Monday, September 24, 2007
Starbucks To Start Up iTunes Wi-Fi Store with 50 Million Free Songs
11:20PM Wilson Rothman | From Oct. 2 to Nov. 7, more than 10,000 Starbucks shops will be handing out free “Song of the Day” iTunes download cards. Starbucks estimates it will hand out 1.5 million songs per day, over 50 million in all, to promote the iTunes Wi-Fi store to which Starbucks will grant free access over its T-Mobile Wi-Fi networks. If you recall from the Sept. 5 announcement, Starbucks locations in New York and Seattle will be first, on Oct. 2, followed by San Francisco in November, and many more locations in 2008. The Song of the Day promotion will not be limited to these stores, however. More »
In the past two years, the Australian Navy …
11:10PM Wilson Rothman | In the past two years, the Australian Navy has paid for 13 women to get breast implants for reasons of morale. But whose morale? [Danger Room] More » Lenovo Interactive Water Wall Makes Visitors Have to Pee
11:00PM Charlie White | Lenovo installed an interactive water wall at its home office in North Carolina, and it reacts to passersby with an optical tracker, rippling along as they get closer to the projection-based display. Maybe Lenovo was thinking about its waterproof keyboard when it created this installation. We’re thinking they should have installed more than one water sound effect, but even so, it’s a great way to show that the catfish are jumping in North Carolina. [Fresh Creation] More »Dell got in bed with GOME Group, the Chinese …
10:34PM Wilson Rothman | Dell got in bed with GOME Group, the Chinese equivalent of Best Buy, to improve poor sales in China. Lenovo is market leader with 35 percent; HP has around 12. By comparison, Dell’s market share is “single digit.” [Reuters] More »
UXV Combatant Warship Made for Drone Battles Heralds Robot Apocalypse
10:30PM Jesus Diaz | Here’s the UXV Combatant, a new class of warship being developed by BAE Systems to fight in the drone wars. BAE believes that the future battlefield will be full of intelligent robots fighting against each other, probably until they realise they can join together to eliminate all humans from Earth. The ship looks and specs, expected to enter service past 2020, look terrifying: More »How to Make a Human Flipbook from 150 T-Shirts
9:16PM Addy Dugdale | Sub company Erbert & Gerbert was looking for a cheaper way to advertise its food than the usual $365,000 that’s usually needed to film a commercial. And this is what they came up with. Cool and clever. [Human Flipbook via Fresh Creation] More »
This is What 1GB of Storage Looks Like Now and 20 Years Ago
8:52PM Addy Dugdale | How times change, eh? [Best Pic Ever via Spluch] More »
Next Generation of Spy Cameras Could be Launched from Shotguns
8:10PM Addy Dugdale | Super-expensive surveillance cams in danger spots could soon be a thing of the past. Researchers at DARPA have been experimenting with cheapo-cheapo cameras that are tough enough either to be shot into position or dropped from a high-altitude aircraft. And when you think about today’s ever-shrinking technology, how difficult would it be to design a bullet-sized camera? More »
iRiver G10 May Become Reality After All
8:05PM Jesus Diaz | The iRiver G10 may be coming out in December after all, even if only for the Korean market. The release has been hinted by KT Cooperation, the WiBro carrier that was developing it with iRiver. It still looks as sweet as when it was last seen in Barcelona’s 3GSM last year and the specs are quite amazing, including the built-in 6GB of memory and the 800 x 480 16-bit 4-inch LCD screen: More »
