A Taiwanese blog named Apple.pro has an inconsistent track record, posting a fake shot of a MacBook before revealing the first images of unibody construction. Now they claim a 15-inch Air is on the way.
Finally, February 6 is the date for the much-awaited movie about the Star Wars fanboys who break into Skywalker Ranch to torture George Lucas for doing the prequels. OK, it’s not about that. I wish.
The BBC commissioned a flight-sim reproduction of the last week’s near-miraculous US Airways incident. So, in case you were wondering, this is what it looks like to pilot a commercial jet onto a river.
Swiss company The Wall AG has a perfect solution for third-world shanty towns, semi-permanent refugee camps and approximately 7.2% of adult Americans: paper houses!
The iControlPad bore many signs of vapourware: desirability, no official authorisation and a low budget. We now know that there’s at least one working version, and that promises of production aren’t, you know, lies.
Six months ago, startup pimp Michael Arrington of TechCrunch put out a call for help on a hardware project, specifically a $US200 minimalist web tablet. Lo and behold, his team has made it! Well, one.
Those poor saps who bumrushed Circuit City this weekend thinking they’d save money on a TV were paying more—before sales tax—than at most online stores, according to HDGuru and our own quick survey.
Maybe it’s just me, but if I were a TV network executive with a whole HD channel at my disposal, I’d make sure to fill it with HD content. After all, that ‘HD’ in the channel’s name does mean ‘High Definition’, not standard definition.
What I would not do is broadcast the exact same SD content on the HD channel, even if it was the Australian Open. But that’s exactly what Channel 7 are doing, starting today. Why? Because they hate you. More »
Well, we ever so subtly hinted at it, and now it’s here. Thanks to FOX8′s new action/game/reality/whatever-other-description-you-can-think-of program The Phone, we have 4 Blackberry Bolds to give away, valued at $999. To enter, simply watch tonight’s premiere of the The Phone on FOX8 at 8.30pm and answer this two part question; What is the final clue to the first memory card (hint: you’ll find it at the petrol station), and Using the comments field below, tell us in 25 words or less what challenge you would make the contestants face if you were the ‘Clue Master’.
Entries close January 21st at 5pm. Just a word of warning, though; the comp is also running on our sister sites Kotaku and Defamer. So to beat all those game and gossip-heads and win the high speed smartphone, with LCD screen, you’ll need to be extra creative…
The Phone premieres 8.30pm tonight, on FOX8.
Is there no end to the stupidity the Government can commit in the name of “protecting the children”? It’s bad enough that we have to become the world’s laughing stock with attempts to filter the internet, but now technology that helps smokers kick the habit without harming non-smokers is outlawed because it might seem cool to kids. More »
