Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Software

Video: iStetho Turns Your iPhone Into A Stethoscope

11:44PM November 18, 2009 | Danny Allen

It’s only intended for recreational use, but this feels like another step towards a real-life tricorder. A new start-up called RidRx is selling an adaptor that connects stethoscopes to the iPhone/iPod touch and uses their app for fancy spectral imaging. More »

Mobile

Nokia’s N-Series Will Ditch Symbian For Maemo By 2012

11:09PM November 18, 2009 | Danny Allen

At an official N900 meet-up in London last night, the Maemo marketing team appears to have let slip that Nokia will use the Linux-based OS instead of S60 on all its future flagship N-Series handsets. About time, no? More »

Cameras

Casio’s EX-G1 Super Slim Shooter Is Shock-Resistant, Waterproof

10:39PM November 18, 2009 | Danny Allen

At just 0.78-inches thick, Casio claims the 12.1-megapixel EX-G1 is the world’s slimmest ruggedised camera. The first in a new Exilim G line, it has a reinforced 2.5-inch rear LCD, non-extending 3x optical zoom lens, microSDHC expansion and intelligent autofocus. More »

Gaming

PlayStation 3 Firmware 3.10 Adds Facebook Today

10:03PM November 18, 2009 | Danny Allen

How’s this for a quick turn around. Facebook integration for the Cross Media Bar interface was only confirmed on Monday, but it arrives today with firmware 3.10 — a day after the Xbox 360 added Twitter and Last.fm. Watch the preview… More »

Mobile

The True Google Phone May Be Coming Soon

7:13PM November 18, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

TechCrunch is hearing some veeeeeery interesting rumours about a true Google Phone: Not just an Android device, but a phone designed top-to-bottom by Google to fulfil their dream of exactly what Android can be. It’s a resilient rumour. More »

ATI Radeon HD 5970: The World’s Fastest Graphics Card

6:20PM November 18, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 slaughters the competition in pretty much every benchmark thrown at it. It’s outrageously fast. We’re talking 5 teraflops here, people. Teraflops. More »

Geek Out

45,000kg Crane Smashes House In Half

5:40PM November 18, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

This 45,000kg crane was removing a tree when the tree broke loose, sending the crane’s massive boom down onto the owner’s house, smashing it like a Play-Doh sculpture. Check out the carnage. More »

Entertainment

RSVP Now For Byteside’s Final Show And Xmas Special

5:00PM November 18, 2009 | Nick Broughall

If you haven’t yet managed to get down to experience the Byteside live show, time is running out – the final show is scheduled for November 24, although Ben and Shay are hosting a special Christmas show on December 8. More »

Quantum Physics Visualised

5:00PM November 18, 2009 | Rosa Golijan

I wish that Julian Voss-Andreae had made some of these sculptures when I was in school. While we can’t really claim that they represent quantum physics concepts accurately, they still would’ve made reading about Bosons and Fermions more pleasant. More »