Monday, April 27, 2009
Design
Bionic Animal Legs Are Built For Theatre and/or Enchanted Woodlands
11:40PM Mark Wilson | Human legs are just so bourgeois. You’ll never catch me wearing the last millennium’s leg fashions again. More »
Cameras
Flip Ultra HD: Our Favourite Cheap Camcorder Goes HD
11:20PM Matt Buchanan | The most majorest problems with the Flip Mino HD are its squinty small screen and narrow lens, so seeing an HD rendition of our favourite cheap camcorder—the Flip Ultra HD—makes us happy. More »
Games
The PlayStation 3 Bundled With 3 Games, 1 Bible
11:00PM Mark Wilson | Somewhere in Poland, there’s an unofficial PS3 bundle floating around with Ratchet & Clank, Gran Turismo Prologue, Ridge Racer 7 and…The Bible? More »
Online
Follow the Swine Flu Pandemic in Real Time With Google Maps
10:40PM Jesus Diaz | The current H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic headlines read like those flashing through the intro sequence of a post-apocalyptical movie. Now you can see the cases spreading in real time—as the WHO declares them—in Google Maps. More »
Regulars
But the Trackball Would Get All Sandy!
10:20PM Mark Wilson | Imagine taking your first real vacation in years, only to find this beach in Xiamen, China, overrun with giant, concrete reminders of work. Still, better than a bunch of performance related acronyms. [Picasa via Engadget] More »
Phones
HTC Magic Launches A Week Early in Spain, Just to Spite the British
9:08PM John Herrman | In a rather excited post on Vodafone Spain’s blog, the company has announced that the HTC Magic, set for a May 5th release across Europe, will be “available” today. ¿Por qué? No sé. More »
Phones
Meet the I7500, Samsung’s First Android Phone
8:40PM John Herrman | Samsung hasn’t been shy about their Android ambitions, but they have been extremely vague. Well, here’s their first handset, the I7500. With a capacitive AMOLED touchscreen, clean styling, and larger-than-average battery, it looks fantastic. UPDATED More »
Games
The Story of the PSX: Hell Hath No Fury Like a Sony Scorned
7:31PM John Herrman | Edge Magazine has posted a fascinating retrospective on the birth of the PlayStation, which tells the now-legendary tale with a generous helping of insider anecdotes and near-miss product concepts. More »
Screens
1080p DivX Support Coming to LG HDTVs in May
6:34PM John Herrman | LG has announced support for full 1080p DivX video in their new line of TVs, which begin shipping in May. LG has always been quick to try out new—if sometimes marginal—technologies in their TVs, like DivX playback from mass storage, which LG introduced in 2007. Similarly, this feature is great news for those of us who want a convenient way to play torrented Blu-ray rips our HD home video collection, but will mean absolutely nothing to the majority of people who buy the sets. [Gizmag] More »
Entertainment
4:00PM Nick Broughall | On the back of their new ad campaign being launched last night, today Freeview have announced which companies will be releasing Freeview badged equipment. And there are some biggies in there. More »
Freeview Announces Its Launch Partners
4:00PM Nick Broughall | On the back of their new ad campaign being launched last night, today Freeview have announced which companies will be releasing Freeview badged equipment. And there are some biggies in there. More » 