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Who takes Apple’s rumored touchscreen tablet seriously? Wired ’s parent company Condé Nast. Earlier this week, the corporation revealed its plans to work with Adobe to repurpose magazine content for upcoming digital devices, including the highly anticipated Apple tablet (even ...
Software
Apple
With all the gadgets, remotes, and thingamajigs piling up on your coffee table, finding the right remote can sometimes be a real pain. But thanks to a few heroic Android developers, there are tools to consolidate some of those pesky remotes … into your Android phone. While you ...
Mobile
Android
TiVo
Sometimes you have to take a step down to step up. That’s what Google should’ve done with its open-source PC operating system Chrome OS, which the corporation demonstrated Thursday.
Instead, Google is positioning Google Chrome OS against Microsoft with a lightweight OS shipping ...
Online
Chrome
It’s surprising that Yelp, the go-to site for finding restaurants, bars and other venues, has no presence in the Android Market. But that’s okay. Foursquare does the job with a social incentive to boot.
Foursquare is a location-based social mobile network that allows users to ...
Mobile
Android
Apple is mighty protective of its iPod trademark, and if you violate it, you’ll get no sympathy from Steve Jobs.
Apple recently sent a letter to software company Little App Factory, requesting that it change the name of its most successful applications: “iPodRip,” an app ...
Software
Steve Jobs
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The title character of Ray Bradbury’s book The Illustrated Man is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.
New LED tattoos from the University of Pennsylvania could make the Illustrated Man real (minus the creepy stories, of course). ...
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In Ray Bradbury’s book, The Illustrated Man, the title character is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at them, they will tell you a story.
In Ray Bradbury’s book, The Illustrated Man, the man of the title is covered with moving, shifting tattoos. If you look at ...
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The Power HotSpot from Solis takes something good (solar power) and makes it easy to use. For $375, you get a portable solar panel and base unit which puts out a 12 Volt supply. Plug in anything with a car cigarette-lighter adapter and you have gadget-power, wherever you are.
Or at least, ...
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How many times have you wanted to eat something whilst out and about but been unable to do so because you had no cutlery? Me neither, and that’s because, like you, I have hands and teeth. But for the prissier amongst you, those who have what my mother calls “good manners”, ...
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The Cyberus Smart Info Engine may sound like a steampunk computer which connects to the Victorian Internet (which would actually be awesome) but it is instead the most full-featured digital photo-frame ever.
To be fair, the manufacturer, Sungale, wouldn’t describe it like that. The ...
Online
In Cory Doctorow’s latest novel, Makers, one of the main characters puts together an amazing little hack using a bunch of Boogie Woogie Elmo toys. These have been stripped of their fur and let loose on a tiny electric Smart Car. Reprogrammed to know how to drive, they collectively take ...
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When Apple dropped support for Atom processors in OS X 10.6.2, effectively killing Hackintosh netbooks, we knew that somebody would fix things. We didn’t know that it would happen so fast.
Just over a week after the update, Russian hacker “Tea” has made a patched kernel ...
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Apple
OS X
Mac
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers.
“We ...
Online
Chrome
Google Chrome OS
My cellphone is such a piece of junk that I cannot sync it with my computer, and it seems not to recognize the numbers of any incoming callers anyway. This is why I hold an iPod Touch in one hand and manually dial the number with the other. And as I never answer calls from unknown numbers, ...
Mobile
This is the Pardo, a concept human powered vehicle. Kind of cool looking, right? Like a big pedal-powered go-kart. Now take a look at this picture:
Less cool, and much more scary. The Pardo (short for guepardo , Spanish for cheetah) splays the rider out prone on its plywood surface ...
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If you thought “huh?” when network supremo Cisco bought out Pure Digital - the maker of the Flip camera - earlier this year, then we at last have some reason for the purchase. A spokesman from Cisco has confirmed that a new Flip will go on sale early in 2010, and that it will have ...
Online
If an unannounced product exists solely in the minds of speculative journalists and know-nothing analysts, can it be “delayed”? If so, then the fabled Apple tablet has just seen a setback to its non-existent launch date, pushing it to the second half of 2010.
The source? Component ...
Hardware
Apple
OLED
If an unannounced product exists solely in the minds of speculative journalists and know-nothing analysts, can it be “delayed”? If so, then the fabled Apple tablet has just seen a setback to its non-existent launch date, pushing it to the second half of 2010.
The source? ...
Hardware
Apple
OLED
Casio has realized that a ruggedized camera should look tough. Normally these kinds of shock-resistant, waterproof, dustproof machines come in big, bubble-shaped, brightly colored cases. The Exilim EX-G1, though, looks like a stealth fighter with knobs on.
So how tough is it? You can shoot ...
