Buzz Lightyear is now part of the International Space Station crew, after astronauts from mission STS-124 boarded the orbital outpost yesterday at 3:36PM EDT—bringing in the 12-inch to guard us against Emperor Zurg, who has been secretly building a weapon with the destructive capacity to annihilate an entire planet. Or maybe just teach kids about math and science. I can go either way, death rays or deathly equations.
“Good computing punch and excessive endurance” is Laptop magazine’s verdict of the MSI Wind. The 500-buck UMPC was put through its paces by the team, who put together a bunch of pros and cons.
Wearing Bluetooth headsets is always a risky fashion statement, but it may be that the slenderness of Bluetrek’s Metal headset reduces the fashion-geek effect. It looks even skinnier than Apple’s offering, being a scant 4mm deep, and weighing a mere 4.5 grams. Nevertheless, the skinny earbud-like device will give you five hours talk and seven days of standby. It’ll be available in Europe at first, from this month for around US$60 for black and silver, US$76 for silver steel colour. [Headset gazette via Mobile burn]
SanDisk’s new pSSD is a pATA drive aimed at the low-cost notebook PC sector— that range of ULPCs, MIDs and the like. Using Multi-Level Cell and Single-Level flash chip designs, the pSSD will have a read speed of about 39MB/sec and a streaming write speed of about 17MB/sec. Though there’s no pricing info available, they’ll be released at the beginning of August in 8, 16 and 32 GB capacities. Read on for the full press release.
It’s hard to believe that Asus’s Eee PC 901 and 1000 didn’t officially exist until this moment. But now they do! Officially. ‘Course, there are few surprises left (except for battery life, they’re claiming up to 7.8 hours), which takes the fun out of it: Atom processors, 12 or 20GB (up to 40GB SSD for 1000, or 80GB HDD for 1000H!) storage, depending on whether you roll XP or Linux. The 1000 is much like the 901, but with a 10-inch screen and a less cramped keyboard that’s 92 percent of the standard notebook size. Annoyingly, still no official pricing info, but if they really wanna move these, it’d be wayyyy under that crazy $650 figure we heard.
Yesterday, Wowwee’s Flytech lineup buzzed into our lives in a mash of fairies, Dragons, and weird helicoptor-like flying things. Today we’re going to take a look at their new Alive range of products.
The Alive branch of Wowwee is the family that brought you the Alive Chimp and the Alive Elvis. You remember, those dismembered torsos of life-like primates that were, for lack of a better term, wrong.
Well – fortunately – the 2008 lineup of Alive products is nowhere near as freaky. In fact, you could almost call them cute and cuddly. Rather than base them on the armless torsos of wild animals (you know the Elvis stories as well as I do), they’ve instead designed their new lineup on real-life animal cubs.
Buckminster Fuller might best be known for the molecules named after him and dome designs that inspired structures such as the Epicot centre. But even more impressive is The New Yorker’s rundown of Fuller’s life and forgotten inventions, such as his three-wheeled, all-terrain car with a periscope, cities designed to float in the clouds or bathrooms designed like refrigerators. Here are a few of my favourite “Bucky” facts from the article:
Despite the fact that the only BD Profile 2.0 Blu-ray player on the market today is the Playstation 3, Sony Pictures has announced that the first BD-Live enabled movie to hit Australian shores will be Men In Black.
It’s due to hit shelves on June 25, and is set to include: “a BD-Live multi-player Interactive Trivia Game, as well as exclusive downloadable theatrical and home entertainment previews and a FAQ about BD-Live functionality”.
From that description, there’s not too much to get excited about yet, but we’re trying to get our hands on a review copy so we can see for ourselves exactly what the movie studios think BD-Live can be.
Almost lunchtime. That means somebody skipped breakfast. And coffee. What a day…
Asus Photo Frame Lets You Use It As a Secondary DisplaySeriously? A digital frame that might actually be useful? Awesome!
Guy Hacks His Roomba with LEDs, Transforms It Into Pac ManMakes me want to throw a bedsheet over my head and wander through teh halls of my house. Who’s with me?
Ballmer Egg Attack Eulogised In Flash GameAre you a better shot than that Hungarian guy?
Optimus Prime T-Shirt Transforms into Arrest Threat at AirportIt blows me away that people are actually this stupid.
Latest Round of Semi-Credible 3G iPhone Specs: 22 Percent ThinnerAlmost made it a full day without some new iPhone rumours… Oh well. Only a week to go!
Sure, Nvidia’s crashing into the mobile market Intel wants to dominate. And Intel is running into discrete graphics (not to mention ruling with integrated graphics). But you know, it’s friendly right? Wrong. It’s total war. Nvidia’s continuing to hold out licensing SLI support for Intel’s boards, notably its next-gen Tylersburg chipset for the Nehalem CPUs. And Intel hasn’t yet licensed Nvidia to make an nForce chipset that’ll support Nehalem, citing a “disagreement” over the terms. If they don’t make nice, gamers will have to pick between having SLI or the latest and greatest Intel processors, meaning they get screwed either way. Man, where’s AMD when you need them? [Maximum PC]
