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Laptop Buying Guide 2012: How To Find The Right Laptop For You We write a lot about Lego here at Giz. A lot. But it’s with some regret that I confess that despite the amount of Lego coverage on the site, I haven’t actually put together a Lego kit myself – or even just messed around with the building blocks – for well over a decade. It’s sad isn’t it? Well that’s all going to end tonight, because Lego has sent me one of their new Lego Technics kits to play around with.
The $US7 billion deal between IBM and Sun Microsystems has all but failed, say sources at the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Sources say Sun balked at IBM’s latest offer and IBM eventually withdrew sometime today.
The iRiver T6, a 4GB MP3 player that weighs just 53 grams, looks just like an old Samsung MP3 player I have hidden away somewhere in my house for emergency music consumption. And it’s just gone on sale in Australia.
According to the US Northern Command, the infamous North Korean launch of an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile—which went over Japan terrifying Brian Ashcraft—has been a complete failure, with its payload falling into the Pacific Ocean:
There’s very little from Lenovo’s laptop side that appears with their splash into the PMP front. The specs for their newly announced China-bound MRT800 are pretty standard, and there’s nary an HD screen in sight.
In space, no one can hear you scream “Fire.” Not that it’d matter, as few people could recognise a microgravity fire anyway. This means space firefighting gear needs to be special. NASA is on it.
Random Factoid: I spent my weekend preparing to paint one of the rooms in my house. And it struck me that painting is definitely one area that would suit robot labour – both for the sanding/washing of the walls, and the actual painting. Anyone seen any robots designed to paint houses?
Anyway, onto the Wrap: Rumour: Apple Orders 3.2-Megapixel Camera Sensors For Next iPhone I’m just gonna call it now – new iPhone has 3.2MP camera, up to 32GB of flash memory, faster processor and transforms into an Autobot when the Decepticons try to destroy us.
Rupert Murdoch Investing In a Mysterious Colour eBook Reader I wonder if that means we might actually see it here in Australia? Come on Rupert! Show us some ereader love!
Robot Makes Autonomous Scientific Discovery for First Time Oh snap. We are all going to die. Somebody call John Conner.
Google Makes It Easy for Blind to Dial on Touchscreens This is a genius idea. Simple, easy, intuitive and brilliant.
April Fool’s Star Wars Tauntaun Sleeping Bag May Become an Actual Product Take note, friends and loved ones! I want one of these, and I want it bad.
Nintendo DSi Review Well, I won’t be buying one. How about you?
Harvard professor David Edwards wrote a graphic novel envisioning a future world where people ingested their food by smelling, or “whiffing,” it. That vision begot Le Whif, the chocolate inhaler.
Famous pairings include Apple pie and ice cream; Apple’s Steve and Steve; Jason Chen and pantsing new electronics; and, of course, the iPhone and video editing.
