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Intel and Microsoft have shipped 150,000 of their “Classmate PCs” to the Libyan government, beating the OLPC to the market there. OLPC is expected to ship 1.2 million of their laptops to Libya, but that may prove difficult given the recent news regarding production problems. [BetaNews] https://gizmodo.com/olpc-production-hits-snag-delay-and-shortage-imminent-315282
If you’re not exactly down with the state of e-voting in the US (and you really shouldn’t be), the Election Assistance Committee (a federal oversight committee that now has reign over certifying e-voting machines) wants to hear about it and what you think of their recently proposed guidelines (PDF, 600 pages). https://gizmodo.com/how-to-steal-an-election-with-a-diebold-machine-200693 Ostensibly they’re designed…
Last week we mentioned a rumor that a variant of the Samsung F700 could make its way on the Verizon network sometime in the near future. Today, another rumor from Phone Arena has determined that the variant is actually the Samsung SCH-U940, and it is set to make its official debut sometime in the next…
Whether you tune in for Keynote liveblogs, or despise Applemodo, Options by Fake Steve Jobs will be an effortless read. The opening: It is Tuesday afternoon. I am barefoot, sitting on a cushion in the lotus position, gazing at a circuit board. This board, no bigger than a playing card, has taken years to create.…
If you kept up with our Mac OSX Leopard Liveblog, you might have heard that Apple pulled wireless Time Machine back-ups with AirPort disks at the last minute. If you were irritated by this development, good news may be on the horizon. According to an Appleinsider source, Apple is classifying the AirPort disk issue as…
Game|Life has gotten their box of Rock Band goodness and it looks like there’s more cardboard and assembly instructions involved than a desktop from Dell. After tearing through the tree’s worth of post-consumer recycled packaging and freeing various appendages from twist ties, you then have to put the whole damn thing together, which apparently requires…
Brian and I have been debating the merits of the Leopard feature called Spaces. Using CTRL keys, you can shift up, down, left and right, to different sets of open apps and windows, while the desktop itself remains stationary wherever you go. I have jumped in with glee, but Blam is not as sold: he…
Everyone needs a gas mask to go with their tinfoil hat, but the problem is that they tend to cost too damn much. Unless you construct one from scrap parts from your last PC. With a paper bag base, CD case visor and a filter fashioned from a keyboard box, cleaning disk, CPU fan and…
Approximately 100k iPhone users, and what I’d guess as about 5-7% of all iPhone users, browsed to jailbreakme.com to put apps back on their 1.1.1 iPhones. That’s not far from the 9% owner base that Apple brags picked up 2 million Leopard copies over the first two days of sales. That’s a lot of iPhone…
With 1.3 million households out of 7.4 million total—17.5 percent—receiving at least one HD network, NYC is leading the US in HD uptake. Los Angeles technically has more households receiving HD, but only 17.1 percent of total households are getting the good stuff. Nation-wide, 12.7 million households—11.7 percent—get HD service. Oh, to be one of…
If you can believe it, the Do Hit Chair is a a $6020, 0.04″ thick steel cube that the user smashes to resemble something approaching a chair. This “customizable” seating solution was designed by Marijn van der Poll and one can only assume that the absurd price tag on this thing is some sort of…
Saitek continues on the path of insane 3200dpi laser gaming mice, though its latest, the Cyborg, seems to take a cue from Logitech’s G9 design-wise with a boatload of customization options—unless you’re a leftie (ha!). Besides being similarly ugly, you can adjust the grip by sliding the front section forward or backward, rather than pop…
Other than these quick and dirty snapshots smuggled out a presentation somewhere, not much is known about the new UIQ interface. Although, many Sony Ericsson users will undoubtedly be excited about getting a closer look at what appears to be a much improved touch-based UI. Additional photo after the jump. [Gearfuse]
Whatever Google might announce in two weeks, they’re certainly reaping the benefits already: Hype over their mobile plans has shoved their stock price to over $700 a share, an eightfold increase since its IPO three years ago. The $20 its stock has shot up in the last couple of days has pushed its market value…
Earlier this year, a 500GB version of the DVR Xpander was released to the joy of those blessed with a common Scientific Atlanta 8300 series box. Using an eSATA connection, the DVR Xpander acts as an external hard drive that allows the user to dramatically expand the amount of space available for recording video on…
Atheros’s new AR6002 line of Wi-Fi chippies sip juice ever so slightly in both standby or active states—almost nothing in the former, and over 200GB worth of downloadage could be powered by a 3.7-volt battery—allowing even the most power-ticky devices to get in on the Wi-Fi goodness. They’ll start shipping in Q1 2008, meaning useless…
The official AT&T 8525 upgrade to Windows Mobile 6 is finally here after months and months of delay. You can download and install it directly from the HTC website (as opposed to the AT&T website), but you only have from November 1 to February 1, 2008 to do so. You’ll probably still be able to…
Eternal Image, makers of afterlife geek vessels, released a near final design of their Star Trek casket based on the “Photon Torpedo” design from STII: Wrath of Khan. The piano black coffin is complete with Federation insignia on the inside, and handles for when the ensigns load your geek corpse into the airlock. [Eternal Image…
Continuing last year’s earlier-than-Black-Friday deals, Wal-mart’s decided to put up an Acer laptop for $348 this Friday. In addition to the laptop, they’ve got four other deals this Friday that they’re going to reveal online—not in a circular that will inevitably get leaked on Black Friday websites. So to get in on this, all you…
A team of researchers at UC Berkeley have invented a radio made of a single carbon nanotube. The device is just a few billionths of a meter in size – so small that it could fit inside a living cell, or float along in your bloodstream. According to physicist and project lead Alex Zettl, who…