Friday, March 5, 2010

Cameras

Panasonic G2 And G10 Micro Four Thirds Cameras Leaked

11:24PM March 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

The story goes that Panasonic leaked the upcoming G2 and G10 micro four thirds cameras onto their own website, which 4/3 rumours quickly screengrabbed. However, Panasonic has got in touch with them to say the specs are incorrect. Oh, what to think? More »


Mobile

HTC: Don’t Carry Your Nexus One In Your Pocket

11:02PM March 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

This isn’t a Nexus One celebrating Gay Pride month – it’s CNET Crave UK’s broken Google phone. According to HTC’s technical support, “they don’t go in pockets”, lest the screen gets cracked. More »


Hexagon Watch Isn’t For Busy Bees With Only Seconds To Spare

10:27PM March 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Tokyo Flash watches are outlandish enough as is – so you can imagine how badass their concept design would be. This Hexagonal watch isn’t real, but Tokyo Flash could make it so – with the method of telling the time surprisingly simple. More »


Computing

enTourage EDGe Dualbook Reviewed: Not Quite There Yet

9:31PM March 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

The innovative, if slightly bonkers, enTourage eDGe has been reviewed by Laptop, and as I suspected they had a few issues with the design. They found the half ereader, half netbook too heavy, with the number of options overwhelming. More »


Mobile

HTC Incredible Photos Appear On Twitter, Showing… Not Much

8:43PM March 5, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Waking up to fresh photos of an unofficial phone is always welcome, but I do wish all these spyshots of the HTC Incredible would be accompanied with a bit of meat. Some bacon for my breakfast, you could say. More »


Gadgets

Weekend Gadgets: Too Much To Do Edition

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3:45PM March 5, 2010 | Nick Broughall

It seems that this week is the week I end up with too much to actually play with. On top of a couple of things from last week (I’m still playing with the Ricoh GXR and the Sony Bloggie), I’ve added a couple of TomTom satnavs (the Start and the Go 750), a Soniq iPod dock (iM600k) and a Windows 7 tablet from Handii. More »


Gaming

Make Poker More Challenging By Playing With A Rock Band Drum Kit

3:20PM March 5, 2010 | Rosa Golijan

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/lAEXXCYgN7w&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":570,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube"} );Ever spiced up internet poker by busting out a webcam and turning it into a strip game? Yeah? Well, have you ever done it while using a Rock Band drum kit to control the game? Here’s how. More »


Science

Electro-hypersensitivity: The Gadget Allergy

2:40PM March 5, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

A man hassled a neighbour over his Wi-Fi allergies, and we dismissed him as a member of the tin-foil hat brigade. Now we’re reading PopSci’s look at the electro-hypersensitivity – the real deal gadget allergy – and we’re feeling sorta like arseholes. More »


Gaming

Group Claiming Games Are Worse Than Smoking Gets Funding From Atkinson

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2:15PM March 5, 2010 | Nick Broughall

Earlier this week, psychologist Dr Wayne Warburton – representing an organisation known as the Australian Council on Children and the Media – claimed on Channel 10 news that the link between playing video games violence is much stronger than the link between smoking and lung cancer. It turns out that particular organisation receives funding from a certain Attorney General who goes by the name of Michael Atkinson. More »


Please Don’t Let Laser-Based Instruments Catch On

2:00PM March 5, 2010 | Adam Frucci

Last night here in NYC, British pop singer Little Boots used a huge laser harp on stage. We’ve seen these things before and I just don’t get it. Let’s just stick with the normal instruments, shall we? More »