The electric-sheep lawnmower may have tickled your fancy, but this Muwi concept mower from designer Yuli Sung will have you scratching your head. The concept’s roughly the same as the sheep: It automatically assesses the grassy areas, and then cuts the lawn without supervision required. Cunningly, it grabs the grass cuttings inside where they won’t lie around setting off people’s hay fever. But then it does something strange… it compacts the cuttings into toys. Scratching yet? The second image makes it clearer.
Last we’d heard about dual-core version of Intel’s tiny Atom processor it was delayed through supply problems… but now info on Intel’s Atom 330 dual-core has arrived. It’s a desktop chip, with a 533MHz frontside bus and based on the 45nm process, though there’s no info on its clock speeds yet. It’ll be compatible with Intel’s upcoming D945GCLF2 mini-ITX motherboard, a 945GX chipset/GMA 950 graphics chip board due in September, which is presumably when the 330 hits the streets too. As yet there’s no news on a mobile version, bearing the letter N in its numeric title. [Reghardware]
newVideoPlayer("/iphonecopypaste_gizmodo.flv", 520, 308,""); At last, iPhone copy and paste between applications is here. However, it doesn’t come from Apple, but from MagicPad developer Zac White. Cali Lewis, the ever-smiling presenter at GeekBrief, got the scoop on his new OpenClip open-source framework, which will enable any developer to implement copy and paste between applications without violating Apple’s developer agreement.
We’d already drawn comparisons between Fujitsu’s all-in one FMV F-A50 desktop PC and the design aesthetic of the iMac, and now Fujitsu have upgraded the range and added a 19-inch version to the range. The F-B70T even features a bigger “chin” beneath the 1440 x 900 screen, alongside a Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 running at 2.26GHz, with 2GB RAM, a 500GB hard-drive, integrated TV Tuner, webcam and wi-fi. The smaller 16-inch F-B50 has an Intel Core 2 Duo CPU T8100 ticking over at 2.1GHz with a 320GB hard-drive, and looks much the same as the original A50. There’s no data yet on pricing or availability. [Akihabaranews]
That mystery tablet PC that appeared at the end of Intel’s presentation at IDF last night is no classmate, or super-powered Speak&Spell either: It’s a Panasonic Toughbook-alike tablet. More specifically it’s a “Mobile Clinical Assistant” device, aimed at doctors and nurses who are under an increasing burden of digital data and imagery nowadays, though there’s not much more info available than that fact yet. Shucks… and there we were hoping for something a little more Classmate-y. [Ubergizmo]
I don’t know who’s designing Microsoft’s gaming hardware after their brief hiatus from the market, but they’re insane, in the best possible way–they’ve actually got some inspired, unique form factors, besides a huge Vader hard-on. The first Sidewinder keyboard ever, the X6, has a macro/numberpad that’ll dock on either side and takes the number of macros up to 90, plus it has gaming usuals like adjustable backlighting. The X5 mouse is a slightly less swank version of the previous Sidewinder. galleryPost('sidewinderxcess', 3, '');
Perhaps in an attempt to shrug off its stodgy, all-business image, Dell has launched a handful of “Special Art Edition” Studio-series laptops with graphics by artist Mike Ming. Ming has worked with Dell on laptops before, notably with the Inspirion 1525 a few months ago. This is the first time Ming’s urban art has been brought to the consumer-focused Studio line, but we’re guessing it won’t be the last. [Dell]
I told you Stiller was a Giz fan! Now he’s Paramount are giving three lucky Giz readers a chance to go and see the film with a “brutha” as well as a limited edition Tropic Thunder director’s chair that you can paint your own name on (or the name of the site that you won it from).
To enter, we’re going to make it quite simple: simply tell us in 25 words or less why you want to see the film in comments – I’ll judge the best three winners next Monday! The funnier the better people!
It’s one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It’s something entirely different to invent an electricity-generating wind turbine out of scrap parts that could revolutionise personal power in developing nations, especially if you’re in college. Max Robinson has done just that, designing a turbine out of spare parts that costs less than US$40 to build out of readily available parts and can power a home’s lighting for up to two and a half days or a radio for over a day. No word on how long an OLPC would last. [Daily Mail]
Exit Games has a multiplayer gaming platform, called Neutron, on PCs, mobile devices, game consoles, and BREW phones. It works across devices and hardware, so you can play someone on their PC via your handset. And now it’s ready for the iPhone. Today it was announced that the Neutron system of social network-like gaming now has iPhone support, or will as soon as developers code for it. The iPhone, with its svelte shape and always-on connectivity, makes for a lust-worthy multiplayer gaming device, so this is really just the next logical step in being able to play games with your friend on the train from across the world. [Exit Games via Kotaku via BBG]
