. By the year 2000 all food will be completely synthetic. Agriculture and fisheries will have become superfluous. The world’s population will by then have increased fourfold but will have stabilized. Sea water and ordinary rocks will yield all the…
Did you see Lam sweating it out in his Wii Fit review? Did that cause you rush out to the store, hands trembling with anticipation, in an attempt to procure one for yourself? Of course it did, but you probably came home empty-handed because the thing was basically sold out weeks before it even launched.…
We loved the Dash Express GPS so much we called it the traffic terminator. After falling to $400, now it’s only $300 at Amazon, a fairly sweet (or hot, as Amazon calls it) deal for an awesome GPS navigator. [
Intel’s Senior Technical Marketing Engineer for Corporate Demonstrations Craig Raymond had his lucky hands all over the new ASUS M51VA Centrino 2 (“Montevina”) portable at a pre-Computex demo session today, and—delay or no delay—he came away loving the freedom of Intel’s new chip and WiMax. Sure, he’s an Intel guy talking about an Intel-equipped laptop,…
Do you feel lucky, punk? Do ya? Does Blu-Ray have five years left before digital distribution knocks it out of commission, or just four? So I ask again: Do you feel lucky? Annnnd, scene. Anyway, all kidding aside, this immense collection of all things Dirty Harry arrives on store shelves (brick and mortar, digital or…
The townsfolk of North Oaks, Minnesota, want to be able to pick their nose, flash cars, conduct drug deals and fall down on the sidewalk without the whole world knowing about it, so they’ve forbidden Google Maps Streetview cars from crossing city limits. At least those are the only reasons I can think of as…
How’s this for an Apple coup? On Friday Mark reported that Apple could be positioning .Mac for a serious overhaul, which was known in rumor mill circles at the time as Mobile Me. Today we received another update as MacRumors discovered that the Netcraft page for Me.com lists Kenneth Eddings, the official technical contact for…