Monday, March 15, 2010 - Page 2

The Spiderpodium Gadget Stand Is Unnecessarily Freaking Me Out

The Spiderpodium is pretty self-explanatory: It’s a gadget-stand/tripod (well, an octo-pod, technically) shaped like an arthropod. Lacking much to explain, I’m going to tell you the origins of my arachnophobia. Everyone take a seat. It’s about to get real.


Computing

The Diamond iPad

Listen up, rich people: If you ordered an iPad, cancel it. This is the one you need, covered with 11.43 carats of diamonds, graded G/H in colour, VS2/SI1 in clarity and 100/100 in stupidity. I can imagine Steve Jobs reaction:


Mobile

TomTom For iPhone Now Even More iPhone-ish

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TomTom has enhanced its GPS app for the iPhone to offer a few new tricks that should help make it earn its keep at such a heady App Store price point. The new version 1.3 TomTom app throws in a bunch of updates to make the app experience more iPhone smart, like new pinch and zoom map adjustments, and along with a new Local Search feature powered by Google you should be feeling a lot more value for your $99.99.


Entertainment

ViewSonic Launches Sub-$1500 DLP 3D-Ready Projector

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Yes, that’s sub-$1500 local money. ViewSonic’s new PJD6251 (model number as sexy as ever) is a portable 120Hz 3D-ready projector, weighing in at 2.9kg. It isn’t necessarily your number one choice for home theatre extravagance, but for the money this makes for a nice small biz or random fun option.


Geek Out

Your Eyes Are Really Seeing This

Vote in the comments: Who do you think wins this fight, lightsaber-wielding Batman or giant angry shark? Pick your answer carefully; there are more variables than you think.

Picture: ©2010 Andrew Zubko, Zubko.com[Nerdcore via io9]


News

Win! Gillette Fusion Gamer Prize Packs

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Shaving has always been one of the less exciting bathroom activities. Wouldn’t it be so much better if it were like a video game? Well now you can pretend it is, with the Gillette Fusion Gamer razor.


Entertainment

Rhapsody IPhone App Allows Downloading Songs, For Listening Offline

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/C-wva60DptI&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube"} );Rhapsody just released a little teaser video for the next version of its iPhone app (to be followed closely by its new Android app) that marks a major change for the service: You can now download songs instead of streaming.


Mobile

IPhone-Loving Microsoft Employees Endure Unspeakable Hardship

The WSJ has a discussion today of the phenomenon of the iPhone-using Microsoft employee. Apparently that time Ballmer fake-stomped an iPhone is emblematic of some (barely) real anti-iPhone sentiment in Redmond.


Mobile

Ridiculously Fast IPhone Typist Shames Soft Keyboard Haters

newVideoPlayer( {"type":"video","player":"http://www.youtube.com/v/NNcTE5WJGdw&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22","customParams":[] ,"width":500,"height":412,"ratio":0.824,"flashData":"","embedName":null,"objectId":null,"noEmbed":false,"source":"youtube"} );This iPhone typist/possible woodpecker earns today’s Holy Shit YouTube Moment of the Day Award. I’m positive I couldn’t beat him on my Droid—hell, he’d put up a good fight against me on my laptop.


Geek Out

Total Solar Eclipses, 2001-2025

Want to know where you can get a glimpse of the ultra-rare total solar eclipse? This map shows exactly when and where every eclipse in the next fifteen years will be visible—and why you should move to Memphis.