Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - Page 2
Science

An HD Video Tour Of The International Space Station

If you’re a huge space buff, you might not be surprised by anything in this video tour of the International Space Station. But it’s still great to just get a simple walkthrough of this incredible project and all its corners.

Computing

Apple Job Posting Suggests Cameras In Future iPads

Apple’s hiring again and this time they’re looking for “Performance QA Engineers” in their “iPad Media” department. Based on the description for the job, we might be seeing an increase in iPad camera rumours:

Computing

It May Be Creepy, But This Case’s Ad Is Popcorn-Worthy

I hate spiders, I hate horror movies, and I hate gimmicky computer cases. But I love the commercial for the Lian Li Mini-atx case. Maybe it’s just because it reminded me of Steve Irwin.

Cars

Toyota Launches The Australian-Made Hybrid Camry

Gizmodo AU

For the general populace, Australian-made cars come in two categories and two categories only: Ford or Holden. But the simple truth is that probably the most exciting Aussie car* to be released in the past decade comes from neither – it’s a Toyota, and it’s a hybrid. Yesterday the Japanese company officially launched their new Australian-made hybrid Camry.

Mobile

Prepaid Mobile Phone Users Less Likely To Return Calls

Some folks decided to study the calling habits of 5.3 million people over an 18-month period. 350 million phone calls later, they came to an almost obvious conclusion: Prepaid mobile phone users make and return fewer calls than their postpaid counterparts.

Best Buy’s MacBook Pro SKUs Go Missing, Core i5 Refresh Soon?

The upcoming i5 MacBook Pro refresh might be closer than we thought, with TUAW discovering that Best Buy emptied their systems of the current version. Since they’re not likely to go MacBook-less for long, that points to soon. [TUAW]

Gadgets

The Scale That Thinks It’s A Rug

This concept scale that doubles as a decorative rug might – might – be the thing to finally get me taking better care of myself.

Online

Google Wants To Control All Communication

Google’s two new announcements: integrating a Twitter-like service into Gmail and a goal of a real-time speech translation service shows what direction they’re taking the company: Into the space between you and every other human being on the planet.

Why Repaint Your Room When You Can Get A Colour-Changing Wall?

See this wall of colourful squares? It’s actually a concept design consisting of a bunch of small triangular panels which can be spun ’round on whim to change the way your room looks. Or to spell out naughty things.

Microsoft Blames Your Laptop – Not Windows 7 – For Battery Issues

After upgrading to Windows 7, some users saw a new warning message suggesting that they need to replace their laptops’ batteries. Some screamed “bug”, some shouted “conspiracy”, but Microsoft denies that anything’s wrong.

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