Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Software
Games
Man Fits Home-Made Gaming System to IKEA Dining Table
10:20PM Addy Dugdale | Eric Gradman built his own MAME gaming system from a 15-inch LCD, Happ controls and an Ultimarc I-PAC, and fitted it into an extendable dining table that he bought from IKEA. “There’s always someone who doesn’t feel comfortable around large groups of people, and so he sits at the table playing video games,” he says. The full photo-set is on Flickr, but you can see some of the pics in our gallery below. More »
Gadgets
Nerf Sniper Rifle is Three Feet of Fun
8:54PM Addy Dugdale | The Nerf N-Strike Longshot CS-6, to give it its full name, is the kind of blaster gun that your kid would kill for. It’s also the kind of thing that would be a gift in name only, because, any child will have problems prying it out of a parent’s hands once unwrapped. And it works just as well at close range as it does on long targets: More »
Peripherals
Christmas Cake USB Hub from Solid Alliance Heralds the Arrival of Festive Tat
7:51PM Addy Dugdale | When Solid Alliance and Christmas meet, there can only be one winner: fans of all things USB. What collector of dumb peripheral stuff could refuse this Christmas cake, complete with 1GB memory key strawberries? And then you see what else they use to decorate the cake. More »
Phones
Vodafone Germany Halts T-Mobile iPhone Sales
5:40PM Brian Lam | European wireless provider Vodafone on Monday obtained a Court order that requires rival T-Mobile Germany to sell Apple Inc.’s iPhone handset to Germans without a service plan. [AppleInsider] More »
Phones
Wi-Fi Blackberry Pearl Hits the FCC
4:55PM Brian Lam | The Blackberry Pearl 8120 has been spotted on the FCC, with GPS, a standard headhone jack, Stereo A2DP Bluetooth and Wi-Fi (no 3G, however). Could be a great T-Mobile@Home phone for roaming between hotspots and cell towers, seamlessly. [PhoneScoop] More »
Computers
Dell Implies All Its Previous Machines Ugly
4:35PM Brian Lam | It is unfortunate, and maybe a bit mean, but I feel compelled to point out the headline in the screenshot, “Dell. Now available in Beautiful”, as flawed. The problem with it is that it—correct me if I’m wrong—implies that all previous dells were not available in anything except ugly. And the clean lines of an HP laptop (as well as their rising sales over the last few quarters) would not beg to differ, although I think the XPS line is fast and not so bad on the eyes. [Dell] More »
Gadgets
The Bug Labs Concept Interview
3:51PM Benny Goldman | As cool as we find the whole modular open-source electronics concept that Bug Labs has conjured up, we share some of the confusion and curiosity that you do about how this baby’s gonna fly. We sat down with CEO Peter Semmelhack and, in addition to giving us the first look at the powered-on Bug itself, he answered some of our most burning questions: • Who will buy this device—besides hackers, that is? • What is the ultimate Bug module combination? • How will you avoid comparisons to the revered yet ill-fated Handspring? • Are there any scenarios where an LCD screen wouldn’t be used? • So, when and where can we buy our own Bug combos? After you watch the vid, let us know what’s on your mind. (He may have answered it already, we couldn’t include everything in this clip here.) [Bug Labs] More »
Design
Laptops Designed by Children
3:32PM Brian Lam | When adults design a laptop for children, it looks like the OLPC or Speak and Spell. When laptops are designed by children they look like the setup above. The PurC PC (Purple Construction Paper PC, my name) was made by an 8-year old girl in the youngster-founded, no-adults-allowed “The Laptop Club”. Alphanumerics are pegged where function keys are normally situated. Below are the real function keys, like, “kitten, dog, cat, bird, collar, lease, hamster, and design pet.” There’s the unfortunate, “Buy Immediately, shop, order”, too. Corruption starts so young. Too bad Fake Steve Jobs already has a patent on Child-Like-Wonder in Computing Device(s)— he told me the C&Ds are in the mail for the lower 98-percentile of the club, and the other 2% are being taken from their parents to be trained as 5th generation Apple designers. There are 8 more models at The Morning News, so check em out. [CNet via TheMorningNews via BoingBoing] More »
Hardware
