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We have been saying it for ages, but now it’s official. HD DVD has been pronounced dead on Tuesday, February 19, 2008, even before the press conference has started, according to our Ichiroo, from Gizmodo Japan. Toshiba’s press release is out in the wild. The Format War is over. Full release after the jump. Toshiba…
These Apple patents show standard trackpad, basic multitouch and gonzo “Advanced Multitouch” never seen before on shipping products. The advanced UI includes thumb/forefinger/middlefinger combos for saving, closing and opening files, as well as cut, copy and paste. (The patents assume the system can detect the differences between different fingers. [Macrumors]
The Palm Centro is losing its Sprint-only roots and going to AT&T for $99 after rebate with a two-year contract. That’s the Glacier White color combo, and in a month there’ll be an Obsidian Black version. It’s essentially the same phone that Sprint offers, but this is a quad band GSM version with EDGE (no…
Click to viewAs of today, the analog cellphone is no more. Here’s the complete timeline of its development, since Greece in 490BC to February 18, 2008, the day in which networks are no longer obligated to provide with analog cellphone coverage. Click to see the huge, high definition version. (Click the image above for a…
I don’t know what it is about steampunk, but we simply can’t get enough of it. Now we are ashamed to admit that our obsession has reached rehab-like proportions. However, it looks as though this steampunk Iron Man will have to keep us satisfied until we get the help we so desperately need. [Sillof via…
Here’s an interesting bit: The Lenovo x300 almost had the old IBM butterfly keyboard of old. This detail and others were revealed in a Businessweek cover story on the ultrathin, quickly being recognized as the antithesis to the Apple Air. The piece has a lot of other interesting background, like the above info graphic of…
Tablet PC Review benchmarked the SSD storage format vs SDHC (high capacity SD cards), concluding that SSD substantially outperforms the other flash format. To SDHC’s credit, it produced access times that rivaled SSD, but while a class 6, 8 GB SHDC card read at around 18 MB/s and wrote around 14 MB/s, a 128 GB…
OQOs new online outlet store passes the savings onto you, the frugal customer, with refurbished models with a one year warranty. You can even score a base Model 02 for the crazy low price of $999—which is about $300 off the list price. [OQO via Boy Genius via Ubergizmo]
Linux fans should be pleased with the announcement that Dell has added the Inspiron 1525 to their Ubuntu 7.10 lineup. It also features built-in DVD playback to save users some valuable downloading time. The laptop will not arrive in the US until later this month, but customers in the UK, France, Spain and Germany can…
If I were to get married, I would be honored if pastry chef Mark Randazzo of Mark Joseph Cakes would whip me up one of these awesome looking R2-D2 cakes for the reception. Unfortunately, that would also probably mean that my marriage would be over before it began. I would be left all alone, weeping…
The Star Wars Series 2 mimobots—Luke, Leia, Han and Boba Fett—that were due last month are finally shipping tomorrow, three months after going up for pre-order. They’ve got a brand new feature that I’m not sure if I love or hate: When you plug in or eject the drive, it plays sounds from Star Wars,…
Nikkei is reporting that Toshiba prez Atsutoshi Nishida will officially call it quits for HD DVD tomorrow, with sales and production ending in March for players, PC optical drives and the disks themselves. [Nikkei]
That bazooka-like Sigma lens we saw at PMA 2008 can now be your very own—for $25,000, more than what the rep told us, but you save $9,500.01 (28%) off its $34k list price (!). It’s 50 pounds, but no worries, just use Super Saver shipping. [Amazon via 1001 Noisy Cameras] https://gizmodo.com/the-most-massive-lens-at-pma-2008-351502
The rumored Sprint/Clearwire WiMax reunion is apparently coming with a wedding gift from Intel: $2 billion. Given Sprint’s shaky legs and Clearwire’s teeniness, they’re gonna need it to get to WiMax on track for national deployment (it’s why we were thought they were doomed to be together in the first place). https://gizmodo.com/sprint-looking-to-get-back-with-clearwire-on-wimax-its-350370 Especially since it…
In one of the most unnatural and nonsensical exercises in cross-branding, well, ever, Kool-Aid has teamed up with Reebok to create Kool-Aid scented shoes. Yes, now your feet can smeel like grape, cherry or strawberry rather than like sweaty death like they do now. Apparently, they went on sale at the start of the month,…
Oh man, big news, guys! I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it looks like Blu-ray has won the format war and HD DVD is dead! You heard it here first, spread the news! In fact, Samsung has just announced that it’s scaling back its HD DVD operations and focusing more on Blu-ray. “Samsung is…
Apart from bringing us laws, wars, peace, hanging chads, lobbies, sex scandals, First Ladies and Rough Riders, there have been presidents and Founding Fathers who have brought us all kinds of gadgets and inventions. Jump to see the best tech that the fearless leaders of the free world had to offer us. Thomas Jefferson, the…
Mtron’s 128GB SSD drive isn’t the highest capacity SSD around, but a quick Google shows it to be the largest 1.8-incher. That’s the same size drive in many MP3 players and Apple’s new Macbook Air. They’re expecting nice 120MB/second reads and 100MB/second writes. Production will start in April, but as with all SSDs of this…
Verizon’s got a bunch of new Unlimited plans coming tomorrow. Can you taste the bitter, metallic flavor of pure excitement in the air? People with fat wallets and big mouths will be sure to enjoy the unlimited voice plan for $99, and they only get more expensive from there. Here’s the full rundown: * $99…
The May 10, 1901 Lincoln Evening News (Lincoln, NE) ran this illustration of “the latest type of flying machine.” A model of the very latest form of flying machine, shown in the accompanying illustration, is now on exhibition and has proved quite successful, being perfectly dirigible and easily controlled. As a flying machine of this…