Friday, May 15, 2009 - Page 2
Cars

Google Street View Employs High-Tech Tricycles for Hard-to-Reach Places

Reader Jason Whitney spotted a Google-branded, camera-equipped tricycle in his local San Diego, CA bike shop. But it’s packing a generator and about eight cameras—what kind of muscle-bound man-monster can pedal this thing?


Gadgets

Dyson’s DC28 Animal Looks, Feels, Sounds Powerful

The Dyson DC28 is weighty—weightier than their previous release, the agile Ball vacuums— and continues the Animal line tradition of being super powerful suction devices.


Entertainment

LG BD390 Wi-Fi Blu-ray Player Review: So Packed You’ll Forget About Blu

Samsung currently ships two Blu-ray players with Wi-Fi dongles, but LG’s $US400 BD390 is first with real integrated Wi-Fi. It’s probably the best all-around Blu-ray player there is at the moment, and it’s getting better.


Entertainment

Download Nova And Vega Radio Podcasts On Your TiVo

Gizmodo AU

From next Monday, you’ll be able to download breakfast and drive-time podcasts from the Nova and Vega networks nationally on your TiVo. Anyone else think this is a bit weird?


Entertainment

Who Knew Lighters Could Be So Much Fun?

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Those zebras are dangerous, damn it!

[Thanks Dane!]


Gadgets

Melting Keyboard Wall Graphic

If you want to make sure your baby will turn out to be a super cool geek, just wallpaper the nursery with this keyboard decal. [Zek via Unplggd]


GPS Accuracy Might Be Less Accurate in 2010

Due to maintenance issues of our current GPS satellites, geodesist Mike Craymer and his team at Natural Resources Canada have calculated that the accuracy of global positioning systems could start dropping by 2010.


Gadgets

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.)


Gaming

PS3 Firmware Update v2.76 Is Available Now

According to the Sony Playstation blog, this update is just a minor one that will improve “the playback quality of some PS3 format software.” [PS3Daily]


Here Is The Future of Technology

This gallery full of baby geeks playing with computers not only makes me smile and go all “ooooooh” and “aaaaaaah.” Watching them is actually getting me go into sugar-induced diabetic coma.