The Omron HT-B551 looks like any other electric toothbrush, but inside, it’s got a tri-directional secret: a accelerometer. Hey, fancy-pants futurists! You didn’t see this one coming, did you?
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The British Broadcasting Corporation, television purveyor of such fine programs as Top Gear and Planet Earth, is said to be in talks with Google to bring their excellent VOD service to America.
Guan Baihua—a guy in China—must know something that we don’t know. Some secret law of physics that explains why the hell his bike has no wheels, but weird metal and rubber angled pieces.
In their continued quest to hash out absolutely every permutation of the netbook category, ASUS has created something pretty interesting: a passively-cooled Android netbook based on the ultra-low-draw Qualcomm Snapdragon platform.
As Amazon slowly inches toward sealing up the entire eBook industry, Google’s getting antsy. Speaking at the BookExpo convention this weekend, a company rep stated Google’s intentions to sell eBooks by the end of the year, adding ominously, “this time we mean it.”
Fortunately, the Pixon’s 12-megapixel claim to greatness, which guarantees you nothing at all except for the industry’s largest file sizes, is complemented by some decent specs, starting with a 3.1″ AMOLED touchscreen, 3G and FM radio.
Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, has opened up to the public in a wide, if not total, rollout. It looks pretty good. We tested it with a familiar term, though, and something interesting happened:
If you ever find yourself flying cattle class in the Qantas A380 over to Los Angeles, at least you can take solace in the fact that the economy seat you’re sitting in won an International Design Award. More »
On display at Maker Faire 2009, Interactivation is a whimsical, slightly non-sensical cross between a six-way collaborative music machine and a Tesla coil, producing improvised sounds and scientific trickery from the same machine.
