This is a fantastic. If you’ve got yourself a new fifth generation iPod Nano and you actually use it to listen to the radio, and you choose to listen to either Nova or Vega, you can now tag songs on the fly, with the ability to purchase them the next time you sync your iPod to iTunes. More »
I’m psyched to see Android moving into tablets. Some of the first will be from Innovative Converged Devices (ICD), who say their Tegra-powered 7-inch, 11-inch and 15-inch tablets will arrive through “tier one” carriers in the first half of next year. More »
From next Monday, you’ll be able to download breakfast and drive-time podcasts from the Nova and Vega networks nationally on your TiVo. Anyone else think this is a bit weird? More »
newVideoPlayer("/IXVMissionsVideo_gizmodo.flv", 475, 286,""); This is ESA’s video unveiling of its Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle, a test-bed for a next-generation reentry pod. The IXV is due to rocket aloft on Europe’s new small Vega launcher in 2012 and test out a range of systems for a “proper” future vehicle. Ditching the simplicity and limitations of the now old-fashioned conical-pod-with-heat-shield design, it’s a lifting-body shape with a thermal protection system somewhat like the Shuttle’s. The wingless pod is steered by aerodynamic body flaps with reaction jets as backup and for orbital maneuvers, and when it’s low and slow enough it’ll pop a ‘chute and plop into the Pacific. And it’ll do it all autonomously. Clever stuff. [ESA via Slashdot]
