Saturday, June 13, 2009
Random Stuff
6:00PM Wilson Rothman | I’m sorry, but I just gotta know—are Dell Dude #1 Michael Dell and Iron Man director Jon Favreau secretly related? Does their freakish resemblance not trouble anyone else?
Separated At Birth?
6:00PM Wilson Rothman | I’m sorry, but I just gotta know—are Dell Dude #1 Michael Dell and Iron Man director Jon Favreau secretly related? Does their freakish resemblance not trouble anyone else? 
Robots
Self-Charging PR2 Robot Travels Between Rooms In Search Of Power
1:30PM Andi Wang | Unlike Roombas and the ASIMO that require specific charging docks to refuel their power, the PR2 uses the standard 3-pronged electrical outlet for its power source. More »
Phones
IPhone 3.0 Is Re-Allowing You To Re-Download Apps For Free
12:30PM Andi Wang | According to a lead developer at Apple—and a few tests run on the iPhone 3.0 to confirm—the inability to re-download previously purchased apps on iPhone 3.0 was just a bug. [Appadvice - Thanks Mahmoud!]
Design
XERO Project Green Building Concept: Veggie Does Dallas
12:00PM Andi Wang | Somewhat like a vegetarian version of the Dragonfly building in Manhattan, the XERO Project is a proposed idea of bringing local agriculture, orchards, gardens and food stalls into the city of Dallas, all under one roof. More »
Regulars
Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post
11:30AM Wilson Rothman | Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) More »
Phones
Running Custom Firmware On The Palm Pre Is Rather Easy
10:44AM Jason Chen | Developer Steven Troughton-Smith seems to have discovered that running unsigned (custom) firmware—even firmware that bypasses the activation process—is super easy. More »
Entertainment
DRM Group To Kill Analog Blu-ray Output
10:40AM Mark Wilson | The AACS Licensing Authority is most renowned as the group behind the DRM found in Blu-ray discs—the same DRM, mind you, that’s already been cracked. And they’re out to kill analogue. More »
Design
Zune Logo Spotted In Avant Garde Furniture
10:20AM Wilson Rothman | I couldn’t help but think this chair looks a lot like a three-dimensional butt-friendly Zune logo. And it got me thinking, what else could the Zune logo be made into? I got as far as hammock. [Dezeen]
Phones
Palm Pre’s Fonts Custom Designed By Font Bureau Type Foundry
9:41AM Jason Chen | The large, incredibly readable font on the Pre is part of why we said the OS was so usable in our review, but we just thought it was a nice choice of fonts; we didn’t know Palm commissioned it themselves. More »
Robots
