Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Gadgets
Transforming Flashlight Looks Like It Sings, Dances, Kills You at Night
11:45PM Jesus Diaz | For $US10, this Wild Planet LiteFormz Transforming Flashlight–that goes from regular torch, to walking funny man, to menacing scorpion–seems like a total bargain. Too bad it’s not an actual robot. [Buzzillions via Boing Boing Gadgets] More »
Software
BlackBerries Get SlingPlayer Mobile Beta Today
11:22PM Mark Wilson | If you’ve got a Blackberry and a Slingbox, the SlingPlayer Mobile public beta has just started. Download it free for 30 days and pay a one-time $US30 fee to keep it. [Blackberry via geardiary] More »
Design
‘Help Lock’ Doorknob Protects Olds From Bathroom Peril
10:41PM John Herrman | Sometimes, old people fall and they can’t get up. It’s a fact! Designer Haishan Deng has proposed a simple, timed bathroom doorknob for folks who are prone to such accidents, living alone, or clumsy. More »
Screens
LG to Show Off 480Hz Trumotion Display at CES
9:40PM John Herrman | In a classic more=betterer move, LG is planning to top their current 240Hz sets (and Sony’s wonderfully advertised 200Hz Bravias) with an otherwise mysterious 480Hz LCD television. More »
Random Stuff
How To: Origami Millennium Falcon
9:00PM Brian Lam | Wired’s January issue contains this origami Millennium Falcon tutorial. Even better, the creator, Philip Schulz, has a website full of origami directions almost every ship in the imperial and rebel fleet. [HappyMagPie via Wired] More »
Phones
OK People, It Might Be Time to Lay Off the BlackBerry Storm Hate
8:40PM John Herrman | Sure, lots of important people weren’t too impressed with the Storm. But this slippy, Freudian Google News headline sums up the unbridled hate towards the handset much better than it does the article. Much. More »
Software
Microsoft Proposes Obnoxiously Restrictive Pay-As-You-Go Computing System
7:58PM John Herrman | Many have said that the future of Microsoft will be in subscription-based software, cloud computing or some combination of the two. Well, let’s hope that it doesn’t turn out anything like patent application 20080319910. More »
Peripherals
iPhone Nano Case Rumour Again
3:20PM Jesus Diaz | There are rumours that keep coming back, like the iPhone nano. Eventually they may become reality, but seriously, is this product information form the real thing or a way to get a mailing list? More »
Screens
LG’s Upcoming LH95 is the Thinnest LCD TV Yet
1:56PM Jason Chen | LG plans to take the thinnest LCD TV crown at CES 2009 with the LH95, which supports 240Hz and a 2 million to 1 contrast ratio. More »
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