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  • Did you download The Hurt Locker with BitTorrent? You may be facing a lawsuit soon!

    Did you download The Hurt Locker with BitTorrent? You may be facing a lawsuit soon!

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    Hope you didn't download The Hurt Locker with BitTorrent because it looks like the film's producers may be coming after you. They're looking at a multi-million dollar copyright infringement lawsuit that would target "tens of thousands" of users. Let's discuss this for a moment.

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  • Samsung i5801 makes a cameo, script reads ‘entry-level Android 2.1 device’

    Samsung i5801 makes a cameo, script reads ‘entry-level Android 2.1 device’

    Posted on May 13, 2010 | No Comments
    INT. APARTMENT - DAYTIME

    An unseemly Samsung touchscreen device opens the scene, being held by one HOWARD CHUI. Its size is comparable to the Galaxy Spica but something doesn't feel as momentous here. Background is calm, likely the top of a table. He improvises from the script.

    HOWARD (improvising)
    What we're looking at is the Samsung i5801, an entry-level Android 2.1 phone sporting a slightly customized UI. The device sports a 240 x 400 (possibly 240 x 480) screen and a 3 megapixel camera. Storage is around 300MB built-in but supports MicroSDHC. Connectivity-wise, there's Wi-Fi, GPS, and possibly Bluetooth 3.0. Pretty run of the mill, no word on price or release, but it's almost certain to target a much more cash-conscious section of the market.
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  • They don’t make ‘em like they used to: Voyager 2 repairs underway

    They don’t make ‘em like they used to: Voyager 2 repairs underway

    Posted on May 10, 2010 | No Comments
    Our Gadgets of Days Gone By series is over, and it focused pretty much on consumer goods that made our lives more entertaining or more bearable. But there's an awful lot of technology from decades past still in use today. Take for example the Voyager spacecraft from NASA. Launched more than 30 years ago, Voyager 2 completed its primary mission in 1989 but has continued to provide invaluable scientific data and shows little signs of obsolescence. With something as useful and irreplaceable as Voyager 2, a small glitch in communications is not cause to scrap the program, but instead a reason to scramble the brightest folks available to resolve the problem -- no easy feat when communications with the probe take more than half a day to reach their target!

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  • iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    iCitizen 2010: Dinosaurs in your phone?

    Posted on May 7, 2010 | No Comments
    While I was recently attending the iCitizen 2010 Symposium, Noora Guldemond, Head of Marketing at Metaio—a company focused on developing Augmented Reality experiences—showed me a few recent AR examples her company developed. This Jurasic Park example curiously doesn’t have the usual black and white “target” that I normally recall seeing in many AR demos. In [...]

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  • Nook passes Kindle sales in March

    Nook passes Kindle sales in March

    Posted on April 26, 2010 | No Comments
    Well look at this: new kid on the book, Barnes & Noble's Nook ereader, just surpassed Amazon Kindle sales in March. Obviously the Nook is a bit newer than the Kindle and those who were going to buy a Kindle probably have already, but it also looks like B&N's retail network is also driving sales. Digitimes reports that 53% of e-book readers shipped were Nooks while 1.43 million ereaders were sold in Q1 2010. They're estimating that total ereader sales will reach 11 million by year's end.

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  • ATP SSD connect to the USB header on your motherboad

    ATP SSD connect to the USB header on your motherboad

    Posted on April 23, 2010 | No Comments
    This is brilliant. I'm not 100% sure what the practical application is yet, but I think I want one. ATP built an SLC NAND-based solid state drive designed to plug directly into the USB header on your motherboard. Great idea right?

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  • Adobe Drops Future Support For iPhone Development in Flash

    Adobe Drops Future Support For iPhone Development in Flash

    Posted on April 21, 2010 | No Comments
    I'm sure by now that you've all heard the arguments both for and against the new Terms of Service that accompany iPhone v4.0 SDK, so I won't get into those arguments here. However, I will let you know of the announcement today that Adobe have now dropped future support for iPhones as a development target for Flash CS5. While users will still be able to set the iPhone as a target in CS5, Adobe will invest nothing more into the feature. It is also likely that Apple will be removing the 100+ Flash CS5 developed applications from the App Store. It is interesting -- though unsurprising -- that Adobe have done this.

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  • EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro

    EasyBloom Plus allows nerds to garden like a pro

    Posted on April 16, 2010 | No Comments
    Hidden in the picture above is a fake plant. Not only is it a fake plant, but it's a high tech fake plant, complete with USB port and soil sampling technology like that used in the Mars rover! The EasyBloom Plus is the fancy successor to the EasyBloom not plus, which allows gardeners to collect sunlight, temperature and moisture data from their lawn or garden and track that data over time. The Plus model introduces a fertilizer subscription service to help make sure you don't over- or under-fertilize your plants.

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  • Don’t worry: The Halo movie is still gonna happen

    Don’t worry: The Halo movie is still gonna happen

    Posted on April 9, 2010 | No Comments
    Whew, I was worried there for a minute. Microsoft has confirmed that the Halo movie is still in development, putting at ease dozens of people around the world.

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  • Cricket’s 2010 product lineup leaks, Kyocera Zio priced and dated

    Cricket’s 2010 product lineup leaks, Kyocera Zio priced and dated

    Posted on March 30, 2010 | No Comments
    I hadn't realized it until just this second, but it's been way, way too long since we've seen a monstrous carrier leak. I suppose after the heavily-detailed data dumps from the likes of AT&T and T-Mobile in 2009, the carriers have been tightening their grip. Fortunately, that hasn't kept what looks to be the majority of Cricket's 2010 product line up from leaking out.

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  • Forget hearing aids. We’re talking about brain aids, people

    Forget hearing aids. We’re talking about brain aids, people

    Posted on March 23, 2010 | No Comments
    Needing assistance with your most basic of senses is never something anyone wants to advertise. Thus we’ve come up with handy ways of making them socially acceptable. Enough nerdy kids like myself needed glasses that they’ve become fashion accessories in and of themselves. And modern hearing aids usually focus on being tiny and out of [...]

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  • Apple Goes After HTC In Lawsuit Over 20 iPhone Patents

    Apple Goes After HTC In Lawsuit Over 20 iPhone Patents

    Posted on March 2, 2010 | No Comments
    Apple is using its strong patent portfolio to fight iPhone competitors in court. Its latest target is HTC. Apple has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against the cell phone manufacturer. The suit involves “20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware.” Steve Jobs is quoted in a press release saying: “We can sit by and watch competitors steal our patented inventions, or we can do something about it. We’ve decided to do something about it. We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours.”

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  • Intel admits it was target of “sophisticated” attack

    Intel admits it was target of “sophisticated” attack

    Posted on February 25, 2010 | No Comments
    Google was attacked by hackers in China. Microsoft reports that they're the target of hackers all day, every day. Now Intel is stepping forward, and admitting in their annual 10-K filing that they were the target of a sophisticated attack. Intel observes that it might be industrial espionage, or it might be "hackers seeking to harm the company." It makes you wonder how many attacks on smaller organizations go un-reported, or indeed even un-noticed.

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  • What is this?

    What is this?

    Posted on February 17, 2010 | No Comments
    What is this strange orb-shaped thing? Is it a Jedi Mind Trainer? A strange onacup? A magical ball of joy? Perhaps all of those things are right… and none of them. This, my friends, is a prototype Marshmallow Landmine. You load this thing up with marshmallows and it shoots them off when enemies approach. It’s part [...]

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  • Dear Hollywood: You don’t have to worry about people pirating 3D movies (for now at least)

    Dear Hollywood: You don’t have to worry about people pirating 3D movies (for now at least)

    Posted on February 10, 2010 | No Comments
    There's a story going around that 3D movies are harder to pirate. Really, then what's this: Coraline.3D.1080p.BluRay.x264-REFiNED? Are people incapable of buying a pair 3D glasses from Target or wherever it is people buy these things?

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