Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Gadgets

Jon Stewart Is Totally Not Buying The Kindle 2

11:54PM February 24, 2009 | 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.

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Online

Apple Safari 4 Beta Available Now: Top Sites, Cover Flow and Nitro

11:33PM February 24, 2009 | 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:

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Computing

OS X Running on a Sony Vaio P?

11:24PM February 24, 2009 | 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.

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Software

3D Eyetracking Mobile Phone Interface Is, Like, Deep, Man

10:14PM February 24, 2009 | 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.

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Cameras

Olympus E-620 Entry-Level DSLR Has Swiveling Live View, Impressive Specs

9:20PM February 24, 2009 | 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.

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Software

Windows 3.1 Runs On a Nokia N95, Creating Dangerous Ripple in Space-Time

8:09PM February 24, 2009 | 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.

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MashiMaro MP3 Player’s Audio Cable Placement Becomes the Butt of a Joke

6:00PM February 24, 2009 | 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:

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AMD Phenom II Quad Core Reviewed: Great Today, But Tomorrow’s Cloudy

5:00PM February 24, 2009 | 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]


Nunchaku Are Like the New Swiss Army Knife of Gadgets

4:00PM February 24, 2009 | 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?

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Gaming

Bloody Red Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 Elite Package Revealed on Xbox Live

3:49PM February 24, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

I just signed on Xbox Live to play some SFIV and lookie here: That red Resident Evil 5 Xbox 360 is all officially revealed. You can check it out on Xbox Live right now.

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