Thursday, February 25, 2010

OLED Mirrorwall Now Available From Philips – $US16,000/sqm

11:36PM February 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Hey magpie-eyes, instead of saving up for a 3D TV why don’t you cash in your prized teaspoon collection and spunk $US16,000 down on a square metre of Philips’ Mirrorwall, which uses dozens of OLED panels to reflect motion. More »


Orb PC Speakers Come With An Amplifier, Choice Of Metal Finishes

11:10PM February 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Orb’s first PC speakers come with a 15W Class T amplifier, so even if you’ve got them paired up to a crummy Dell your audio output won’t be too compromised. More »


Software

Nokia Confirms Ovi Maps Will Appear On Android

10:47PM February 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Why’d Nokia give away Ovi Maps for free to other OS users? Unless they’re… planning an Android phone themselves? We’ve already heard whispers they’re to release just one Maemo device this year – and they can’t possibly survive on Symbian for alone. More »


Cameras

Pentax’s X90 Has An Optical Power Zoom Of 26x

10:31PM February 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

If you haven’t got nearly enough of the cameras coming out of the PMA show this week, you couldn’t go wrong with the 26x optical zoomer X90 from Pentax, which takes last year’s X70 and ups the zoom-factor. More »


Mobile

Windows Phone 7 Could Be On An LG Phone As Soon As September

9:41PM February 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

We all know Windows Phone 7 is due at the end of the year, but according to the Chinese version of Engadget, LG is preparing for a launch date as early as September, as late as November. It’s still a wide gap, but certainly a lot more hopeful than “early 2011″. [Engadget Chinese via Engadget]


Online

Gmail Retires Some Gmail Labs Features, Promotes Others

9:34PM February 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

After 18 months of Gmail Labs being in operation, Google’s killing off some unpopular features, but also promoting the oft-used ones to permanent functions. Say hello to the forgotten attachment detector, YouTube previews and custom label colours. More »


Mobile

HTC Incredible Turns Up, Implying Launch Is Near

8:41PM February 25, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

The chocolate brown HTC Incredible has reappeared on the scene, this time in Verizon Wireless’ inventory system. Is the Android phone close to announcement? It’s peculiar HTC hasn’t officially announced it yet, instead outing the Legend and Desire. More »


The Force Will Protect 1GB Of Your Data

4:40PM February 25, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

These 1GB lightsabre flash drives may have been imported from Japan and they may light up when plugged in, but they still don’t feel quite right without some woosh-woosh-zzwoommm-zwing sound effects. Worth $US20 without those? More »


Gaming

Is Steam Coming To Macs?

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4:00PM February 25, 2010 | Nick Broughall

This one sits firmly – VERY firmly – in the rumour camp, but Kotaku has picked up some conversations in the Steam Forums where users had found some support in the new beta release for Mac-specific files. More »


Online

Google CEO’s Mistress’ Tell-All Blog: Prototype iPhones, Steve “Stoned Jesuit” Jobs

4:00PM February 25, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

There are reports of Google CEO Eric Schmidt forcing his mistress to take down her naughty tell-all blog. Whether that’s the reason for its disappearance or not, we’re glad that our Gawker friends preserved some of the amusing details. More »