Onkyo’s new TX-SR607 receiver goes where no sound component has ever gone before by providing Dolby Pro Logic IIz, which gives you vertically-oriented sound in addition to the normal surround sound.
Bugs that skate on water can do it because their feet are “superhydrophobic.” Chinese scientists applied a similar coating to a tiny copper mesh boat, and suddenly it could hold three times the weight.
My good friend Josh Davis has written another whopper of a story for Wired. This one is about the world’s biggest diamond heist and how the thieves circumvented 10 layers of tech security.
Reward: Some dude took a demo gadget; a Japanese 5-second stopwatch guessing game, from Lisa’s e-tech talk, and she’s very upset about it.
And now, I will continue the fine tradition of bitching and moaning for the features we want to see in America’s Next iPhone Software Rev. We will open with our usual salvo: CUUUUUUUUUUT AND PASSSSSSSSSSSTEEEEEEEE!!!
Despite being an original sponsor of the OLPC project, AMD processors will not be used in the upcoming XO-2 touchscreen netbook. Instead, in an interesting move, ARM chips will take on the computing load.
The contrast between machines and nature is always fascinating to look at, and such is the case with Audiowood’s line of turntables, which bring a very woody aesthetic to the wheels of steel.
Driving would be way more fun if we didn’t have to worry about the whole gas and brake thing, right? Sentience understands this, and their intelligent cruise control means you can finally forget about it.
The Gear: Casio’s EX-FC100 is a slimmed-down pocketable version of its chunky slow-mo cams. It looks like a standard 9MP 5x-zoom shooter at first, but does tricks we haven’t seen before.
For the love of Jeebus, why are there “digital photo frames” (read: LCD panels) embedded into a pencil cup?! Perhaps it’s because they’ve gained consciousness and want to rule the world.
