Monday, February 23, 2009

Cameras

Samsung TL320 12MP Wide-Angle Point-and-Shoot Has AMOLED Screen and Sweet Analogue Gauges

11:40PM February 23, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Samsung latest pair of point-and-shoots actually seem pretty decent: The 12MP TL320 has 5x zoom, 24mm wide-angle lens and a 3-inch AMOLED screen on the back that should be beautiful.

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Entertainment

Wall-E Wins Oscar For Best Animated Feature

9:03PM February 23, 2009 | John Herrman

A great day for the longtime Gizmodo love target. Andrew Stanton accepted, but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t hoping for a prerecorded, one-word speech by the character himself. Or by this.

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Software

iTunes Concept Shows How iPhone App Management Should Have Worked From the Start

8:23PM February 23, 2009 | John Herrman

Add, delete, rate, and move—these are your app options on the iPhone. This interface concept, though, puts full app management within iTunes, and makes us wonder why it wasn’t there in the first place.


Gadgets

Kindle 2 Already Shipping For Some

8:02PM February 23, 2009 | John Herrman

Tipster Rob received a shipping confirmation for his Kindle 2 yesterday, two days before the official date. That translates to a delivery by release date, but also means that they’re out there, somewhere. —Thanks, Rob!

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Tough Sell Number 21586: D-Link’s DSM-210 Wireless Photo Frame for $799

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3:31PM February 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

I really, really like the idea of this digital photo frame. Wireless access to Facebook, Flickr and Picasa photos, plus 1GB of internal memory and USB/SD card slots to expand available storage. When the US reviewed it last year, they seemed to like it as well, even though they wanted a slightly easier UI. But with an RRP of $799, it’s going to be tough to justify spending almost your entire K-Rudd economic stimulus.gift voucher on a device that displays photos and RSS feeds.

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Mobile

Telstra Launches Voice To Text Service For Voicemail

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2:25PM February 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Rack this one up as an awesome idea. Telstra has partnered with a company called SpinVox to launch a service which automagically converts your voicemail messages to text, and then sends you an SMS so you can read the message instead of having to listen to it. More »


Gadgets

Get Your Own Space Invader Ice Cubes

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10:29AM February 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Hope none of you guys imported a set of these Space Invaders ice cube trays after we showed them to you a couple of weeks ago. Latestbuy has announced that they’ll be selling them locally for $14.95. Awesome. [Latestbuy] More »


3M MPro110 Pico Projector Will Cost You $649 In Australia

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10:00AM February 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Admit it – there’s not a single thing on this planet you want more than a pocket sized projector. You want the freedom to broadcast your porn collection powerpoint presentations to the world whether they’re interested or not via the wonders of a low resolution low powered portable device. Well, 3M knows this, and are releasing the MPro110 in Australia for the paltry asking price of $649! More »


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of The Weekend

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8:29AM February 23, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Triumph Speed Triple Carbon Motorcycle Comes In One Colour Only That colour? Sex.

Mac Mini 2009 ‘Leak’ Analysed, Declared Fake So I can’t get a million USB ports on the new Mac Mini? Boy Killed Anally When Office Chair Explodes I always thought drowning would be the worst way to go, but I reckon this tops it.

One Google Search Uses 1000 Computers I’ll bet that none of them run Windows…

Nintendo DSi Was Originally a Monster With Two DS Slots Eewwwwwwwww!

How To: Hackintosh a Dell Mini 9 Into the Ultimate OS X Netbook I still don’t think this would have changed my Netbook Nirvana quest… More »


Science

Satellite Collision May Have Endangered All Future Space Launches

8:00AM February 23, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Remember when those two satellites collided the other day? Seems that they’ll be the space junk.gift that keeps on giving, as their 800-km debris orbiting field could hamper all future space launches.

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