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That super light 2.4-pound Toshiba Portege ultra-portable (previous version here) has gotten a little upgrade in the form of 3.5G HSDPA connectivity. That’s right, you’ll soon be able to take this laptop out anywhere and still be able to get online and upload your own YTMNDs, thanks to the GSM, GPRS, EGPRS, WCDMA and WCDMA+HSDPA…
Round two of our iPod Dock Bracket continues as three docks battle it out for our eternal love and loyalty…until the next round. It’s heavyweights iHome iH52 and XtremeMac Tango duking it out in the same ring as the welterweight Eton Sound 100 iPod. Who will win? Why would you even read the teaser anymore?…
We’ve been hearing reports of a widespread EDGE outage near Boston and along the East Coast. Have any readers noticed? Still unconfirmed, but we’re looking into it. How are your iPhones holding up? Update: Looks like customers in the Northeast had “difficulty accessing and using the EDGE network” starting around 4:30 a.m.. The problem was…
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the reason CD sales suck is not the fact that there isn’t enough crap loaded onto the disc. Enhanced CDs have been around for over a decade; hell, many of the first interactive CD-ROMs came from the record industry. Does anyone remember a single…
A UK hospital is pioneering surgery with a robot to treat patients with a fast or irregular heartbeat. St Mary’s Hospital in London is using the Sensei robot, a robotic arm that feeds tiny wires through the arteries during the procedure, known as catheter ablation. Just four of these machines exist throughout the world. Unlike…
New York State Senator pushes to pass a bill banning texting on cellphones while driving, something that 66% of 18- to 24-year-olds apparently do now. [GovTech]
These HDR shots of an airplane graveyard are some of the coolest and most beautiful photos we’ve seen in a long time. I’ve picked a few of my favorites as an appetizer below, but the set has 30 shots, and the quality is all as good as these, so do yourself a favor and go…
We were only slightly ashamed when we were waiting in line for an iPhone, but camping out for the Harry Potter book in a line of 10-year-olds? That’s real shame. Good thing our sponsors are right there in line with us. Thanks to AT&T, Ask.com, Audi, Cazadores Tequila, Casio, E! Online, Mio, Motorola, Netgear, Nissan,…
Pink is a four-letter word—as is cancer. This October, Casio is bringing out a rose-tinted version of its Exilim EX-Z75 in order to raise awareness for the National Breast Cancer Foundation. How nice, I thought, a big corp doing something for lady-bumps. And then I remembered that the EX-Z75 was already out in a blush-colored…
According to motherboard manufacturers, Intel will debut their first 45nm processors at $999 in Q4 of this year. Initial stats will include 3.33GHz, a 1333MHz front side bus and a 12MB L2 Cache (up from previous reports of an 8MB cache). Sources also claimed that two higher performance quad cores with the new architecture would…
Microsoft gets a second class action suit on Xbox 360 disc scratching, this time from California. [kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/scratched/microsoft-gets-another-class-action-suit-280485.php
The smartest way to produce cool-looking electronics is to hire someone who already knows how, someone from frog design, for instance. Disney’s electronics team is helmed by two former froggers, Chris Heatherly and John Guerra, and they’ve started turning some wild designs into hardware realities. The High School Musical Clock Radio above probably won’t outblast…
Late last week, the new Harry Potter book leaked onto the torrents in painstaking, photographic form. But instead of the uploader’s identity remaining anonymous, the pictures actually left a trail in their metadata [read: those meddling wizards were gossiping again]. In fact, Canon was able to clearly identify the model of camera used (Canon Rebel…
This shiny black-and-chrome globe will hover above its black stand without any visible help—unless you want to spin it, in which case a gentle hand will help it on its way. Measuring 4 inches across, its base plugs into the mains and will cost you $137. [FunIce via Sci-Fi Tech]
They showed mock-ups at CES this year, and now Hitachi is claiming that its Blu-ray camcorders will be on sale by the end of the year. The company has developed an 8-cm Blu-ray DVD drive with 7GB capacity and 5.3 megapixel CMOS sensor to go in their Wooo range of video recorders. Let’s hope the…
The ultimate geek tattoo could only be a transferable one. It’s painless—although beware when peeling off the paper, as you might trap a couple of hairs which for most geeks can be a painful experience. This $7.95 pack from Archie McPhee has missed a trick, though. How about a massive line drawing of Jobs’ or…
In case you were wondering what Chen wears to guard his own gear when he shoves gadgets down his pants. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]
Giz Japan shares our love of Lego and Neon Genesis Evangelion, so they sent us some shots of this grey Unit 01 built by mumu-san. Like Giz Japan’s editors, we’d like to see some purple blocks in the interest of being faithful (and probably more attractive), but overall it looks pretty good. Really though, what…
From October 11 until December 27, 1900 the New York Observer ran a series of eight letters by a man named Augustus. He was reporting from the Paris Exposition of 1900. The second installment of the series, which ran October 18th captures the wonder of seeing a city engulfed in electric light and the hope…
Another Free iPhone checkpoint has been reached. It has been reported but unconfirmed that the first 3rd party, non-Safari iPhone app was run today in the wild. Developer “Nightwatch” did the compilation and execution of the program using his ARM/Mach-O Toolchain. Check their progress report after the jump. After many, many hours of intense work…