Friday, July 31, 2009 - Page 2
Cars

Seriously, Is The Boeing Dreamliner EVER Going To Fly?

We’ve been following the progress of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner for a long, loooooooooong time, so we’re excited that it’s finally ready to—oh, wait is that wing coming apart?


Forget About Air Shipping Lithium Batteries Via Australia Post

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Remember back in 2006 when lithium batteries were exploding left, right and centre? I don’t know about you, but my laptop became a notebook overnight when I realised what an exploding battery might do to my manhood. Australia Post has had a similar epiphany, albeit three years later, and are now refusing to ship anything with a lithium battery by air.


Cars

Next-Gen Audi A8 Includes Handwriting Recognition, Bafflingly

Think texting while driving is dangerous? How about leaning over to the centre console to scrawl “NEAREST BATHROOM!!!!!” on your car’s navigation system with a stylus? Audi’s next-gen A8 includes handwriting recognition to make that dangerous dream a dangerous reality.


Splitterbot Headphone Splitter Makes Sharing Music Even Cuter

Some gadgets scream out for an adorability upgrade, like netbooks or Roombas. Headphone splitters aren’t exactly one of them, but Splitterbot is too cute to deny.


Steelcase Cobi Designer Puts Your Design Skills Where Your Ass Is

The Steelcase Cobi, starting at $US400, is unique in that it’s a higher-end office chair that you get to customise quite a bit of how it looks—avoiding the late ’90s dotcom sea of chairs that look exactly alike.


Sony Posts Nearly $400 Million Loss Last Quarter

Sony, just about the biggest and most far-reaching electronics manufacturer around, announced a first-quarter loss of $US390.5 million. They’ve been taking a beating across the board from Apple, Nintendo, Nokia, Canon and Samsung, and aren’t excelling in any one field.


Geek Out

No Conditioner Can Untangle These Power Lines

This ad for Procter & Gamble’s Rejoice conditioner uses the tangled mess of power lines in Bangkok to get its message across. Pretty brilliant, no? [BusinessWeek via Book of Joe]


Breakfast Wrap: Best Of Thursday Night

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Software

TheXchange: Will This IPhone App Survive The Apple Banhammer?

Here you have another proof that demonstrates why Apple’s iTunes App store approval process is screwed: theXchange, a new iPhone application to put people in contact to have sex, photos included. As you can imagine, the content gets extremely strong.


Gadgets

Student Suing Amazon After They Deleted Homework From His Kindle

Forget blaming it on the dog, thanks to Amazon students have a 21st century excuse for lost homework. When Amazon foolishly yanked 1984 from thousands of Kindles, Justin Gawronski’s electronic notes for a summer assignment became useless.