Looks like the iriver Spinn is the hippest template for shameless plagiarism these days. Not one but two devices, a camera and a PMP, have popped up with obvious “inspiration” from iriver’s ’70s-influenced baby.
CNN’s otherwise-unremarkable piece on budget Irish airline Ryanair’s foray into in-air mobile phone use brought an unexpected and unmentioned treat: Michael O’Leary, Ryanair’s CEO, in a goofy promotional mobile phone costume. Um. [CNN, thanks Billy!]
Welcome to your Saturday evening update on the trial of the century. Today, in celebration of the end of a week’s worth of court, the Pirate Bureau threw a massive and slyly rebellious rager.
The image you see above is purportedly traces of the ruins of the Lost City of Atlantis, found on Google Earth. Let’s weigh the evidence for and against, and see what we can conclude.
Neowin is reporting a date of April 10th for the release of Windows 7 RC, the next important version of the OS. Microsoft confirmed that beta users won’t receive the RC before the general public.
We caught a peek of iriver’s P7 PMP at CES, but now the 4.3″ screened player is up on the official site with some pretty pictures and a full list of specs.
Man-mountain Shaquille O’Neal is a famed Twitterer, but his love of gadgetry goes even deeper than that. A follower of Shaq’s Twitter met him at a diner and exchanged a little gadget trash talk.
Wow, this is pretty incredible. TealOS incorporates a lot of the navigation and UI components of Palm’s new WebOS, but as an all-encompassing skin for older Palm phones. Check out the impressive video below.
The masterfully-faked Pomegranate Phone is a great riff on the iPhone’s it-does-everything! ads. It’s a pomegranate-based design that includes an electric shaver, coffee brewer, and a harmonica. Brilliant. But what is it actually advertising?
Ubuntu 9.10, Karmic Koala, has been officially announced, and promises to change, among other things, the one problem keeping Linux from world domination: the poop-coloured desktop theme.
