July 2009
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Motorola Shules Android smartphone for Verizon... →
This is a story full of win and happiness for me, until you see the photo.
There is nothing I’d like to see more than Motorola move into the Android market. Come on HTC needs some competition and Moto could save their brand if they came out with something reliable.
What makes this even better is the unholy incarnation of Moto and Android seems to be destine for Verizon, the carier with...
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Water soluble bikini just in time for end of... →
Ok ok so it’s not strictly tech or gadgety, but come on. It’s Friday and this is sure to send your imagination reeling for the rest of the day.
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The Revenge Shop in Europe is selling a water soluble Bikini for about $20._ (link in title bar) _
It comes in a gift box, and bears no further indication of it’s abilities_ (or inabilities)_.
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Eye-Fi Geo Card Comes to Apple Stores Exclusively,... →
I have always liked the Eye-Fi cards, but never saw enough justification to buy them.
In case you are unaware, the Eye-Fi cards are an SD memory card that can automatically send pictures you take on your SD Card equipped camera to your computer directly over your home Wi-Fi network, as you take them. It can even send them straight to flickr, myspace, facebook, or other sites directly from the...
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NEW: KODAK Zi8 Pocket Video Camera →
Eastman Kodak today announced the next in their ever increasing pocket digital video camcorder line. Competing in the same space as the Cisco owned Flip Video series of cameras Kodak’s offerings have always intrigued me a bit more because of the use of standard SD cards for storage, making them able to take far more video before dumping it to your PC than the Flip Videos.
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Blip.tv Lands A Big Distribution Deal With YouTube... →
This story is of particular interest to me because Science Editor RebRob and myself do a beer review podcast that sometimes talks tech and coincidentally is hosted by the good folks over at Blip.tv.
Blip.tv has come to an agreement with You Tube and others to allow syndication of content on Blip.tv to other more popular video sharing sites, as well as distribution directly to set top boxes such...
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Passion officially released on the App Store. →
oh my gawd…
Perhaps the whole “There’s an App for that” slogan has gone a tad too far.
Passion, a brand new iPhone app has been released. It’s purpose is to rate your sexual abilities.
From the site:
“Ever wondered if how well you compared to other people during sex, well now you can with Passion. This iPhone application measures how well you perform...
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Western Digital releases 1TB laptop hard drive →
Ahh a terrabyte hard drive small enough for your lappy. Last year it would have made me drool, but this year, I am anxiously looking forward to the day when all portable computers (and shortly there after desktops too) just come with blazing fast low power flash based drives.
Don’t get me wrong the 1TB drive in a 2.5” form factor for a lappy is great, but… I think the days...
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From the Earth to the Moon
Science Editor RebRob here.
If you’ve listened recently to our podcast (The Happy Time Magic Hour),
you’ve heard me gush over the American space program, specifically the
Apollo 11 moon landing, which happened 40 years ago yesterday.
I just thought I would take the opportunity here to thank the astronauts
from that mission (Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong), as
well...
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Palm Pre Mojo SDK Finally Available: Go Make Apps! →
When my buddy Rob was in town last Monday I got a chance to play with his beloved Palm Pre. Coming from an iPod Touch and BlackBerry Storm point of view, I have to admit, It’s a pretty sweet device.
But for all it’s OS interface nicities, the one thing it sorely needs are applications. Oh sure it has a few that pretty much came with the phone launch. A twitter App, a Facebook app,...
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iTunes 8.2.1 breaks Palm Pre sync ability →
You had to know this was coming. The Palm Pre, the only non Apple device to sync directly with iTunes, can do so no more.
iTunes 8.2.1 (released today) breaks the ability of the Palm Pre to pretend it’s an iPod and sync with Apple’s iTunes software. The Pre had this ability because when put into media sync mode it actually told iTunes that it was an iPod. Well one of the so...
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$800 Apple Tablet Coming in October →
Gizmodo (link in title bar) is re-reporting the rumor that we will see an Apple tablet this fall, specifically in October. They are pulling info from The China Times and MacRumors and although it’s still just a rumor it seems pretty credible.
The question is, what sort of OS would this tablet run. I have long speculated that we would see something powered by a variant of the iPhone...
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DARPA Scares the crap out us by funding a steam... →
DARPA, the great little arm of the military that has funded so many marvels or modern day tech. You might remember this little thing called the internet, or also wonderful self driving robotic cars that they regularly set loose in both wild and urban environments in the name of fun and science.
Well they may have finally gone off the deep end. It seems that DARPA has agreed to fund the EATR...
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What's in a brand...?
Ok so my friend Ralph’s post over at Brand Logic has me thinking this afternoon. Although this topic isn’t strictly tech related, I think it applies to a lot of gadgets and gear that we love, so I’ll try and approach it from that angle.
Ralph’s post was regarding the SciFi Channels recent or soon change to SyFy. I say recent or soon because it just doesn’t matter...
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Hulu Video Downloader Lets You Save Your Shows For... →
“But Hulu is available everywhere for free, so why do we need a downloader?”
Well Billy, because ubiquitous wireless broadband isn’t everywhere yet, and broadband providers, espececially those who deal in the wireless variety, use these things called bandwidth caps. Especially low caps like the 5gb ones in place with most cellular data providers (Verizon, AT&T,...
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Amazon Kindle 2 Price drop, now $299
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Amazon has lowered the price of the Kindle 2 by $60, to only $299. If you wanted to jump into the growing popularity of e-books,now is the time. The Kindle is the most...
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Google OS lives (and it's coming to a netbook near... →
The long time rumored Google operating System finally looks like is a reality. or at least it will be in the second half of next year.
Ars Technica leaked and now Google has confirmed that they are working on a very lightweight linux based OS that will be based around the Chrome Browser as your main interface.
Designed to take advantage of Google’s (and others) cloud computing services...
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Creative Zii iPod Touch like touch-screen player... →
Creative is trying to play catch up with Apple’s popular iPod Touch media player.
FCC filings show off the back side of such a device which includes a Camera with a HD moniker next to it. But will it be in time, since we just reported a rumor that the next touch may include a camera too.
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What else would make this a compelling competitor to the iPod...
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New robot crawls through your veins to "save" you →
Medical technology gets cool and scarier at the same time.
Some boffins from Israel’s Technion University have come up with a medical robot with a 1mm diameter designed to perform tiny surgery in your veins or, deliver very targeted precise doses of medicine.
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They were able to make it so small by eliminating any sort of propulsion system in the micro...
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A Netbook for $0.99. →
Finally a decent deal on a subsidised netbook. Sort of.
This is as good as an subsidy gets. You sign up for a two years of Sprints fast and reliable EVDO network (the same network that powers the Kindle), and for less than a buck you get to take home a Compaq netbook too.
It’s a good deal if you were looking to get EVDO access. If you are looking to just get a netbook, $400 is a lot...
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Is the iPod Touch getting a camera? →
CNET News is reporting a Tech Crunch story that Apple has placed a massive order for camera components destine for the next version of the iPod Touch.
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A camera, especially one that could do video with on board editing like the iPhone 3GS would make the next generation iPod Touch a compelling upgrade.
Toss in there GPS and Blue Tooth Tethering and it would...
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Psystar emerges from Chapter 11 and adds another... →
It’s the crazy little computer maker that could… It seems Apple just can’t make this company go away.
Psystar, the now famous computer maker that sells non Apple systems with Apple OS X pre loaded on them filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection a while back, thus signaling the impending demise of the company, or did it.
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Chapter 11 or no...
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Gmail update adds drag and drop support. →
Horay! an update to gmail that brings it inline with most other web based email interfaces can already do.
Now you can drag and drop emails onto a “label” to give it that label.
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For those of you not familiar with gmail, labels are the google version of folders, sort of. A label essentailly puts an email in a folder, but because it’s not...
Pricing Details for Last.fm on the Xbox 360 →
Finally, a month or so after it was announced, we are seeing the pricing options for Last.FM on the Xbox 360.
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You have to be an Xbox Live Gold member to get access. (Silver members will have a three month trial).
Gold Member will however, have to endure video advertising with the audio stream. This doesn’t bother me too much as it’s basically...