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Top 10 Pervasive Tech Myths That Are Only Wasting Your Time Had a play with the Fujitsu Q2010 Lifebook last week. Quite frankly, it is nuts how light that thing is. The company says it is 1kg, and when dropped on a kitchen scales it came in just under that mark. To mash some Vanilla Ice, it’s light like a ninja, thin like a razor blade.
They’ve shed plenty off the body for when you’re on the move. The 12.1-inch wide body has no optical drive and very few ports. All these are built into a still very portable docking station that comes with the laptop.
This is very much about business, but business for those Patrick Bateman types who must have the best business card in town to stop themselves splitting heads open with an axe. More features, and the dock, after the jump.
There’s been some pretty hardcore pirate bashing lately, and I don’t mean the bad reviews for that latest Caribbean movie (take THAT, Disney!) They’re worse than real world thieves, apparently, because the dollar value of ‘goods’ stolen runs to billions of dollars! These guys are the Dr. Evil of thievery… if only they could work out how to turn it into cash like those pirates that make and sell actual discs in Asia, huh?
Anyway, seems one of our own bad guys, Hew Raymond Griffiths, formerly of Bateau Bay on the NSW Central Coast, has now met his match in the form of a US prison cell where he’ll spend the next 15 months of a 51 month sentence (he earned time served after spending years in a local cell while fighting extradition).
Well, there’s falling in with a bad crowd, and then there is getting involved with a Russian warez crew (the notorious DOD). If I lived on the Central Coast, I’d probably take up surfing. -Seamus Byrne
US gaols Aussie piracy kingpin [SMH] Thanks M0les for the tip. Don’t visit his blog. It’s crap. His words, not mine.
We heard about these colourful lozenges last week off the feed, now just a few days later they’re here in Australia, delivering 2GB of loving for $119 (we aren’t getting the 1GB or 4GB options).
MP3 / WMA / OGG / ASF; 4 line OLED; FM tuner; voice recording… and even an earphone reel to keep your colour-matched headphones tidy. Oh, Samsung, you think of everything! Smooches! Make mine a lime green one. Or is that mint green?
Though a word of advice. Don’t list “Blinking LED light” as a product feature on your website. That’s kind of sad. -Seamus Byrne
Product Page [Samsung Australia]
Portable hard drives. I love ‘em. They’re just such a movable feast of data goodness!
Seagate has their new FreeAgent range on the market, which is framed as an asset for folks ‘on the go’. You can find cheaper per GB storage elsewhere, but these drives bring together a pretty slim form factor and footprint, as well as some nifty sync and back-up software that 99% of you will intend to use but never get around to using, before you regret not setting it up when you have a major system meltdown.
You know who you are… don’t learn the hard way!
Gundam Skull Speakers. Fix old iPods with a folded-up business card. Optimus Prime voice-changing helmet and battle blaster. Hitachi brain-machine interface can now move toy trains. Men talk more than women on mobile phones. A Holden Monaro GTS turned into a BBQ. Plush turtle carries universe on its back.
The mobile research institution Carphone Warehouse has recently published an extraordinary finding, as reported by TechDigest: “One in three people said they wouldn’t give up their phone for a million pounds. 76% said they believed it was a social requirement to have a mobile phone, while 85% think that having a mobile phone is vital to maintaining their quality of life.”
In an interview with the NY Times, Mitsubishi has promised that a large-screen version of their legendary Laser TV will make it to CES next year. Does that have absolutely anything to do with if and when these sets will make it into our homes?
No. And no matter what anyone has ‘SED’, it means absolutely nothing more at this time than Mitsubishi can make one unit for a bajillion dollars. Personally, I find generalized LED incorporation a lot more promising over the next five years of displays than any technologies traditionally associated with 70s rock concerts and killer sharks.
Of course, I only say that because I’ve been hurt before (damn you, SED). Please, please, please make our dreams of perfect, cheap, utopian displays come to fruition, Mitsubishi. And then we’ll take back our line about the sharks and that stuff we may or may not have said about your mothers.
Once proud to have grown up with the NES and slap bracelets, we’re officially jealous of our own children who will get to play with toys like the Twilight Turtle—a stuffed animal that projects the stars onto the ceiling.
Available in green, amber and blue-lit versions, the Twilight Turtle displays a range of the sky including 8 constellations. A timeout feature automatically shuts of the turtle after 45 minutes of use, so the batteries won’t burn out while your little angel/poo machine is sleeping. At $32.99, it could be a small price to ward off the infamous Boogie Man.
Amazon Link [via uberreview]
In the last week, “Dirty Don” has become a blog celebrity. In what can only be labeled as a perfect blend of technology and humanity, his now-famous margarita machine is powered by a small-block 400 engine that will roar louder than even the drunkest soccer mom at your next PTA meeting.
Whenever Gizmodo throws their next get together, I vote we get this guy.
Thanks Gerry!
Who would have thought that with all of our foul, locker room gadget talk that Gizmodo could be rated “G” for general, impressionable audiences?
Our results are from a free promotional tool for a dating site that rates blogs by searching for keywords in your front page content. How was Gizmodo rated “G”? We’re guessing that the more subtle definitions of words like “pork” are lost to the cold, unappreciative robotic heart that rates the pages. Well, that, or the rating system’s tastes are even more perverse than our own and this “dating” site is right up our alley.
