Saturday, July 18, 2009
Cameras
Digital Cams Haven’t Caught Up To Film’s Resolution: Does It Matter?
8:46PM Brian Lam | Lenses being equal, a large format 8×10 piece of film can capture the equivalent of 800 Megapixels. Just saying. But does it matter? Discuss! More »
Computers
What Is This?
3:31PM Brian Lam | Q: What classic computer and Apple II competitor opened its steel case up like a car hood? And was named after a domestic rock toy popular at the time? More »
Design
11:00AM Adrian Covert | UK Internet provider TalkTalk asked a team from Goldsmiths, University of London to come up with some concept router designs focused around four areas: signal strength, energy efficiency, home design, and “pure enjoyment.” More »
In The Future, Metroids Will Provide Our Internet
11:00AM Adrian Covert | UK Internet provider TalkTalk asked a team from Goldsmiths, University of London to come up with some concept router designs focused around four areas: signal strength, energy efficiency, home design, and “pure enjoyment.” More »
Entertainment
With Plans To Recast ‘Futurama,’ Fox Infuriates Fanboys Everywhere
10:30AM Adrian Covert | But seriously—why in the hell would you go and do that, Fox? More »
Software
The Week In IPhone Apps: Augmented Everything
10:00AM John Herrman | In a very special late night edition of your weekly iPhone apptacular: Apps that make things that are already good—FM radio, video games, shopping, spouses, the city you live in—a little bit better. More »
Robots
Full Size Gundam Get Attacked By Laser During Inaugural Ceremony
9:30AM Jesus Diaz | I am not a full size Gundam in Tokyo—although I want to be one when I grow up—but if I were attacked with greeen lasers during my inauguration ceremony, I would get pretty damn pissed off. Then I would destroy everything in sight, and go to have a carrot cake and coffee afterwards. [Mainichi Daily News]
Hardware
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | This is the Intel 8088. A beast with 29,000 transistors that could be clocked up 8MHz in its 1979 heyday, it was the second chip to use the x86 architecture, and the brains inside the original IBM PC. More »
Intel 8088: The Chip That Gave Birth To The Borg
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | This is the Intel 8088. A beast with 29,000 transistors that could be clocked up 8MHz in its 1979 heyday, it was the second chip to use the x86 architecture, and the brains inside the original IBM PC. More »
Software
Apple ‘Resisted’ The Opportunity To Integrate Facebook Into OS X
8:30AM Adrian Covert | Fast Company has an interesting interview with Facebook’s senior platform manager Dave Morin (formerly an Apple developer), who mentions that a few years ago, Apple turned down the chance to integrate some of Facebook’s social networking aspects into OS X. More »
Gadgets
The 1979 Klingon Happy Meal
8:00AM Jason Chen | You may think the weird Happy Meal bundling came during the ’80s, but McDonalds was already busy making sure kids got their fix of movie-promotion McNuggets by 1979. Today is a good day to supersize. More »
Software
7:40AM Matt Buchanan | iPhone developer Craig Hunter confirms some of our fears about Palm’s entirely web-language based Mojo SDK for WebOS—it’s weak sauce, with pitiful access to the Pre’s powerful hardware. More »
Palm WebOS Mojo SDK Sadly Impotent As Expected
7:40AM Matt Buchanan | iPhone developer Craig Hunter confirms some of our fears about Palm’s entirely web-language based Mojo SDK for WebOS—it’s weak sauce, with pitiful access to the Pre’s powerful hardware. More » 