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The previously NYC and Santa Monica-only Helio Mysto has finally expanded to a nationwide release, meaning you can grab one online or at your local meatspace Helio store. Here’s one bit of info we haven’t mentioned before: the Mysto’s web browser is “location aware,” meaning you can have location data for certain web-based applications. Neat…
Apple’s products are usually divisive, but it’s rare to see the kind of “I LOVE IT, YOU SUCK!” and “I HATE IT, YOU’RE AN IDIOT” reaction they’ve gotten with the MacBook Air. Well, here’s a post for you readers to go nuts in, either explaining to the world why the MacBook Air is the harbinger…
The Disintegrator gun looks like the creation of a young man who had it up to here with the constant barrage of spitballs, rubber bands and paper airplanes. In this case, the geek in question retreated to his lair only to emerge with an instrument of sheer torture to teach his bullies a lesson. Composed…
Furniture folding into other furniture is the theme of the future, but this OneLessDesk desk brings that compactness to the present. It’s one desk, essentially, but divided out into two sections that hold your input devices and your monitor. Heckler Design made sure it was sturdy enough to hold a 24-inch iMac, yet compact enough…
The Harlin eReader V9 may be Chinese-only for now, but this Linux-based electronic paper reader seems to beat both the Sony Reader P505 and the Amazon Kindle in screen real estate, with a 10-inch, 825 x 1,200 pixel display that can display 4 grayscale levels, and some features, like the stylus-based handwriting for note-taking. We…
Samsung’s A1 drives, the 1.3-inch platter models that fit 30-40GB inside, are being shoved into these little LaCie portables, the new Little Disk and in the updated USB Key Max. With this kind of bit density and 2MB buffers, the drives should be somewhat quick despite the 3600rpm spindle speed, and 40GB is no joke,…
On the floor of Macworld today, we scored some hands-on time with Axiotron’s Modbook—the tablet Mac pieced together from the the carcass of a MacBook. While the system already made a splash at Macworld 2007, we had the opportunity to test the final shipping model. Our 3-second verdict: it’s an absolute joy to use. Here…
The Gadget: iV iPhone case and battery, which adds 4x as much battery time to the iPhone while not adding too much more bulk. The Verdict: The rubberized plastic feels nice, the LED flash/flashlight on the back is good for finding your keys or taking low-light pictures and it clips neatly onto your belt if…
Perhaps Nintendo has a point when it refused Lucas Arts’ permission to develop a bat-like lightsaber attachment for the Wiimote. After all, when you place the controller inside stuff like the 10 insane Wii weapons or a sword and a shield or a billiard cue or a boxing glove, it makes it hard to attach…
Click to view We got the Justin.tv cam ready to go and we’re going to walk you through the latest offerings at Macworld 2008 between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. PST. In-depth looks at the MacBook Air, Time Capsule, Apple TV Take 2 and the new iPhone firmware can all be expected. Stay tuned. 7:39…
Click to viewUpdated with battery life stats, by popular demand. We can all agree that the MacBook Air is a slick-looking little laptop. It’s so thin! You can’t argue with that! But if you’re in the market for a small, high-performance laptop, is it the best option? I pored over specs for four similarly positioned…
Vegas is all about re-creating things that are authentic in completely synthetic and artificial ways, so it’s no surprise that the fine people of that horrible hellhole are planning to create a farm unlike any farm you’ve ever seen. That’s because it’ll be a vertical farm, reaching 30 stories into the air and providing food…
I love Steve Jobs. Why? Because when he speaks, he doesn’t deal with details or nuance—everything is a sweeping proclamation. I like that. His take on Amazon Kindle, for instance, makes it pretty clear Apple won’t be making the actual “iPod of reading”: “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact…
The Serial ATA Standards guys just approved a bus-powered eSATA spec that may see the light of day as early as late summer or early fall. This comes as a relief since eSATA is making its way into the mainstream via the home-theater realm (as DVR add-ons), where demands for the power brick to just…
The February 1, 1939 issue of Vogue ran this photo of the 21st Century man. The caption appears below. The picture can also be found in the book Exit to Tomorrow: World’s Fair Architecture, Design, Fashion 1933-2005. Gilbert Rhode banishes buttons, pockets, collars, ties. The man of the next century will revolt against shaving and…
Here is another DLO dock: the iBoom Jukebox is a portable iPod dock-speaker system with dual 1-inch tweeters and 3-inch woofers and plays nicely with all types of iPod except the iPhone. The best feature is its radio-frequency remote with full-color iPod screen display, which will allow you to roam all around your home while…
Aw, PC, don’t get that look on your face. You’re not fat, you’re just well-built. Just because the MacBook Air is incredibly thin and sexy doesn’t mean I love you any less. I mean, you’ve got so much more personality! You’ve got things like a built-in Ethernet, optical drive, removeable battery AND user-upgradeable RAM and…
How’s this for a blurring of the line between man and machine? German PC builder Tomarni specializes in super-silent machines as well as, it seems, some gaming systems. Having tweaked all that there was to tweak to achieve “maximum performance” on the PCs themselves, they claim it was time to face up to the real…
Click to viewAlright, so I was fairly impressed with the Macworld keynote. Lots of neat little bits, and the MacBook Air is a pretty amazing sliver of a machine. But it’s not what many of us had hoped for. All I really wanted for Macworld was a 13-inch MacBook Pro. A serious but compact workhorse,…
I try to stick with coffee joints I know and trust, so I don’t really have to worry about what’s going on behind the bar (I hope), but the gawker in me still likes the idea of a camera trained on the barista’s hands, brashly laying bare their every move for scrutiny. (And it’s not…
