Sunday, June 14, 2009

Software

The Month In BlackBerry Apps: Slacker Stitchers Make Robot Schedules

11:00PM June 14, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

Hey look, it’s our first BlackBerry app roundup. We’ve got free podcasts, free music and free hacks to make your BlackBerry more usable—or let you grind its battery into the ground. More »


Computing

CrunchPad Prototype Caught Taking Off Box And Baring All

10:30PM June 14, 2009 | Jack Loftus

This is a rumoured “extremely recent” look at a CrunchPad prototype. What do we learn? First, the demo man says the tablet will be out by this year, “for sure.” The other is that the video guy is a klepto. More »


Samsung YP-R1 PMP Plays Your Torrented Episodes Of 30 Rock

1:00PM June 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

We’re loving Samsung’s new line of PMPs, and as lifelong haters of forced video conversion, we’re especially glad that Samsung’s been throwing us torrent-using pirates a bone with great codec support and a 2.7-inch touchscreen in its new YP-R1 PMP. More »


Open Source Embroidery: Technology Embraces Its Craft Side

8:00AM June 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

A legitimate artistic movement known as Open Source Embroidery has sprung up to explore the relationship between, no joke, software engineering and needlework. It’s pretty awesome. More »


Mobile

Study Finds IPhone Users Genetically Superior To Everyone Else

7:00AM June 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Well, they may not have gone quite that far, but an independent study conducted by Forrester Research found that iPhone owners are better educated, younger, more affluent, and even more productive than their non-iPhone-using counterparts. More »


Gadgets

The Comfort Wipe: Because Basic Bodily Functions Are So Archaic

6:15AM June 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

It looks like Lisa Simpson’s worst nightmare has come true. Now all of America can say, “I wash myself with a rag on a stick.” More »


Activated Full Size Gundam Robot Looks Amazing

5:30AM June 14, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

Holy frak. If you thought the 59-foot-tall Gundam in Tokyo was impressive when it was finished, you haven’t seen it fully armed and operative at night. Beautiful and actually scary. Check the close up. More »


Online

Please God Let Twitter Explode And Go Away Forever

5:00AM June 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

There’ve been some reports about an upcoming “Twitpocalypse” in which Twitter would finally crash and burn due to the limitations of a 32-bit signed integer. Allegedly, Twitter will collapse once the number of tweets passes 2,147,483,647. More »


Slick IPod Dock Packs Slot-Loading CD Player, Radio, OLED Display

4:00AM June 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

As far as AM/FM/CD/iPod/AUX combinations go, this artfully-misspelled Sonora Eklipse is pretty good-looking, with its 7.5-watt output, shiny black finish and glowy lights. But is it really worth its whopping $US550 pricetag? More »


Computing

MSI’s Skinny 15.6-Inch X-Slim X600 Laptop Specs Revealed

3:00AM June 14, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

We’re not really sure about the market for a svelte-yet-comparatively-large-screened laptop like MSI’s 15.6-inch X-Slim X600, but now we’ve got the full spec list so you can decide for yourself. More »