Great timing! My Roomba 577 died recently, and I ended up replacing it with a Dyson DC26. Things might have been different had these two new NaviBot S models been around. Both feature an on board camera plus 12 sensors for safety and dust detection — powered by two CPUs to intelligently map a room. The high-end model even has a two litre auto dust emptying station. Do want.
June is shaping up as one hell of a showcase for next-gen mobile platforms. Apple will likely use WWDC to introduce iOS 6 and Microsoft is expected to demo Windows Phone 8 (Apollo) at its SF developer summit on June 20. Now it’s alleged that the long-rumoured 7-inch Google Nexus tablet (probably made by Asus) will be unveiled at Google I/O on June 27. Possibly with Android 5.0 Jelly Bean.
At dinner in tonight, my friends got talking about the proposal to turn 3.6km of doomed monorail track into an elevated walk/cycle way. When floated in April, the idea drew comparisons to New York’s high rail line retrofit. It’s unlikely to get past the drawing board, but you have to admit it’d look kind of futuristic (albeit impractically narrow, as Crikey points out). That’s why I’m excited to hear that Melbourne has its own very different plans for an elevated cycle freeway.
Last week Giz received news that the Transformer Pad TF300T and the Asus PadFone (already available in Taiwan) would arrive down under in May and August, respectively. But what about the Asus TF700T and Infinity tablets you asked! We now have an answer.
You may know Mayim from The Big Bang Theory where she plays Amy Farrah Fowler — neurobiologist and Sheldon’s love interest. But did you know that the she actually holds a real-life Ph.D in neuroscience from UCLA? No wonder she’s also an official ambassador for Texas Instruments science class room technology.
Gadgets, girls, espionage — welcome to the 23rd James Bond film, though we’re still a fair way out from the November 22 Australian release date. What I’m most looking forward to: Director Sam Mendes (of American Beauty fame) has brought back MI6 gadget master Q!
It’s no secret that we’re fans of building façade projections here at Giz — I mean who hasn’t looked at the side of a skyscraper and imagined glass windows as pixels for a giant screen? That’s what Melbourne-based lighting director Bruce Ramus (of Opera House light projection fame) has done with Luminous: the 150m wide, four-storey tall interactive art installation in Darling Harbour, Sydney. The lights went on over the weekend and Gizmodo went along to check it out.
Facebook Hits Stock Exchange, Mark Zuckerberg Gets Married You can now buy shares in the world’s biggest website. As if that wasn’t big enough for Zuck, he also tied the knot with this young lady…
Aero To Zero: Windows 8 Slays UI Style Of Windows Vista, 7 The Aero Glass interface we’ve come to love (or adjust to) will be no more, according to a post on Microsoft’s development blog.
Rumourmodo: Samsung Galaxy S III For Telstra, Optus, Vodafone? We’ll know for sure on May 31.
Small, Cute Android-Powered Thumb Drive Packs 512MB, 1.5GHz CPU Meet the AllWinner A10 Android 4.0 Mini PC
Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Was Closely Involved With Development Of Larger iPhone 5 Yep…Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal and Reuters all suggest a larger iPhone is on the way.
You know it as the Samsung Galaxy S III, but Samsung knows it as the GT-i9300. Now the clever team over at Ausdroid has discovered that entering in model codes over at Samsung Australia’s support site returns a range of variants for Vodafone (VAU), Optus (OPS) and Telstra (TEL). If they’re reading the tea leaves right, it looks like a full-on, multi-carrier GSIII assault is planned at the end of this month.
