Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Peripherals
Naildrive Hits 16GB
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | Madness. 16GB in this Buffalo RUF2 flash naildrive just 5mm long. Translated to the Imperial system, that’s 16GB in a on tiny-itty-bitty-thingamajig. [Geekstuff] More »
Design
F-4 Ejection Seat Sticks It To Work In Style, Overkill
11:20PM Mark Wilson | Maybe you fantasise about leaving that shitty office job for something else like, I dunno, opening a charming B&B on the coast or being Maverick from Top Gun. Well this is how you quit. More »
Gadgets
These LED Goggles Should Be Our Gang Sign
11:00PM Mark Wilson | Picking a colour or clothing label for a gang allegiance is just so West Side Story. In the mighty year of 2009, we need to step up gang affiliations to Clockwork Orangian levels. More »
Design
The Thinnest Buildings In The World Come With Toilets To Match
10:40PM Jesus Diaz | We knew that Japan probably has the thinnest houses in the world. Of course, the toilets match. Just looking at the girl inside makes me anxious: More »
Hardware
WD’s My Book World Edition II Offers 4TB Of RAID Network Storage
10:00PM Dan Nosowitz | WD’s new NAS drives, the My Book World Edition II, packs either 2 or 4TB of storage in a dual-drive RAID array. It seems like a pretty solid system for those dangerously paranoid about the safety of their data. More »
Peripherals
SanDisk Claims Title Of World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card
10:00PM Dan Nosowitz | The new Extreme SDHC card from SanDisk comes in 4/8/16/32GB capacities and boasts speeds of up to 30MB/s, which SanDisk claims as the world’s fastest. More »
Hardware
Seagate FreeAgent Go Pro For Mac: 7200rpm 500GB Drive With FireWire 800 (Happy Now?)
10:00PM Wilson Rothman | Seagate’s portable 2.5″ FreeAgent Go Pro for Mac already has the triple interface—FireWire 400/800 and USB 2.0—but now it comes with 500GB spinning at 7200rpm for the best portable video and audio editing performance. More »
Phones
HTC Hero Hands-On
9:50PM John Herrman | The Hero feels more substantial than HTC’s previous Android handsets, but the hardware—and the software, to a certain extent—will be familiar to anyone who’s used the company’s other hardware. It’s all just a bit, well, nicer. More »
Screens
JVC’s 32-Inch, LED-Backlit TV Is Just A Quarter-Inch Thick
9:00PM John Herrman | At Cedia UK, JVC is showing off its 32-inch LT-32WX50, which appears to be a close relation to the 7mm-thick GD-32X1 we heard about earlier this month. It’s extremely thin, and carries it well. More »
Phones
8:50PM John Herrman | As expected, HTC has dropped the details on a new Android phone—the leaked-to-all-hell Hero, no less. And HTC’s fantastic, also-leaked Android interface overhaul is here, too: it’s called Sense. Oh, and it’s got Flash support. More »
HTC Debuts Hero, With Fresh “Sense” Face For Android
8:50PM John Herrman | As expected, HTC has dropped the details on a new Android phone—the leaked-to-all-hell Hero, no less. And HTC’s fantastic, also-leaked Android interface overhaul is here, too: it’s called Sense. Oh, and it’s got Flash support. More » 