In one brief video, a Flipo clock makes the living-space rounds, showcasing its simple design and ability to sit in four different positions on nightstands, kitchen counters, and even bathtub rims. In another, designer Daniel Michalik talks about his studio in Brooklyn, N.Y., the materials he uses, and the design process.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Discovery Blazes One Last Trail
Just shy of 40 successful space journeys, the NASA shuttle Discovery headed to the International Space Station Thursday on a final mission that followed repair problems and bad weather. Known as "STS-133," Discovery's last voyage will take 11 days. The shuttle is delivering a variety of parts and modules to the space station and carrying an interesting hitchhiker -- a humanoid robot named "Robonaut 2," or "R2."
Kinect Hack Lets You Impersonate An Octopus Impersonating Humans
The student game developers behind PC puzzler OctoDad have hacked Kinect to let players act out the secret struggles of a digital octopus.
How to Automatically Download TV Shows as Soon as They've Aired (or Turn Your PC into a TiVo) [How To]
Video content is readily available online for you to download, but the download process isn't always as simple and automated clicking a button on a TiVO or DVR. Fortunately, with a little set up and some help from a few great tools and BitTorrent or Usenet, you can turn your computer into a TiVo-like downloader. Here's how to set them up. More »
The Original Monopoly Board Was a Circle [Monopoly]
Filed in things I never knew: early Monopoly boards were circular! Filed in things I should have known: Monopoly street names all hail from Atlantic City. More »
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Twilight Discovery [Image Cache]
Yesterday, ISS denizen Paolo Nespoli snapped this photo of the space shuttle Discovery on approach to the station. More »
10 Billion Downloads At Apple App Store
Many vendors try to revolutionize the IT industry. Apple is one who has done it: the company recently celebrated the 10 billionth download at its App Store.
Android Spyware Distributed By Third Party Online Marketplaces
On the heels of HongTouTou, Chinese security firm NetQin has found spyware -- SW.SecurePhone and SW.Qieting -- that collects messages, call logs, and other data.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Hands-On With Haier's New HDTVs
We caught up with Haier to see what their new HDTV lineup has in store.
Bendable Graphene Batteries Take a Page from Gumby [Batteries]
Researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) may be on the cusp of creating something special: Bendable batteries that could have better performance than their stiff, inflexible cousins. More »
iBike Dash CC Works As Your Personal Fitness Trainer
A new device brings the impossible together: Geekdom and physical fitness.
Sony Bravia KDL-55HX800 HDTV, 50 Percent Off
Get a 55-inch Sony Bravia HDTV for only $1600 from TigerDirect.com, with free shipping.
Choose Your Own Software Update Adventure [Image]
Depending on which platform you use, the experience of downloading and installing updates to your OS can vary. Which one are you? [Sticky Comics] More »
This 5-ton Megatron Tank Was Hand Built By a Man [Tanks]
A Chinese man decided to build Megatron in tank form (from Transformers). So he did it. And it is ridiculously detailed and just brain meltingly awesome. The whole sculpture (that's what he called it) weighs just about 5 tons. [Zcool via Neatorama] More »
The Original Monopoly Board Was a Circle [Monopoly]
Filed in things I never knew: early Monopoly boards were circular! Filed in things I should have known: Monopoly street names all hail from Atlantic City. More »
Rolling Drum-Shaped Battery Powers Office for Three Days
Yill is a giant, rolling battery that will let you run an office wherever you might be. Think of it as a storage heater, except instead of chugging down cheap nighttime electricity to warm a box of bricks, it instead uses that same budget juice to charge a huge lithium titanium battery pack.
The big white [...]
The big white [...]
Square Connect SQ Blaster and SQ Remote review: Home automation, unified
Having already taken our first feverish steps down the path of an automated home, we figured it was time to try and integrate the home entertainment system with the household lighting. Our goal coming into this review was to sit down on the sofa and hit a single button on an old, unused iPhone 3G to automatically dim the lights, fire up the 5.1 sound, flip on the media streamer, and ignite the projector. To accomplish this seemingly monumental task we installed a WiFi-enabled SQ Blaster in the TV cabinet, a puck-shaped IR blaster from Square Connect that communicates with MiOS home control gateways like Mi Casa Verde's Vera. So, did we succeed? Did we achieve the ultimate in home-owner nerdvana? You'd better believe it. Read on to find out how.Continue reading Square Connect SQ Blaster and SQ Remote review: Home automation, unifiedSquare Connect SQ Blaster and SQ Remote review: Home automation, unified originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:43:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | | Email this | Comments
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Tiny, Stick-On Joysticks for Touch Screen Gaming
Check ‘em out: nipples for the iPhone. Or, more accurately, “removable gaming buttons for touch screens”.
We have seen a lot of clever products which add physical, moveable joysticks to touch-screen devices and make many games easier to play, but the Joystickers, as they are called, are about the simplest around. The nubbins stick straight onto [...]
We have seen a lot of clever products which add physical, moveable joysticks to touch-screen devices and make many games easier to play, but the Joystickers, as they are called, are about the simplest around. The nubbins stick straight onto [...]
HTC Freestyle for AT&T hands-on
Last time we checked in with the Freestyle back at CES, we couldn't turn it on -- but things are a little different here at our luxe meetup in San Francisco this evening. Honestly, the phone looks and feels great, doing a great job hiding its Brew MP-based, not-quite-smartphone underpinnings; pricing is still a concern, but the month-to-month dumbphone data is a bonus, and you've still got a full HTML browser plus a capacitive display at your disposal. Check shots below -- video after the break!
Gallery: HTC Freestyle for AT&T hands-on
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Gallery: HTC Freestyle for AT&T hands-on
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Canonical, Autonomic to Offer Cloud-Ready Dell Servers to Federal Agencies
Canonical and Autonomic Resources are teaming up to offer Dell Blade servers preinstalled with the Eucalyptus-based Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud to the federal government to speed up cloud deployments. - Canonical and Autonomic Resources announced an integrated cloud computing
platform for use in the federal government.
The ARC-P-UEC consists of Ubuntu
Enterprise Cloud and Dell Blade servers, Autonomic said. The combined offering
allows quot;budget-restricted quot; government agencies to invest...
platform for use in the federal government.
The ARC-P-UEC consists of Ubuntu
Enterprise Cloud and Dell Blade servers, Autonomic said. The combined offering
allows quot;budget-restricted quot; government agencies to invest...
Apple May Lower iPad Prices, Add Camera Module
Apple executives could be "nimble" on pricing for the iPad tablet PC, according to a Credit Suisse analyst, should the device fail to achieve sufficient marketplace traction following its release in two months. Prices for the iPad currently range from $499 to $829, depending on options such as Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. In addition, a job posting on the Apple corporate site adds fuel to rumors that Apple could be planning to integrate a camera module of some sort into the iPad. - Apple may be quot;nimble quot; on its price point for
the upcoming iPad tablet PC, according to Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope, if
customers refuse to flock to the device during its initial rollout within the
next two months.
Shope met with Apple executives about the device sometime last w...
the upcoming iPad tablet PC, according to Credit Suisse analyst Bill Shope, if
customers refuse to flock to the device during its initial rollout within the
next two months.
Shope met with Apple executives about the device sometime last w...
Farcical Xoom 4G Upgrade Plan Requires 6-Day Mail-In Operation
The Xoom tablet has a respectably fast Verizon 3G connection, but Motorola promises a free upgrade to Verizon’s faster 4G network within a few months.
To do that, however, you’ll need to ship your Xoom back to the manufacturer for more than a week.
It’s not often I laugh out loud when researching a post, but when [...]
To do that, however, you’ll need to ship your Xoom back to the manufacturer for more than a week.
It’s not often I laugh out loud when researching a post, but when [...]
First Tegra 2-based Qseven module spins HD video on 5 Watts
MSC Vertriebs announced an ARM-based Qseven module that appears to be the industry's first such device using Cortex-A9 cores. The MSC Q7-NT2 is built around a dual-core 1GHz Nvidia Tegra 290 processor, supports 1080p video, offers interfaces ranging from gigabit Ethernet to I2C, consumes only five Watts, and offers extended temperature support, says the company....
Robonaut becomes 1st humanoid robot in space
What could go wrong by putting a 330-pound humanoid robot on the International Space Station? Decades of science fiction stories can't be insanely far-fetched.
Amazon aims to make it easier to build complex clouds
With the launch of CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to put together stacks of applications and resources for its cloud computing service, the company said on Friday.
Full-duplex transmission could double speed of wireless networks
Stanford University researchers have announced a breakthrough that could nearly double the throughput of wireless networks. The & antenna cancellation& technology has already been demonstrated in office settings and, once perfected, will add little cost to Wi-Fi equipment, according to the university....
Friday, February 25, 2011
Windows Phone 7 coming to Verizon in March, starting with HTC 7 Trophy?
With Sprint starting up its Windows Phone 7 adventure on March 20th with the HTC Arrive, Verizon is now said to be matching its CDMA competitor with its own offering, the HTC 7 Trophy. We already knew this particular handset would be coming to this particular network in "early 2011," but now WinRumors has narrowed that down to a launch at some point in late March. Verizon's announcement is expected as early as February 28th, this coming Monday, and we're hearing the NoDo update -- the one with copy and paste -- should be preloaded on the device from the start. Should this solid-sounding rumor bear out as foretold, Microsoft should finally be on all US carriers by the start of April.
[Thanks, Mike]Windows Phone 7 coming to Verizon in March, starting with HTC 7 Trophy? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink The Next Web | WinRumors | Email this | Comments
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Analyst: HP, Motorola to Move in on Apple's Mobile PC Share
Apple Computer stands to lose its No. 1 rank in mobile PC sales this year as Hewlett-Packard and even Motorola eat into its market share, research firm...
Trailer: 51
When the Air Force opens Area 51 to reporters' prying eyes, the secretbase's alien captives run amok.
Verizon iPhone On Sale At Last
Apple and Verizon Wireless Stores now have the iPhone 4, but is switching from AT&T worth the cost?
This Blue Smoke Isn't Actually Smoke; Just Clever Photography [Photography]
Anyone who's seen American Beauty will know that some people find plastic bags beautiful. New Zealand photographer Edi Go is one of them, as evidenced by his photo-series "Elastic," which turns a plastic bag into smoke, using nothing but backlighting and a bit of editing. More »
Updated Version of Android Developer Software Ships
Android smartphone developer HTC has released an update for the Android Dev Phone 1 software, the developer version of the Android G1 smartphone. Version 1.1 of Android for the ADP1 is backward-compatible with Android 1.0, an Android application developer says....
Sony PlayStation Phone: What We Know So Far
Tomorrow Sony takes the wraps of its long-rumored PlayStation Phone. Here's what we know about the handheld game-phone so far.
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