The Land of Godzilla now has another monster terrorising its streets–Boston Dynamic’s BigDog robot! Only… aren’t those feet? This isn’t BigDog Beta, is it? No wonder the Japanese look more puzzled than scared. [JapanProbe]
I’m not too sure what to make of this announcement that iiNet is now reselling 3 Mobile’s wireless internet service. Part of me thinks it’s awesome – even though they’re selling it for the same price as 3, 3′s prices are far and away the best in the country, once you get over the whole coverage thing. Which brings us to the other part of me, which wonders whether iiNet users will be slugged with Telstra’s monstrous roaming charges if they leave the CBD.
In any case, it’s happening now, and as Gus over at Lifehacker points out, don’t actually think that you’ll see unmetered iTunes downloads over the wireless network – that won’t ever happen!
[iiNet via Lifehacker]
A Chinese man, killed by a weather rocket, was thought to have died from getting struck by lightning until his body exploded at his own funeral.
Spoiler: If you’re going to buy a Netbook for Hackintoshing, try the MSI Wind or a Dell Mini 9. Rob explains more at [BBG.]
This iPod dock by iLuv is not really a dock, but a full fledged stereo with sub. And four CD players. Is that right? I mean, I make fun of gadgets that aren’t meant for mothers and grandfathers with CD players and this has four of them. [gadgetreview]
Vodafone are pushing music over their network like it’s going out of fashion. On top of the MusicStation service, they’re now offering an application that will let you scrobble your music using your Last.fm account. At the moment it’s limited to a number of Nokia handsets (N95, N96, N78 and 6210), and you need to download a special app from Last.fm’s website, but Voda are promising more handset compatibility is on the way. Even cooler – if you’re a millionaire in Germany – is that you can purchase tracks from Vodafone’s online store directly from the app, which is great if you stumple across a song you really enjoy. At the moment that’s Germany only, but have no doubt that we’ll see it in Australia before to long.
[Last.fm]
256GB ssds were a possibility in my mind as a drive in a fantasy rig. But a 512GB 2.5-inch laptop drive is big enough to hope for from the depths of my storage fanboy heart-of-hearts.
Another piece of brilliance you never knew you needed from the venerable Hammacher Schlemmer: A simple GPS device that points the way back to a single spot. That’s it, for $US80. [Hammacher-Schlemmer via Chip Chick]
If any Gizmodians out there were waiting with bated breath to drop about $3K on a phone that they’ll never be able to resell (in other words, the Motorola Aura), there might be a slight delay if the rumours the guys at PopSci Australia have been hearing are true. Apparently Moto has decided to switch the Aura from the Symbian based OS they were showing off at the phone’s launch last month to Android.
The X-Touch Mixer faucet trades analogue knobs or levers for buttons so you can regulate exactly what temperature the water is. Better, it has a digital readout to show you exactly what temp it is.
