Thursday, September 13, 2007
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OQO2 vs Dell XPS m2010: FIGHT!
11:52PM Jesus Diaz | 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 »
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Zeno Robot Boy May One Day Replace Inventor’s Son
11:36PM Wilson Rothman | 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. More »
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Jonathan Rubinstein of iPod and iMac Fame Set to Helm Languishing Palm
10:46PM Matt Buchanan | 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 »
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Camouflaged Fridge Chills, Hides Beer at the Office
10:22PM Jesus Diaz | Yes, fridges can hold any bottles and cans, but if you find one camouflaged as a photocopy paper box in the office supply room, you know that it can only hold one thing: beer. Or in my case, Guinness. And tequila, Cointreau and limes as well. Next: an ice box posing as toner. [Dethroner] More »
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Financial Times is reporting that the Wii …
10:21PM Matt Buchanan | 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 »
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Mossberg Looks at Ubuntu Linux on a Dell (Verdict: Not Quite Ready for Primetime)
10:09PM Matt Buchanan | 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 »
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50-Knot Sentry Drone Is the Ultimate in RC Boats
9:30PM Addy Dugdale | 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 »
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According to ComScore, web video watchers …
9:28PM Matt Buchanan | According to ComScore, web video watchers have short attention spans: 2.7 minutes worth, to be exact, though we watch about 3 hours of online video a month. [NYT] More »
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Air Drone’s First Kill Ever Trumpets Robotic Apocalypse
9:23PM Jesus Diaz | 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 »
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