Friday, June 19, 2009
Design
Coffin Couch Helps The Non-Dead Resemble The Undead
11:44PM Mark Wilson | If Buffy, Twilight, Trueblood and the collective Anne Rice novels have taught us anything, it’s that women dig vampires. To exploit the phenomenon, stay out of the sun and buy this couch. More »
Software
First IPhone App With In-App Purchasing: $US1 App, $US10/Month
11:20PM Adam Frucci | Bad news: the first app to use in-app pricing in the App Store is a huge ripoff. Gokivo, is a $US1 turn-by-turn directions app. Want to actually use it? That’ll be $US1/minute, $US3/10 minutes or $US10/month. More »
Games
The Biggest Game Publisher Threatens To Ditch PS3/PSP
10:30PM Mark Wilson | This is bad. The prisoners have grabbed the keys. Activision Blizzard, the world’s largest producer of video games, is publicly threatening to abandon Sony’s PS3 and PSP platforms. More »
GPS
The World’s Smallest, Potentially Seediest GPS, GSM And RF Tracker
10:07PM Simon Crisp | It looks like a nondescript battery, but this is actually the world’s smallest GPS, GSM and RF tracking device. More »
Business
RIM Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You Very Much
9:01PM John Herrman | It’s been a while since a BlackBerry handset really stole the spotlight, with the new—and by all counts nice—BlackBerry Tour getting trampled underfoot by this month’s Palm and Apple news extravaganza. But appearances don’t do this situation justice: RIM is doing very well, reporting a 33% jump in profit this quarter, fuelled almost entirely by consumers, not businessfolk. [NYT]
Peripherals
Minifit XL Laptop Stand Chills Your Computerb With Movable Fan
8:00PM Simon Crisp | We’ve seen other laptop stands with built in fans, but this one promises to only cool your computer’s hot spots. More »
Screens
Samsung’s Animated, Flexible OLED Passport Shown On Video
Entertainment
MovieIQ For BD-Live Displays Online Movie Info In Real Time, Encourages Insufferable Film Geekery
7:10PM John Herrman | From September, all new Sony Pictures Blu-ray discs will support MovieIQ, a service which grabs IMDB-esque data from the Internet to show during playback. How BD-Live hadn’t already been used to do something like this, I have no idea. More »
Computers
