Friday, June 5, 2009
Vehicles
Antonov Eats F/A-18, Then Eats Another One for Dessert
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | If you didn’t have enough with my video at the Dubai Air Show, here is another view at how huge an Antonov AN-124—one the largest mass-produced plane in the world—is. More »
Gadgets
40 Second Toothbrush Doesn’t Use Torture, Just ‘Enhanced Cleaning Techniques’
11:20PM John Herrman | On paper, the 40 Second Toothbrush, which de-plaques two rows of teeth at a time, looks like a fine idea. On paper. Would you put this in your mouth? More »
Science
Videos So Close to the Moon You Can Almost Touch It
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | Selene— Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s spacecraft mapping and filming the moon in High Definition for the first time—keeps returning crystal-clear videos of the Moon surface. And the video will keep getting closer and closer, until it crashes. More »
Software
Where Is Xbox Live Anywhere?
10:00PM Matt Buchanan | When you have Microsoft’s VP of LIVE, Software and Services for Interactive Entertainment Business John Schappert in front of you, you can’t not ask whatever happened to the long-lost Live Anywhere service. So we did. More »
Computers
Acer’s Android Netbook Will Come With Windows, Fail at Being an ‘Android Netbook’
9:03PM John Herrman | When a company says they’re working on an Android netbook, people make assumptions: they’ll come up with a fresh UI; they’ll cater the netbook’s hardware to Google’s lightweight OS; they’ll make it cheap. Acer is doing none of these things. More »
Business
Software
Google Chromium Alpha Builds Available for OS X, Linux
7:03PM John Herrman | GoogleThe Chromium team has posted early alpha builds of the ported browser for OS X and Linux, along with some explicit instructions: “DON’T DOWNLOAD THEM!” But really, you should. More »
Gadgets
Spycraft Hits Paperback In Time for Father’s Day
6:00PM Wilson Rothman | Remember that awesome CIA gadget book, Spycraft, written by our spooky friends Bob Wallace and Keith Melton? Well, it just came out in paperback, people—$US12.24 at Amazon. Go git ‘em. [Amazon] More »
Games
Nintendo On Conan’s New Backdrop: ‘That’s Great’
5:58PM John Herrman | Intentionally or not, Conan’s new backdrop looks like it was constructed by a team of Mario level designers, circa 1992. Asked about the homage/coincidence, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime sounded pretty pleased: “That’s great.”
Phones
