Monday, December 29, 2008

Gadgets

Apple Tqualizer Will Either Get You Hugged or Punched in the Chest

11:55PM December 29, 2008 | Mark Wilson

Your standard animated equalizer t-shirt is generally considered obnoxious enough. But when you stick an Apple logo on the front, well, it’s a statement that can’t be ignored.

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Online

Amazon’s Top Selling Holiday Gifts Are Electronic and Guessable

11:28PM December 29, 2008 | Mark Wilson

Amazon has published a list of their top selling products from the holiday season (they broke records again with 6.3 million items ordered on December 15th alone). So can you guess the biggies?

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Mobile

Wooden iPhone 3G Gives Us Exactly What You Expect

11:00PM December 29, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

We like wood. We like the iPhone. We like deep-fried hot dogs with rooster sauce. That’s completely unrelated, but we really like them. As much as this wooden replacement case for the iPhone 3G.

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Computing

John Lennon Digitally Reanimated for Unsettling OLPC Ad

10:01PM December 29, 2008 | John Herrman

The OLPC Foundation’s last advertising effort was close to perfect, with a strong message and affecting imagery. Their latest? A creepy, boomer-manipulating, possibly effective oddity.


NYT: Text Messages Are an Even Bigger Ripoff Than You Thought

8:24PM December 29, 2008 | John Herrman

We all know that text messaging is overpriced, but the NYT has pulled back the technological shroud to find out that the prices aren’t just bad, they’re practically extortionate.

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Mobile

LG Touchscreen Watch Phone Will Support 3G, Speech Recognition, Little Girl Fingers

7:43PM December 29, 2008 | John Herrman

Details of a new LG watch phone, likely to be announced at CES, have trickled out through the company’s Korean site. And surprise! It looks hard to use. But not—and this is important—unusable.


Computing

HP MediaSmart EX487 Server Has Remote MP3 Streaming, Mac Time Machine Compatibility

3:01PM December 29, 2008 | Adrian Covert

HP’s EX485/7 iteration of their MediaSmart Server is official, and now comes with a revamped UI, remote music and photo streaming capability, and is the first non-apple NAS product to support Time Machine. galleryPost('servermediasmarthp', 3, '');

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The Dream iPhone Pro

2:20PM December 29, 2008 | Jesus Diaz

Here’s the new iPhone Pro, something that we don’t expect at MacWorld 2009 at all. However, we do expect something like this to come at a later date. Why? Because it just makes sense.

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Mobile

Leaked BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.85 Update Should Have Been Here Yesterday

12:00PM December 29, 2008 | Jack Loftus

At least that’s what the CrackBerry folks who got their hands on the latest Storm OS seem to think anyway. Install at your own risk (unofficial update), but the changes appear to be pretty solid.

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Gadgets

Lightning Review: Dosh Wallet

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11:43AM December 29, 2008 | Nick Broughall

The Gadget: The Australian designed Dosh Wallet – in particular, the Atlantis 6-card model. More »