cables
Gadgets
4:38PM Nick Broughall | Last week, while watching an extremely disappointing movie on Blu-ray which won’t be named for fear of inadvertantly promoting it, my receiver switched off on its own, naturally at the film’s climax. At first I thought it had just overheated, but after a bit of playing around, I discovered that one or more of the speaker cables had short circuited. So my weekend will be spent replacing those cables – Joy! Oh, I’ll also be playing with the new HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero Android phones. More »
Weekend Gadgets: The Tattoo Hero And His Audio Cables
4:38PM Nick Broughall | Last week, while watching an extremely disappointing movie on Blu-ray which won’t be named for fear of inadvertantly promoting it, my receiver switched off on its own, naturally at the film’s climax. At first I thought it had just overheated, but after a bit of playing around, I discovered that one or more of the speaker cables had short circuited. So my weekend will be spent replacing those cables – Joy! Oh, I’ll also be playing with the new HTC Tattoo and HTC Hero Android phones. More » 
Design
Camouflage Cords
5:00AM Mark Wilson | Sometimes the best place to hide something is in plain sight. More »
Peripherals
1:46PM Nick Broughall | Somehow I doubt that many of you would actually need a cable that made the process of transferring all your files to a new Windows 7 machine even easier. But your mum might, so if you can’t be bothered actually doing the legwork for her (you ungrateful bastard), you could always buy her the $50 Belkin Easy Transfer Cable. More »
Belkin’s Easy Transfer Cable Is A $50 One Time Use Cable
1:46PM Nick Broughall | Somehow I doubt that many of you would actually need a cable that made the process of transferring all your files to a new Windows 7 machine even easier. But your mum might, so if you can’t be bothered actually doing the legwork for her (you ungrateful bastard), you could always buy her the $50 Belkin Easy Transfer Cable. More »
Science
Fibre Optic Cable In Your Skull Can Reprogram Your Brain
8:30AM Jason Chen | Stanford scientists discover that by changing a mouse’s neurons to respond to light, they could use fiber optic cables to influence the mouse to do certain things. The trick is to insert plant genes into the brain first. More »
Peripherals
Mini DisplayPort To HDMI Adaptor (With Digital Audio) Review
5:20AM Jason Chen | It’s the digital audio version of the Kanex Mini DisplayPort Adaptor we reviewed before, which takes your digital audio and Mini DisplayPort video and mixes it into one HDMI signal for your TV. More »
Networks
9:45AM Nick Broughall | If the idea of 7000 odd kilometres of cable being laid on the ocean floor kinda gets you hot and steamy, this video has a heap of cable porn for you to watch and enjoy. Not to mention a soundtrack that could replace the global need for coffee…
Yesterday’s PPC-1 Pipe Video
9:45AM Nick Broughall | If the idea of 7000 odd kilometres of cable being laid on the ocean floor kinda gets you hot and steamy, this video has a heap of cable porn for you to watch and enjoy. Not to mention a soundtrack that could replace the global need for coffee…
Hardware
Light Peak May Arrive In Early 2010, Maybe In New Apple Products?
2:15AM Jesus Diaz | According to a major Light Peak provider’s plans, products with the ultrafast connectivity standard may arrive as soon as early 2010. Apple helped in its development. Apple is rumoured to adopt it first. Yes, you know where this is going. More »
Networks
10:25AM Nick Broughall | I’m down at the official launch of the PPC-1 international broadband pipe this morning. Official bits all kick off at 11am, There should be plenty of news, so I’ll be trying to liveblog it. In the meantime, you can watch the cable being laid in the ship here, and the cable arriving in Sydney here to get you all excited…
Update: It’s starting! More »
Does Anyone Have A Really Freakin’ Large Pipe Cleaner?
10:25AM Nick Broughall | I’m down at the official launch of the PPC-1 international broadband pipe this morning. Official bits all kick off at 11am, There should be plenty of news, so I’ll be trying to liveblog it. In the meantime, you can watch the cable being laid in the ship here, and the cable arriving in Sydney here to get you all excited…
Update: It’s starting! More »
Networks
2:51AM Nick Broughall | Today the Pipe International PPC-1 was switched on, providing Australia with its first “carrier neutral” submarine cable. But while we wait for all the ISPs to start selling us huge data caps at bargain basement prices, let’s take a gander at some of the stats of the cable. More »
Here Are Some PPC-1 Pipe Statistics For Your Enjoyment
2:51AM Nick Broughall | Today the Pipe International PPC-1 was switched on, providing Australia with its first “carrier neutral” submarine cable. But while we wait for all the ISPs to start selling us huge data caps at bargain basement prices, let’s take a gander at some of the stats of the cable. More »
Peripherals
