Archive for: April 21, 2008

Filed under: LaptopsLenovo’s the latest laptop vendor to go to an mostly-widescreen lineup nowadays, as it retires the 4:3 14.1-inch ThinkPad T61. All that’s left in the standard ratio are the 12.1-inch X-series laptops, and even those are something of a novelty in today’s 13.3-inch dominated market…

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Gadgets

micro Torrent is an efficient and feature rich BitTorrent client for Windows sporting a very small footprint It was designed to use as little cpu memory and space as possible while offering all the functionality expected from advanced clients

Filed under: DesktopsIt’s been a pretty hectic few days for wannabe Mac cloner Psystar — its former credit card processor shut off its explanation when it learned what it was trying to sell, no one could figure out the company’s true address, and company president Rudy Pedraza still has the disconc…

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Gadgets

Word on the street (or via super-secret emails) is that Palm is about to start beta evaluating on a fancy new device. Apparently, an e mail went out to choose individuals calling for Sprint customers who will use Bluetooth devices and have access to WiFi. The mail further requests that potential…

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Cellphones

For those of us who want to a bit of retro-flavored gaming joy on their Apple iPhones, here’s some good news: gameboy4iphone by homebrew developer ZodTTD has just been updated to version 1.1.0 beta, and the updates are pretty big that duration around. From sound to saving to compatibility with a pos…

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Apple

We’ve seen some far-out portable speakers, but Targus is keeping it simple with the upcoming Portable Speaker Book. The folding speakers feature NXT flat-panel Balanced Radiator drivers, and can be powered by either four AAs or USB capability. We’ve no word on pricing, but we wouldn’t expect to …

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Portable Audio

Not too many citizens go to science museums and place orders, but former Microsoft CTO Nathan Mhyrvold was apparently so impressed with the London Science Museum’s replica of Charles Babbage’s difference engine he commissioned a $1M duplicate, which was just recently delivered to California’s Co…

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Desktops

It’s not nearly as big a deal as Vista SP1, but it looks like Windows XP SP3 will be out in just eight short days — Microsoft just confirmed that it’s been released to manufacturing, and that it’ll be in Windows Update and the Microsoft Download Center on April 29th. No word on whether OEMs and…

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Desktops, Gadgets, Laptops

Although DISH Network was quick to guarantee customers that their DVRs would stay functional after losing its patent appeal against TiVo, it looks like the company was a bit quick on the draw. Although the majority of the company’s DVRs have had their software updated to include non-infringing c…

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Gadgets, Home Entertainment

We’ve seen a couple of robotic car parking garages in the past, but Tokyo’s Kasai Station seems to have found another use for the same notion, with it now employing the services of an huge bicycle-parking contraption that can store some 9,400 bikes. As you can see for yourself in the video aft…

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Gadgets, Transporation

Remember that DPG-1200 that got overshadowed by the outpouring of other media streamers landing at CES? Welp, D-Link has just announced that its PC-on-TV Player is finally shipping to keen customers and will soon be channeling web-based subject matter directly to living room (or bathroom, kitche…

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Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Wireless

Take this one with a grain of salt. Apple likes to file a patent for every half-deranged idea that comes into its designers' heads during self-induced fever dreams. But heck, surely people laughed at the two Steves when they first began devoting all of their free time to cobbling together a desktop computer in the garage.

The company's latest patent, "Enhancing Online Shopping Atmosphere," deals with concerns (whose, we're not sure) that online shopping is a touch too "sterile and isolating." Apparently buying Viagra and creepy pornography lacks that certainly friendly mom-and-pop touch of real-life storefronts.

The patent is for a virtual world storefront, complete with avatars and changing weather patterns designed to bring some of the real-world crowd who are rage-induced when trying to pick up a cord at the always-packed Apple store in Soho. Thanks, Steve!

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