Thursday, June 28, 2007
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Apple Keeping Stores Open ‘Til Midnight Friday; Free In-Depth iPhone Workshops Start Saturday
11:50PM Seamus Byrne | Maybe it’s a clarification of Friiday store hours, maybe it’s a chance for Apple’s retail division to remind the world about the “legendary Genius Bar support, free workshops and our One to One personal training.” Either way, the stores are happy to report that they will stay open until midnight on Friday night—are they assuming that six hours is long enough to sell iPhones to every linesitter? Then, on Saturday, in-depth workshops will begin. Mind you, these are in-depth workshops for a product that’s supposed to be revolutionarily simple. Hey, I’m sure there are a few things we could all learn. And oh yeah, limit two iPhones per person. More »
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Two iPhones Per Person
11:50PM Seamus Byrne | Apple has declared that everyone on line on Friday will be allowed two iPhones, presumably for loved ones or eBay. And, maybe it’s a clarification of Friday store hours, maybe it’s a chance for Apple’s retail division to remind the world about the “legendary Genius Bar support, free workshops and our One to One personal training.” Either way, the stores are happy to report that they will stay open until midnight on Friday night. Then, on Saturday, in-depth workshops will begin. Mind you, these are in-depth workshops for a product that’s supposed to be revolutionarily simple. Hey, I’m sure there are a few things we could all learn. More »
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iNavi G1 GPS Has 3D Maps and -ohmygod- Karaoke
11:12PM Seamus Byrne | Those of you who feel that your car’s Sat-Nav system is lacking something need to move to Korea. Or import iNavi’s latest baby, the G1. As well as having a screen that can show off everything from buildings to mountains in glorious 3-D, there is a geomagnetic sensor to stop you getting lost when the GPS signal tails off. But it’s the entertainment side of the G1 that really rocks. I mean, REALLY. More »
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Jesus Phone Has “Black Plastic Part”, Pogue Declares
11:01PM Seamus Byrne | Finally breaking a worrying pattern of no iPhone news for the last five minutes, NYC area man Mr David Pogue has declared that the iPhone has a black plastic part on its back. “That’s where the antenna is” he said, “cellphone signals have a hard time going through metal, which is why this one piece is made of plastic.” Jump for the rest of our top 5 unknown-til-a-few-minutes-ago iPhone factoids. More »
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DH1 Disaster House Doesn’t Require Screws
10:26PM Seamus Byrne | The hurricane season cometh, and the DH1 Disaster House is one man’s solution to the problem of homelessness – only problem is that it costs and arm and a leg – and that is usually not an option if you have lost everything to one of Nature’s bad moods. Designed by Californian architect Gregg Fleishman, the DH1 comes in flatpack form and you don’t even need nails to put it together. Slot the parts, made of European birch plywood, together and – voilá! instant dwelling. More »
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MIOpup is Cheap AIBO-wannabe, Shows 100 Emoticons
8:35PM Seamus Byrne | MIOpup is Sega/Tiger Electronics’ new robotic puppy after the iDog. This Jetsons-looking cheap AIBO-wannabe looks really cute and ready to hump Hello Kitty’s leg at any time. If you can call Her Catness’ white blobs legs, that is. And if this thing can hump at all.* So what can MIOpup do for you? A demo video after the jump. More »
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4D Cities Gives Virtual Tours in Time and Space
8:08PM Seamus Byrne | 4D Cities is a software that allows you to reconstruct cities analyzing data from a stack of old photographs. It also allows you to travel through the fourth dimension without a flux capacitator, showing buildings as they rise and fall in time. It has been developed by Frank Dellaert and Grant Schindler, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Sing Bing Kang, Microsoft Research Lab scientist. Demo video after the jump. More »
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Oscars All Round for Ed and Jeff from USA Today
7:33PM Seamus Byrne | USA Today’s Ed Baig and Jeff Graham have done their own video review of the iPhone. And it – er… it’s – let’s just say it makes Ed Wood look like Scorsese – although Jeff’s Hawaian number beats Ed’s angora sweater. Oh dear, judge for yourselves. iPhone Review – USA TODAY’s Ed Baig & Jefferson Graham [You Tube] More »
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New Dell Full HD 24-incher Has 92% of NTSC Colors
7:30PM Seamus Byrne | Dell has launched their 2407WFP-HC, a 1,920 x 1,200 24-inch monitor that covers 92% of the NTSC color gamut, which is excellent news for photographers and video editors. What else is in? 1,000:1 contrast ratio, 450cd/m2 brightness and 6ms response time, plus 9-in-2 flash card readers and all kinds of connectors, even Y/C and Composite, but sadly no HDMI. However, the best thing is the price tag. While in Japan, where it just launched, it costs $870, here you will be able to grab it for just $660. Hopefully sooner than later. Dell debuts HC version of its 24″ beast [The Inquirer] More »
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