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We heard of Nokia N95 8GB availability on US shores a little while back, but it now looks officially official, all with proper HSDPA connectivity under its hood. The feature packed handset has impressed us no end, and Nokia know how to sweeten us up, as the N95 8GB will be shipping with six months…
DIY gadgeteers, fire up your engines: the dates for Make magazine’s first 2008 Maker Faire have been unveiled as May 3rd and 4th. The San Mateo County Fairgrounds in San Mateo, California will again be the venue. Expect to see all sorts of wonderful (and weird) DIY science, arts, crafts and engineering projects in action,…
LG are sending some serious touchscreen love to South Korea, all in the form of the Touch Web cellphone, a.k.a. LG-LH2300. The touchscreen wonder has a 3-inch display, with a staggering 800 x 480 resolution, as well as a 3MP camera with AF, MicroSD memory slot and a full internet browser, which has incorporated hot…
We happen to use an 802.11n AirPort Extreme as our router, so we put today’s new firmware upgrade to the test to see if TIme Machine really does do networked backup to an AirPort Disk. In case you’re wondering, AirPort Express never supported AirDisk, so it won’t do Time Machine over the network—our testing confirmed…
The New York Tiimes’ Saul Hansell backs up the Financial Times report that Apple’s looking at all-you-can-eat downloads for iTunes. According to his source, Apple is sitting down with the studios next week for an undoubtedly tense poker-faced showdown. https://gizmodo.com/financial-times-itunes-all-you-can-eat-music-downloads-369467 Universal’s the biggest proponent of selling subs, so they’ll probably be there. Reportedly Apple wants…
We’re excited about the upcoming Dash Express GPS because it corrects so much of what’s gone wrong with in-car navigation. In the end, you get the same green, yellow and red traffic indicators on highways that Google maps gets, plus that on some local roads. No other GPS has this. Because each unit is basically…
I think most will agree that Yassir Ballemans “Beautiful Times” clock is, in fact, beautiful. To be quite honest, that would have been enough. However, Ballmans took it a ridiculous step further by programing the clock to only display the times that he finds attractive. According to the project page, “the categories are mirroring (22:55),…
When is Vista Sideshow not Vista Sideshow? When it does the same thing as Sideshow—display little widgets on an external device—but doesn’t use Vista’s Gadgets. The USB Gadget Display does look like a little 2-inch LCD display, which shows clocks and various other things like CPU and RAM usage (but mostly clocks) outside of your…
Apple issued a firmware update for the Airport Extreme today that allows any USB hard drive connected to the router to function with Time Machine. It’s nice for those with MacBooks and external HDDs who find it troublesome to have to plug and unplug their drive everytime they take their lappy on the go. [TUAW]
The Pix-L UMPC concept from Jean Hong is designed primarily for those who feel compelled to hit the internet first thing in the morning and just before they go to sleep. It even features an alarm clock dock and a design that allows you to flip the device over for easy browsing while lying on…
Today we have the third and final installment of the 1992 Australia Telecom concept video, Broadband. Enjoy. See also:Australia Telecom’s Broadband (Part 1, 1992)Australia Telecom’s Broadband (Part 2, 1992)
Click to view I had no idea this is how the system works at gas stations. This’ll probably make you think twice before smoking a cigarette while filling your tank next time you’re at the pump. Now if only there was some way to trigger it from afar… [Glumbert]
This is not the first time a USB to DVI adapter had come down the pipeline, but the new Gefen adapter can drive an impressive 6 additional displays at 1600X1200 resolution. It is not great for larger monitors by any means, but at only $129 it could be a relatively inexpensive solution. Gefen also notes…
The red version of the 80GB Zune is now customizable via the Zune Originals site. Head on over and pick out a custom design and custom text for your own Zune, which you could then use to propose to your girlfriend with. If you do use this idea, email me. I want to talk to…
Want to teach your kid to be really good at Tetris really fast? Let them play with this Tetris Mirror, which has the bottom part already formed for a convenient mirror surface, but has the top part all Tetris’ed out so you can rearrange them at will. Put a piece wrong and junior gets cut…
The major thing consumer press does not actively recognize is how much support Microsoft gives the research world. Everyone covered Worldwide Telescope. But at their Techfest a few weeks ago, one of the most impressive and seemingly selfless feats of the company was in the Trident platform, an oceanographic visualization tool. In short, researchers have…
It may look like you are draining the juices out of some gigantic white insect carcass, but underneath the bizarre looking hood, this Ovopur water dispenser from Aquaovo is serious business. It is completely gravity fed, with a recyclable, layered cartridge filled with KDF 55, activated charcoal, microporous bioceramics and quartz crystal to remove all…
Late last year, disc-copying software maker SlySoft claimed they cracked the BD+ DRM protection in Blu-ray discs. They weren’t kidding. The newest version of AnyDVD HD strips Blu-ray discs of BD+, allowing you to copy even the most locked-up Blu-ray discs (*cough*Fox*cough*) to your heart’s content—assuming the copies are for personal use, of course. On…
It’s only been a couple weeks since the Windows Vista-capable HTC Shift UMPC was just released in the US and it’s already getting an EV-DO version for you to hook up to Verizon or Sprint (theoretically). LaptopMag’s review of it mirrors what we’ve seen in European reviews of the device (it’s been out there for…
Yesterday, we posted about the RSD5 Solid State Fan from Thorrn Micro Technologies. Today, we have a video of the fan in action along with additional insight from one of the creators. The more I learn (and watch) about the RSD5, the more impressed I become. Thorrn Micro says the research is complete and expect…