In this totally unscientific but reasonably fair test, one man writes a long paragraph on several different devices (including pen and paper) to test speed. The results may surprise and anger you. More »
Man, people really laid into me for texting while driving as a part of reviewing the N97. It’s unsafe, no doubt, but the reality is, people do it. Do you? More »
The creators of Ecofont want to save you ink by drilling tiny holes in your print. Good idea?
Nokia filed a new patent last week trying to solve one of the problems of our digital lives: identifying what and who is in our digital photos. It’s the digital equivalent of scribbling on the white bit at the bottom of a Polaroid pic (you know the kind of text: “Steve looking silly in Hawaii,” “Me in hospital, April ’08″) and if you add in geotagging, it’d be a convenient way of keeping track. The patent details a system a little similar to Cover Flow, but when photos are flipped over to reveal a blank rear face, a user will have the option to annotate snaps with text entered on the keypad, and the text is permanently incorporated into the image file. If it makes it to reality, I hope they include that real “scribbling” option through touchscreen tech: I kinda miss writing on the back of my photos. [Patent via NewScientist]
Well, it’s not an emulator in the strictest sense of the word, but it does play the massive catalog of Infocom Z-Machine interactive text adventure games. If you’re tired of expensive, tilt-happy titles that tire out your pale, strangely thin wrists, you can now slowly piece your way through hours of exhilarating action.
