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Motorola announced MOTOMAGX at Linuxworld today, their Linux and ALL CAPSLOCK OS. MOTOMAGX promises openness, flexibility and support for third-party applications.” That includes JAVA and web 2.0 apps. Awesome. I’m glad that the company is a) spending money on software and b) will have an alternative OS to Windows Mobile. [CNN]
The gang at DARPA — you know, the ones working on invisible, shoot-through, self-healing armor — want to create kill-proof soldiers that have characteristics of animals that can survive in extreme conditions. They’re researching things like allowing soldiers to redirect oxygen demand throughout their bodies to allow them to stay underwater for hours. Dammit, DARPA,…
Steve Jobs announced an updated version of the video editing application iMovie to go along with iLife ’08. Calling it “a completely new way of editing video,” the Apple CEO called it “startlingly better.” Jobs says it’s designed to be able to put together a movie in 30 minutes. It has a completely new user…
Attention guitar players: Gibson just turned the guitar world upside down with its Reverse Flying V electric guitar, installment number 29 in the company’s Guitar of the Week series. It’ll be built in a limited edition of just 400 instruments. Even though purists who still worship the classic 1958 design might be soon calling this…
Click to view[UPDATED: Many, many more photos]Here’s a gallery of the sleekest iMac ever, with its sightly retro but ultra-futuristic Star-Treklook. The new keyboard is not only as razor-cool as expected, but it also feels quite good as Jason has discovered in his hands-on. https://gizmodo.com/hands-on-with-the-slim-aluminum-apple-keyboards-286976
Click to viewWe just played with both the new Apple keyboards, both wired and wireless, and found them actually quite good. It’s no longer mushy, like the old models, but almost exactly like the keys on the MacBooks now. They have the same space between individual keys, and pretty much the same tactile feel when…
Here’s the new iMac commercial, which features some of the hottest slow-rotation action I’ve ever seen. It is pretty nice looking, I’ve got to admit.
Just so you guys know, the “Worst. Keynote. Ever!” shirt from WWDC is still available for purchase. I’m just saying, you know, if you think it’s pertinent… And hey, you dorks who bought one a few months ago finally have a reason to wear one again! You can thank Steve for that, at least. [Product…
Click to viewSteve Jobs said the Mac mini is not dead yet, telling the assembled gathering at today’s event he’s extending the life of the tiniest ‘Tosh. When asked the question, “How is the Mac mini doing? And are you updating it?” he responded, “We are refreshing the Mac mini and making it even faster.…
[UPDATED: Confirmed, it’s Numbers, we were right. Keep reading for full info on iWork’08.] As you can see in this image early in his presentation, there’s the new iWork: from left to right, a new icon for Keynote, Pages and what may be is the equivalent of Excel, the fabled Numbers. We will discover it…
iLife gets its long-rumored refresh in iLife ’08, with iPhoto adding a new feature called “Events.” It takes photo albums and organizes them as “events” automatically. “Instead of looking through 5,000 photos, you’re just looking through 100 events,” said Steve Jobs at the Apple event today. Defining events is customizable by time frame, and a…
[UPDATE: We’re here….very, very, early.]Soon, we’ll be heading down to Apple HQ to provide you with a liveblog of their Town Hall event. The party actually starts at 10:00 a.m. PDT (1:00 p.m. EDT), but the pre-game show will start hours before that. We’ll have the Justin.TV cam rolling (which we’ll have to shut off…
Click to viewAs expected, Steve Jobs boomed again and presented the newly redesigned iMacs, which come with aluminum and glass sleek skin and new guts. Comes in 20 and 24 inches. Jump for all the details. Up to 2.4GHz Core 2 Extreme processor, up to 4GB of memory. ATI Radeon HD graphics card, up to…
The Apple Store is down, and you know what that means. Blam and Jason are inside, so we’ll know soon enough what new hotness will be gleaming from its virtual store shelves when it reopens. [Apple Store]
Click to viewWe’ve tested the NES Emulator for the iPhone. It installs easily, providing your iPhone has been previously received all the hacks necessary. So far, it has worked with all the games we have tried, started with Marble Madness and finishing with Zelda. It works, but it has some problems. The Good • It’s…
Use this Keyspan RF (radio frequency) remote to control your Windows Vista PC from 90 feet away, a distance the company takes great glee in exclaiming is three times the distance of infrared remotes. You just plug that USB receiver into your PC, and you’re good to go, remote-controlling all those movie files you’ve ripped…
Apple isn’t the only event happening today, you know. SIGGRAPH (a conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques) is happening in San Diego as well, and there’s some pretty neat stuff being shown off there. This Haptic Glove, for example, transmits the feeling of holding an object in your hand from afar. Imagine shaking hands…
At first we were wondering if the mysterious Russian company Gresso Ltd. even existed, but now those Russkis are showing off a line of fancy-schmancy Windows Mobile 6-packing cellphones it calls the Avantgarde Collection, all gussied up in African blackwood and titanium. The Avantgarde Sol, the pretty little bauble pictured above, has a sapphire crystal…
On first glance, Fujitsu’s Super Frontech Vision LD is pretty awesome. It’s a 231-inch TV, after all, and as we all know, the bigger the TV, the less empty you’ll feel inside. The problem is, the thing has a resolution of 512×288. Yeah, that’s not a typo, 512×288. That means you’d probably have to stand…
According to an interview with game designer and Sony buddy Masaya Matsuura, a new AIBOesque device is in development. From his interview with Kotaku: “The engineers behind the Aibo are doing the PS3. We are talking about making something like the new Aibo.” I ask if it will connect to the PS3. Because that’s what…