Saturday, January 17, 2009

Business

How to Interpret Samsung’s Reorganisation of its Business Into Two Divisions

11:50AM Jason Chen | Samsung is placing TVs, phones, printers, computers and home appliances under one division and semiconductors, components and LCD manufacturing into another. [Yahoo via Boy Genius] More »
Home

Sushi-Ushi Sushi Tray Is More Delicious Than Actual Sushi

11:30AM Jason Chen | Vikki Smyth is a designer that makes food presentation and table-top sets for high end hotels (W, Wynn’s places). Her signature piece, the Sushi-Ushi sushi tray, is gorgeous, and upstages anything that’s placed on it. More »
Gadgets

Ear Mirror: Bear Witness to The Waxy, Hairy Horror

11:10AM Sean Fallon | To be honest, I wouldn’t want an ear mirror for the same reason I wouldn’t want an arse mirror—some territory on the body should remain unexplored. More »
Peripherals

Apple Tells Dual-Link DVI Display Adaptor Customers That Their Monitors Are Incompatible

10:50AM Jason Chen | Users of Apple’s Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI Adaptor are still experiencing the distortion issues, but now Apple Engineering is supposedly telling people this is only compatible with the Apple Cinema Display. More »
Vehicles

Dean Kamen Struggles With The Idea Of Giving Up On The Segway

10:30AM Sean Fallon | A recent CNN interview has revealed that Segway inventor Dean Kamen often loses sleep about giving up on a project that he knows deep down will never pan out. More »
Software

Win 7 Tip: Sleep/Hibernate Mode Is Buggy, May Incapacitate Your Machine

10:10AM Jason Chen | When I came home last night, I thought my previously healthy Windows 7 machine was dead. It was making a horrendous squeal and refused to reboot multiple times. Turns out it was asleep. More »
Networks

Obama’s Calls Will Always Go Through Thanks to Wireless Priority Service

9:50AM Mark Wilson | If being ruler of the free world weren’t enough for President Elect Barack Obama, when he’s sworn in, he’ll never wait for an open telephone line, either. More »
Games

Render Vs Reality: XCM Dominator Joystick

9:30AM Mark Wilson | Product renders often look far different than their production line counterparts. Take the XCM Dominator Joystick for the PS3. To be fair, the right is a night shot. But still! [XCM] More »
Peripherals

iFlyz Clamps Media Player to Tray Table (No MacGyvering Necessary)

9:10AM Wilson Rothman | Watching a movie on a media player during a flight takes skill: You want it propped up but you don’t want to touch it. iFlyz removes the joy challenge from this delicate dance. More »
Home

Clicking Kitchen Grip Puts a Mouse in Dinner the Good Way

8:50AM Mark Wilson | Much of my kitchen is filled with hand-sewn potholders in which you can see the details down to the thread. But in the digital age, we prefer to see things down to the pixel. More »