July 31st 2008
Solar power has a lot of promise, but until recently there hasn’t been an adequate way to store the energy the sun produces. Scientists at MIT have come up with a new fuel cell process that mimics…
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Tags: Energy Solar, Fuel Cell, Lot, New Energy, Promise, Scientists, Solar Energy, Solar Power, Sun
July 31st 2008
There. I said it. I hate it. OK, I don’t really hate it. But sometimes I want to smash it against the wall. The last time was in the pit at the Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s concert in…
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Tags: Apple, Bruce Springsteen, E Street Band, Iphone, Last Time, Rock Concert
July 31st 2008
LG’s Netflix-streaming, Blu-ray 2.0 playing BD300 made its public debut tonight, and we’re impressed. The box is slim and it won’t take up more space on your shelf than any other player. An LG exec…
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Tags: Blu Ray, Exec, Netflix, Public Debut
July 31st 2008
No matter how good the music is, musicians look kinda lame tapping out little beats on tiny samplers on stage. What is emphatically not lame though is pounding them on 16 giant pressure-sensitive…
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Tags: Beats, Giant World, Jumbo, Lame, Mario Music, Mario World, Midi, Musicians, Pressure Sensitive, Samplers, Tapping, World Music
July 31st 2008
One of the most successful smartphones of the last year is the Centro from Palm. Sprint was the first carrier to sell the device, so it’s no surprise that it’s also the first carrier to offer a…
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Tags: Carrier, Palm, Smartphones, Sprint, Surprise
July 31st 2008
NetShare is one app we never thought would make it onto the official iPhone App Store. All it does is set up a SOCKS5 proxy for you to get your laptop/computer online through use of the 3G/EDGE…
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Tags: 3g, Apps, Computer Online, Iphone, Laptop Computer, Love Connection, Netshare, Socks5 Proxy
July 31st 2008
Gear and derailleur mechanisms in high-end bikes are among the more impressive feats of engineering around, which makes bike madman Eric Hagerman’s report in Wired on Shimano’s new ultra high-end…
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Tags: Bike Bikes, Derailleur, Eric, F1, Hagerman, Impressive Feats, Madman, Mechanisms, Paddle Shifters, Shimano
July 31st 2008
As a tall guy I can appreciate that designer Nicholas Lee Dunderdale incorporated an adjustable roof into his 3-wheeled Kassou concept car. The rubber “neck” can be raised or lowered depending on the…
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Tags: Batwings, Concept Car, Freak, Giraffe, Nicholas Lee, Rubber Neck
July 31st 2008
You know that sweaty guy who always comes into work smelling like an armpit? Yeah, you know who I’m talking about—and if you don’t, “that guy” is probably you. Thanks to AOKI, you won’t have to…
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Tags: Aoki, Armpit, Suits, Sweaty Guy
July 31st 2008
Trying to put pressure on their competition, or feeling the pressure from increasing Samsung and LG market share, Nokia has reduced many handset prices by 10%—mostly music and media phones—but also…
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Tags: Cellphones, Market Share, Music, Nokia, Nokia Cellphone, Nokia Prices, Samsung, Slashes
July 31st 2008
Reader Henry found this “mobile office” in New York last night, which is probably one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. It consists of a desk, a keyboard, a desktop, a CRT, a lamp, a printer…
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Tags: Desk, Desktop Printer, Inch Crt, Keyboard, Mobile Office, Strangest Things
July 31st 2008
Forgetting to bring your electronics with you on a flight sucks really, really hard. This is why the DFW airport has allowed Best Buy to put Best Buy Express vending machines inside several…
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Tags: Best Buy, Dallas Airport, Dallas Forth Worth Airport, Dfw Airport, Express, Vending Machine, Vending Machines
July 31st 2008
For a long time, I just threw all of my gear into an Eastpak backpack I’d had since high school. But my laptop got all scuffy and gross like it had been hanging out in the wrong Starbucks or…
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Tags: Eastpak Backpack, Gadgets, Laptop, Long Time, Question Of The Day, Starbucks
July 31st 2008
Good news, chubbies! Science has got your back. Researchers at the Salk Institute have found two drugs that trick the muscles in mice into thinking they’ve been working out like crazy, even when said…
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Tags: Drugs, Exercise, Mice, Muscles, News Science, Opposite Sex, Pills, Salk Institute, Science News, Sex News
July 31st 2008
Wired’s Eric Hagerman reports on Shimano’s planned launch of an electronic gear-shifting system for expensive bicycles:
By replacing the conventional levers that pull wound-steel cables through protective housings with solid-state switches and rubber-coated wires, there’s no chance for road gunk to clog things up and interfere with shifting, or, for that matter, your post-ride beer.
The principle [...]
July 31st 2008
It’s hard to keep a good game down. It’s always been true, and this week it’s being proven yet again by the makers of the now infamous Facebook game, Scrabulous. When it was first announced that Hasbro had a problem with the game, they were smart and let it slide. The official word was that [...]
July 31st 2008
For those of you who are DIY fans out there, we’ve got a special treat for you this week! Ordered from least to most difficult projects to undertake, this list of hot DIY gadgets is going to blow your mind! The most notable is the Vertipod DIY One-Man Hoverflyer and most resourceful is the Laser [...]
July 31st 2008
A clever modder on the Ben Heck forums managed to cram an Xbox 360 controller into the shell of a PS3 Dual Shock controller. What resulted is an unholy union of the two consoles, bringing a…
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Tags: Ben Heck, Body Mods, Consoles, Dual Shock Controller, Modder, Shell Shock, Unholy Union, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox Controller
July 31st 2008
We reported in our massive feature on the SDK and App Store’s shortcomings that Apple didn’t even tell devs how many times their app is downloaded. I guess they realized devs might wanna know, ’cause…
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Tags: Apple, Developers, Download Apps, How Many People, Iphone, Sdk, Shortcomings
July 31st 2008
A California Supreme Court judge has just ruled that early termination fees from cellphone companies violates California state law and are illegal. What’s this mean to you? Sprint Nextel has been…
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Tags: California Law, California State Law, California Supreme Court, Cellphone Companies, Judge Rules, Nextel, Sprint Nextel, Supreme Court Judge, Termination Fees