Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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Asuka HD32F Looks Like Clamshell, Is HDD Without Cables
11:18PM jenneth | This is a neat little idea from Asuka, a 1.8-inch HDD that looks like a cellphone. Slide it into the card slot of your laptop and it can transfer data at 1056 Mbps. Neat idea, huh? More »
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Second Brazilian Gamer in a Week Gets it in the Nuts
9:46PM jenneth | Following last weekend’s RPG kidnapping, the gaming community in Brazil has suffered another shock. 18-year-old has been hospitalized after being struck by lightning while he was gaming. Aguinaldo César Alves, from Jardim Campos ElÃseos, 60 miles from Sao Paolo, had one joystick in his hand and another in his mouth when he was hit yesterday afternoon. The proof, as if you needed it, that Mother Nature can be a bitch sometimes, was left in the teen’s bedroom wall. More »
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Cell Phone for the Blind Has Angled Keys, No Screen
9:15PM jenneth | This cell phone concept design by Peter Lau allows blind users to easily dial numbers and make calls. It doesn’t rely on Braille, but instead has differently angled keys that users can learn to recognise. So how do you send and receive an SMS then? There are no details on this, but presumably it would be possible to have speech synthesis read out text messages. And I guess that the phone could also read your messages out loud as you compose them. There are no details however, like with most concepts, but it looks cool and it’s probably invisible to radars with all those angled surfaces. [Sensory Impact] More »
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Video Confirms iPhone’s Startup Problem, Has Easy Cure
8:58PM jenneth | Here’s another case of the iPhone’s startup problem, getting stuck into single-user mode right after turning it on. A reader just sent this video and high resolution photo, along with a description of how it happened. But fear not, Apple fans, because there’s an easy cure for it. More »
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Samsung the First to Develop DisplayPort LCD panel
7:09PM jenneth | Samsung has announced that it has developed the world’s first LCD panel that uses DisplayPort. The 30-inch LCD, which goes into mass production in the second quarter of 2008, has 2560 x 1600 resolution thanks to the zippiness of the new interface which, at twice the speed of today’s interfaces, transmits graphics data at 10.8Gbps. More »
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BarbieGirls MP3 Player Unlocks Chat Rooms, Content, Peer Pressure
7:00PM jenneth | These BarbieGirls MP3 players are bizarre for more than their creepy doll shape: apparently they are designed to teach your kids about exclusion and peer pressure. When you plug the $59.99 device into the included dock, they unlock exclusive content and chat rooms that only other kids with dolls can access, making them a My-First-Country-Club gadget as well as a portable music device. And yes, it gets even worse. More »
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Sleek O2 Cocoon Plays Music, Transforms into Bedside Clock
6:56PM jenneth | Yes, it’s no iPhone and it’s British, but the O2 Cocoon’s has a blue LED screen that shines straight through its retro-70s white clamshell design. It can display time, caller or track information, whilst simultaneously looking awesome. Best of all, it can transform: it comes with a dock that converts it into a bedside alarm clock as you can see in the video after the jump. More »
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iPhone Can Now Serve Web Pages, Run Python, Open Source Apps
6:07PM jenneth | After the first Hello World application, hacker NerveGas and the people at #iphone-shell have built Apache, Python and other Open Source apps for the iPhone. Yes, your iPhone can now be a Web Server and do all sort of 1337 things. This also means that third-party applications for iPhone will happen
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ActiveSync and Exchange Support for Helio Ocean
6:00PM jenneth | Helio is announcing Activesync support for the Ocean. The phone will then be able to sync calendars, email, and contacts from an Exchange server. They’re also doing a file viewer app that will view PDF, Word, Powerpoint, Excel docs. $10 a month for Helions with All-In service plans. More »
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