Monday, August 10, 2009
Screens
Retro-Projection Urinal Lets You Pee Over Football Games
11:20PM Jesus Diaz | A pub in Melbourne came up with what potentially could be the best and wrongest thing ever invented: A urinal with a retro projector, so you don’t miss a single second of a game when you have to pee. More »
Science
Wood Is The New Bone
10:53PM Mark Wilson | Don’t let the hippies hear that wood may make a better artificial bone than titanium. We’ll never live it down. More »
Phones
Bank To Let Customers Deposit Cheques With iPhone Photos
9:55PM Danny Allen | Great ideas tend to make so much sense that you wonder why they took so long. Here’s another: USAA, a privately held bank/insurance company, is updating its iPhone app to let customers snap both sides of a cheque for deposits. More »
Computers
Toshiba Bites The Blu-ray Bullet, Laptops Coming Soon
9:15PM Danny Allen | After killing off HD-DVD and suggesting it’ll probably, maybe, do something with Blu-ray, Toshiba has finally applied to join the Blu-ray Disc Association, and plans to launch set-top players and notebooks with BD drives “in the course of this year”. More »
Music
Sony’s New S-Series Walkman Specs, Pricing Leaked
7:30PM Danny Allen | Built-in speakers were obvious when we first glimpsed Sony’s updated S-Series, but thanks to French retailer Materiel, it looks like the 2.4-inch (QVGA) screen players will come sized 8GB or 16GB, and playback 42 hours of audio or 6.4 hours video. More »
Entertainment
Summer Reading Fun With Absinthe And Flamethrowers
6:00PM Danny Allen | If you’ve ever wanted to make Absinthe, gunpowder, rockets, or even build a flamethrower, then Absinthe & Flamethrowers: Projects and Ruminations on the Art of Living Dangerously ($12), looks like some hazardous, but fascinating reading. [Amazon via Uncrate] More »
Computers
Sony Laptops Have Hardware Virtualisation Disabled
5:45PM Danny Allen | A user backlash is brewing after Sony confirmed it deliberately disables hardware virtualisation (required to run Windows 7’s XP Mode) on all current Vaio laptops, due to security concerns. More »
Peripherals
Sanwa’s Waterproof IPhone Case Lets You Get Wet And Wild
4:15PM Danny Allen | Leaving your iPhone pool or beach side while taking a dip can be a risky move, so a waterproof iPhone case seems like a smart idea. This one even has a special jack for use with waterproof headphones. More »
Games
Awesome Neo Geo Mini Arcade Cabinet Mod
3:30PM Danny Allen | Pocket Lucho is well-known in modding circles for his work building cool mini-arcade cabinets using old game consoles. He’s spent the last five months perfecting an earlier Neo Geo cabinet design, and has now posted detailed info on the build. More »
Robots
