Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Design
BedBunker: Sleep Soundly With WWIII Under Your Pillow
11:50PM Mark Wilson | I can’t speak for everyone here, but if I could sleep every night atop my 32 rifles or 70 handguns, I’d just worry that the Boogie Man would find a way to arm himself. More »
Computers
Averatec N3400: Cheap, Light And Aluminum
11:10PM Mark Wilson | If Apple released a 13-inch, 1.7kg aluminium laptop for $US799, we’d all be going freaking nuts. Just check out the specs: More »
Gadgets
Brando Tells Apple TV To Suck On This HD Media Player
10:50PM Mark Wilson | Seamless white boxes? Pfft. Brando doesn’t need any of white plastic’s pomp and circumstance. Instead, their Darwinian hard drive dock gets another upgrade. Now it’s an HD media player. More »
GPS
SiRFStarIV Will Give Mobiles And Cameras GPS For Real
10:26PM Wilson Rothman | We don’t usually go on about chips, but after years of selling the same hugely popular (but power hungry) SiRFStarIII GPS chip, SiRF launched a new chip platform acknowledging that mobile phones now rule the GPS business. More »
Deals
2:58PM Nick Broughall | On top of checking out Lifehacker’s guide to mobile broadband, if you’re in the market for a mobile broadband plan, you should know that Vodafone’s just dropped the price of their prepaid starter pack to $129. That gets you a USB modem plus 2GB of data if you pick it up before the end of September (after that you’ll just get 500MB). More »
Vodafone Drops Price Of Prepaid Mobile Internet
2:58PM Nick Broughall | On top of checking out Lifehacker’s guide to mobile broadband, if you’re in the market for a mobile broadband plan, you should know that Vodafone’s just dropped the price of their prepaid starter pack to $129. That gets you a USB modem plus 2GB of data if you pick it up before the end of September (after that you’ll just get 500MB). More »
Music
2:37PM Nick Broughall | Looks like Bill Gates wasn’t the only person who gets all nostalgic for a classic technological time – Apple today launched Digital 45s, a digital version of the classic vinyl 45s that made a record player a must-have music accessory decades ago. More »
Apple Launches Digital 45s On iTunes
2:37PM Nick Broughall | Looks like Bill Gates wasn’t the only person who gets all nostalgic for a classic technological time – Apple today launched Digital 45s, a digital version of the classic vinyl 45s that made a record player a must-have music accessory decades ago. More »
Software
Apple Rejects Official Google Voice IPhone App
2:34PM Matt Buchanan | Now we know why Google Voice apps were only released for BlackBerry and Android. Apple rejected Google’s official Google Voice app when it was submitted for approval six weeks ago. What. The. Shit. More »
Hardware
Fujitsu Begins Shipping First Chips To Support USB 3.0
1:30PM Rosa Golijan | Following Asus’ announcement that its motherboards will soon feature USB 3.0 ports, Fujitsu’s teasing us by shipping its new USB 3.0-to-Sata bridge chips which will allow for the super-dee-duper speedy data transfers implied by USB 3.0’s official name, SuperSpeed USB. More »
Entertainment
1:02PM Nick Broughall | The guys over at News.com.au have a great photo gallery detailing the process of a Blu-ray disc being made at the new Sony BD factory in Huntingwood, NSW. Definitely worth a gander if you’re looking to kill five minutes today…
[News.com.au; Image: Charlie Brewer]
Check Out How Blu-ray Discs Are Made
1:02PM Nick Broughall | The guys over at News.com.au have a great photo gallery detailing the process of a Blu-ray disc being made at the new Sony BD factory in Huntingwood, NSW. Definitely worth a gander if you’re looking to kill five minutes today…
[News.com.au; Image: Charlie Brewer]
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