Friday, July 13, 2007
JVC Offers Sneak Peek of GZ-HD3 HD Hard Disk Camcorder
11:52PM Seamus Byrne | JVC flashed a tit at a few Japanese journalists, giving them a quick glance at its upcoming GZ-HD3 tapeless camcorder. The demo revealed a tiny shooter with a relatively large lens, packing 60GB of hard disk space that will yield five hours of HD goodness at its maximum quality. It should serve as a worthy little brother to JVC’s GZ-HD7 tapeless HD camcorder we reviewed a couple of months ago, but this new one should cost about $500 less. Find out what you get for your $1200, and peek at another pic. More »
Will Big and Squishy JVC HA-NC250 Noise-Canceling Headphones Stick It To Bose?
11:35PM Seamus Byrne | Today JVC introduced a pair of noise-canceling headphones that are said to lock out up to 85% of background noise, thanks to circuitry that “constantly monitors the noise cancellation process.” It’s also got a “double housing,” better for physically insulating your ears from the world’s more audible hustle and bustle. More »Letterman’s Producer Survives Sparky, Smelly, Smoky Powerbook
11:24PM Seamus Byrne | Justin Stangel, Head Writer/Producer of CBS’s Late Show with David Letterman was innocently writing hilarious comedy in his New York office, when an ominous odor wafted from the adaptor of his Powerbook. You can actually see sparks and smoke coming out of it. Thank goodness cooler heads prevailed! Somebody open a window. More »
iBotics Stingray Up Against it at in a San Diego Swimming Pool
10:56PM Seamus Byrne | This is the Stingray robo-sub, one of the competitors in the tenth Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Competition, which is taking place at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center in San Diego this weekend. Rather confusingly, one of its rival’s entries, from the U.S. Naval Academy, is known as Project Stingray, which you can see below. It’s not as sexy as the one above, although the Academy boys get points from me for looking buff in their shorts. galleryPost('stingrayrobosub', 4, 'stingrayrobosub'); More »
Asphalt Surfing with the Carver Ultimate Truck System
10:06PM Seamus Byrne | Forget about that RipStik thing. Here’s the Carver Skateboard Ultimate Surfing Truck System attached to a real surf board. See it in action as this guy goes down the streets of San Francisco like if he was at Ehukai Beach. More »
Adobe Pimps Creative Suite 3 With Interactive Wall in Union Square
10:00PM Seamus Byrne | Adobe is shilling for its Creative Suite 3 with a 7×15 ft. interactive wall outside of the Virgin Megastore in Union Square that debuts this morning. The display grants the closest passerby control of a slider button on the bottom that manipulates what’s projected based on their walking speed and direction, producing different effects in the animation. It also reacts incidentally to the crowd around it, which should make the glorious pedestrian congestion in that area even more awesome. More »Build Your Own Spitfire from a $150,000 Kit
8:27PM Seamus Byrne | Flying enthusiasts with $150,000 to spare can now build their own Spitfire aircraft from a pack. The Supermarine Aircraft Mark 26 kit, a 90 per cent scale model of the iconic WWII fighter plane, costs $146,750 – not to mention 1,200 hours of construction time.
The flatpack fighter is shipped to you from Brisbane with 700 hours’ worth of construction already on the clock, but the rest is up to you. More » 
World’s Largest Telescope Opens its Eye in Canary Islands
7:29PM Seamus Byrne | It has taken seven years to construct, and at a cost of almost $180 million, but the Great Canary Telescope – now the world’s largest stargazer – is up and running. Situated on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, off the African coast, the GTC is 4 per cent larger than the Keck telescopes at Mauna Kea, in Hawaii. Wanna look inside? More »
Sony Bottle Mystery Solved
3:55PM Seamus Byrne | Two nights ago, I enlisted your help in determining the contents of a mystery bottle sent to me by the Sony VAIO team. There were plenty of good guesses—Apple juice, Soylent Green, blanc de noir, and of course, the blood of PS3 engineers. Well, I’m not going to say you’re all wrong, but some of you are not right. You want answers? You want the truth? Jump (yes, jump) and watch me unlock the secret of the Sony mystery bottle in living video. More »
