Thursday, January 14, 2010

Cameras

High-Res Satellite Images Of Haiti Show Devastation From Space

11:15PM January 14, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

By now you would’ve heard about the earthquake which left Haiti devastated on Tuesday, leaving thousands dead and even more injured. These high-res satellite photos show the damage the earthquake, measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale, had on the capital Port-au-Prince. More »


Software

Windows Mobile 6.6 Rumoured To Launch Next Month

10:35PM January 14, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Windows Mobile 7 may not be coming anytime this year, but HALLELUJAH WinMo 6.6 will be debuting next month according to Digitimes. Don’t hold your breath on it being your phone’s saviour, folks. [Digitimes]


Online

China Blocks IMDb Site After Google Refuses To Censor Search

10:25PM January 14, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Mere days after Google stuck it to the man and refused to continue censoring search results in China, the country has put IMDb.com on its list of inaccessible sites. [The Reg via TechRadar]


Mobile

Motorola Spites Google, Promises Multitouch For All

9:55PM January 14, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Google may not be too interested in giving their US market native app multitouch in the Nexus One, but Motorola aims to please, with CEO Sanjay Jha promising to “deliver multitouch in the majority of our devices”. More »


Science

Magnetism!

6:20PM January 14, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Science visualisation doesn’t get much awesomerer and old school than this, really. We should put a bunch of these together near the North Pole, to keep the Russians from stealing it. More »


Entertainment

IMAX Hubble 3D Trailer: Avatar What?

5:40PM January 14, 2010 | Dan Nosowitz

This trailer is unbelievable, you guys. IMAX Hubble 3D is the story of the Hubble repair, and the visuals are stunning beyond any teal fantasy jungle you could imagine. Just watch it. [YouTube]


Computing

The “Blood-Curdling” Name Steve Jobs Wanted For The iMac

4:40PM January 14, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

Back in November, former TBWAChiatDay creative Ken Segal said that Steve Jobs’ original name for the iMac would “curdle your blood”. I guessed Macternet, but according to this account, that wasn’t blood-curdling enough. Jobs’s alleged proposal was a lot worse: More »


Gadgets

Remainders – The Good, Bad And Ugly Things We Didn’t Post

4:20PM January 14, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

In today’s remainders: The Onion dishes out some flimsy jokes and Recompute marches forward with their flimsy PC. A robot does some impressive head-spinning, but don’t try imitating it with the Tattoo foldable helmet. More »


Geek Out

Sending A Text Message To Canada Saved A Woman In Haiti

4:00PM January 14, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

A Canadian woman trapped under rubble after the recent earthquake in Haiti managed to send out a text message to the Foreign Affairs Department in Ottawa, a place nearly 5000km away. And it saved her life. More »


Sleep Suit Allows You To Doze Anywhere, Be Touched Everywhere

3:42PM January 14, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

I like the sleep suit, because I can’t not like anything that allows me to sleep anywhere I want and has holes for people to poke their hands inside. More »