On a cool spring eve March 15th, 2009 a bat, crippled and wistful, clung to the Space Shuttle Discovery as it was thrust toward the great beyond. Goodbye and godspeed, my magnificent Spacebat.
I consider myself a toy gun aficionado—one who is versed in the latest non-lethal, non-painful weaponry. But I’d never heard of chalk guns before.
Somehow, between filing bogus legal claims and getting sued into oblivion by one of the most powerful companies in the industry, Psystar managed to design another flagrantly-infringing hackintosh desktop—this time, a tiny one.
Removing Chrome’s ‘beta’ label couldn’t have been easy for Google, but it looks like they’re bringing it right back. Chrome 2.0 beta is now available for Windows, along with a little treat for Linux users.
Following Microsoft’s latest foray into the laptop accessories game, Logitech has announced both an active cooling pad and adaptable notebook stand, combating the common mobile computing problems of ball-baking and back-breaking, respectively.
We’ve seen ultra-skinny flexible OLED sheets before, but it looks like we now have a date for when they’re coming out. Korean company Modistech says it’ll debut its thin-and-flexy OLED lights in 2011.
A dilemma has struck the quest for Netbook Nirvana this week: when is a netbook not a netbook? Or more eloquently, what is the defining characteristic of a netbook? Is it its low powered processor? Its small screen size? Its cheap pricetag? Or something different altogether. Because the Dell Mini 12 feels like a netbook in a laptop’s body. More »
In one of the funnest examples of merging animals with technology yet, these herders took to the hills of Wales to create huge sheep-driven LED displays. Baaaad ass!
