Monday, March 2, 2009
Science
Magic Mirror Shows Your Bones and Muscles In Real Time
11:20PM Jesus Diaz | Feeble people of the world, rejoice, because the “magic mirror” will show your inner anatomy, demonstrating that below all my wine-and-tapas-induced bag of jell-o fat, there are some bones and muscles. Or so I think. More »
Computers
Rumour: Apple Desktop to Be Refreshed on March 24
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | World of Apple says March 24 is the possible date for a refresh of the entire Apple’s desktop line. We don’t have confirmation of this yet, so as always, remember our rule about rumours. More »
Cameras
Samsung NX Series Cameras Have Compact Bodies, DSLR Hearts
11:00PM John Herrman | Samsung’s forays into high-performance photography gear have so far been cautious (read: derivative), but the NX series, set for an unveiling at PMA this week, is half-DSLR, half-P&S, and very interesting.
Computers
Touch Book Is a Part-Netbook, Part-Tablet
10:00PM Adrian Covert | The Always Innovating Touch Book does something I’ve never seen from a netbook: it has a fully detachable keyboard dock and transforms from a standard looking 8.9-inch netbook, to a stand-alone tablet.
Vehicles
Blueprints of Obama’s Boring Helicopter Leaked to Iran Over P2P
9:45PM John Herrman | President Obama isn’t very excited about his fancy new helicopter, but that’s not his fault—he just hasn’t seen its super-neat blueprints yet, because he’s not allowed to have Limewire. More »
Software
System 7 Kind Of, Sort Of Running On An iPhone
8:57PM John Herrman | What does the inexplicable internet subculture of people who put old software onto new, inappropriate hardware have for us this week? System 7 on an iPhone, of course!
Computers
3:01PM Nick Broughall | It seems Asus pops out new Eee PCs faster than that Octuplet mother pops out babies. Their latest is the 1000HE, which is available wth the new Intel N280 Atom processor and has a claimed battery life of 9.5 hours. More »
Asus Eee PC 1000HE Hits Australia For $899
3:01PM Nick Broughall | It seems Asus pops out new Eee PCs faster than that Octuplet mother pops out babies. Their latest is the 1000HE, which is available wth the new Intel N280 Atom processor and has a claimed battery life of 9.5 hours. More »
Online
1:10PM Nick Broughall | The results of Whirlpool’s annual broadband survey have been released today, and unsurprisingly one of the most clear-cut results was that there is no mandate for ISP-level filtering from the government. Of the 19,763 completed entries, almost 90% said they would opt out of the optional adult-content filter proposed by the Labor government. More »
Whirlpool’s 2008 Broadband Survey Shows Australians Don’t Want An Internet Filter
1:10PM Nick Broughall | The results of Whirlpool’s annual broadband survey have been released today, and unsurprisingly one of the most clear-cut results was that there is no mandate for ISP-level filtering from the government. Of the 19,763 completed entries, almost 90% said they would opt out of the optional adult-content filter proposed by the Labor government. More »
Networks
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Like the geeky kid who snuck into the party, siphoned off some beer and after a glass and a half became drunker than Russell Crowe on Grand Final day, Optus has decided to go for a skinny-dip in the pool of Naked DSL. But instead of offering a VoIP home phone option like iiNet and Internode, they’ve decided to bundle their Naked plans with mobile phone contracts. More »
Optus Gets Naked, Bundles DSL With Mobile Plans
11:00AM Nick Broughall | Like the geeky kid who snuck into the party, siphoned off some beer and after a glass and a half became drunker than Russell Crowe on Grand Final day, Optus has decided to go for a skinny-dip in the pool of Naked DSL. But instead of offering a VoIP home phone option like iiNet and Internode, they’ve decided to bundle their Naked plans with mobile phone contracts. More »
Random Stuff
9:30AM Nick Broughall | Last week we asked you guys to say goodbye to Sol Trujillo with a little help from Photoshop, following his announced resignation. Strangely, it appears that you guys don’t really care for the soon to be ex-Telstra CEO that much… More »
Giz Readers Say Goodbye To Sol With Photoshop
9:30AM Nick Broughall | Last week we asked you guys to say goodbye to Sol Trujillo with a little help from Photoshop, following his announced resignation. Strangely, it appears that you guys don’t really care for the soon to be ex-Telstra CEO that much… More » 
