Monday, October 5, 2009

A-DATA Hard Drive Proceeds With Diesel And Grunting

11:40PM October 5, 2009 | Mark Wilson

The A-DATA SH93 hard drive looks to be covered in caution tape, but you needn’t worry about dropping it on land or water. More »

The Future Of Mice (If There Is One)

11:00PM October 5, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

While touring Microsoft’s Hardware division, I saw some concept mice that renewed my faith in the quintessential desktop accessory, ones that had capacitive touch surfaces and cameras that enabled an array of precision multitouch gesture. Take a look: More »

Computing

Apple Working On A Tablet Since At Least 2003?

8:58PM October 5, 2009 | Danny Allen

More fuel for the Apple Tablet rumours. According to the NY Times, several former Apple employees say a PowerPC-based prototype was developed in 2003 — but it was too power-hungry, and Steve Jobs felt it was limited to bathroom Web-surfing. More »

Software

Windows Marketplace Reportedly Live On WinMo 6.5 Phones

8:16PM October 5, 2009 | Danny Allen

An Engadget tipster is reporting that Microsoft’s app store for 6.5 WinMo phones is already live and kicking, a day ahead of tomorrow’s global roll-out of Windows Mobile 6.5 Phones. Marketplace support for 6.x WinMo phones is expected before the end of the year. [Engadget] More »

Toshiba’s Cell-Powered TV Records Or Displays 8 Channels At Once

7:21PM October 5, 2009 | Danny Allen

Toshiba’s first TV with the PS3 Cell processor it helped develop has seriously kick-ass specs. For starters: The 55-incher’s LED backlighting divides the 240Hz display into 512 individually controlled areas, and has a dynamic contrast ratio of 5,000,000:1. More »

Mobile

Samsung Behold II Pairs Android With TouchWiz Interface

5:10PM October 5, 2009 | Danny Allen

Wow, another T-Mobile Android phone (Sprint’s HTC Hero is the only Android-handset on another carrier). The Behold II has a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, 5MP camera and TouchWiz UI (now with 3D cube menu for quick access to multimedia). More »

Mobile

HTC Tilt 2 And HTC Pure WinMo 6.5 Phones Arrive In The US

3:15PM October 5, 2009 | Danny Allen

Windows Mobile 6.5 rolls-out tomorrow, so expect to hear about a bunch of new handsets this week. Getting in early, AT&T has gotten official with its versions of HTC’s TouchPro 2 (Tilt 2; shown left) and Touch Diamond2 (Pure). More »

Software

Full Flash For Everyone But iPhone, Actually Playable HD Vids

3:01PM October 5, 2009 | Matt Buchanan

A ton of good news about Adobe Flash 10.1: Full Flash is coming to Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, WebOS and Windows Mobile. And it’ll be actually GPU accelerated, meaning you can play back YouTube in HD perfectly. But the bad news? More »

Deja Vu: Apple Sues Someone Because Their Logo Looks Like Fruit

10:00AM October 5, 2009 | Jack Loftus

As part of a legal manoeuvre worthy of Monster Cable, Apple has set its lawyers on Australia’s largest supermarket chain because their new logo is a little tad too similar to their own. More »

If Apple Made Audio Components They Would Look Like The EK Amp

9:00AM October 5, 2009 | Jesus Diaz

The Elekit EK Amp—a vacuum tube hybrid stereo amplifier—was designed by Koichi Futatsumata, but it could have been designed by Jon Ive or Dieter Rams himself. Simple, pure lines and most probably out of my price range. More »