Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Software
Video: iStetho Turns Your iPhone Into A Stethoscope
11:44PM Danny Allen | It’s only intended for recreational use, but this feels like another step towards a real-life tricorder. A new start-up called RidRx is selling an adaptor that connects stethoscopes to the iPhone/iPod touch and uses their app for fancy spectral imaging. More »
Phones
Nokia’s N-Series Will Ditch Symbian For Maemo By 2012
11:09PM Danny Allen | At an official N900 meet-up in London last night, the Maemo marketing team appears to have let slip that Nokia will use the Linux-based OS instead of S60 on all its future flagship N-Series handsets. About time, no? More »
Cameras
Casio’s EX-G1 Super Slim Shooter Is Shock-Resistant, Waterproof
10:39PM Danny Allen | At just 0.78-inches thick, Casio claims the 12.1-megapixel EX-G1 is the world’s slimmest ruggedised camera. The first in a new Exilim G line, it has a reinforced 2.5-inch rear LCD, non-extending 3x optical zoom lens, microSDHC expansion and intelligent autofocus. More »
Games
PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.10 Adds Facebook Today
10:03PM Danny Allen | How’s this for a quick turn around. Facebook integration for the Cross Media Bar interface was only confirmed on Monday, but it arrives today with firmware 3.10 — a day after the Xbox 360 added Twitter and Last.fm. Watch the preview… More »
Phones
The True Google Phone May Be Coming Soon
7:13PM Dan Nosowitz | TechCrunch is hearing some veeeeeery interesting rumours about a true Google Phone: Not just an Android device, but a phone designed top-to-bottom by Google to fulfil their dream of exactly what Android can be. It’s a resilient rumour. More »
Hardware
ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World’s Fastest Graphics Card
6:20PM Dan Nosowitz | The ATI Radeon HD 5970 slaughters the competition in pretty much every benchmark thrown at it. It’s outrageously fast. We’re talking 5 teraflops here, people. Teraflops. More »
Random Stuff
45,000kg Crane Smashes House In Half
5:40PM Dan Nosowitz | This 45,000kg crane was removing a tree when the tree broke loose, sending the crane’s massive boom down onto the owner’s house, smashing it like a Play-Doh sculpture. Check out the carnage. More »
Entertainment
5:00PM Nick Broughall | If you haven’t yet managed to get down to experience the Byteside live show, time is running out – the final show is scheduled for November 24, although Ben and Shay are hosting a special Christmas show on December 8. More »
RSVP Now For Byteside’s Final Show And Xmas Special
5:00PM Nick Broughall | If you haven’t yet managed to get down to experience the Byteside live show, time is running out – the final show is scheduled for November 24, although Ben and Shay are hosting a special Christmas show on December 8. More »
Design
Quantum Physics Visualised
5:00PM Rosa Golijan | I wish that Julian Voss-Andreae had made some of these sculptures when I was in school. While we can’t really claim that they represent quantum physics concepts accurately, they still would’ve made reading about Bosons and Fermions more pleasant. More »
Software
3:45PM Nick Broughall | HP launched an iPhone printing app back in January, and now Canon has decided that it’s a very good idea and are launching their own version for Canon printers. More »
Canon Launching An iPhone Printing App
3:45PM Nick Broughall | HP launched an iPhone printing app back in January, and now Canon has decided that it’s a very good idea and are launching their own version for Canon printers. More » 
