Thursday, May 7, 2009
Games
First Look at the DJ Hero Turntable Controller
11:17PM Mark Wilson | Activision is working on a game called DJ Hero (think of it as Guitar Hero for house music). Here’s the first shot of the game’s new turntable controller. More »
Entertainment
All 172 Star Trek Voyager Episodes Played Back at Once
11:02PM Mark Wilson | Computer! Yes captain? Place all 172 Star Trek Voyager episodes onscreen. Voyager? Yes. Not TNG? No, not TNG. You’re sure not TNG? I said Voyager, dammit. And play them back at 14x speed! …OK More »
Peripherals
NES and Rubik’s Cube Mice Now Exist
10:30PM Mark Wilson | We all know, if someone invented either a Rubik’s Cube mouse or an NES controller mouse, we’d post about it. But what if someone invented both at once? More »
Science
The Charms of Soyuz: Blasting Off In a Crazy Russian Rocket
10:00PM Wilson Rothman | Our astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao is one of the few spacemen to have flown in both a US Space Shuttle and Russia’s five-decade-old spacecraft, the Soyuz—any guess which one he prefers? More »
Computers
Dell Mini 10 Will Drop To $US299 This Month
9:26PM John Herrman | Dell’s May catalog lists the next version of their Mini 10 netbook—the functionally identical 10v—for $US299, a full $US100 less than its predecessor. Smart move, as price has always been the Mini series’ biggest weakness. More »
GPS
Garmin Oregon Handheld GPS Line Gets 3.2 Megapixel Camera, Geotagging
9:00PM Sean Fallon | Garmin’s 550 and 550t upgrade to the Oregon handheld GPS lineup add a few new features for outdoorsy types—a 3.2 megapixel camera with geotagging, a 3-axis compass and a enhanced sunlight readable touchscreen. More »
Robots
Floor-Wiping Worm Robot Provides Crucial Missing Link in Robotic Fossil Record
8:54PM John Herrman | In animal terms, the Fukitorimushia floor-cleaning robot would be the Roomba’s distant evolutionary ancestor. It wipes instead of vacuums, inches rather than rolls, and generally looks like it wriggled right out of the primordial soup. More »
Screens
Shinoda’s Curvy Display is 1mm Thick, Does 720p
7:56PM John Herrman | Last time we saw one of Shinoda’s ever-growing 1mm-thick flexible displays, its squat figure and sorry 960×360 resolution weren’t exactly blowing minds. But this version—essentially two of the prior models, stacked—does HD. Yes. More »
Software
iPhone Beta 5 Odds and Ends: No More MMS, Better YouTube?
6:22PM John Herrman | The official script may have minimised it as a maintenance release, but some users are finding out that iPhone Beta 5 contains more than bugfixes. So far: YouTube’s improved, and hacked MMS is no more. More »
Random Stuff
4:35PM Nick Broughall | Considering the sheer enormity of the Sydney Apple Store, why would anyone want to go shopping in all three Aussie Apple stores in one day? Especially when the man doing it is the antithesis of an Apple fanboy? The answer, it turns out, is the challenge. More »
Crazy Man Shops In All Three Australian Apple Stores In One Day
4:35PM Nick Broughall | Considering the sheer enormity of the Sydney Apple Store, why would anyone want to go shopping in all three Aussie Apple stores in one day? Especially when the man doing it is the antithesis of an Apple fanboy? The answer, it turns out, is the challenge. More » 
