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Via’s next-gen Isaiah processors that they’re hoping will break them into the mainstream market just got all official, going by the more consumer-friendly Nano moniker. When we talked with Via about them last week, they said that Isaiah-based processors will deliver 4x the performance of their current C7 chips (which power the OQO and Cloudbook)…
If you play in the Windows Live sandbox (Hotmail, Messenger, Live Contacts and Spaces) and use a Nokia S60 phone, your life just got easier. Available today in a whole buncha places it wasn’t before, the Windows Live app for S60 syncs your Live contacts and Hotmail account with the phone’s address book and mail…
This image of “moon tourists [discovering] the pleasures of this Moon beach,” is from the 1988 book The Earth’s Moon (Isaac Asimov’s Library of the Universe). Imagine seas on a terraformed Moon! By creating an atmosphere on the Moon, we could capture sunlight and turn the Moon into a celestial tourist trap. This would be…
The guys at Crackberry have gotten their hands on some authentic looking slides that talk about the “Kickstart experience,” which is basically all about keeping the flip phone’s BlackBerriness intact. It’s mostly “duh” stuff, though it’s sorta interesting how feverishly they’re making the experience of opening and closing the phone exactly match holstering and unholstering…
Wal-Mart’s got a deal on a Panasonic Blu-ray player for Father’s day (June 8 – June 15), giving you the player for $448 plus a free $100 gift card good for Blu-ray movies. If you think you’ll only get three movies for $100, you’re slightly off, as Wal-Mart’s also discounting a handful of flicks as…
A forum post on DP Review says that pricing info for Sony’s upcoming full-frame 25-megapixel flagship a900 DSLR went out to reps about a month ago, and that Sony’s aiming to to bring it to market for under two grand. https://gizmodo.com/sonys-next-gen-alpha-a900-dslr-25-megapixels-due-by-s-371009 If true, that’d make it incredibly, stupidly cheap as far as major megapixel, full-frame…
Vudu has just been bumped to version 1.5, and the headlining feature should make its way to every video rental setup: Extensions! If you only get halfway through No Country for Old Men (or any other flick) before the 24-hour window is up, you can extend the rental period for a discounted price, $2 off…
The game that started a phenomenon in the 70’s is back (albeit in slightly different form) thanks to the design work of one Moritz Waldemeyer. This new version takes the classic game and embeds it into a fairly plain looking dining table using 2400 LEDs and 2 trackpads. When the table is on, the trackpads…
We always had our suspicions, but the new Sex and the City movie confirms what most people knew all along: Carrie Bradshaw is an idiot. Texually says: “…the iPhone has a walk-on, for a second. Carrie needs a phone and as [sic] an iPhone is handed to hear [sic], she hands it back saying “I…
This may not be a typical gadget post, but here’s an idea that fascinates me. Nathan Myhrvold, former CTO of Microsoft, left to found a company called Intellectual Ventures. They invest in invention, not companies. He’s been the subject of a New Yorker article on the abundance of big ideas by Malcolm Gladwell, which covers…
Jellio’s Candy Table doesn’t actually have candy inside (which would be tooth decayingly fantastic), but it does have super soaker-like squirt guns. Not the new, lame super soakers, but the old simple ones from the early ’90s. We’re not sure if it’s actually a real Super Soaker or just a replica, but in either case,…
I bumped into Michael Dell at All Things D after his interview, and he was nice enough to show me this laptop that he was carrying that he said no one’s seen before. It’s a small form factor notebook, just like the Asus Eee and the HP 2133. He wouldn’t tell me what OS it’s…
I have a problem I’m sure you’re all familiar with: eco guilt. Whenever I’m about to drop a gigantic bomb on say, a small village, I get to thinking about the impact of the bomb on the environment. I mean, I’m not a monster. Popular explosives like TNT and HMX create nitrogen oxides when they…
WARNING: by reading about the Cassette-Face Watch, you too could lose $70 (£35) into the void of online shopping. Constructed of stainless steel and featuring dual dials (one for hours, one for minutes), its faux hand-sketched labels make this accessory transcend normal watch for a moniker more like “really great watch that looks like a…
Kuchofuku, the same company that brought us air conditioned shirts, has re-applied their groundbreaking technology in an effort to deliver us from one of the biggest problems facing mankind today. Of course, I am speaking about ass sweat. In fact, their air conditioned seat cushion line can pump up to 170 liters of air per…
At Netflix Investor Day, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings revealed their timeline for the end of the rental-by-mail biz, and why they’re digging so hard into digital distribution: It “will probably peak in the next five years.” Taken more broadly, it’s more or less predicting that the real end of physical media is in T minus…
The offerings over at Zune Marketplace are about to see a nice little update as Microsoft adds 400 new episodes of various television shows. That’s not gigantic if you start analyzing shows by 24-episode seasons (and even less when you scale it to dailies like The Colbert Report), but if you were to scale that…
iPhone’s sixth SDK has just been released, adding support for the latest iPhone OS and fixing various bugs. You’ll have to update to Leopard 10.5.3, which was released earlier today. That’s right, you HAVE TO. Not sure why, but that’s what Apple’s saying. [Apple] https://gizmodo.com/leopard-osx-10-5-3-now-available-393727
You won’t find any Grape Nuts or Fiber-rich Colon Blow on the Refined Cereal lighting fixture by the aptly titled Refined Sugar Studio. In fact, the light is meant as a nod toward our favorite sugary sweet breakfast cereals like Capn’ Crunch, Count Chocula and Trix. The cereal images are made using ultraviolet-protected inks so…
In a move reminiscent of schemes seen in Office Space and Superman III, a hacker has exploited a loophole to weasel himself over $50,000 from services such as Google Checkout and Paypal by taking pennies at a time. Unfortunately, he was caught, and is in all likelihood heading to pound-me-in-the-ass prison. The loophole involved the…