Saturday, December 6, 2008
Cameras
Uncle Milton Pet’s Eye View Camera Lightning Review
12:00PM Wilson Rothman | The Gadget: The Uncle Milton Pet’s Eye View cam is a low-res interval-timed camera designed to clip to the collar of a dog or cat, under the assumption your pet’s life has some vaguely interesting non-eating/sleeping/pooing component. More »
Software
Nvidia Badaboom and ATI Avivo GPU Video Transcoders Battle to the Death
11:30AM Matt Buchanan | Dedicated graphics cards from ATI and Nvidia used to be critical just for gamers and pros, but now they do a lot more than make splattered guts look good. Like make video transcoding really fast. More »
Business
Motorola Is Officially Junk
10:50AM Matt Buchanan | Standard and Poor’s Rating Services acknowledges what Giz readers have known for a long time: They now classify Motorola as junk. Specifically, their Ratings Services cut its long-term corporate credit rating for Motorola to junk status. Last week, though, Moody’s Investors Services also warned of future cuts to Moto’s rating, which is hanging on two notches above junk. This all means it’ll be even harder for Motorola to get cash, like for R&D or other projects. Clearly, however, none of these people have heard of the Moto Krave, which has a full touchscreen, two megapixel camera and fits right in with sports cars. [WSJ via BBG Faucet] More »
Entertainment
Netflix Fixes Video Streaming Glitch
10:30AM Sean Fallon | Apparently, Netflix streaming issues were not the fault of Roku after all. Netflix has acknowledged the problem and corrected it—although they have offered no explanation as to the cause. [CNET] More »
Gadgets
SmartBolts Assure Perfect Tightness Every Time
10:10AM Mark Wilson | It’s not hard to under or over-tighten a bolt when you are building a cabinet, let alone installing hardware into the human body. Luckily, some clever engineers came up with the idea of SmartBolts. More »
Toys
Lego Colonial Space Ship Is Big Enough to Terraform Real Planets
9:50AM Jesus Diaz | Do you remember the gigantic terraforming spaceship arriving to the Aliens’ planet to drop the entire colony? You know, the one carrying the whole thing? Yeah, me neither. But this Lego Explorien Colony Ship is exactly how I imagine it. More »
Phones
How to Fix the Ducking iPhone Puritanism
9:30AM Jesus Diaz | At ducking last, there’s a ducking way to fix the ducking profanity auto-correction problem in the iPhone. As you probably know, for some strange reason, the iPhone won’t really learn swear words. Fortunately, there’s a solution. More »
Screens
ITRI Bringing Folding TFT-EPD Displays to Smartphones Next Year
9:10AM Sean Fallon | This Pilotfish mock-up illustrates a new product that Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) hopes to integrate into smartphones starting next year—a folding, Thin Film Transistor Electrophoretic Display (TFT-EPD). More »
Science
Intel Developing Power Harvesting for Personal Devices, Could See It in as Little as Two Years
9:09AM Adrian Covert | At a summit today in San Francisco, Intel CTO Justin Rattner discussed some of Intel’s R&D plans on creating components that were more self-sufficient, eco-friendly and helpful in the fight against global warming. More »
Software
