Archive for: August 16, 2008

What could possibly supply us more delight and mirth than a Segway? How about a Segway-inspired bot that fails spectacularly on a consistent basis? The tech in play here is fairly simple, and the fact it can stand as lengthy as it does being that top heavy is actually pretty surprising. The best…

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A Vietnamese cellphone store is claiming to have carried out a hardware unlock of the iPhone 3G by physically altering the handset’s circuit-boards.  The full details of the hack are not clear, but the below image claims to protest the unlocked iPhone 3G using a local, Vietnamese SIM to successfull…

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My friend Steve shot me an email earlier today. It was succinct. "Really good, interesting. Photography at the Olympics from one of the best," and a link to Newsweek's photographers blog. If you take pictures and you're reading this before clicking that link, you've made a mistake. The Newsweek "Visions of China" blog is a lot more than photos--it's the photographer's backstory too.

Among the shooters participating, my favorite photographer Vincent Laforet. He's the only photographer I've ever sent a fan letter--never acknowledged. He's doing amazing work in China, as are his Newsweek blogging cohorts. It's easy to see the equipment they're using, the access they receive and the built-in opportunities that the Olympics present and play down their mastery of photographic technique. Don't. Without a visceral understanding of the equipment--a cosmic connection between it and your fingers--you're just taking snapshots.

What I like most about this blog are the stories that accompany every shot. Some are technical how-tos others just tell how the photographer interfaced with the games without disturbing them.

" I was able to borrow an 800mm 5.6 lens from Canon (both Canon and Nikon set up shot at the main press center and loan equipment to photographers, as well as make repairs on site, which is priceless!) The 800mm is a lens that's just been released by Canon and I really wanted to see what I could pull off with it. One of the reasons that this lens is useful is that there are only 4-5 of them here at the Olympics--and what that means is that ...

Filed under: Digital Cameras
We’ve seen some decent video alteration in our day, but that new research project by some folks at the University of Washington has the potential to turn the entire concept on its head. Using some rather advanced algorithms to analyze video and photographs of a the same …

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Andrew Mager posted an illustrated play-by-play of today’s WordCamp, a conference devoted to the popular open-source blogging platform WordPress. According to Andrew’s report, the hosted version of WordPress has 2.3 million new blogs in 12 months and 35 million posts, and more than 6.5 billion page …

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Filed under: GamingThis one isn’t fairly as dodgy as they come, but the very notable limitations really keep that from being the whiz-bang hack that it appears to be on the surface. Hacker StreetskaterFU had no trouble getting confirmation from others that his method of running Blu-ray games from th…

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Filed under: Cellphones
We can think of about fifteen plain-vanilla EDGE flips from Samsung that we’d expect T-Mobile to launch ahead of something like that, but you’re definitely not going to see us complaining. TmoNews is claiming that the guys and gals in pink magenta have an ace up their collect…

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Filed under: Laptops, Storage
Oh certain, you’re pretty 1337 whether you can say you’ve got an SSD within your laptop, but whether you’ve a need to store more than, say, 8GB of files, a bit more room may be desired. tnkgrl’s Aspire One mods began earlier that week with the addition of Bluetooth and …

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If you still have a first-gen iPhone but want to spruce it up a bit, possibly a bit of case modification will suit your fancy. At least that’s what a group of Russian modders have decided to do.  

This involves replacing the back case with one that allows the Apple logo on the back to glow. Pretty…

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
The dam has been breached, and now there seems to be no stopping the Net at large as every little nook and cranny of the Treo Pro is exposed and explored. TreoCentral member scottymomo has fleshed out a few more details on the device, and dug up that Comm Manager s…

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Filed under: Laptops, Transportation
whether you hadn’t heard, TSA’s new laptop bag rule went into effect nowadays, so we’re wondering: what sort of experience are you getting at the checkpoint? Like many TSA policies, they can take a few days to trickle down to the rank and file, plus your line com…

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Filed under: Home Entertainment
Not a lot here that you can’t already invent out for yourself, but we’ll give ya the down low, besides. The Crystal USB Desktop Speakers are powered via USB 2.0 and only pack 1-watt per channel, yet somehow, they’re touted as “audiophile” grade. The product descriptio…

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