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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time I’m not here today. Okay, I am, working through the refeed stuff – but it’s meant to be a day off, so it’s all very casual. Go catch some rays or something (put on a parka if it’s cold!)
We’ll be back in the morning with all the goss from the WWDC keynote, and our regularly scheduled programming. Toodles. -Seamus Byrne
The invendoscope SC-40 is a colonoscope that uses an inverted sleeve technology which makes it “grow just below the deflection, when advancing, and to shrink, when retreating.” Result? Less force on the colon wall making for “minimal” discomfort. Uh huh.
Toss in easy joystick manipulation (Halo 4: The Colon Wars) and a small bending diameter and you have a colonoscopy that’s fun for all, or at least one that doesn’t require a sedative. But my gut feeling (ha!) says that’s probably not going to stop people for asking for them. – Matt Buchanan
Product Page [via Gadget Lab]
With just a day to go before the WWDC and nineteen before the Second Coming, the thick fog of Apple-OCD is smothering the land. So I’m surprised it took this long for an Apple-juice-addled obsessive to compile a list of (fairly minor) UI changes made in the iPhone between its January debut and the even-slicker-than-usual ads rolled out last week.
Hit the jump for the full list of 16 ways the iPhone has grown up, which range from the useful—message previews in the mail screen—to the mundane—the home icons are in a different order. No hair in funny places, though.
In case you’ve been considering an HD DVD player, Best Buy and Circuit City are both offering two free HD DVDs with the purchase of an Xbox 360 HD DVD drive (up $59.95 in value, which is decent). And if you consider Jackson’s King Kong a real movie, you are scoring three free HD DVDs with purchase.
Ain’t nothing wrong with that. Deal ends with this week. – Mark Wilson
What at first glance looks like a dolphin fetishist’s DoCoMo cellphone is in fact a covert lighter, perfect for keeping your dirty habit under wraps (except you know, the packs of fags lying around, the smell, etc.).
If you drop the three bucks and change on one of these (available in a rainbow of five colors), be sure to pick up a smoking jacket as well to keep the cancer away from the rest of us. I’ll take mine from a Wi-Fi router, thank you very much. – Matt Buchanan
Product Page [via Tokyo Mango]
Yesterday, in the CNN Money/Business 2.0 poll “Who Matters Most”, Fake Steve Jobs was ranking higher than the real Steve Jobs.
But that’s not saying much: the rest of the results are ridiculously skewed toward “impossible.”
A reliable tipster has filled us in on a juicy secret.
The biggest update? High speed EV-DO. And a new unbelievable form factor.
Our Sprint source gave us a great tip on the upcoming Treo 800w that’s coming Q4 2007. (That’s not a picture of it on the left.)
Lots and lots of improvements for Sprint users over what they can get right now with the 700wx, including EV-DO REV A., Windows Mobile 6, a 320×320 display (now supported on WM6), 256MB flash, 128MB RAM, a 1.3-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, and an expansion slot.
When you need to keep just a little bit of Coke cool kool, thank the Powers That Be for the $95 Koolatron. Shaped like a giant can of Coca-Cola so you never forget what’s inside, the Koolatron can hold eight cans or two 2-liter bottles of your favorite beverage of choice. Plus, the Koolatron can heat as well, hitting temperatures up to 149°F. With adapters for the house and car, you’ll never need to leave home without a gigantic fake can of cola again.
Is it me, or does “Koolatron” sound like some Transformer pitch rotting on the floor of Hasbro’s marketing department? – Mark Wilson
DivX is apparently working on a new hardware box called the GejBox as part of their hardware platform initiative. How is this different from boxes like the Helios X3000 or the Ziova CS505 that also stream DivX over the network?
It’s because GejBox also has DivX Stage 6 (their high quality DivX version of YouTube) support as well as a Google Video plugin. Engadget didn’t say anything about YouTube support, since we’re not sure Google Video support encompasses both of Google’s properties. – Jason Chen
DivX GejBox media streamer hardware revealed [Engadget]
