Wednesday, June 17, 2009 - Page 2

Zune HD Packs Nvidia Tegra: Better Video and Better Battery Life

If you were wondering how the Zune HD could pack in such iPod touch-beating smoothness into such a small size, we might have an answer for you: It’s packing Nvidia’s teeny, high-performance Tegra processor.


Mobile

Could The iPhone Be Coming To Three? (UPDATED!)

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With the Vodafone Hutchison merger all approved and whatnot, the big question now is whether or not Three will be getting their great-valued hands on the iPhone. And eagle-eyed tipster Ryan reckons it might be a possibility, with certain hints from 3′s website.


Science

RF Cochlea Is A Super-Powered Signal Processor Modeled After The Inner Ear

RF signal processors are pretty commonplace in consumer electronics. Which is exactly why it’s exciting that two MIT researchers have created a super-radio based around the function of the human ear that’s substantially faster and 100x more power efficient than today’s signal processors.


AVLabs Portable Photo Gallery Is Like A Smartphone Without The Features

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For 400 big ones, you can get an AVLabs 8-inch screen with 4GB of storage to share your photos. Or you could spend a bit more and get a smartphone.


Gadgets

Zeo’s Personal Sleep Coach Plays Somnologist

If you’re an insomniac like I am, instead of paying thousands of dollars for multiple sleep tests, the $US400 Zeo Personal Sleep Coach alarm clock comes equipped with nifty gadgets that’ll help you self-diagnose.


Software

IPhone Dev Team Unlocks IPhone 3.0 With New “UltraSn0w”

The iPhone Dev Team, unlockers of all things iPhone, have released a demonstration video of a version of yellowsn0w they dub “ultrasn0w” that purportedly unlocks every version of the iPhone running everything from 3.0 on down the line.


Gaming

IPhone’s Xbox Live Equivalent Set To Launch Tomorrow

High-end iPhone gaming company Ngmoco will be launching Plus+, their social gaming service, for the iPhone tomorrow.


Cars

Electric Dirtbikes Now Available In Australia

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Dirtbikes and environmentally-friendly electric motors don’t seem to be the most logical of bedfellows, but Zero Motorcycles have forced the two to shack up, and now their Zero X and Zero MX bikes are available in Australia.


Gadgets

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.)


Cameras

Texas Cops Break The Taser On A Curmudgeonly 72-Year-Old Woman

Despite the fact that tasing a full-grown man borders on excessive, a Texas cop found it necessary to tase a 72-year-old woman because she was yelling at him. And the slightly horrific, slightly hilarious farce was all caught on camera.