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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time It may be its beautiful japanese simplicity or just our obsession with wood, but M’s System MS0801 and MS1001 cylindrical wood speakers make me drool. A single unit will give you stereo sound and the manufacturer says that they are designed “like a musical instrument” for “amazing reproduction of live performances.” Specs and more pictures after the jump.
Nokia fans who can’t quite afford the extravagance of the N95 or the N75, will appreciate the company’s latest mid-range handsets. The three, in from left to right order above: the 6121 Classic, the 3500 Classic (two candybars) and the 6267 (the clamshell).
Sling’s just released the Slinglink TURBO 1 and Slinglink TURBO 4, two powerline network adapters so you can connect your Slingboxes through your home network by way of the electrical system. Aptly named, the TURBO 1 has one Ethernet port and the TURBO 4 has four, and will retail for $99 and $149 respectively.
It’s a pretty good last-shot method to get your stuff wired up you really hate wiring Ethernet through your house and your home’s construction makes wireless networking impossible. – Jason Chen
Product Page [Slingmedia via Crunchgear]
The Mogul (PPC-6800), HTC and Sprint’s Windows Mobile 6 followup to the PPC-6700 we told you about has finally arrived. It definitely improves on its predecessor, but is HTC’s latest innovation in its Windows Mobile line the best slide out QWERTY phone yet? Quite possibly.
Next time you’re renovating the kitchen, why not go for a designer stovetop? These Britannia range cookers form their ‘couture’ range, inspired by the designs of Avsh Alom Gur.
If these are a little too bling for your home, you can order a Britannia stove matched to the colour of your choice.
At a cool £4,800, you can afford to swap these in and out with the changing of the seasons. Sorry? You aren’t living off the interest of a major inheritance? You poor, poor soul… -Seamus Byrne
Who cares? Well we like to throw some love to local kids, and most of you probably didn’t even realise that PC Tools, maker of Spyware Doctor, is actually an Aussie software shop. Earlier this year it had a big win when Spyware Doctor was added to Google Pack, and now, after three years on the market, Spyware Doctor has broken its 100 millionth download.
PC Tools’ background was in registry editing, with its Registry Mechanic still one of the best in show, so it makes sense that it was well placed to deliver a top notch anti-malware package.
So here’s to a grouse Aussie dev done good! -Seamus Byrne
Official Site [PC Tools]
The name is utterly meaningless (to us English speakers, perhaps), but the idea is a fairly advanced take on the phone home laptop security software we hear about from time to time. Built for OS X, Verey I asks the lappy user to authenticate their identity when they connect to a network. If they don’t within a pre-defined period of time, the security system kicks into action.
Emails will be sent to your address, with info on IP addresses (for the computer and for nearby wireless networks, if any, to help pin point a location), serial number, MAC address… and a piece of video, with audio, of the person sitting in front of the computer.
It even helps the thief get it back to you, telling them about the info it has just passed on.
More clever science, with a British company developing an underwater buoy tech to harness tidal power from 50m beneath the surface. The system doesn’t capture the to and fro of the water so much as the change in pressure forced upon the buoys as the water rises and falls around it.
They’re claiming half a square kilometre, and 100 of the buoys, would power a town of 55,000 homes. Considering we’re a very coastal population, could we have something this cool taking care of business soon? These guys are talking wide installations after Scottish testing next year. -Seamus Byrne
AWS Ocean Energy [via Treehugger]
US scientists have developed an atom trap, a device that can hold hundreds of atoms in a 3D optical lattice array, which they say is an important stepping stone to one day building a bona fide quantum computer.
From the article:
In the past, researchers have used optical lattices to trap millions of atoms. “The difference in what we’re doing in this apparatus is that we have a large array where we can observe each individual atom,” Weiss says. Until now, the only lattices where individual atoms were visible were one-or two-dimensional arrays, and contained only a handful of atoms.
In the new study, though, the team used three lasers arranged at right angles to create a 3D lattice in which they trapped 250 atoms of cesium.
I look forward to the day we break reality wide open with a freaky quantum computer. I’ve heard stories that, in theory, a quantum computer can be set to perform tasks even when they’re turned off… or that quantum computers across all possible realities of said computers could come to deliver power far in excess of the single computer… my brain hurts… -Seamus Byrne
Atom trap is a step toward a quantum computer [New Scientist]
Crazy Moog + Theremin + Star Trek action. The tubes of the innerwebs are lined by awesome vids like this.
Scramjet test rocket goes Mach 10. And it all went down at Woomera.
New super small camera chip for phones. For those who feel the need for wafer-thin handsets.
Crazy human Tetris video. Let’s lose the reality TV and get some Asian-style game shows out here.
Which PCs are the most bloated? A nice video looking at which systems come with the most crap pre-installed.
YouTube Mobile goes live! YouTube on a mobile phone equals a far more entertaining commute.
Blu-ray disc rot? Seems some copies of ‘The Prestige’ are dying already.
