Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Gadgets
Jon Stewart Is Totally Not Buying The Kindle 2
11:54PM John Mahoney | Jeff Bezos brought a Kindle 2 to the Daily Show last night, where Mr. Stewart lobbed some pretty hefty criticism at it. And all Bezos could do was laugh like a gassed hyena. More »
Online
Apple Safari 4 Beta Available Now: Top Sites, Cover Flow and Nitro
11:33PM Matt Buchanan | You can download Safari 4 Beta right now. It’s got a new Javascript engine—called Nitro—that 4.2x faster than Safari 3. Feature-wise, it pulls a lot from Chrome and Firefox it looks like: More »
Computers
OS X Running on a Sony Vaio P?
11:24PM John Mahoney | If this somewhat dubious photo is to be believed, a Pocketables.net forum poster has successfully booted OS X on a Vaio P. He claims that much of the hardware doesn’t work yet, though. More »
Software
3D Eyetracking Mobile Phone Interface Is, Like, Deep, Man
10:14PM John Herrman | The Astonishing Tribe has posted another eye-candy mobile phone UI demo for the world to ogle at. Unlike their last endeavour, though, this one might have a future on our phones. At least, I hope so. More »
Cameras
Olympus E-620 Entry-Level DSLR Has Swiveling Live View, Impressive Specs
9:20PM John Herrman | Non-crippled DSLRs don’t get a whole lot cheaper than $US700, so it’s heartening to see the Olympus E-620 carry such a solid spec sheet at that crucial price point. More »
Software
Windows 3.1 Runs On a Nokia N95, Creating Dangerous Ripple in Space-Time
8:09PM John Herrman | Oh, the beeper-wearing, big-glasses-having software engineers that designed Windows 3.x never could have foreseen this: an industrious young Pole has installed the OS on his futuristic “Enn Ninety-Five” hand-held electronic voice paging device. More »
Music
MashiMaro MP3 Player’s Audio Cable Placement Becomes the Butt of a Joke
6:00PM Elaine Chow | A company has “borrowed” famous Korean rabbit MashiMaro and turned it into an MP3 player. And true to the spirit of the cartoon, they placed the audio connector in a well analysed place: More »
Hardware
AMD Phenom II Quad Core Reviewed: Great Today, But Tomorrow’s Cloudy
5:00PM Matt Buchanan | Ars reviews AMD’s latest quad-core, the Phenom II, against a barrage of Intel chips and finds that while it “puts AMD back on the map” against today’s chips, AMD’s got a “long-term problem.” [Ars Technica]
Weapons
Nunchaku Are Like the New Swiss Army Knife of Gadgets
4:00PM Elaine Chow | We’ve already seen nunchaku light matches and battle ping pong balls (albeit in a viral video), but did you know you can use them to play golf, baseball, badminton and even open champagne bottles? More »
Games
