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Software

Power Strip Adds A Customisable Shortcut, Widget Dock To Android

Android only: While Android has a few multitasking tricks built-in, Power Strip re-assigns your Home button to bring up a dock containing app shortcuts, folders and even widgets that you can launch at any point, without returning to the home screen.

May 18, 2010
April 3, 2010
Software

Note-Taking, Soccer-Playing Honda Asimo Desktop Widget

Asimo, Honda’s adorable humanoid robot, has been known to conduct symphonies and climb stairs, but what has he done for you lately? The new Asimo desktop widget maintains the little robot’s endearing demeanour while adding some new functionality.

March 19, 2010
Software

Leaked BlackBerry OS 6.0 Screenshots Show Widgets Aplenty

This is it. This is the moment us BlackBerry users have been waiting for. After countless Android, Symbian and Windows Phone 7 OS leaks, our time has come. This could be the turning point – BlackBerry OS 6.0.

January 6, 2010
Gadgets

Pure’s Sensia Internet Clock Radio Brings A Touchscreen

Like the Chumby, I’m not totally sure that the Pure Sensia is meant as a clock radio. But I don’t know what the hell else you’d use it for, and it’d be pretty sweet to wake up to.

December 18, 2009
Gadgets

Chumby One Is Adorable Inside And Out

Despite being generally unnecessary, we couldn’t help loving the little Chumby One Wi-Fi widget machine. Speaking of love, a secret message revealed after iFixit’s teardown reveals that it is adorable inside and out.

December 9, 2009

TV Makers, Please Stop Putting Bullshit In Your TVs

I love TV technology, but wince when I see an $US11K Japan-only Toshiba stuffed with a 3TB DVR. And adding internet widgets, like Samsung’s, is even worse. I hate this trend—TVs just need great picture and lower cost.

November 13, 2009
Gadgets

Chumby One Review: Totally Frivolous, But Totally Adorable

The new Chumby One model ditches the old beanbag casing for a retro TV–inspired look and slashes the price, though the internals are unchanged. It remains a pretty frivolous gadget yet I can’t help really liking it.

October 21, 2009
Online

Yahoo’s “Hack Day” Lap Dancers Get The Web’s Panties In A Twist

Ruh oh! Yahoo has been forced to apologise after hiring scantily clad dancers for its “Hack Day” in Taiwan last weekend. The pictures (pretty tame, but not necessarily SFW) are from a now-removed video posted on its Developer Network Blog.

September 22, 2009
Gadgets

Sensia Wi-Fi Radio Has Touchscreen, Twitter, Facebook

Taking cues from devices like the Chumby, Squeezebox and HP’s DreamScreen, Pure is throwing a kitchen sink full of features into their new Sensia radio—including Wi-Fi, DAB and FM support, a 5.7-inch touchscreen and plenty of popular widgets.

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