Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Vehicles
Bose Energy Efficient Sound to Debut in Chevy Volt
11:30PM Mark Wilson | Electric cars sound great until you realise that turning on the stereo costs you mileage. So Bose is hopping on the bandwagon with low-power speaker systems early. More »
Online
Fraudsters Now Targeting MobileMe Subscribers
11:10PM Jesus Diaz | Mails pretending to be banks or any other institution, asking you to log into a fake site are not new, but this one targeting MobileMe users is strange, since MobileMe is not very popular. More »
Design
Lamborghini Shoes Are Not Made for Walking
10:47PM Jesus Diaz | As a women’s shoes fetishist, I’m glad these Lamborghini Gallardo stilettos are just a concept. Unless they come with a voluptuous Swede in a tiny bikini so my eyes automagically look in another direction. [Jalopnik] More »
Gadgets
Authors Guild Claims Kindle 2 Text-to-Speech Somehow Violates Copyright
10:28PM John Herrman | The notoriously litigious ink-lovers at the Writers Guild are mad at Amazon again—this time for the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature. Apparently, Amazon is effectively stealing and giving away audiobooks, or something. More »
Design
Eco-Neighbuzz Apartment Buzzer Converts Your Building Into a Local Facebook Directory
9:38PM Jesus Diaz | Door buzzers/intercoms are one of those fugly things in your house that nobody pays attention to. Which is precisely the contrary of this Eco-Neighbuzz, a beautiful intercom that allows you to exchange messages with neighbours. More »
Software
Firefox Mobile Pre-Alpha Now Available for VGA Windows Mobile Phones
9:11PM John Herrman | Just as Mozilla’s developer wiki cryptically promised last week, a pre-alpha build of Firefox Mobile ‘Fennec’ has been made available for the HTC Touch Pro, though it’ll work on many other VGA (480×640) WinMo phones. More »
Software
Turn-By-Turn Voice Navigation Comes to Jailbroken iPhones
8:13PM John Herrman | Six months after the App Store was launched, the iPhone app grey market lives on: turn-by-turn navigation has come to jailbroken iPhones in the form of xGPS. UPDATED More »
Entertainment
Motion Comics, Half-Animated Comic Books, Coming to iTunes
7:00PM Elaine Chow | Hankering to read the next Ultimate Spiderman issue on your iPhone? Motion comics, those semi-animated slide shows of conventional comic books, will be hitting Apple’s iTunes store soon. More »
Gadgets
Valentine’s Day Magnets Favour the Strongly Sensitive Type
6:00PM Elaine Chow | Looking for something to decorate your fridge with this V-Day, here’s magnets of men weeping. Maybe it’s just me, but if I really wanted to see grown arse men cry, I’d just start dating again.
Toys
