So you’ve kept your doll’s house a dirty little secret for the last seven years, but you’ve always felt bad about Polly Pocket not having a functional TV to watch the latest episodes of Desperate Housewives, right? Worry no more! Doks Emporium will provide for you a fully functional, 1:12 scale TV unit. Yes, it really works. Yes, you really can hook up your Wii. Yes, you’d have to be insane to blow £99 ($207) in this fashion, but who cares?
Looking at this limited-edition Di Grisogono Meccanica DG, you probably think it’s a hybrid mechanical-digital watch. Well, chaps, you’re wrong. Despite its appearance, the Meccanica DG is completely analog, comprising of 651 pieces and absolutely no digital parts or LEDs whatsoever. Video and pics after the jump.
David W. Dorman, the former CEO of AT&T who tore the company down to its core business, has been named Chairman of Motorola. It’s a non-executive position, but knowing the state of the beleaguered company (I’ve always wanted to write “beleaguered”) and what he did at AT&T, he may bring a large, razor-sharp ax with him.
A few rumours for WWDC have cropped up this week, with nothing but faith to back em up. Most of the facts are obvious progressions and externalisations of the fanboy-tasies, or things known before, but here are some particulars I thought worth passing on: • TG Daily reports that the 3G iPhone will be in 8, 16 and 32GB flavors from US$399-US$599 in cost, with a 2.5mm slimmer profile, a tuned accelerometer, but a similar UI. • Apple Insider claims that the standard Macbook is losing the plastic shell and going all aluminium, like the current Macbook Pros. I’d dropped Kasper a line and although his story is vague, he linked his sources with other previous claims that came true, so I’ll buy it.
After making waves in the DSLR world, Nikon renewed its push in the point-and-shoot market with the slender feature-loaded camera you see before you. It’s had slightly different model names over the past two years, but its newest incarnation, the US$250 9-megapixel 3X-optical-zoom-equipped S52, is pretty slick. You get: • 2000 ISO in “high sensitivity” mode • Optical image stabilizer • In-camera slideshows with music from iTunes • SDHC support • 3″ LCD A $30 step up gets you the S52c, the same basic camera with an extra bit of a bulge. No, it’s not a tumah, as Gov. Schwarzenegger would surely tell you: it’s Wi-Fi, and with it a direct connection to Nikon’s my Picturetown online community for sharing, mailing and uploading to Flickr and other sites. Press release after the two galleries below.
If you’re gonna zoom, ZOOM, goes an old saying I just made up, and Nikon today is heeding those words: the CoolPix P80 point-and-shoot has an 18X optical zoom lens—that’s a 35mm equivalent of 27-486mm. Along with that, it’s got full P, A, S and M modes, optical vibration reduction and up to 6400 ISO at lower resolutions, so it’s all but guaranteed to let you crawl up a fly’s arse in midair. Compared to the budget minded full-manual CoolPix P60, the P80 has a few incremental improvements: a 10-megapixel CCD, up from the P60′s 8 megapixels, a 2.7″ LCD, up from 2.5″, oh and a $400 price tag, up from $230. Helllloooo profit margin! Press release after the gallery.
If the dentist in Finding Nemo had owned a Labyrinth aquarium like this one in his surgery, all of his fish would have been happy to stay right where they were, Nemo would never have been reunited with his dad and Dory probably would have been eaten by a shark.
In case you couldn’t tell by looking at the picture, it’s a series of interconnected fish bowls, which offer your fish a wide variety of exciting new areas to explore.
All the important stuff, like lights, pumps, filters and cleaning equipment is stored in the cabinet below, which is available in three different colours: cheery brown, black and carbon fiber.
Sadly, you’ll need to be a dentist to afford it – the Labyrinth aquarium costs US$5,500. Ouch.
[Opulent Items via Cool Hunting]
With Nokia’s N-gage platform recently being reborn into something that might possibly be enjoyable, Nokia are looking to entice developers to create games for the platform by offering up 70,000 Euro (or $118,750 in Aussie dollars) in prize money, plus publishing contracts.
The Mobile Games Innovation Challenge is open to developers worldwide from all levels. The three best concepts will take home the prizemoney in a 40k/20k/10k split.
If it means that mobile phone gaming gets better than tetris or solitaire, then it’s a fantastic move. Shame it’s only for N-gage devices though. Full press release below.
Now that the writer’s strike is over, Conan should be swimming in a-list material, but it appears that his love affair with OSX features is too hard to resist. In this installment, we find him engaging in an electrifying 3-way iChat conversation with Max and LaBamba. I don’t think they got the “magic back”, but at least the demo went smoothly. [NBC via Macenstein]
Yes I know it is juvenile, but if Dell sent you a replacement laptop full of pubes wouldn’t you be pissed? According to one Consumerist reader, that is just what happened after a Dell technician helped him fry an old laptop after instructing him to use it as a test unit for a malfunctioning adaptor. GOOD: Dell offered to replace the laptop free of charge. BAD: The laptop was full of human pubic hair. If this is true, is it some sort of tech support equivalent of spitting in your food? If you can stand to look, the actual picture is available after the break.
