While Acer has recently introduced a 10-inch Aspire One (a form factor we’ve presumed to become the Aspire One’s new standard), a few details has surfaced on a new, slimmer version of the netbook.
Brando, never one to miss an opportunity to attach a thing to another unlikely thing, has expanded its mobile phone zoom lens line to include models for the BlackBerry Bold and Storm.
A Boeing 737-800 has crashed this morning at the Schipol Airport, in Amsterdam, breaking in three pieces. The amazing news: Only five out of 135 people are dead. Update: Some sources are reporting nine dead.
Sony’s new concepts for fuel cell batteries come in some interesting flavours, like these speakers-with 70s transistor radio look-that can recharge your phone or multimedia player. Or the fuel-powered, completely-wireless, coffee maker-looking home theatre speaker.
One area where dead trees will always beat out eBook readers is chuckability—apparently, the shiny new Kindle 2 doesn’t take kindly to being launched into hardwood. Somewhere, Jon Stewart is chuckling.
Apple pushed a small Apple TV update to users last night, many of whom awoke to find their lovely, Hulu’d-despite-it-all Boxee installations brutally murdered. Again. Lesson: turn off automatic updates. UPDATED
Old, grizzled veterans of the browser wars (Blood! Honour! W3C Standards!) will remember OmniWeb, an expensive, Mac-only überbrowser that always seemed to be slightly ahead of everyone else. Well, it’s free now.
newVideoPlayer("/realtimevidstitch_giz.flv", 475, 376,""); The proposition: You and a bunch of strangers are live streaming mobile-phone video of some event or disaster. A server stitches it all together and instantaneously publishes a rich, immediate patchwork of the action.
I was never interested in the Sarah Connor Chronicles series, but after I saw the back cover for this fake DVD at my local pirated movie shop, I felt like I had to buy it.
In case my poorly lit photos didn’t quite convince you that the Kogan Agora prototype I got to play with the other night was real, Seamus grabbed it after me and filmed it working for Midnight Update. The money shot of the phone is at the 5:25 mark, but you should watch the whole thing to hear Shay’s interview with Ruslan Kogan.
