Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Online
Reminder: Don’t Forward that Funny Email (Or Tweet or Digg or Facebook)
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | Dear friends, foes, and relatives. Please, don’t send that funny email. OK, actually, as a last exception, please forward this post to everyone you know. Thank you! Much love, J. Updated
Business
Sony Ericsson Needs a Boatload of Money to Stay Alive
11:20PM Matt Buchanan | Following the wretched quarter where sales dropped by almost half, Sony’s CFO said yesterday that Sony Ericsson desperately needed to raise cash—about 100 million euros ($US135 million)—this year to stay alive. [NYT] More »
Computers
Dell Demonstrates the Mini 10v Running Android Cupcake
11:00PM Mark Wilson | Warning: Dell has not announced that their 10-inch, $US299 Mini 10v netbook will be optionally loaded with Google’s smartphone environment Android (Cupcake). But that hasn’t stopped Dell from demonstrating it working.
Design
Dragonfly Skyscraper Farm Will Give Pigs the Best Views of Manhattan
10:40PM Jesus Diaz | The pigs are advancing so quickly in their world domination plans that now they are opening headquarters in New York City. This is the Dragonfly Vertical Farm, a skyscraper designed for animals and agricultural production. More »
Phones
Sprint CEO: We Won’t Have Enough Palm Pres to Meet Launch Demand
10:22PM John Herrman | It could be an innocent statement of fact, but Sprint CEO Dan Hesse’s ‘admission’ that the company will have trouble meeting early demand for Palm Pres reeks of hypemongering. He’s not necessarily saying that there’s a Pre shortage, per se, but that demand will be super high—the exact thing you’d expect any CEO to say in the same situation. More »
Computers
Absurd Liquid-Cooled Desk Computer Is a Tribute to Mod Excess
9:54PM John Herrman | One year ago, some Popular Mechanics editors set out with the broad goal of building the most ridiculously extravagant PC mod they could. This is what they came up with. More »
Computers
Intel: Kinda Thin, Kinda Cheap Laptops Are the Next Big Thing
8:40PM John Herrman | For all its impressive engineering and hyper-stylised design, the ultrathin laptop category isn’t very enticing, mainly because every entrant is laughably expensive. But now, Intel’s trumpeting an entirely new approach to thin laptops: compromise! More »
Science
‘It’s Possible to Receive a Small and Quick Electrical Shock From Your Earbuds While Listening to iPod’
7:35PM John Herrman | From Apple’s support pages, a warning about potential static electricity buildup in earbuds, in which Apple has been reduced to explaining basic physics to its customers. [via Crave UK] More »
Online
Google PowerMeter Begins Rollout, Gives You One More Metric To Obsess Over
6:55PM John Herrman | Google PowerMeter, an online widget that monitors your home’s power usage in real time, is one of those ideas that really should’ve caught on by now. Well, it’s starting to! More »
Gadgets
