Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Gadgets

WikiReader Puts Wikipedia In Your Pocket, Forgets We’re In 2009

11:30PM Danny Allen | Three buttons, three million topics: Wikipedia in the palm of your hand. Openmoko’s $US99 WikiReader could be useful for kids (or luddites), but it’s an odd little gizmo in a world of 3G Smartphones. More »
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Gadgets

GlideTV Navigator: A Trackpad For Your Hand

11:18PM Mark Wilson | The GlideTV Navigator—a trackpad remote for an HTPC, AppleTV, WMC, Boxee, PS3 or Mac—is shaped so strangely that you figure the ergonomics must be amazing. More »
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Music

Sonos Gets More Affordable With ZonePlayer S5 Wireless Speaker

10:35PM Danny Allen | Sonos’ wireless home audio system is great for convenient, hiss-free streaming, but it’s pretty pricey. The S5 changes that (a little), by incorporating a receiver and speaker into a single unit-compared to the $US350 ZP90 which requires separate powered-speakers. More »
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Computers

Acer’s Dual-Bootin’, Android Lovin’ Aspire One Almost Here

9:50PM Danny Allen | As you may have heard, the 10.1-inch Aspire One D250 dual-boots between Android and, err, Windows XP. It has a 1.66GHz Atom 280 processor, 6-cell battery rated for 9 hours, and is now up for pre-order on Amazon for $US350. More »
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Hardware

SanDisk Starts Shipping X4 Flash Cards, Will Eventually Be Awesome

7:20PM Dan Nosowitz | SanDisk’s X4 tech packs four bits of data into each memory cell, compared with the typical one or two bits. That means they’ll be able to far exceed the 32GB limit on SDHC, microSDHC and others, and they’ve started shipping. More »
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Business

Steve Jobs Whips Disney Stores Into Shape

6:40PM Dan Nosowitz | Disney retail stores, like many other venerable chains, have been suffering in recent years. But Disney’s got an ace in the hole (or, more accurately, on their board): Steve Jobs. Think Apple Store meets Zac Efron. Weird, I know. More »
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Computers

Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans

6:14PM Brian Lam | Why don’t touchscreen desktops work very well? You’ll get tired gesturing on a monitor for more than a few seconds. (Try it on a desktop monitor now — see?) [Techcrunch]
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Peripherals

iPhone iBend Stands Are So Thin That iHurled

5:20PM Rosa Golijan | iBend iPhone Stands are flimsy, foldable stands that you can tuck into your wallet or purse without difficulties. And now these bulimic-looking stands are available in a special Artists Series to make spending eight American bucks on plastic sheets more appealing. More »
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Online

Facebook Poke Results In Arrest

4:40PM Rosa Golijan | Today I’m thankful for many things, including whoever arrested Shannon Jackson for poking someone over Facebook. It may have been over a protection order violation, but I’ll be damned if I haven’t dreamed of doing worse to Facebook pokers. More »
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Design

No Cars Allowed On The Eco-Friendly Kurilpa Bridge

4:00PM Rosa Golijan | At 470m, the Kurilpa Bridge in Brisbane is one of the longest footbridges of its kind and so eco-friendly that it generates more energy than it uses for its lighting system. Oh, and it’s kinda pretty. More »
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