Thursday, January 15, 2009
Gadgets
Cyber Heartbeat Watch Tells Time Through EKG
11:25PM Mark Wilson | The Cyber Heartbeat LED watch won’t measure your actual heartbeat, but the whole living breathing human thing is so overrated. More »
Online
Google Video Finally Falls to YouTube
10:24PM John Herrman | YouTube stablemate Google Video, which tragicomically never made it out of beta, will stop accepting uploads in a few months. Plus, other no-name Google services are dying. Goodbye! [Google Blog via NoWhereElse]
Peripherals
Buffalo Draft N Wireless Dongle Makes Your Netbook Look Huge
9:46PM John Herrman | Buffalo Electronics is claiming that their WLI-UC-GN Wi-Fi dongle is the smallest Draft N 2.0 adapter in the world. Is it? Who knows. But it’s definitely tiny, and surprisingly cheap. More »
Phones
Palm Pre May Be a Best Buy Exclusive, At Least For a Few Months
8:48PM John Herrman | WebOS Arena (jeez, that didn’t take long) is reporting that the Palm Pre will be exclusive to Best Buy Mobile (and Sprint stores, obviously) for its first two months, citing a “credible source”. More »
Hardware
Next Intel Atom’s Biggest Upgrade is Its Price
7:50PM John Herrman | Some details have emerged about Intel’s Atom N280 processor, the successor to the wildly popular N270 that drove last year’s netbook craze. In short, it’s not looking like much of an update. More »
Design
Tri3 Trash Can Recycles Your Waste Stylishly
6:00PM Elaine Chow | The Tri3 trashcan stacks three cans together to make recycling even easier than normal. It’s also much neater, and more stylish, than my solution of throwing recyclables into a heap in the kitchen corner. More »
Toys
Mickey Mouse Autobot is More Than Meets the Eye
4:30PM Elaine Chow | I love Transformers and I love Disney, but it never occurred to me that they’d go together. Luckily for us, Japanese toy makers are much better than I at coming up with cross-promotional products. More »
Networks
AT&T Testing the Waters with American Idol Spam Texts
4:16PM Adam Frucci | AT&T is the first mobile phone carrier to begin spamming its customers with text ads. It recently sent texts advertising American Idol to a “significant number” of its customers. Stop right there, AT&T. More »
Press
3:51PM Nick Broughall | The battle between Gizmodo and CNBC over Steve Jobs’ health continues to rage on. Obviously, here at Giz AU, we have a distinct bias as to who we think is right, but it’s reassuring to know that Newsweek columnist and ex-Fake Steve Jobs Dan Lyons is prepared to step up to the plate and demand Jim Goldman apologise to Giz. Silicon Alley Insider reckons he’s received a lifetime ban from the channel for it. If that’s the case, we hope Dan knows just how highly we regard him for calling Goldman out. More »
Dan Lyons (aka Fake Steve Jobs) Stands Up For Giz
3:51PM Nick Broughall | The battle between Gizmodo and CNBC over Steve Jobs’ health continues to rage on. Obviously, here at Giz AU, we have a distinct bias as to who we think is right, but it’s reassuring to know that Newsweek columnist and ex-Fake Steve Jobs Dan Lyons is prepared to step up to the plate and demand Jim Goldman apologise to Giz. Silicon Alley Insider reckons he’s received a lifetime ban from the channel for it. If that’s the case, we hope Dan knows just how highly we regard him for calling Goldman out. More »
Science
