Filed under: Robots
Robot designers are currently duking it out for the British army in hopes of nabbing the hearts (and pocketbooks) of the UK’s fighting force. In a makeshift “wartime European village,” scientists and researchers are putting their helper-droids to the test as Army officials look on and investigate how the automatons might serve alongside [...]
Video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. said it won’t extend a Monday evening deadline for its $2 billion tender offer to buy smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc., best known for the popular “Grand Theft Auto” series of games.
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The next large-scale military or terrorist attack on the United States, if and when it happens, may not involve airplanes or bombs or even intruders breaching American borders.
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Filed under: Cellphones
Always looking to make lemonade out of lemons, the self-proclaimed BGizzle took the opportunity to inform prospective (and current) BlackBerry Bold owners of the handset’s fragile nature. To no one’s surprise, the naked Bold didn’t stand up too well to pavement when dropped from about two feet — maybe this is where a [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
Without much fanfare, the Samsung i800 was canned at the tail end of last month. When asked why, Orange simply noted that it was pulled in order to “prepare a more competitive Linux mobile.” A recent writeup at Ostatic takes a hard look at whether this simple withdrawal is really a sign of [...]
Such immersive schemes have existed for years, but have been restricted to military and training applications, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Filed under: Cellphones
Well whaddya know? The iTreo 800p is finally selling on eBay! We thought the day would never come that we could actually get our hands on this totally sweet — and absolutely real — phone. Man were we wrong. Sure, the listing says you’re selling off a Treo 800W, but given the large [...]
Filed under: GPS
Dying to get your eyes and fingers all over Mio’s GPS-incarnation of KITT? Can’t hardly wait to hear the voice of the voice of the original KITT barking directions at you? Well you’re in luck, friend. Radio Shack has apparently begun taking pre-orders for the Knight Rider-branded satnav, which they claim will be [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
While Sprint and Verizon consider final monikers for the HTC Touch Diamond, some North Americans are already enjoying the thing up in the Great North. The ecstatic folks over at Mobile Syrup were able to snap up Telus’ version of the WinMo 6.1-packin’ handset, and of course, they put together a video review [...]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
A whole new slew of Walkmans have hit Sony’s New Zealand site, and we’ve got the goods on them. The new models, dubbed the NWZ-E435, NWZ-E436, and NWZ-E438 all sport a 2-inch QVGA LCD display, FM tuner, codec support for MP3, AAC, WMA, and Linear PCM files, and clock in [...]
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Now look, we’re not sure if this was someone’s drug-induced fever dream or not, but if it did really go down, it might be the best thing that’s happened at the entire 2008 Summer Olympics. According to the Dirty Red Commie, sometime on August 17th between 2:00 PM and 3:13 PM Mountain [...]
Springfield, Missouri has finally hit the big time. Google’s Street View is now available here.
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Let’s get small! Rapid advances in the exciting field of nanotechnology are allowing us to shrink everyday objects to previously-unimaginably small dimensions.
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Web sites and computer networks have been targeted by hackers for decades, although large-scale, coordinated cyberattacks are still a relatively new phenomenon.
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Innovative doesn’t mean usable and usable hardly means innovative. As usual, it’s necessary to find an optimal trade-off. And some user interfaces manage to achieve just that.
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