They may not be the smallest and biggest notebooks in the world, but this Dell XPS m2010 makes the OQO2 sitting on top look like Mini-me next to Andre the Giant. [UMPCPortal via Wired] More »
David Hanson, known to Giz readers for some brilliant-but-creepy robotics, has unveiled his masterpiece of five years: Zeno, by no coincidence also the name of Hanson’s 18-month-old son.
Jonathan Rubinstein, the hardware engineering guru who helped bring Apple back on track, is going to be the new executive chairman of Palm. Hopefully this will give new life to their product line. Also joining in is former Apple CFO Fred Anderson, who will join the board, and Bono’s Elevation Partners, which is taking a 25 percent stake in the company and may want to paint all (products) red. [NYT] More »
Financial Times is reporting that the Wii has overtaken the 360 in overall sales—9 million to 8.9 million—making it the best-selling next-gen console in ze world. (To be clear, this is units sold, not units shipped.) Poor PS3 has amassed less than half of either, with a mere 3.7 million sold. [Ars Technica] More »
We Ubuntu hitting Dell a while ago, but Walt Mossburg’s just now getting around to giving them a go—apparently after a barrage of mail from readers, the same thing that prompted Dell to put ‘em out. Evaluating it “strictly from the point of view of an average user,” he thinks “still too rough around the edges for the vast majority of computer users” despite Ubuntu’s rep as Linux for the (more) common man. More »
Just eleven and a half feet in length, the Sentry is an unmanned surveillance craft from British defence firm Qinetiq that can hit speeds of 50 knots. The boat, which can work up to 16 miles from its controller, and go for up to six hours, is on show at an arms fair in London this week, and has all sorts of tricks up its sleeves. More »
We knew about military air drones and how they were being deployed in real scenarios, but this is the first time one has made a kill. Two in fact. The drone was a MQ-5B/C Hunter which obliterated two suspected terrorists planting a bomb in a road near Qayyarah, Iraq. More details and a picture of the Hunter after the jump. More »
Apple UK is holding a press event next tuesday at their Regent St. headquarters. “Mum is no longer the word” they say in the invite, so I guess now we can talk about O2′s iPhone deal in the open. [Thanks Christopher] More »
