Archive for: June 28, 2008

June 28, 2008

Reflect table monitors converstaions with LEDs, shows who’s all talky

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Filed under: Displays, Misc. Gadgets
There’s always that guy (or girl) who dominates meetings, saying the same thing by and by again, or just repeats what others say. We all find it annoying, and we all wish there was some way to manufacture that blabbermouth aware of his (or her) social transgress…

Mercedes-Benz aiming to ditch petroleum by 2015?

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Filed under: Transportation
While Audi is by there planning to produce an electric car within the next decade, Mercedes-Benz is hoping to be totally petro free within seven years. At least that’s the word according to a recent report in The Sun. Dr. Herbert Kohler, who is responsible for Mercedes’ a…

EMI sues Hi5, VideoEgg by user-uploaded videos

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Some humans might be embarrassed whether their friends found an old copy of Mr. Big’s “To be with you” or Paula Abdul’s “Cold hearted (snake)” stashed absent in their CD collection. But not EMI. They own those songs, and they want the world to know i…

Motorola’s touchscreen Blaze for Verizon in the wild

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

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…

Cairo, Xlib, and the Shared Memory Extension

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

“Maybe I’m just naive, but designing a graphics API such that all image notes had to be sent by a socket to another process every instance the image needed to be drawn seems like total idiocy. Unfortunately, that is precisely what the X Window System forces a program to do, and precisely what Cairo …

Treo 800w spec sheets and training materials reveal details, lack of MMS

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
We’re not certain where our tipster got these pictures (nor are we going to ask), but they seem to be screens from the Treo 800w’s specification and knowledge training documentation. New tidbits include a 333 Mhz processor, 4.4.1 x 2.28 x 0.73-inch dimensions, 320 x 320 pixel…

Bucket-based hydroelectric generator powers up small gadgets

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Never intellect those ginormous dam-based hydroelectric generators — we’ve got a much smaller version that you can actually use in your backyard. The Pico Hydroelectric Generator was installed within a 5-gallon bucket by Sam Redfield in order to convert the energy from “e…

AirPiano individual-handedly redeems air instruments from irrelevancy

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
With the introduction of the Air Guitar Rocker, we pretty much tender the art of air rockin’ adieu. No longer could we slam our belt buckles in an attempt to whammy a downright nasty Bb chord without feeling ashamed. Thanks to the AirPiano, however, imaginary musicians the…

Surf your bookmarks by thumbnail with Bookmark Previews

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

(Credit: CNET Networks)

While not nearly as cool as the Muxtape playlist viewer we wrote about a few months back, whether you’re looking to add a little additional eye sweet to your bookmarks folder it’s worth checking out an extension called Bookmarks Preview. When installed it adds two new views …

How to: See real URLs in TinyURLs

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Webware reader Amy wrote in to let us know one of her favorite Firefox plug-ins shortText just got updated with a handy new feature. It will now automatically go through any page you’re on and seek out any TinyURLs, converting them to the actual URL so you can see where the page urls to.

If you wan…

Topia shows off 330-pound HUVO electric car

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Compared to the other single-seat electric vehicle that we had the misfortune of laying eyes on recently, Topia’s HUVO looks just magnificent. that clearly minuscule roadster, which officially tips the scales at 150-kilograms (or just by 330-pounds), holds one lucky motorist and a small briefcas…

QuickJump QuickPeek branches out: introducing the Weekend Warriors

Filed under: Review - 28 Jun 2008

Hurrah! Weekends are made up of all the most awesome stuff. It’s one of life’s most satisfying things after all - perhaps moment only to getting to scratch an annoying itch.

For one, most of us who get the weekend off (either from school or work - or both?) finally get to park our merry butts…

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