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Hardware
New Bluetooth Runs For A Year Off A Watch Battery
11:10PM Mark Wilson | There’s little stopping Bluetooth from making its way into more devices, but its battery drain is many times that of, say, tried and true IR. But a new, lower power Bluetooth is coming next year. More »
Software
Ti’s $18 Calculator iPhone App No Threat To Real Calculators
12:30PM Wilson Rothman | The hallowed Texas Instruments BA II Plus financial calculator, selling for $US30 at Walmart, is now a reasonably identical iPhone app, selling for AU$18. But TI says that fears of cheating will keep standalone calcs selling for years to come. More »
Screens
9:38AM Nick Broughall | Viewsonic has just announced three new 3D capable projectors for the Aussie market. Sure, we could make a big deal about the lack of 3D content to make use of the projector, but we won’t. Not today, anyway. More »
Viewsonic Launches 3D Projectors
9:38AM Nick Broughall | Viewsonic has just announced three new 3D capable projectors for the Aussie market. Sure, we could make a big deal about the lack of 3D content to make use of the projector, but we won’t. Not today, anyway. More »
Gadgets
Archos Event Invitation Unsubtly Hints at Rumoured Android MID
7:24PM John Herrman | On its own, it’s a stretch: the invite is green and vaguely Android-y, and there’s a faint rectangular device in the background, therefore Archos must be working on an Android MID! Right? Well, they are. More »
Music
Old School Computer Band Rocks Bohemian Rhapsody (Poorly)
12:00AM Jack Loftus | I can’t think of a more old school, geeky tribute to Queen than a band comprised of an Atari 800XL, 8-inch floppy disk, 3.5-in hard drive and HP Scanjet 3C. If only it sounded better. More »
Screens
New Pico Projectors Offer DVD-Quality Resolution
7:00AM Mark Wilson | Guess which version is the second gen DLP Pico projector. (Hint: It’s the smaller one on the right that’s better in every way.) More »
Screens
Samsung MBP200 Pico Projector Has a Mini Screen Stand
10:28AM Brian Lam | galleryPost('samsungmbp200picoprojector', 4, ''); The Samsung MBP200 has a limited 480×320 res, but has a built-in media player, LCD screen and includes a tiny stand that can turn a piece of paper into a screen. A baby screen! More »
Games
Gameboy Colour Inside a TI-83 Series Calculator
7:30AM Jesus Diaz | Where, oh where were you, Nintendo Gameboy Colour disguised as a Texas Instruments TI-83 Series calculator, when I was in school? Where? WHERE? Probably nowhere to be found, really, as Gameboy Colours weren’t invented back then, and I was too busy trying to get off latin class to make out with girls in the backyard woods, anyway. But if you had existed back then, I would have been all over you too. That’s how much I like you. [Make] More »
Hardware
The Microchip Turns 50 Today, Here’s the Original
12:40AM Mark Wilson | 50 years ago today, Texas Instrument’s Jack Kilby demonstrated the first working integrated circuit, or microchip. It’s a crude conglomeration of just five components, but it was also proof that a circuit could be miniaturised by housing all of its components on one piece of semiconductor material, allowing all these parts to work together without laborious (and technologically infeasible) manual connections. In essence, it’s the electronic wheel captured in first eureka. [Wired] More »
Computers
