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Sprint and Clearwire have just announced an agreement to team up on building a nationwide WiMax network, allowing roaming between the two sets of infrastructures. They hope to have 100 million people covered by the end of 2008. Badass…if they can get it done. [Sprint]
While it only has three strings and could use something stronger than a spit shine to clean it up, our unabated Dreamcast love completely blinds us to the Dreamcast guitar’s flaws. If someone could magically transform it into a wireless controller for Guitar Hero 3, it would probably be the greatest peripheral ever. At least…
The Sony Bravia DAV-X10 Home Theater marks a new direction for Sony’s audio. In clear competition with the single and dual surround sound speaker setups we’ve been seeing more and more of, the X10 system features just two speakers and a compact subwoofer, for 480W of total power. Topped with glass and featuring touch-sensitive buttons…
Nokia just cut the time it takes for a N95 to get a GPS fix from 3 min to 1 min, making navigation and location-based services more viable. [
Those chaps at the Phone Arena have put their money on Motorola’s i290 phone becoming the first slimline iDEN model for the Sprint network. Although its screen is a bit on the titchy side, the i290 packs enough features to be useful and will fit in your pocket without you making you look like Spinal…
LED-backlit MacBook Pro supply slimmer than an iPod nano? [Apple Insider]
Those Harvard boys are at it again, this time creating the world’s first robotic fly that actually took flight for the first time. This sophisticated machine is made of tiny laser-cut pieces of carbon fiber, parts so small they’re nearly invisible and molded to outlandishly tight tolerances of within 2 micrometers. There have been other…
JVC gave up on the virginity of HD3 press releases when they showed their stuff around the block last week, but now the $1,300 JVC HD3 camcorder is officially official. Almost a third lighter than its older brother, the impressive HD7, the comfy 2.8″ display won’t do the 1,440 x 1,080 resolution justice. With 60GB…
This is the EcoJet, EasyJet’s green plane of the future. Either EasyJet’s CEO Andrew Harrison has been stealing Giantman’s serum, or his new plane saves so much energy because it’s made for hamsters. The budget airline is aiming to reduce its carbon footprint by 50% by 2015 and reckons this is the aircraft to do…
Anyone rabidly into robots and heading to Japan needs to check out RoboSquare. Situated on the second floor of the TNC Broadcast Hall in Fukuoka City, RoboSquare is described as a “Test-Drive Center” for our more compact and bijou automaton friends. Although it opened in 2002, the center has just moved into larger premises and…
Companies such as Vonage had better look to their laurels, as new kid on the block Ooma is looking to steal their thunder with a product that offers VOIP calls—but with a twist. From September, you will be able to get your hands on the Ooma, a hub that combines VOIP with regular landlines. But…
Yesterday, webroke the story on how to use a pre-paid AT&T SIM card with your iPhone — no contract, corporate account or virtual operator SIM card necessary. Now here’s the graphic tutorial. [Hack The iPhone – Thanks TechLuver] https://gizmodo.com/iphone-partially-unlocked-calls-without-at-t-contract-279606
Japanese company FOMA have shown off a prototype of a couple of wireless safety helmets that they have been working on. You can take your pick from either Type A, which has a built-in camera and GPS module, or Type B, handy for avoiding railroad disasters… Type A is an AV unit aimed at emergency…
From America’s Finest News Source. Onion people, the Giz loves you. [The Onion]
OMG, the internet is beating up Pogue for his iPhone video. We like picking on the guy, even when we’re praising the authoritative, yet mainstream-accessible NYTimes gadget columnist. (See our photoshop contest entitled “Make David Pogue Cool“.) And we’ve had our share of blog fights with the guy. But when I see the Huff Po,…
We just got an email from Mark Friesen, Fujitsu’s Chief Designer in Japan, saying that yesterday’s dubious Helio prototype is really their now-year-old design: “I’m holding both prototypes right now” he told us, “they were created to explore possibilities for smartphones.” Indeed, we featured the other prototype last year. I still want one. Actually, both.…
The August 10, 1912 Chicago Defender contained this blurb about journalism of the future. “What’s your idea of the future journal?” “It will be written by advertisers, and it will contain nothing calculated to bring a blush to the cheek of the young person except cosmetics.” See also: Tablet Newspaper (1994)
Dude, I just saw this infommercial for this fishing rod that doesn’t actually have a rod. It throws out your line, bait, bobber, and hook encapsulated in a little rocket, fired from this pump-action, spring loaded cannon. The range is 30 feet, and in true trailer-trash, QVC fashion, it’s $40, or two easy payments of…
When the Korea-only Black Eagle GPS detects a deceleration of 1.1G or more, it assumes you’ve plowed into a tree or car, and saves an 18-second video clip of the collision. (12 seconds before, pulled from a cache, and 6 seconds after.) It also has sensors for lane changes. I’m not sure I’d want this…
We found it a bit odd that the thumbnails in YouTube’s search results are now in a widescreen format. Could YouTube be preparing for a jump to widescreen video?