Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Hardware
Mac Mini Upgrade Kit Installs Blu-ray, Too Bad OS X Can’t Use It
11:59PM Danny Allen | Apple’s recently boosted the speed and storage on its Mac Minis, but they missed out on any Blu-ray love. AMEX Digital’s Upgrade Kit is designed to fix that. One small problem though: OS X still lacks native Blu-ray movie playback. More »
Phones
10:56PM Danny Allen | If you were curious about what’s going on behind the HD2’s big and beautiful 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, wonder no more. These gadget porn pics don’t reveal any real surprises, but it’s interesting to see the beast from the inside. [XDA-Developers Forum]
HTC Touch HD2 Gets Lovingly Dissected
10:56PM Danny Allen | If you were curious about what’s going on behind the HD2’s big and beautiful 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, wonder no more. These gadget porn pics don’t reveal any real surprises, but it’s interesting to see the beast from the inside. [XDA-Developers Forum]
Computers
Video: Nokia’s Vision Of Mobile Devices In 2015
10:36PM Danny Allen | This cool dual-display handheld netbook concept is one of several devices Nokia imagines we’ll see just a few years from now. Check out this video they just presented at their Way We Live Next 3.0 event in Finland. More »
Computers
Mystery Nvidia Tablet Identified: 2010 Arrival, Android Rumoured
9:49PM Danny Allen | An update on that sleek, but unknown Nvidia Tablet we showed you yesterday. As widely expected, it’s actually a prototype Tegra-based device built by an ODM for Nvidia to shop around to wireless carriers worldwide. Here’s what we may know… More »
Science
The Six Million Dollar Man’s Cyborg Surgery In Today’s Dollars
7:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Back in 1974, astronaut Steve Austin, gravely injured in a crash, was given a new arm, two new legs and one new eye in the iconic show The Six Million Dollar Man. But what would such cyborg reconstruction cost today? More »
Design
Useful Towel Knows How Many Pecks Are In A Bushel
5:00PM Rosa Golijan | A towel is about the most massively useful thing you can have. This particular one though, does things no other towel does: It guides you through the mysteries of measurement conversions and even has built-in rulers. More »
Phones
The Nokia N900 Isn’t A Phone, It’s A Psychotic Shapeshifter
4:20PM Rosa Golijan | While we’ve been sitting, waiting, wishing for the Nokia N900, we missed something very important: It’s not a phone. As this Nokia ad shows, it’s actually a psychotic shapeshifter. At least I think that’s the message they’re trying to send. More »
Music
4:00PM Nick Broughall | I thought soundbars were supposed to create a virtual sense of surround sound. But apparently Sharp’s new HT-SB400 is happy enough playing the front three speakers, offering 3.1 sound in a thin, wall mountable audio solution. More »
New Sharp Soundbar Offers 3.1 Audio
4:00PM Nick Broughall | I thought soundbars were supposed to create a virtual sense of surround sound. But apparently Sharp’s new HT-SB400 is happy enough playing the front three speakers, offering 3.1 sound in a thin, wall mountable audio solution. More »
Deals
2:30PM Nick Broughall | Zazz quite often has pretty good laptop deals, and today is no exception. They’re offering a Samsung R519 laptop: 15.6-inch screen, 2.0GHz Pentium T4200 dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, 6-cell battery and Vista installed (although there’s a free upgrade to Windows 7) for just $677.85. That’s a lot of spec for not a lot of buck… More »
Zazz Selling Samsung R519 Laptop For $677.85
2:30PM Nick Broughall | Zazz quite often has pretty good laptop deals, and today is no exception. They’re offering a Samsung R519 laptop: 15.6-inch screen, 2.0GHz Pentium T4200 dual-core processor, 2GB RAM, 320GB SATA hard drive, 6-cell battery and Vista installed (although there’s a free upgrade to Windows 7) for just $677.85. That’s a lot of spec for not a lot of buck… More »
Gadgets
