Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
A compilation of clips from associate professor Howie Choset’s lab. More details in my quick peek today at some CMU robotics projects, and this story from Tech Review.
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Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
The iPhone’s fake GPS is a useful feature, and stops you from looking too much like a map-studying tourist when in foreign lands, but the new iphone 2.0 update will bring the service one step closer to real GPS. It still uses cell tower and WiFi triangulation, but will be able to update in real time as you walk (or drive) around. Your position is represented on screen by a pulsing blue ball which moves as you do. That’s a lot easier to use than the current method of stopping and hitting the “Locate Me” button every few steps. (Read the full post about ‘Live Tracking Coming to iPhone Maps’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
In this week’s Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney and Jose Fermoso talk about the 2008 CTIA Wireless conference, highlighting the next step in cell phone technologies like improved haptic technology and five-megapixel cameras. In addition, they go over one of the most surprising trends from the conference: companies are actually using unique names for their products again (like Alias and Instinct), rather than the usual model number gibberish. No more 33465huv-u40! Finally, they discuss the sublimely tacky existence of David Beckham’s golden iPhone, and why it provides the Gadget Lab team with many laughs and inspiration. Thanks again for listening. Remember, you can subscribe to the podcast feed right here. (Read the full post about ‘The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #23: The 2008 CTIA Conference, Product Naming Trends, and Beckham’s Tacky Gadget’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
Speck CPSHUFFLE Locking Connectors for ipod Shuffle Connect and Protect has your Shuffle covered and connected: around your neck, on your bag, keys, pants, tie, dress, scarf… wherever you want it! Technorati Tags: Speck (Read the full post about ‘Speck CPSHUFFLE Locking Connectors for iPod Shuffle’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
If there was one thing that the 43-year old Chris Clark regretted not doing, it was not buying more domain names when he bought pizza.com in 1994. Clark who used to run a consultancy firm will become $2.6 million richer when the transaction for the purchase of pizza.com is completed in a couple of days from now.
Looking back 14 years ago, Clark, who lives in North Potomac, Maryland, did not think that he would be making a big amount of money from the domain name he purchased. He was just trying to attract a pizza company to his consultancy firm when he bought the domain back then. But after receiving no response from the pizza company, Clark still continued paying the annual renewal fee to keep the domain name.
(Read the full post about ‘Pizza.com owner earns $2.6 million for selling $20 domain’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
Posted Apr 4th 2008 3:43PM by Nilay PatelFiled under: Desktops, Laptops You know, we should have paid a little closer attention to Microsoft’s decision yesterday to extend Windows XP sales to “June 2010 or one year after the general availability of Windows 7″ — if the company was really planning on shipping Windows 7 in 2010, that first date doesn’t make a lot of sense unless the plan is to ship Windows 7 much, much earlier. And hey — what’s Bill Gates doing telling investors this afternoon that Windows 7 will come “in the next year” and that he’s “super-enthused” about it? (Read the full post about ‘Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
Intel has announced plans to release an anti-theft initiative for laptops by the end of the year. The rate of data hacked from stolen or misplaced laptops has been increasing, and Intel has planned to release this technology to help prevent your vital data from being widely misused. “It basically locks the system, lock the disk, so people cannot be maliciously using and getting the data,” stated executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Mobility Group – Dr Dadi Perlmutter at his presentation. Based on what Dr. Dadi had elaborated, The Intel Anti-Theft Technology is apparently a method to lock a laptop down to the component level, and prevent any access to data. (Read the full post about ‘Anti-Theft Technology announced by Intel for laptops’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
Yes, it’s true. Internet telephony company Jajah is participating in the iPhone Developer Program. That means in addition to its existing web-only client, there will also be a native VoIP app for the iPhone this summer. You can expect the new client to be available via the App Store, which is launching sometime in June. If you recall, after a lot of speculation about what would and wouldn’t be allow to run on the iphone, Steve Jobs said VoIP would be permissible at the SDK roadmap event last March, but that mobile carrier networks were off limits. The exact wording from the SDK agreement is as follows: "If an Application require or will have access to the carrier network, then additionally such Application: …May not have Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) functionality." Pretty clear cut. (Read the full post about ‘Native VoIP Coming to the iPhone’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
Colour Phasing Sphere You can have this for ?24.95 (Read the full post about ‘Colour Phasing Sphere’…)
Written by admin on Sunday, April 6th, 2008 in gadgets.
While most of us up here are busy about Web 2.0, iphone 2.0, et cetera, et cetera, the folks over there in the far east introduced a new device that, well, kind of ushers in Home Improvement 2.0. Actually, Seoul Commtech has just introduced the EZON SHS-5200, which also has the nickname Luce. It’s a lock for your door that’s like no other. It’s slim, made mostly of gas and shiny metal, and best of-all, it’s digital and has a touch-sensitive face. So this is the next generation of home security, eh? The Luce is only 2.1cm thick, and is made of special aluminum that makes it stronger than most ordinary door locks. Its face is made of tempered glass to accommodate all the touching you’re going to do with it. (Read the full post about ‘Seoul Commtech Luce, if the iPhone was a door lock’…)
