Thursday, October 8, 2009
Phones
Fujitsu F-Circle Rotary Smartphone Comes From Past’s Future
11:50PM Jesus Diaz | Fujitsu says that their F-Circle concept—designed by Yuji Ito and shown at CEATEC in Japan—phone has a “timeless appearance”. Liars. I know your mobile phone comes straight from the 60s, and apparently it can detect metal too. [Pink Tentacle]
Gadgets
Toshiba’s Latest Fuel Cell Prototype Gadgets Charge In Seconds
11:10PM Danny Allen | At Japan’s CEATEC show, Toshiba and KDDI are demonstrating a modified Toshiba T002 phone that’s powered by a direct-methanol fuel cell (DMFC) and Li-Ion battery. More advanced than previous prototypes, it runs for 320 hours on a squirt of methanol. More »
Phones
WSJ: Dell Making An Android Phone For AT&T
9:49PM Danny Allen | We heard rumours this week that Dell’s Mini 3i Android phone could come to the US, and now the Wall Street Journal says it’s AT&T who asked Dell to tweak the phone — and the result may arrive next year. More »
Design
These Piano Stairs Will Motivate Even The Laziest Of You
4:30PM Rosa Golijan | I’m a stair-taker because elevators and escalators give me nightmares, but for all those lazy folks who don’t have fear motivating them to take the steps, there are these piano stairs. How could you not want musical accompaniment like that? More »
QOTD
4:09PM Nick Broughall | I’m sitting here with my MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows 7, wanting to combine the two into the ultimate blogging machine. But how to do it? More »
QOTD: Boot Camp, Parallels Or Fusion?
4:09PM Nick Broughall | I’m sitting here with my MacBook Pro and a copy of Windows 7, wanting to combine the two into the ultimate blogging machine. But how to do it? More »
Random Stuff
Little Known Fact: Astronomer Carl Sagan Was A Stoner
4:00PM Rosa Golijan | We keep our noses clean here at Gizmodo, so we’re finding ourselves a bit surprised that someone as upstanding as Carl Sagan, astronomer extraordinaire, was a stoner. It does kinda explain the obsessions with all things shiny and starry though. More »
Design
I’m Gonna Wear This Mini Dress For A Full Body 3D Experience
3:30PM Rosa Golijan | Look, I get that this mini dress is a Halloween costume, but I can’t help but want to wear it right now and look like a walkin’, talkin’ pair of 3D glasses. [Etsy via Fashionably Geek via Boing Boing]
Peripherals
Kingston MobileLite G2 Card Reader Protects Your Cards
3:10PM Dan Nosowitz | Kingston’s followup to its MobileLite, the MobileLite G2, brings a new, dual-slider design that aims to protect your SD/HC and microSD/HC cards from harm. It’s the most caring card reader on the market. More »
Hardware
Iomega’s StorCenter Ix2-200 NAS Has Bluetooth, Time Machine
3:01PM Rosa Golijan | Iomega’s on to something with the StorCenter ix2-200: built-in torrent and Time Machine support, Bluetooth-based uploads from phones, remote access, and lotsa spiffy features wrapped up in an earth-friendly green gadget. Together with the $US270 price point, that’s appealing all-around. More »
Science
