contacts
Science
Reality-Augmenting Terminator Vision Contact Lenses Nearly Here
9:00AM Matt Buchanan | Amazing and terrifying all at once, reality augmenting contact lenses are nearly real. Like, they’re almost here. Circuits and antennas and LEDs in a contact lens, generating virtual imagery, Predator style. In your eyeball. More »
Software
Missing Sync For Pre Helps Sync Contacts And Calendar
5:59AM Jason Chen | Palm already lets you sync the Pre with iTunes via its clever pretending-to-be-an-iPod, but that only gets music, video and photos onto your phone. Missing Sync does the rest. More »
Online
No More Excuses, Grandpa: Gmail Now Imports Mail and Contacts from Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL
10:35PM John Herrman | In an effort to scoop up some of those people who are tethered to their current webmail services by nothing except the sheer inconvenience of switching, Google has implemented easy migration tools for straggling Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL users. The service does their current POP3 import feature one better, grabbing contacts as well. The feature should roll out to everyone within a few days. [Gmail Blog] More »
Peripherals
10:37AM Nick Broughall | Poken, that USB contact sharing gadget we saw back in December, is now available in Australia. They’re so cute! More »
Poken Launch In Australia
10:37AM Nick Broughall | Poken, that USB contact sharing gadget we saw back in December, is now available in Australia. They’re so cute! More »
Software
Apple Officially Brings Back MobileMe’s Push, Improves Features
11:37AM Jason Chen | Apple just sent out an email to MobileMe subscribers to let them know of some new(ish) features. The biggest bullet point is the fact that push is back. More »
Peripherals
Poken USB Figure Exchanges Contacts With a High Five
6:00AM Jason Chen | Much like E, Poken lets you exchange contact details with someone using physical means. But unlike E, Poken is really, really cute. More »
Phones
BlackBerry: $US20, McCain-Palin’s Contacts: Priceless
11:49AM Andi Wang | In order to get back some of the money spent on the McCain-Palin campaign, items from the campaign were sold today at a yard sale, including a $US20 BlackBerry, fully loaded with confidential information. More »
Gadgets
Countact Lens Case Keeps An Eye On Your Contact’s Lifespans
12:30AM Kit Eaton | A contact lens case for disposable lenses with a built-in back-lit LCD timer with customisable delay so you know when to replace your lenses. That’s about all I need to say about Countact. The battery’s built-in, so you can’t replace it when it dies after about 3 months: but you all know you should change your case regularly no? Otherwise you’d get a nasty infection which’d mean we’d have to write Giz in BIG LETTERS so your crusty eyes could read it. A four-pack’ll cost you $US34. [Product via OhGizmo via BBG] More »
Software
Android Gets Exchange Server Contact Syncing Via Third-Party Dev
8:00AM Wilson Rothman | As the Android team intimated when T-Mobile’s G1 was launched, Exchange server support would have to come from third-party software developers. The first sign of this is ContactsSync, a free app distributed by net project-management software maker Wrike. More »
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