Monday, December 29, 2008
Gadgets
Apple Tqualizer Will Either Get You Hugged or Punched in the Chest
11:55PM 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. More »
Online
Amazon’s Top Selling Holiday Gifts Are Electronic and Guessable
11:28PM 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? More »
Phones
Wooden iPhone 3G Gives Us Exactly What You Expect
11:00PM 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. More »
Computers
John Lennon Digitally Reanimated for Unsettling OLPC Ad
10:01PM 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.
Networks
NYT: Text Messages Are an Even Bigger Ripoff Than You Thought
8:24PM 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. More »
Phones
LG Touchscreen Watch Phone Will Support 3G, Speech Recognition, Little Girl Fingers
7:43PM 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.
Computers
HP MediaSmart EX487 Server Has Remote MP3 Streaming, Mac Time Machine Compatibility
3:01PM 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, ''); More »
Design
The Dream iPhone Pro
2:20PM 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. More »
Phones
Leaked BlackBerry Storm OS 4.7.0.85 Update Should Have Been Here Yesterday
12:00PM 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. More »
Gadgets
11:43AM Nick Broughall | The Gadget: The Australian designed Dosh Wallet – in particular, the Atlantis 6-card model. More »
Lightning Review: Dosh Wallet
11:43AM Nick Broughall | The Gadget: The Australian designed Dosh Wallet – in particular, the Atlantis 6-card model. More » 
