Archive for June, 2008
Software update brings video recording and more to Sony’s COM-2 mylo
Filed under: Handhelds
Sony hasn’t forgotten about you loyal mylo 2 (er, COM-2 mylo) owners just yet, as a recently rolled out software update provides a nice list of extras for those who care. Revision 1.201, which is only available for the latest of mylos, adds support for video recording, provide…
Dell’s new E-Series gets first official mention
Filed under: Laptops, Tablet PCs
At that point, there’s very little you don’t know about Dell’s upcoming Latitude E-series of laptops thanks to our Week O’ Dell Scoops. Only the official pricing and launch dates for these DisplayPort, eSATA, and Centrino 2 D-series laptop replacements (and new XT2 C…
Motorola’s touchscreen Blaze for Verizon in the wild
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
Remember that touchscreen Motorola Blaze we’d mentioned a while back that was on the hook to get Verizon’s visual voicemail service? It may not be in Verizon stores yet, but it’s all up in Boy Genius Report’s labs with a dark red body, MING attitude, and nearly lim…
Princeton to start publishing Kindle-edition textbooks
Filed under: HandheldsAmazon’s Kindle ebook reader has been doing pretty well as a consumer device, but we’ve always thought it had amazing potential as a textbook reader — particularly coupled iTunes-style with Amazon’s online distribution system. Apparently Princeton University (Jeff Bezos’s alma…
Hand crafted cassette tape lamp turns old tech into fresh lighting
Filed under: Household
Remember that hundred pack of blank cassettes you bought back in ‘93 when they hit 90-percent off? Man, those were the days. Unfortunately, you only got around to making three or four mix tapes, leaving you with quite a few unused hunks of junk cluttering up the closet. whethe…
HTC Touch Pro gets handled, keyboard better than X1’s?
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
The question on quite literally every WinMo fanatic’s mind as we go into the second half of the year here is, “Touch Pro or X1?” It’s not an easy question to reply, and anyone hoping to sink some cash on either one of these models in a few months is going to want t…
Fastest Clock in the World tells instance to the microsecond
Filed under: Household
Art school student Freddie Yauner’s CO2-powered Highest Popping Toaster in the World concept is great and all (it’s even supposedly Guinness World Record-certified), but a clock that aims to tell day to one millionth of a second is what it takes to turn our geeky, schedule-obs…
