Saturday, June 9, 2007
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Sneaked Shot of Upcoming Logitech MX Air Mouse?
10:21AM Seamus Byrne | Logitech’s apparently planning a run into the air mouse market with its MX platform. It looks to sport both gyration-based movement and a standard laser, though they’re supposedly holding off on Bluetooth in favor of RF. Expected drop date is sometime this summer. What do guys think of air mice, anyway? I’m still madly in love with my heavily worn, four-year-old MX500—I don’t need shmancy lasers or gyroscopic sensors. – Matt Buchanan Logitech planning MX Air gyration mouse? [Engadget] More »
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Catch Up: OS X Leopard’s Non-Secret Features For Your Recollection (Raaarw!)
10:12AM Seamus Byrne | It’s been nearly a year since Leopard, the 5th incarnation of OS X, was announced. If you can’t recall all the public features, here’s a refresher you can glance through before the big show on Monday. The secret features revealed there should be substantial, considering the OS’s long delay to October. More »
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Slide 2 Unlock Brings iPhone Fever to Windows Mobile
9:40AM Seamus Byrne | Got iPhone fever? While the only prescription is an actual iPhone, this Slide 2 Unlock app for Windows Mobile should hold you over until the 29th. It’s a Windows Mobile startscreen app that makes it so you can swipe your finger/stylus across the screen to unlock the phone, iPhone style. You gotta do what you gotta do. We won’t think any less of you if you install this. – Jason Chen Download Page [Freeware Pocket P] via Red Ferret via Crunchgear] More »
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iRiver Mplayer: How Mickey Got His Groove Back
9:10AM Seamus Byrne | A new Mickey shaped music product is in the works, and unlike this crazy speaker set, Disney actually appears to be involved, along with iRiver. Molded after Mickey’s bulbous likeness (and Minnie’s, of course), the screenless flash player is due to hit Asia soon. The ears, mind you, are not just for show. Flick one to or fro to adjust volume; do the same on the other to change tracks. More »
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Apple OS X Leopard Wishlist
8:40AM Seamus Byrne | You’re all familiar with the features announced for Leopard at last year’s WWDC: Time Machine, Spaces, and new iChat/Mail apps. But there’s definitely going to be more. Wired has a piece on core animation, the developer animation suite that will make regular apps sparkle. Also, Computerworld is predicting an alliance between Apple and Google to incorporate some of Google’s web apps into .Mac. That should make loyal users of the stagnant .Mac platform happy. Or at least content enough to keep shelling out for that @mac.com address. Here’s our wishlist. More »
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Toshiba to Cram HD DVD Into All Notebooks by 2008
8:10AM Seamus Byrne | It seems like only yesterday Toshiba was showing off their first HD DVD equipped notebook, and now they’ve decided to make HD DVD standard in all of their notebooks by next year. While this may not be as big of a competitive advantage as Blu-ray in every PS3, it will definitely help out the HD DVD camp with its install base numbers. That is as long as they’re smart enough to eat some of the increased costs. It’s nice to finally see some commitment to next-gen drives in something other than video game consoles for once. Now if only we could pick a format and end this video war before the industry goes completely digital anyways.– Ben Longo More »
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SpeakerCraft TIME One Speakers, Each With Its Own Robot Inside
7:20AM Seamus Byrne | SpeakerCraft TIME One speakers stay hidden in your ceiling until you need them; as soon as you touch a button on their infrared remote control, a robotically controlled speaker ballet begins. It’s the Theater In Motion Experience, or TIME, giving you the pleasure of goofing around with servo-controlled speakers while at the same time pleasing that beloved member of your household who really wants to hide all evidence of technology. Push that button and down they descend, letting you tilt them at 15°, 30° or 45° angles until they are pointing right at you, wherever you’re sitting. This is some pretty sophisticated technology nestled within these wife-friendly speakers. More »
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Let Your Infant Zone Out With Baby Bidou Teddy Bear MP3/OGG Players
7:20AM Seamus Byrne | A Teddy Bear MP3 player is not exactly a new idea, but Baby Bidou’s sleek junior version, in pink and blue, will allow France’s tech-savviest toddlers to drool to 128MB of MP3s and OGG Vorbis files, with flickering lights reacting to the rhythm and an integrated mono speaker. More »
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Chinese Mousepad Does It All…Badly
7:00AM Seamus Byrne | I have an old lousy mousepad made in China that has a lousy calculator on it that I thought was pretty ridiculous. I was wrong. This; this here is ridiculous. No, it’s ricockulous. Not only does this mousepad have a calculator, it has a thermometer, a wrist rest, it’s a USB Hub, and it’s even got card readers for your picture-transferring convenience. As if that weren’t enough, the product page also claims that it’s good for “outgoing or traveling use.” Isn’t that obvious? Who doesn’t take their USB-connected mousepads to the outdoors? – Jason Chen Product Page [Sunday CN via Red Ferret via Sci Fi] More »
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