Liquidators who are squeezing the last life blood out of Circuit City announced that all remaining stores will close by the end of the business day on March 8th. Farewell old acquaintance. [BusinessWire]
iFixit has posted a fantastic, step-by-step tutorial tutorial explaining how to swap out the new Mac Mini’s optical drive for a second hard drive.
SDXC, the new memory card spec announced at CES, promised exciting things, storage-wise. Pretec demonstrated the first card that’ll support the standard, and at a mere 32GB and 50MB/s, well, it’s a step.
While we debate the morality of stem cell usage here, China’s gone ahead and started marketing it as a beauty product. A Beijing medical centre is offering “age-reversing” stem cell therapy for your face.
The US Naval Air Warfare Centre is currently developing a suicide bomber simulation vest in an attempt to prepare soldiers for encounters with possibly rigged combatants, according to patent filings.
Korean designer Wonsik Chae’s light concept is in the shape of a teabag filled with fluorescent molecules that react to chemicals in a teacup. The result: a new meaning to the words “tea light.”
(Apologies in advance for the Sydney-centric rant about to be flung your way).
If there’s a bigger bunch of dicks than the people running Cityrail in Sydney, I’m yet to hear about them. Aside from incredibly inept timetabling, corruption, outdated trains and an overall incompetence in terms of providing a world-class public transport system, they’ve also demanded that a third party developer of an iPhone timetable app pull their program from the App Store for copyright violation. More »
Here it is, Ozymandias’—one of the Watchmen—computer: A Macintosh SE/30, all in black including the keyboard and mouse. One of the many Apple/Steve Jobs references in the movie (spoilers). Click to see the close-up.
Something that wasn’t made terribly clear by the US post on the upcoming Beatles: Rock Band game is that it’s going to be released globally on September 9 this year. That means Australia as well. If you don’t believe me, check out the press release: More »
