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Looking to add a unique personal touch to your living space? I see plenty of sports fans decking out a room with team colors and accessories—so why can’t Apple fanboys do the same? First off you need to add a little flair to that boring old couch with the OS X dock pillow set pictured…
The yoga-stretch-exercise add-on for the Wii finally gets a launch “frame” for the US: Q2 2008. Excuse us while we queue up stories about Wii Fits breaking under the massive weight of American fatties. Maybe that’s what took Nintendo so long to localize it for the NA audience—trying to find enough structural engineers. [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/345707/nintendo-lays-out-08-wii-fit-mario-kart-wii-vaguely-dated
You already know the main features of iPhone 1.1.3 from our hands-on and from the keynote, but there are a few interesting tweaks that got lost in all the other Apple coverage. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-iphone-firmware-1-1-3-345179 • The SMS storage has been upped from 1,000 to 75,000, which means you probably won’t need to ever clear a conversation…
Having the internet be constantly displayed no matter where we look is a dream we’ve had for years, but having to shove an electronic contact into our eyes makes us think twice. This prototype device, which has red LEDs and can be worn for up to 20 minutes (tested on rabbits) with no adverse effects.…
Here’s some good news for those of you who want an iPhone but have sold your soul to the corporate overlords: AT&T is said to be announcing iPhone compatibility to corporate and business accounts on January 21st. The “business iPhone” is the same as the regular iPhone, but it has a slightly different pricing setup…
We’ve noticed this a bit ourselves, but reader ggperez points out that there’s been some reports of Airport Wi-Fi dropouts on Mac laptops running Leopard. He describes the situation: After a few seconds of internet browsing, the browser hangs up and you get a problem loading page/lost connection message (both Firefox and Safari). The problem…
The December 11, 1958 Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune (Chillicothe, MO) quotes Smith Rairdon, director of marketing for Owens-Illinois Glass Company, about the future of glass. His quotes appear below. “In the year 2008 a bride will be carried over the threshold of a glass house. Her kitchen may be glass-walled with a glass refrigerator, glass chairs, shelves…
We’re not sure if this HTC Pharos 3470 Windows Mobile Smartphone will actually be called the Pharos when it launches—especially since it gets people confused with Pharos, who also make GPS Windows Mobile smartphones—but this spy shot looks interesting. The phone has a 200MHz OMAP processor, 128MB RAM, 2.8-inch QVGA display, Bluetooth 2.0, and GPS.…
The Modem is a new art and music venue opening in Berlin that’s being built in an abandoned power plant that used to supply juice and heat to East Berlin. It’s a gigantic space, nearly 250,000 square feet in size, and it’s full of Cold War-era contraptions, knobs, levers and other fun doodads that are…
According to the experiments by the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Centre team, playing some Wii games improve surgeons’ performance. The study pitted a group of eight trainee surgeons, who spent one hour on the Wii, against normal trainees in a surgery virtual reality simulator. However, only a few games help this: According to researcher Kanav…
The Pitch Apple sticks with the “dance with the one that brung ya” philosophy for the start of ’08, churning out yet another Mac-versus-PC chestnut. This time, though, the tone’s a notch more acidic than in spots past—John Hodgman’s PC comes off as more flummoxed than usual, readily admitting to Vista’s many faults. (Sound like…
Reason number 149 I won’t move to Texas: Time Warner confirmed it’ll be testing a new pricing plan in Beaumont that’s based on how much bandwidth you eat up. That’s right, hard caps. Totally made-up example, since they haven’t released details on the package tiers: Pay $50 a month for 500 gigs, and if you…
Holy crap! The Age of The Machines is nigh: a bunch of scientists in Switzerland have created learning robots that can lie to each other. Okay, so they don’t swill beer or put bends in girders—they just communicate to each other with benign flashing lights, thank goodness, instead of using lasers to destroy humans: The…
Pizza Hut, ever expanding both waistlines and accessibility to their greasy goodness, has launched a new mobile ordering service allowing users to text message 4 pizza. Apparently online pizza orders have really taken off, accounting for 20 percent of total sales (that stat is either from Pizza Hut or Papa John’s, we couldn’t discern from…
Click to viewUpdate: That was fast. It’s busted—or fixed, depending on your POV. See the jump. Movie rentals from iTunes 7.6? Awesome. That pesky 24-hour viewing window once you’ve started the film? Not so much. And even if you get a little trigger-happy and click play only two MB into the download, the self-destruct timer…
You don’t have the ultimate bachelor pad unless you own a urinal. And as long as you’re going all out with the theme, the urinal might as well glow like the slutty fluorescents of a cheap motel sign. The Gloo urinal is built from plastic and filled with LEDs, at last bringing the same style…
Stressed-out scientists can now relax with the Sandpendel, a mashup Zen sand-garden/physics-experiment desktop toy. Designed by Jürg Näf, the Sandpendel is based on Léon Foucault’s famous 19th-century experiment that demonstrated the Earth’s rotation. Details, plus another pic, are below. The pendulum of Näf’s creation swings in a little orbit and traces fine track patterns in…
Rather like some of my Swedish girlfriends, Pioneer is going after mobile DJs and bars with their new MEP-7000 player and matching SEP-C1 controller. The MEP-7000 allows to play anything except vinyl (which will probably cause a Macbook-Air-sized conflict), including MP3, WAV, AIFF and AAC files, from any source, including hard drives, CD, DVD, USB…
Remember that viscerally disturbing scene from The Matrix when you see the liquefied human goo engulf the baby? Well, now you can bring that memory into the comfort of your own bathroom with the Gelicity Spa Jelly Bath. More than just another bubble bath, Gelecity transforms your bathwater into a lavender, jasmine and bergamot-infused gel.…
The beautiful, smart and, no doubt, fragrant Melinda Gates is the subject of a mahoosive profile in Fortune. And, aside from the philanthropic angle (Bill and Melinda, it is estimated, will give away around $100 billion from their eponymous foundation) it gives a fascinating insight into the home life of Mr. and Mrs. Gates—including the…