Thursday, April 30, 2009 - Page 2
Entertainment

TiVo Now Offering Over 100 Blockbuster Movies On Demand

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They’ve been trialling the service for a few months already, but triVo have officially launched their movie on demand service in conjunction with Blockbuster, with over 100 films on offer.


Cameras

Pogue Says Panasonic’s Pseudo-SLR GH1 Makes a Great HD Camcorder

Hopefully things are cloudiest before they clear up: Nobody buys real camcorders anymore, entry-level DSLRs are all about HD video, and NYT’s David Pogue picks Panasonic’s Lumix GH1 as the current 1080p shooting champ.


News

Win! One of 25 Gillette Fusion Phenom Packs Signed By Mark Skaife

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When I was in Rome, I was almost hit by a bus. It was a close shave, and a story worthy of our Gillette Fusion Phenom prize pack. Pity I can’t enter though…


Gaming

Energizer Brings Induction Charging to Wiimotes

The best part about the Energizer’s Wiimote Induction Charging System is that if you choose to play it safe with the rubber sleeves and wrist straps, you can charge them without remove that extra stuff.


Mobile

Palm to Release Second Smaller, Pre-Like Smartphone With WebOS This Year

An apparently reliable source at Palm has told TechCrunch that Palm is “very far along” on a second, smaller Pre-like device to be marketed as soon as this fall, 2009. Pre nano, anybody?


Computing

Century’s Netbook Stand with DVD Super Multi-Drive

Netbooks are great for travellers because they stick to the basic essentials—except sometimes you need an optical drive. Problem solved: this netbook stand doubles as a thigh-hair saver and a DVD multi-drive.


Science

Scientists Say Their Mirror Based Invisibility Cloaks Actually Work

Researchers from Cornell and UC Berkeley say they’ve both developed invisibility cloaks using bump-shaped mirrors that can hide objects across optical wavelengths. Oddly enough, their designs are nearly identical.


Gadgets

iTie Lets You Wear Your Goodies Around Your Neck

Perhaps an attempt at thwarting thieves on the street—or thwarting boredom at work—iTie has a concealed pocket for your iPod, mp3 player, credit cards, cigarettes, money and any other items that will fit.

Just watch out how much stuff you stick in there—you don’t want to accidentally commit suicide via autoerotic asphyxiation. [iTie via LikeCool]


Cameras

World’s Fastest Camera Uses Lasers to Boost Images

Keisuke Goda’s team at UCLA have built the fastest camera ever, which takes an upwards of a whopping 6.1 million pictures per second, at a shutter speed of 440 trillionths of a second.


iPhone vs Asus Netbook Extreme Typing Test

Crave UK’s Rory Reid did a great experiment: Test the typing accuracy of the iPhone vs an Asus Netbook in a rally car racing at full speed. The video and the results will surprise you.