Thursday, July 30, 2009

Swedes Drive 400 Miles In The Opposite Direction Due To GPS Mistake

11:40PM July 30, 2009 | 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 »


Is Apple Going To CES? Part XVII

11:20PM July 30, 2009 | 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 »


Samsung 8500 Series Local-Dimming LED TVs Have A Sweet Base

10:59PM July 30, 2009 | 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 July 30, 2009 | 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 July 30, 2009 | 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 »


Mobile

First LG Chocolate BL40 Official Shots Don’t Surprise, Still Stun

10:19PM July 30, 2009 | 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 »


Motorola Phone Sales Down By Half, No Sign Of Fight Or Flight Response

10:18PM July 30, 2009 | 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]


What’s At The Top Of Your Gadget Wishlist?

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3:39PM July 30, 2009 | 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 »


Sony’s W-Series Walkman Now Dubbed ’30th Anniversary Walkman’

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3:00PM July 30, 2009 | 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 »


The Citadel: The World’s First Floating Apartment Complex

3:00PM July 30, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Since Holland is mostly under sea level, keeping houses from flooding is a constant problem. This concept fixes that problem by just having an apartment complex that floats. More »