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ZodTTD’s snes4iphone v1.0.0 was recently released and it works surprisingly well. After a few games of Mario All-Stars and Super Mario World it’s obvious this emulator has come a long way. While in-game audio is still missing, background music plays fine. Gameplay is fairly smooth with frameskip enabled, and the emulator supports landscape and portrait…
Almost missed this one: Today is Steve Jobs’ Birthday. Happy birthday, big guy. The iPhone SDK. I don’t know if it’ll be done by a week from now. But I never stop wondering how it’ll be implemented. Full-on corporate software sale via iTunes, or a channel for grassroots devs to distribute their wares. I am…
The AutoPulse by Zoll is an automated CPR device that can not only replace someone performing life-saving chest compressions, but that can actually implement these compressions more effectively than human hands. Essentially a battery-operated band that wraps around the chest of a patient, by squeezing a larger area the AutoPulse can circulate blood better than…
Leonardo Fioravanti of the awesome vehicle design house Pininfarina has put together a prototype car, called Hidra, which has a windshield that negates the necessity for conventional wipers. The design relies on aerodynamics and surface treatment alone, which will supposedly be enough to keep a fly-away tree branch from obscuring your line of vision. The…
A B-2 Bomber, probably the coolest aircraft ever created after the Lockheed A-12, has crashed for the first time ever. Its name was the Spirit of Kansas and it was one of the 21 $1.2 billion Northrop Grumman stealth planes ever manufactured. It fell to the ground right after take-off for “unknown reasons” at the Andersen…
Future Retro’s Revolution Synthesizer R2 looks amazing; we completely have no use for a synthesizer, but we totally want one. With a complete aluminum construction, perfectly contrasting gun gray and white colors, as well as a smattering of blue LEDs all over, this synthesizer makes us moist in the most clichéd way possible. If that…
The Zero-G Defy Xtreme Stealth by elite watchmaker Zenith is one of the most lust-worthy timepieces we’ve seen in recent history. Modeled after the famous Stealth Bomber, this blackened titanium watch (utilizing a PVD coating process) is specially crafted to keep time without extreme gravity throwing off your appointments. Featuring a titanium strap with Kevlar…
StyleTap’s proof-of-concept Palm OS emulator for iPhone and iPod touch makes us scratch our heads asking ourselves “why?” but we are sure it would make all Palm users very happy. All the five of them, including Rob from accounts. It’s quite fast, as you will see in the video: 423% faster than a Palm IIIc.…
The Musical SpongeBob Digital Thermometer. According to the box, it “plays SpongeBoob SquarePants Theme” while in use, and it is for “oral, underarm and rectal use.” According to me, I’m not sticking this in any place. This is almost as wrong as the Jesuswitch. [Cartoon Brew via Boing Boing] https://gizmodo.com/jesus-switch-turns-on-off-359540
The Absolut Quartet is an impressive electromechanical sculpture, which was put together by Dan Paluska and Jeff Lieberman. Using ping-pong ball cannons to play a marimba, robot fingers to tinker wine glasses and a central computer to control, well, the whole lot, the two creative minds have created the first—to our knowledge—ping-pong ball based orchestra,…
Firefox has just hit 500 million downloads worldwide; it is an impressive statistic and we think everyone who works on the project should get a pat on the back. As if their contribution in creating a kick-ass browser was not enough to the world, the Mozilla team is celebrating by raising funds for 500 million…
Click to viewIt was only a matter of time before Microsoft officially discontinued manufacturing the Xbox 360 HD DVD add-on, but it took them a few days longer than we expected. Their statement is finally out, and it signals Microsoft’s official withdraw from HD DVD on the console front. https://gizmodo.com/x-box-360-hd-dvd-player-to-drop-to-50-359572 The good news is that…
Paul Knight uses this weird machine to change the appearance of iPhones and iPods into spy plane black titanium nitride-coated machines, which are quite more beautiful than the originals. It uses “plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition” to modify the nature of the surfaces, a complex chemical process used to coat objects like luxury watches, drill bits…
The iPhone is a beautiful machine with amazingly clean lines and smooth surfaces. But how does an iPhone that’s suffered the normal daily wear and tear hold up…under a $30,000 optical microscope? Not so bad, actually. And its frosted metal back casing looks just wicked. These shots are pretty and all, but for the true…
There’s a rumor going around the tech finance pubs about Sony using Sharp panels in its future Large LCDs. Seems to make sense, considering that Sharp’s had the lead in big LCD making, based on the 108-inch champ from last year’s CES. This affects you in a few ways: Sony LCDs have long worked with…
The promised MGM films have just arrived to Xbox LIVE Marketplace. 360 owners will be able to enjoy films like the first four Rockies, The Terminator, Species, or a personal favorite, Wargames—with most supporting HD quality. If only MGM and Microsoft could team up to release more than just 19 movies from MGM’s rich library,…
As usual, just as 802.11n is being finalized news hits about a much faster wireless specification. An Australian NICTA team claims to have made a CMOS chip capable of 5Gbps transmission speeds at a distance of 32ft. Their so called “GiFi” transmitter is small and cheap, but is not yet approved by the IEEE nor…
The Japanese electronics retailer Edion is deeply ashamed it sold its customers HD DVD gear. So ashamed they that they’re allowing buyers to swap in Toshiba HD DVD boxes for Blu-ray players. A little more investigation reveals that the trade must occur during March, and consumers only need pay the price difference. If a US…
According to the chaps at the Eclipse Developer’s Journal (EDJ), Intel is planning a six-core microprocessor, which will go by the Dunnington moniker. The six-core beast will be succeeded by the even meatier, Nehalem micro-architecture, which will support greater than eight cores. The work regarding the Dunnington project is still under wraps, but our friends…
This 2-year-old boy loves his Elmo, but the feeling isn’t mutual. After replacing the batteries of his PC-syncing Elmo Knows Your Name toy, it awoke with a new vocabulary: the phrase, “Kill James?” So what was the child’s reaction? He repeats it, getting an enviable early start on his life of self-loathing awaiting ahead. As…