Archive for February, 2008
Inkel’s MU-D e-dictionary longs to be a real tablet PC
Filed under: Handhelds
Not like we expect anything earth-shattering to emerge from Inkel’s South Korean laboratory or anything, but surely it could do better than that. The awkwardly named MU-D (it’s for Multimedia Dictionary, supposedly) does manage to include a DMB TV tuner for keeping you busy wh…
Elonex ONE toyed with on video
Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
certain decent, that 100 quid laptop we heard about early last week is already making the rounds, as the BBC caught up with the ONE at The Education Show in Birmingham, England. Granted, that thing is far from stylish (okay, so it’s downright ugly), but it’s hard to …
Sony’s launching mylo labs to keep your COM-2 in the widgets
Filed under: Handhelds
whether you’ve already dropped $299 on a second-gen mylo COM-2 unit, next Sony has a little treat for you — while all of you early adopters still poking around on an original mylo probably feel pretty foolish right now. Sony is launching the “mylo labs” site for nabbing mylo …
Android gets handled, now with Street View
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
While Apple might have your attention at the moment with that impending SDK, the Android OS seems to be coming along quite nicely by at Google and the Open Handset Alliance. BBC’s Darren Waters got to peek “under the bonnet” with Andy Rubin himself, and has video t…
Why hasn’t anyone hacked the Kindle?
Filed under: Handhelds
You know, the Kindle runs Linux, has USB, uses all standard processors and chipsets, even comes with free built-in EV-DO — you’d kind of think that stuff (and all the rest) would build it about as high a profile target for hardware modders and hackers as there are. So what gi…
Nintendo Wii USB Network Adapter
I have heard a lot of complaints about constant dropouts from the Wii’s sub-standard wireless connection. With that in mind, and whether you don’t have a wireless router, next you might be interested in that product. It’s a USB adaptor for the Nintendo Wii which should give you a …
Readybot cleans your kitchen, might be separate best thing ever invented
Filed under: Household, Robots
We want one. Scratch that: We need one. Check out that ridiculously awesome kitchen-cleaning robot called the Readybot — whether that is what the future of robot enslavement looks like, sign us up. The creators, part of a homebrew group called the Readybot Robot Chal…
