Yes, we find the fact that our USB port won’t charge our phone when our laptop is sleeping to be pretty annoying, too. But does that mean we’ll rip the battery from it and use it as a semi-functional, clunky but self-sufficient charger? Well, probably not, but that doesn’t mean someone else shouldn’t. Now, [...]
In an effort to quell all sorts of kicking and screaming that resulted from an evidently erroneous report earlier in the week, an Acer representative has reportedly reaffirmed that an Android-based Aspire One is still on schedule for a Q3 release. If you’ll recall, we first heard of Acer’s intentions to dole out an Android-laden [...]
Sure, we might all just be getting used to LED-backlit LCD HDTVs, but this train ain’t stopping, Chico — Samsung just got official with the 8500 series, which features the next-generation of local-dimming LED backlights. The 54.6-inch and 45.9-inch 240Hz sets are just 1.6 inches deep and offer a 7,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, a 2ms [...]
Well well, Nikon managed to keep the big secret about the new D300s under wraps even as everything else was leaked in the past few weeks: the new $1,799.95 body will shoot 24fps 720p video with contrast-detect autofocus and offers an external mic input. That’s basically every would-be DSLR videographer’s major wishlist right there [...]
The age of the touchscreen dumbphone is definitely upon us, is it not? Today AT&T and Samsung announced the availability of the Solstice, a phone featuring a 3-inch (presumably resistive) touchscreen, TouchWiz, and lots of funky social networking tie-ins. Still, one gets the overwhelming impression that phones of this ilk are simply trying to cash [...]
We’ve already got a pile of evidence taller than the BL40 itself that told us LG’s latest Black Label device was that ultra-wide, glossy red and black slate we’ve seen floating around — but now, for the very first time, it’s totally official. The company has just released the first fully-revealed press photos of the [...]
This week Gary Shapiro, chief exec of of the CEA (the trade group which puts on CES, and, full disclosure, for which I sometimes consult) held a private dinner with journalists in San Francisco. According to Dow Jones / WSJ reporter Ben Charny (whose first Google result is this page on shoddy journalism), a juicy [...]
It still can’t multitask, but as of today, it’s finally capable of accessing and sharing iDisk files. Apple has at long last let loose a long-awaited application for iPhone OS 3.0 that enables iPhone and iPod touch users with MobileMe accounts to access the inner sanctums of their own iDisk. The app lets you login, [...]
Lookie here — time for yet another HD camcorder in the quickly expanding Everio family. Launched today in the Land of the Rising Sun, the JVC Everio GZ-HM400 is a Full HD shooter with a 10.3 megapixel CMOS sensor, 2.8-inch flip-out LCD, 32GB of built-in storage, an SD / SDHC expansion slot, HDMI output, a [...]
Who’s this little guy? Oh, that’s just Robochan — the Kondo KHR-2HV bot with a fully-functioning iPhone 3GS fused to his head. Not interested? Well, hear us out — because we, too, have seen many an iPhone mod project in our day, leaving us jaded, easily susceptible to waking in the middle of the night [...]
Light and electrical poles to support grid-linked solar panels from Petra Solar.
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Remember Leica’s S-system flagship DSLR camera? We’d wager a nickel you probably stuck this in the deep in the back of your brain after its September 2008 debut, figuring something that boasts 37.5 megapixels and Leica branding was gonna be just out of your budget range. Well, you were right. The company announced that it’ll [...]
Let this be a lesson for all you kids thinking about opening some online shop with a funky database: pricing errors can cost ya, especially if you’re doing business in Taiwan. After a couple of downright embarrassing slip-ups on Dell’s Taiwanese web store, followed by a failure to compensate those who got orders in appropriately, [...]
Such a shame, no? As has become all too common in the uncertain world known as ASUS’ R&D lab, it looks as if yet another promising product has been canned before it ever had a chance to truly live. After the aforementioned company’s P6X58 Premium motherboard set the world ablaze just over a week ago, [...]
Nearly four months after we first saw evidence that a 2TB Time Capsule was in the works, Apple has finally come clean and listed said device for sale in its webstore. So far as we can tell, the 802.11n router + NAS drive isn’t any different than existing models save for the internal capacity, and [...]