December 2nd, 2008
More robot ocean-gliders taking to the seas
Japanese company sells outlandish keyboard that’s split in half
Holiday Gift Idea: NotebookEngraver.com and JournalEngraver.com for custom notebooks
The iPhone case that’s designed for the blind and visually impaired
December 1st, 2008
Okay, we have here the greatest iPhone accessory ever invented. It’s the Silicon Touch iPhone case, and it makes using the iPhone a hell of a lot easier for the visually impaired. (Random fact: I’m legally blind in New York without my glasses.) It’d work with an iPhone App to make it so that people [...]
December 1st, 2008
Scobleizer and our own Scott Merrill are both in Barcelona this week to see the latest from Nokia in the upcoming year. The promise, according to Scoble, is a device that will be a game changer for Nokia. Here’s what he heard:
When we got here a Nokia executive met me and bragged that the Internet [...]
November 29th, 2008
148Apps, which tracks and reviews iPhone Apps, says 10,000 applications have now been released on the iPhone App store (the site is named after the fact that you can add up to 148 applications to an iPhone or iPod touch).
A tribute page shows a mini icon for every application. And it also gives some interesting [...]
November 29th, 2008
Joost launched their iPhone application on the App Store this evening, giving users access to 46,000 Joost videos, including major television shows and films. The iPhone has a built in YouTube application already, giving them a serious head start when it comes to video on the iPhone. But archrival Hulu doesn’t yet - giving Joost [...]
November 28th, 2008
iPhone Linux Demonstration Video from planetbeing on Vimeo.
After reverse engineering the original kernel, some hackers have gotten their own version of Linux to run on the iPhone, proving that the first gen iPhone will live on as a hacker and hobbyists tool for a decade. They’ve got BusyBox running on the processor and the team [...]
November 28th, 2008
I’ve been using an Android G1 phone for more than a month now on a daily basis, but I still haven’t given up my iPhone. The more I use them both, the more that I realize my iPhone is a Mac and my Android is a PC.
That is not necessarily a bad [...]
November 28th, 2008
Get thee to the Applery - or MacMall, MacConnection, or, better yet, Amazon - for some great deals on MacBooks, MB Pros, and iMacs. The Mac Pro, for example, is going for $284 off list at Amazon, making it about $2,500.
November 27th, 2008
iPhone Video Out from Ars Technica on Vimeo.
iPods have had TV-out for years but the iPhone has always been left out. Now, however, the, firmware 2.2 has TV-out capabilities and it can send video selectively from certain applications.
Erica Sadun shows us the ropes.
The MPTVOutWindow class allows your iPhone to send its video to a [...]
November 26th, 2008
Short Version: The $99-after-rebate Quickfire from AT&T is an appealing alternative for the Sidekick crowd, but the promotion of AT&T’s music features without including earbuds or even some sort of adapter for the proprietary connector a real head-scratcher.
