Huge investments as they were, 1970s TVs were subject to the same kind of bleary-eyed lusting as today’s hottest gadgets. Unlike now, though, cutting-edge features weren’t easily quantifiable. So what was there to drool over, if not specs? Plenty. More »
NASA has been working with Lowry Digital in Burbank to restore all of the original tapes from the July 20, 1969 moonwalk, and they just released the first clips of it. More »
Apple’s patent policy—filing for basically any idea that any employee is willing to sketch, ever—gives us an endless supply of speculation grist, some interesting, some not. Take this patent, which calls for flash microstorage in headsets and earbuds. More »
The Polaroid SX-70 was not the first instant camera. Released in 1972, it was the first instant SLR, and the first to use Polaroid’s iconic integral print film that developed automatically. It folded up so it fit in your pocket. More »
The latest beta of BlackBerry OS 5.0 has tabbed browsing. Great! Except “switching between two or more tabs is, quite frankly, a huge pain in the arse as there is no keyboard shortcut.” I’d rather have Javascript performance that isn’t completely shittastic, personally. [BGR] More »
Sure enough, that mysterious baby brick sitting next to the stretched-out BL40 is a direct descendant of the last generation of LG Chocolates, the BL42. The 3G slider is rumoured to have a 240×320 non-touch display and a 3-megapixel camera. More »
The official Guitar Hero 5 drumset has finally been unveiled! And it’s…it’s… exactly like the last one, except with rounder, Rock Band-y cymbals. No price yet, but it ought to be cheaper than Logitech’s. Full tracklist and more at Kotaku. More »
Matt declared their latest, greatest salvo in the smartphone wars a wide miss, and analysts chimed in to say that yes, Nokia’s high-end prospects are grim. Well, Nokia’s second quarter earnings are in, and boy, are they gruesome: profit is down 66% from the same time last year, market share is basically flat, and product-wise, there’s no obvious cure on the horizon. [WSJ]
A few weeks ago, Hulu silently blocked access through the PS3′s web browser. G4 did some digging, and found an entirely predictable culprit: Reluctant content providers! More »
In case you missed the link buried in our retrospective tech gods trivia-fest, here’s a glimpse back at Steve Wozniak, the enthusiastic car salesman. To quote the man himself, “It. Is. Awesome.” [YouTube] More »
