Saturday, August 1, 2009
Phones
Front-Facing Cameras To Debut On BlackBerrys Next Year
12:00PM Dan Nosowitz | In an informal interview, a RIM executive strongly hinted that the company’s BlackBerry line would be getting a front-facing camera for videoconferencing in early 2010. It’s still officially unconfirmed, but totally plausible. Anybody out there dying for some videoconferencing? [TinyComb]
Design
Clever Furniture System Uses Tension Straps To Hold Parts Together
11:45AM Adrian Covert | Anyone that’s ever tried to move their Ikea furniture knows it sucks, because particle board pieces full of nails and screws aren’t meant to handle that. However, this Ratchet Furniture set only uses tension straps to hold everything in place. More »
Games
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Set to be bundled with the Easy Piano instructive game for the Nintendo DS is this Piano/Keyboard controller, which lets you go from punishing ears on a full-size piano, to punishing ears on your handheld. More »
Nintendo DS Piano Attachment Now Lets You ‘Hone’ Your ‘Musical Chops’
11:30AM Adrian Covert | Set to be bundled with the Easy Piano instructive game for the Nintendo DS is this Piano/Keyboard controller, which lets you go from punishing ears on a full-size piano, to punishing ears on your handheld. More »
Gadgets
Remainders
11:15AM Jason Chen | Here’s the stuff that we didn’t post today. (Until now, obviously.) More »
Gadgets
AAXO P2 Pico Projector Is Thankfully Brighter Than Its Forefathers
11:00AM Brian Lam | Pico projectors have been bullshit. They’ve been dim and useless. The P2 is one of the next generation with LCoS display of 800×600 and 33 lumens, twice as bright as previous. In two gens, I might even recommend. [PicoProjectorInfo] More »
Games
Sony Talks More About Playstation Motion Control
10:45AM Adrian Covert | PC World ’s Game On got an exclusive interview with Richard Marks, one of the key players on Sony’s Playstation Motion Control team, and got him to talk a bit about what the future holds for their motion gaming control scheme. More »
Music
Cowon iAudio E2 MP3 Player Looks Straight Out Of The MoMA
10:30AM Dan Nosowitz | Cowon, makers of audiophile digital audio players like the D2 and S9, is teasing their new diminutive flash player, the E2. But what to make of this “circle + square” slogan? More »
Science
A Pack Of Canadians Claim They Can Deliver Nuclear Fusion, Cheap
10:00AM Adrian Covert | Vancouver-based startup General Fusion has been running around claiming they can build a nuclear fusion reactor in the next 10 years for under a billion dollars. And some anonymous futurists just gave them 9 million dollars for their troubles. More »
Software
FCC’s Now Investigating Apple For Google Voice Shenanigans
9:54AM Jason Chen | YES. The FCC is now looking into Apple’s chickenshit shenanigans with Google Voice, asking whether AT&T was involved, why it was rejected and what the hell’s going on with this Google Voice thing. More »
Software
