The Gadget: The Uncle Milton Pet’s Eye View cam is a low-res interval-timed camera designed to clip to the collar of a dog or cat, under the assumption your pet’s life has some vaguely interesting non-eating/sleeping/pooing component.
Dedicated graphics cards from ATI and Nvidia used to be critical just for gamers and pros, but now they do a lot more than make splattered guts look good. Like make video transcoding really fast.
Standard and Poor’s Rating Services acknowledges what Giz readers have known for a long time: They now classify Motorola as junk. Specifically, their Ratings Services cut its long-term corporate credit rating for Motorola to junk status. Last week, though, Moody’s Investors Services also warned of future cuts to Moto’s rating, which is hanging on two notches above junk. This all means it’ll be even harder for Motorola to get cash, like for R&D or other projects. Clearly, however, none of these people have heard of the Moto Krave, which has a full touchscreen, two megapixel camera and fits right in with sports cars. [WSJ via BBG Faucet]
Apparently, Netflix streaming issues were not the fault of Roku after all. Netflix has acknowledged the problem and corrected it—although they have offered no explanation as to the cause. [CNET]
It’s not hard to under or over-tighten a bolt when you are building a cabinet, let alone installing hardware into the human body. Luckily, some clever engineers came up with the idea of SmartBolts.
Do you remember the gigantic terraforming spaceship arriving to the Aliens’ planet to drop the entire colony? You know, the one carrying the whole thing? Yeah, me neither. But this Lego Explorien Colony Ship is exactly how I imagine it.
At ducking last, there’s a ducking way to fix the ducking profanity auto-correction problem in the iPhone. As you probably know, for some strange reason, the iPhone won’t really learn swear words. Fortunately, there’s a solution.
This Pilotfish mock-up illustrates a new product that Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) hopes to integrate into smartphones starting next year—a folding, Thin Film Transistor Electrophoretic Display (TFT-EPD).
At a summit today in San Francisco, Intel CTO Justin Rattner discussed some of Intel’s R&D plans on creating components that were more self-sufficient, eco-friendly and helpful in the fight against global warming.
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