Dartmouth Snow-Bot Hauls People, Kegs
Perhaps in order to simulate winter in New Hampshire, Dartmouth engineers recently traveled to Greenland (the icy one, as opposed to Iceland, the green one) to test a solar-powered robot. When the robot, aided by GPS and really good snow tires, proved itself adept at getting around, it dawned on the researchers that they could…
Not Just DRM-Free, Free-Free
As the Web radio business gets shaken up by demands for higher (some say deadly) royalties, some would-be online broadcasters are getting creative. Goombah went looking for indie labels who were interested in simply giving them the rights to distribute music, totally for free. (Here’s where you interject a skeptical laugh.) Yes, on the Web,…
Made For iPhone (Or Any Other Phone You May Own)
It happened. “For the iPhone” has become a sales catchphrase. And in these first instances, when nary a third-party manufacturer is likely to have his hands on anything like an iPhone, the use of the term is fairly lame. Amazon is selling a Gomadic Wireless Bluetooth Headset for the Apple iPhone. If you read the…
Sony Announces Upgraded VAIO C in New Colors, Sends Them to a Pyjama Party
Yes, it’s a new-but-not-really Sony notebook, the upgraded VAIO C series with chic and totally superfluous new colors like “espresso black, shell white, coral pink, summer sky blue, urban grey and fresh green,” probably chosen by Hello Kitty and the Teen Girl Squad while on tour in Japan, where they will be available in April.…
Sony VAIO Type G: Another 12.1″ Sub-notebook with 32GB Flash Drive That Doesn’t Come from Cupertino
For those who think that June will never come, can’t wait to get a sexy subnotebook with flash storage even if it doesn’t come with Mac OS X and live in Japan, here’s the new Sony VAIO Type G: a 12.1-inch notebook that not only comes under the 2 pounds mark (1.97 or 898 grams)…
SmartFish: The Flyest of Flying Machines
If this is the future of travel, where do I sign up? A bunch of Swiss aeronautical designers have spent the last five years working on the SmartFish project, a lightweight, fuel-efficient hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft. Now at the small model prototype phase, they claim that a full-scale model of their invention will carry two…
Sony VAIO Type L Now With Blu-ray, Probably Made With Unsold PS3 Parts
Sony is releasing new VAIO computers and laptops, like always first in Japan but likely to spread to the rest of the world in the coming months. This is the 19-inch flavor iMac VAIO Type L, which comes with more or less the same design as previous incarnations but loaded with everything they could find…