Posts by Adrian Covert

Online

China Accuses Google Of Unfair Censorship

7:40PM Adrian Covert | China’s state-run newspaper, People’s Daily, is accusing Google of unfairly censoring it’s online book section from search results, calling it “revenge” because they published a story questioning Google’s book-scanning practices along with possible copyright issues. My friends, this is rich. More »
Hardware

Rumour: Select Intel Atom CPU Netbooks To Be Allowed 2GB RAM

6:20PM Adrian Covert | Leaks from the Pine Tree Pine Nut Pine Trail roadmap from Intel suggests that going forward, certain Atom processors will support 2GB of RAM, a jump from the previous 1GB max instituted by Intel as a measure to prevent cannibalisation between netbooks and processors in middle tiers. More »
Design

MB&F Horological Machine No.2.2 Is A Formidable Keeper Of Time

2:40PM Adrian Covert | What happens when you cross a Swiss watchmaker with a French Designer and a fair amount of titanium? Well, you end up with MB&F’s Horological Machine No.2.2, of course. More »
Toys

Japanese Voice Recorder Toy Plays Back Everything In Reverse

2:00PM Adrian Covert | It’s simple. Takara Tomy’s Sakasa Master Japan records anything you say and spits it out backwards. If you’re needing gift ideas for random relatives, this $US15 toy should get a week’s use before it’s tossed aside. [Strapya via TokyoMango]
Computers

Russian Casemod Freak Builds A Living Room Inside His PC

2:30PM Adrian Covert | Because the one sentence written about this miniature-living-room-inside-a-PC-case was composed in Russian, I’ll just say this — whoever created it is awesome, but they might also be a serial killer. More »
Design

Concept Watch Projects The Time Onto Your Wrist…With Lasers

2:00PM Adrian Covert | Sure, some of us wear the time on our wrist, but this concept watch quite literally puts the time on your wrist. More »
Phones

More Details Surface On Motorola’s Verizon Android Phone

1:40PM Adrian Covert | Android Central has more details on Motorola’s Android phone for Verizon which may or may not have a 600MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 3.7-inch 854×480 screen, 5MP camera, video recording and Android 2.0 Eclair (with native flash support!). More »
Vehicles

NASA Is Running Out Of Space Fuel, No Refills In Sight

3:00PM Adrian Covert | So apparently, NASA needs this itsy-bitsy little thing called Plutonium-238 to make their deep-space rocketships go ZoOOOooOoOooM ZooOOOOoMM, but they’re running out of it and need congress to drop $US30 million to help make more. More »
Gadgets

This Might Be The Most Ingenious Bedside Clock Ever

2:30PM Adrian Covert | There are two things I don’t like when I wake up in the morning — having to look across the room at the alarm clock on my desk, and sitting up to make sense of it. This timepiece acknowledges both issues. More »
Gadgets

Apple Tablet May Have Two-Handed Multitouch Input

1:40PM Adrian Covert | Apple’s latest patent filing revolves around dual-handed touchscreen detection for typing, gesturing, controlling a 3D interface and handwriting. But it this intended for the fabled Apple Tablet, or something entirely different? More »