Monday, March 24, 2008
Software
Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Ships Today
11:52PM Wilson Rothman | Photoshop Elements’ return to the Mac is complete today. Adobe officially ships the US$90 program—US$70 if you’re upgrading from a previous Elements—running on Mac OS 10.4.8 and 10.5. [Adobe] More »
Gadgets
Gen-X Author Douglas Coupland Claims that Technology Makes Idiots of Us All
11:51PM Addy Dugdale | Douglas Coupland has been drafted in to fill Stephen Fry’s shoes on his tech column Dork Talk. The Canadian author and artist has tackled the subject of gadgets and obsolescence, taking as his starting-point the fact that the box of techno-baubles he received from The Guardian in London were all unworkable in North America. And this got him thinking, about how time is now measured in “tech-waves.” If that’s the case, then what era are we currently in? More »
Vehicles
Shooting Flying Cars with Machine Guns, Rocket Launchers
11:10PM Jesus Diaz | I’m on the beach on semi-vacation now, here in the south of Spain, and we have BBC One via satellite. This means one thing on Sunday nights: Top Gear. Chances are that you probably have watched Top Gear clips on YouTube, like the one above, in which Jeremy Clarkson replaces clay pigeons and shotguns with real flying cars, machine guns and, at the end of it, a gas-tank-seeking (no kidding) rocket launcher. More »
Home
Sharp KC-C100, C150 Purify and Humidify Your Air Stylishly
10:45PM Gizmodo US Edition | Sharp’s new air purifiers prove that humble household electrical gadgets can actually look quite stylish. These have triple filtration technology, including true HEPA filters to trap the majority of airborne nasties in your home, and their filters only need changing every five years. They can also push a room’s relative humidity to 50%, and have a “library quiet” mode. That sounds like a nice function: my purifier makes a heck of a racket on a quiet night. The C100 can clean up 254 square feet rooms, while the C150 can cope with 247 square feet. Available now for US$399.99 and US$499.99 [7Gadgets] More »
Gadgets
iPod Trunk from Pinel & Pinel Probably the Most Gorgeous Around
10:18PM Addy Dugdale | Parisian trunkmaker Pinel & Pinel’s iPod case is the kind of iPod case I’d like to get my hands on—if I hadn’t dropped my iPod before Christmas, that is. Made from leather-covered wood, its built-in speakers are Altec-Lansing, and it’s got a couple of pockets so you don’t lose your accessories (I know my USB connector is somewhere in the house, anyone with a psychic grandmother please contact her now and tell her that there’s a lost cable that needs her help.) [Sybarites] More »
Toys
LEGO Futurama Fan Set Makes Official Line a Must
10:16PM Jesus Diaz | For those of you who run on beer, tell people to kiss your shiny metal arse, and think there’s nothing better than LEGO Star Wars or LEGO Space, here’s LEGO Futurama. As you will see in the 24-photo gallery after the jump, the Planet Express headquarters features custom detailed minifigs of the main characters. More »
Home
Fisher & Paykel Izona Cooksurface: Gas Range Goes High-Tech
9:31PM Gizmodo US Edition | Fisher and Paykel have had a re-think of the humble kitchen range. Their new Izona Cooksurface looks more like a ceramic electric hob than a gas one, and dumps the four-burner pattern that nearly every other range uses. Though this gives you fewer cooking stations, it at least means you won’t set your sleeves on fire reaching for the back ones anymore. More »
Gadgets
Elementary School’s LEGO Club Makes Whiteboard Using Wii
9:14PM Addy Dugdale | Remember Johnny Lee’s how-to last year, on how to make a whiteboard out of a Wiimote? Kofi Merritt, a computer resource specialist, challenged the members of the LEGO Club at the Clara Byrd Baker Elementary School to follow the Carnegie-Mellon Ph.D student’s video instructions and make themselves an interactive whiteboard, saving their school around US$800 in the process. More »
Computers
Miu HDPC Does Linux and Windows in All-in-One Package
8:07PM Gizmodo US Edition | Yes, you will have seen slimmer UMPCs, but probably not one quite so feature-packed as the new Miu Hybrid Dual PC. The Dual bit comes from its dual-boot options of XP plus WinCE 5.0 or linux Qplus. It earns its Hybrid label by being a mobile phone, navigation device, PMP, electronic dictionary, internet phone, voice recorder, games machine, mobile IPTV device and digital camera. We reckon that list of functions at least partly excuses its 0.96-inch depth. More details and gallery after the jump. galleryPost('miuHDPC', 3, ''); More »
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