Thursday, July 30, 2009
GPS
Swedes Drive 400 Miles In The Opposite Direction Due To GPS Mistake
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | I do love the Swedes. Some of them. Maybe not the couple who drove 400 miles into the wrong direction because they misspelled the destination—the industrial city of Carpi instead of the island of Capri—into their GPS. More »
Business
Is Apple Going To CES? Part XVII
11:20PM John Herrman | The WSJ says they totally are. Ryan Block says that the WSJ is full of shit. But wait, haven’t we had this conversation before? Like, a few times? More »
Screens
Samsung 8500 Series Local-Dimming LED TVs Have A Sweet Base
10:59PM Matt Buchanan | Yeah, the 8500 series is Samsung’s first set of LED-backlit LCDs with local dimming this year and has the Yahoo widget engine for streaming video, but all I really care about is that awesome looking blue stick holding it up. More »
Gadgets
2TB Time Capsule Arrives For $500, 1TB Drops To $299
10:58PM Mark Wilson | Apple has just announced a new, 2TB Time Capsule that’s available today for $US500 (the former price of the 1TB). So the 1TB drops to $US299 (the former price of the 500GB). [Apple] More »
Gadgets
Wink Glasses Will Make You Blink
10:48PM Mark Wilson | I know, you play Call of Duty SO COMPETITIVELY that you can’t even blink. But since that mentality leads to eyestrain (which leads to fewer kills), Japan’s Masunaga Optical Manufacturing has invented Wink Glasses. More »
Phones
10:19PM John Herrman | Short of price, release date and carrier(s), there’s not a whole lot that hasn’t been leaked about LG’s comically long next generation Chocolate, the BL40. But somehow, these first official shots are still enticing. I mean, look at it. More »
First LG Chocolate BL40 Official Shots Don’t Surprise, Still Stun
10:19PM John Herrman | Short of price, release date and carrier(s), there’s not a whole lot that hasn’t been leaked about LG’s comically long next generation Chocolate, the BL40. But somehow, these first official shots are still enticing. I mean, look at it. More »
Business
Motorola Phone Sales Down By Half, No Sign Of Fight Or Flight Response
10:18PM Brian Lam | This is the opposite of surprising if you know what a good, modern mobile phone is but Motorola sold about half of the mobile phones this year that they did in Q2 last year. That’s still 14.8 million handsets, but we know where that trendline is going if you chart it out a few quarters. On a positive note, Moto handsets have always had some astounding voice quality going on, if calling’s still your thing. [Frommerville]
QOTD
3:39PM Nick Broughall | Something strange happened to me this afternoon. I realised that for the first time in a long time, there wasn’t a mad, driving itch to buy the latest and greatest gadget. It’s not that I don’t want to buy new toys to play with, it’s more that the key gadgets I’ve always lusted after are already in my possession… More »
What’s At The Top Of Your Gadget Wishlist?
3:39PM Nick Broughall | Something strange happened to me this afternoon. I realised that for the first time in a long time, there wasn’t a mad, driving itch to buy the latest and greatest gadget. It’s not that I don’t want to buy new toys to play with, it’s more that the key gadgets I’ve always lusted after are already in my possession… More »
Music
3:00PM Nick Broughall | It’s probably just a coincidence, but the W series Walkman that we saw back around CES is being released in Australia to coincide with the 30th Anniversary of the original Walkman. The press release goes so far to call it the “30th anniversary wearable Walkman”. More »
Sony’s W-Series Walkman Now Dubbed ‘30th Anniversary Walkman’
3:00PM Nick Broughall | It’s probably just a coincidence, but the W series Walkman that we saw back around CES is being released in Australia to coincide with the 30th Anniversary of the original Walkman. The press release goes so far to call it the “30th anniversary wearable Walkman”. More »
Design
