My first thought when I saw Telstra’s new Elite mobile broadband card: “Wow, Expresscard isn’t dead yet?” My second thought: “Really? It isn’t dead yet?” My third thought: “Come on, surely it’s dead and this is a joke.” My fourth thought: “Okay, this joke was kinda lame to begin with, but now it’s just plain embarrassing.”
This is pretty cool – so long as you enjoy tennis, I guess. Channel 7 is using Windows 7′s Snap feature to show two video streams side by side during the telecast of the Australian Open.
Glucose-powered bio-batteries aren’t a brand new idea, but Japanese toymaker Takara may be among the first to attempt to use them in their products. They’ve made some prototype remote-controlled toy cars which run on our favourite sweet drinks.
There are a few different iPhone apps out there designed to make inter-language communication an easier proposition, but none of them are quite like the Emirates iLingual app. Combining either French, German or Arabic with those stupid mouth replacement gimmicks you see on late-night TV infomercials, the app lets you “speak” another language through the iPhone.
In today’s Remainders, David Pogue is distressed about the Nook’s weight problems, America’s Cup entrants ditch sails for wings, Engadget spots an HP Smartbook on the FCC’s site, and iLounge coughs up some unconvincing Tablet rumours.