Saturday, February 9, 2008

Computing

Eee PC Has A Kindle Mode?

1:21PM February 9, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Got a desire for the sold out Amazon Kindle? If you do your probably out of luck on actually getting one anytime soon. The next best thing might actually be an Eee PC in “Kindle” mode. By using FBReader in fullscreen and portrait mode, an Eeeph forum member turned his Eee into a Kindle imitator. Since FBReader is a free e-book reader for Unix and Windows computers this little Kindle tweak shouldn’t be too hard to get you a multi-function e-reader out of the popular Eee PC. [Eeeph via EeeUser]

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Gadgets

WildCharge Releases iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry Pearl/8800 Wireless Charging Adapters

12:30PM February 9, 2008 | Jason Chen

Wildcharge, the device that lets you wirelessly charge your RAZR, has just released new adapters for the iPhone, iPod, BlackBerry Pearl, BlackBerry 8800 and 2nd Gen iPod Nano. It still works the same: put the adapter on the back of your phone, place your phone onto the charging pad and wait for the juice to flow. No pricing information on this quite yet, but the old RAZR chargers were US$34 (or US$89 for the pad and the charger together). [WildCharge]

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Cameras

Polaroid Instant Film Killed By The 21st Century

12:23PM February 9, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Polaroid is closing its last remaining film plants in Mass. so the oh so fun instant Polaroids will soon become a thing of the past. Well it’s already a thing of the past, but this time it’s serious since no more instant film will be produced.


The Pinkest iPod nano?

12:00PM February 9, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

Thinking about getting a pink iPod nano, but want the absolute pinkest piece of iPod money can buy? Balls-out pink lovers should try to scrounge up a 2nd gen nano, while someone looking for a subdued, less intensely pink experience can walk into an Apple Store and buy the latest bubblegum flavour. [iLounge]


Geek Out

Samurai Stormtroopers Hunt Down and Exterminate Ninja Jedis

10:30AM February 9, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

If Star Wars took place in Japan and Jedis were ninjas, this is what Stormtroopers would hunt them down in during the Great Jedi Purge. They’re obviously smarter than the average clone, too, since they’re too dumb and clumsy to wield katana. Created by artist Yoshi Isao and on display at Gift Show 2008 in Tokyo, Giz Japan brings us this follow-up to his rendition of Darth Vader as Dark Lord of the Shogun.

[Yoshitoku via Giz Japan]

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Software

iPhone Springlets: Add Quick Search Bookmarks

10:10AM February 9, 2008 | Jason Chen

Just like bookmarklets in FireFox, these Springlets for the iPhone let you quickly search a site (IMDB, Google, Wikipedia) by pre-typing in the search term before you load the page itself. This saves you one page load per search from the home page, which at EDGE speeds could mean up about a 30-second time gain. [Springlets via Lifehacker]

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Gaming

SeXBox Gets Core Version, Plus Wiin Now Available

9:30AM February 9, 2008 | Jason Chen

Is the SeXbox 3600 too much SeXbox for you? Now there’s a slightly cheaper version available in Japan that strangely mirrors the jump from the real Xbox 360 Premium to the Xbox 360 Core. Here’s how we figure.

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Cars

Most High Tech 18 -Wheeler Ever Almost Puts Optimus Prime to Shame

9:00AM February 9, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

Navistar’s new flagship truck, the LoneStar, is a mobile geek mansion: Monsoon stereo system with 11 speakers, subwoofer and amp, a giant desk with swivel chairs, wooden floors, 42-inch mattress and a bunch of other unnecessary creature and gadget comforts, like Bluetooth. Update: Our greasemonkey brothers at Jalopnik sent over about a billion pictures of this Richie Rich big rig.

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Entertainment

XEL-1: Sony’s First OLED TV Reviewed by Sound and Vision (The Bastards)

8:44AM February 9, 2008 | Brian Lam

I can’t say I’m not jealous that Al at Sound and Vision for getting first domestic review of the upcoming Sony 11-inch OLED TV. The set has one of the highest price/size ratios ever, but it also pulls off one of the highest performances of any modern TV, too. Here are the particulars, in case you have an extra US$2500 to blow on a TV that’ll look huge in your daughter’s doll house.

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Geek Out

Did the Infamous Canburger Start Out as an Art Project?

8:40AM February 9, 2008 | Adam Frucci

Does art imitate life or does life imitate art? That’s one of many, many questions that arose in my mind when I saw this art exhibit in France that’s made up of 10,000 “Canburgers.” And no, these aren’t just purchased from the place we found the originals in, they were specially commissioned by the artist, Mike Bouchet. And it just went up a month ago. What. The. Hell. Let’s unravel this mystery, super sleuths.

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