Walt Mossberg has confirmed what AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega already hinted at CTIA: the iPhone will be 3G-capable “in 60 days.” Mossberg said it 6:53 into this Beet.tv feature. Knowing that it’s going to be one year after release, what De la Vega said, and the fact that Walt gets his mitts on the goods way before anyone else, it’s only logical to think he is right. We will discover it around June 4.
In an effort to clean up Africa’s dirty and diesel-reliant mobile network, Swedish start up Flexenclosure has designed a green version of a cellular base station. Called the E-site, it runs primarily on wind and solar power and utilises an intelligent operating system that adapts to local conditions.
A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10,000 times the price he paid for it. Chris Clark registered the name pizza.com in 1994 for just $20, and continued to pay the annual registration fee until January of this year, when he heard the domain name vodka.com had gone for a massive $3 million, and decided he wanted a slice of the pie.
Just 100 of Seiko’s Spring Drive Spacewalk watches, space-proof wristwatches being developed with a little help from the Russian Federal Space Agency, are expected to be made. Designed for Richard Garriott, the video-game honcho-turned-future space tourist, the titanium-encased timepiece weighs just 92.5 grams and is airtight, and waterproof to 100 metres. Seiko has developed a new luminescent material so that Richard will be able to see if it’s teatime yet on the International Space Station, and it has large control buttons so that he doesn’t have to take his space gloves off to adjust the time. Full specs are below.
The Asus R50 UMPC is already being updated—even though Mark 1 has yet to be released. Digitimes reports that the handheld with GPS and 3.5G connectivity, due out in June, will be sporting a keyboard come November of this year. As well as running Linux and Vista, the R50 has a webcam and TV tuner and is expected to sell for US$500-plus. [DigiTimes via JKK Mobile]
Not something that you frak your lady of the night on top of, nor anything to do with William Shatner, Adrian Zmed and Heather Locklear, the Hookah Table is a customised table that you can get high on, as well as under. Costing around US$600 bucks, there’s a bowl on top, which I guess you can put the salt in when your folks come round for dinner, and four hoses for you and your mates to suck on after your Mum has done the washing up and the coast is clear. You can choose from loads of different finishes (sadly, Happy is not one of them) but I’m sure if Ms Locklear makes it to yours you could ask her if she’s up for it. [Hookah Tables via BallerHouse]
