Sunday, July 22, 2007
Video Surfaces of 6th Gen iPod
11:20PM jenneth | A video, claiming to be of the 6th Gen iPod interface, has appeared on various websites. The 58s clip is split into three sections; music, navigation and world clock. The video appears to do away with any hope for a complete touch screen surface, as the software is more akin to past iPods (rather than the iPhone). The World Clock feature seems to borrow from the iPhone setup, but other than that, this doesn’t look like the revolution we were hoping for. Hit the jump to see it for yourself. More »
Rumored 6G iPod User Interface May Be Real, But Old News
9:41PM jenneth | Here’s a video showing what is supposed to be the iPod 6G user interface. The clips were originally posted by MacRumors, but they have been removed following Apple’s request. They look polished enough to be real, but that doesn’t mean they will necessarily be the UI of the next-gen iPod. Our reasons, and the clip, after the jump. More »OLPC Used by Nigerian Children to View Porn
3:05PM jenneth | Reuters is reporting that Nigerian children who received donated OLPC laptops used them to download and view pornographic images. OLPC developers will install filters on future machines. Not to discount the entirety of the Big Picture behind OLPC, but this was pretty inevitable. [Reuters via Valleywag] More »
The Linux Lottery
9:23AM jenneth | Winners collect $25,000. As for the smug satisfaction of not being a pawn of Microsoft or Apple, no purchase necessary. [flickr] More »
Megatron Move Over, V-Bot’s on the Scene
7:31AM jenneth | The Transformers movie highlighted an important fact; we need more robots. Thankfully RC2 is working on the void with the planned release of V_Bot—a serendipitous, robotic union between RC car/robot and MP3 speakers. More »
$6,299 Hello Kitty Robot Replaces Good Parenting
6:46AM jenneth | While $6,299 can buy you a boatload of Hello Kitty book bags, t-shirt and keychains, that small mountain of cash will only buy you one Hello Kitty Robot. Now up for preorder, the lovable robot can chat with a child in three different personality modes: as a close friend, with the family and as a guessing game. But that’s just the tip of the proverbial Hello Kitty iceberg. More »
Black Bar Glasses Keep Pricks Anonymous
6:03AM jenneth | If you’ve ever filmed a porn flick, but subsequently wished you had concealed your identity, then the Black Bar Glasses are for you. Available from the aptly named Stupididiotic at $10, wasting your money will never be quite so easy as it is here. More »
First Virus for iPhone or Weird Easter Egg? (UPDATE: Neither, Just Human Error)
5:33AM jenneth | A Gizmodo reader is claiming that his iPhone got what Apple support said “sounds like a virus.” Last night he heard a received SMS ring but there was none. Instead, the iPhone’s date was replaced by the text “Player Haters (red alert).” Since the first external app was compiled this week, it’s hard to believe. There are other explanations. UPDATE 3:30EST: Actually, there’s a very simple explanation: it was a software glitch or a human error. That’s a bloody song title, which apparently got stuck on the interface and only was cleared after a power cycle. Bad Apple support bad! for saying silly things like that and bad me bad! for reporting them, no matter how skeptically. Thanks to the readers who pointed this out. More »
Flash Memory Capacity, Officially Doubled
5:18AM jenneth | A startup named Nanosys claims they have found a way to double flash memory capacity. Their secret is to create metal nanocrystals to boost memory surface area like skyscrapers. And while the idea is by no means new, Nanosys has figured out how to viably bring this process into mass production—something that has thwarted research institutions in the past. More »
