Plastic Logic’s giant touchscreen ebook reader makes Amazon’s Kindle look like ancient Egyptian technology, and the Barnes & Noble digital bookstore closes its serious content gap. Too bad though they’re using AT&T’s 3G network for over-the-air downloads.
The Thirty-Metre Telescope will finally end in Hawaii, not Chile. When it’s finished in 2018, it will be nine times larger than any telescope today.
Skype 2.8 for Mac, which integrates iChat-style, cross platform/OS screen sharing, Wi-Fi access through Boingo, and improved audio/video quality is out. Seems perfect for sharing amusing pictures while accidentally flashing someone. [Skype 2.8 via ReadWriteWeb via Lifehacker]
If you are hunting down Erin Andrews’ naked peephole video and you are a dummy, beware: It may be a trick to get you to install a trojan horse, disguised as a video player.
Pluggage, the brainchild of ITP student Ohad Folman, is a piece of carry-on luggage with a built-in battery/inverter and a solar panel that’s capable of charging mobile devices as the bag is rolled or exposed to direct sunlight.
Hey, narcissists and/or filmmakers! Instructables has a guide to making your own Snorricam, that chest-mounted camera holder that points the lens directly at your own face.
Have you been downloading gigabytes of porn off your neighbours unsecured Wi-Fi connection? Do you live in Queensland? Then you could be all out of luck, with a report by Asher Moses at the SMH Brett Winterford at ITNews that Queensland police will be pro-actively seeking out unsecured wireless networks to warn homes and businesses that they are open to fraud and identity theft.
Microsoft released a more detailed timeline of exactly who will get Windows 7 RTM and when, and we’re sure you’re dying to know. But you better hope you’re a bigshot if you want to be the first to grab it.
Editors from Columbia’s Science and Technology Law Review explained to us a year ago the pitfalls of not owning your Kindle books, a fact that Amazon revealed to be more horrifying than we thought. Guess what? It’s worse.
Rumour: iPod Touch With Camera And Microphone Coming Sort of a natural progression for the iPod, don’t you think?
HTC Hero Review: Tragically Flawed I wonder if it’s a case of the hardware not being powerful enough or the software being too bloaty?
Android-Based Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Full Specs And Large Images Yay! More Android!
Is This Yet Another HTC Android Phone? Holy crap, even more Android?
A Real Astronaut Reflects On America’s Moon Landings, Past And Future Spam and peanut butter? That’s what it takes to be an astronaut? No thanks…
