Thursday, December 4, 2008
Science
First Teddie Bear Astronauts Conquer Space
11:38PM Jesus Diaz | Yesterday the Japanese announced the first space beer. Now the British are claiming the first teddy bear astronauts, who were photographed in space from a home-made vessel with two digital cameras, a flight computer, GPS, and radio. More »
Phones
The Blackberry Storm Screen Takes on a Knife
11:13PM Mark Wilson | Yes, my friends, the Blackberry Storm screen may be the hardest material on Earth. More »
Gadgets
Tokyo Street Watches Graph the Time, Shoot It, or Turn It Into Some Bugs
10:17PM John Herrman | These watches from Tokyo Street take three novel approaches to telling time: one draws a target, the other makes a graph, and the last displays ants. Glowing, inscrutable little ants. More »
Entertainment
Netflix Watch Instantly For Mac Now Available For All Subscribers
9:09PM John Herrman | Netflix’s Silverlight-based Watch Instantly feature for Macs is out of beta, and activated for all subscribers. The catalog still isn’t complete and the six machine limit stands, but good news is good news. [Netflix —Thanks, Ben!] More »
Software
Well What Do You Know, It’s a New Windows 7 Boot Screen
8:32PM John Herrman | Each release of Windows treats us to a new boot screen. XP had its endless progress bar, and Vista added its emblem. Windows 7, though, gets a glowing Microsoft blob. More »
Computers
Coby to Release $US100 ‘Midget’ Laptop to Sell in Rite-Aid, Kroger
7:58PM John Herrman | Just as we’re coming to grips with the entire netbook phenomenon, low end manufacturer Coby comes up with something even lamer. “[Midget PCs] are smaller than a netbook but not THAT small.” Midget PCs. Lovely. More »
Random Stuff
Space Age Fetishism Getting Silly New Moniker: Atompunk
6:00PM Elaine Chow | Are you obsessed with Sputnik, the Space Race, Google architecture and radioactive powers for superheroes? Look out, it seems like your fetish is about to get a name: “Atompunk.” More »
Gadgets
Late 1800s Studley Tool Chest is Function and Form
4:30PM Elaine Chow | Sometimes, things as mundane as tool kits can look like great works of art. This piano repair box, perfected by Henry Studley, does a great job of fixing up instruments, but it’s careful placement of knicknacks also makes it beautiful. More »
Deals
4:00PM Nick Broughall | I generally don’t buy music online – I’m still a purist at heart who likes to own all my music on CDs. If I was planning on spending some online dollars on some tunes though, I’d be all over this deal from BigPond – essentially they’re offering 50% off the price of a $50 or $100 BigPond Music gift card. You can’t pick them up online, which means you actually have to go to the shops, but considering BigPond sell a good chunk of their music (from all the majors) in non-DRM’d MP3 format, it’s easy to buy the music from BigPond then transfer it over to iTunes (or other music management software for the half-dozen Apple haters out there). Deal runs until December 31st, so maybe it’s that perfect last-minute Xmas gift for that hard to please colleague?
[BigPond Music via Lifehacker] More »
Dealzmodo: Save 50% On BigPond Music Vouchers
4:00PM Nick Broughall | I generally don’t buy music online – I’m still a purist at heart who likes to own all my music on CDs. If I was planning on spending some online dollars on some tunes though, I’d be all over this deal from BigPond – essentially they’re offering 50% off the price of a $50 or $100 BigPond Music gift card. You can’t pick them up online, which means you actually have to go to the shops, but considering BigPond sell a good chunk of their music (from all the majors) in non-DRM’d MP3 format, it’s easy to buy the music from BigPond then transfer it over to iTunes (or other music management software for the half-dozen Apple haters out there). Deal runs until December 31st, so maybe it’s that perfect last-minute Xmas gift for that hard to please colleague?
[BigPond Music via Lifehacker] More »
Software
