Helio to Open Retail Stores From Sea to Shining Sea
The same folks who designed Apple’s retail stores will be making Helio retail stores, the first of which is to open this October in Santa Monica. Eventually, the wireless carrier’s stores will show up in other cities, like Denver, San Diego, and the granddaddy of them all, New York. https://gizmodo.com/deal-get-helio-with-no-contract-192628 Apparently, the Helio retail stores…
Gemei X21 Portable Audio Player With Monkey’s Audio Support
Chinese manufacturer Gemei is coming out with the X21, an otherwise run-of-the-mill portable audio player save for its ability to play Monkey’s Audio files. Monkey’s Audio format files can be identified by their file extension, .APE. It’s a lossless audio codec like FLAC, meaning you shrink the size of the song files without any hit…
Lite-On SHM-165H6S Dual-Layer DVD Burner, Burns DVD-RAM
Lite-On graces us with more DVD burning fun with the SHM-165H6S, a 16x dual-layer DVD burner that’s even compatible with DVD-RAM, a format that hasn’t exactly broken through to the mainstream. The drive uses SMART-BURN to help prevent burning coasters and SMART-X to automatically detect what type of media you’re burning, theoretically maximizing your burn…
Homemade Solar Cell Built Right In Your Kitchen
With The Man jacking up energy prices, it’s probably not a bad idea to start investigating the benefits of solar power. (No, nobody cares about energy derived from the wind, Netherlands, thank you very much.) The solar panel in question is made from cuprous oxide rather than the usual silicon. Science Toys has the step-by-step…