Archive for: October 7, 2008

Filed under: Laptops, Peripherals
We could tell from the press shot that that here laptop bag was far and absent the most beautiful of the TSA-approved bunch, and a recent review by at Gadling confirms it. Put simply, the Tom Bihn Checkpoint Flyer is “fantastic,” and even the reviewer found himself …

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Filed under: Cellphones
It’s been a enlarged day coming, but we’ve finally found a KIRF suitable to become the one and only successor to our very first “Keepin’ it real… WTF?!” that here iPhone — which is little more than a familiar chassis with a lead weight and a small amount of internal hardwa…

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Filed under: Wireless
The vulnerability of cards based on the Mifare Classic RFID chip (like the Oyster Card used for the London Underground) has been known for some day now but, unsurprisingly, some pesky legal commerce has prevented the total details from being published. That has now finally been…

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Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable VideoUncle Woz is stirring things up nowadays in an interview with The Telegraph, saying that he thinks “the iPod has sort of lived a faraway life at number one, things like, whether you look back to transistor radios and Walkmans, they kind of die out after a w…

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Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds
We’re still waiting on Verizon to stop teasing us about that thing, but Vodafone (who’s been hinting at the phone since final month) just announced the BlackBerry Storm, RIM’s touchscreen flagship. As whether you didn’t know already, Vodafone is confirming a 3.25-i…

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Filed under: Robots, Wearables
whether you’ll recall, Tsukuba University professor Yoshiyuki Sankai designed a robotic suit called HAL-5 a few years ago. Production of that handicap-overcomer began back in 2006, and as promised, manufacturer Cyberdyne (not to be confused with Cyberdyne Systems, best…

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For developers who have fallen in love with .Net/C#, but aren’t married to running their applications on Windows, the Mono Project aims to let Microsoft .Net-based apps run on Linux and Mac OS X, among several other platforms. Sponsored by Novell, the Mono Project has released Mono 2.0 of it…

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Filed under: Gaming

The final moment we saw NeuroSky’s MindSet brainwave-controlled gaming headset, the company was partnering with Sega — now the peripheral-maker has teamed with Square Enix to produce what we hope will be a “mind-blowing” (groan) demo at that year’s Tokyo Game Show. whether you’…

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Filed under: Storage
We certainly hope that Joongoo Lee has a royalty check in the mail, considering to the untrained eye, it looks like Samsung has taken the Costume concept we peeked back in July and made it a reality. The fashionable S1 and S2 tough drives include 1.8- and 2.5-inch HDDs (respecti…

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At the University of Maine, all students training to be teachers in the College of Education and Human Development have their own MacBook. “With the MacBook,” explains Tim Hart, “we’ve removed any barriers to adoption.” Flexible and regular, the Mac notebooks require minimal support and al…

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Are you ready for the end of Web 2.0? The writing on the wall says that we're in for a possibly protracted economic slump, and online prophets like Gawker Media's Nick Denton is already preparing for a sharp downturn in online ad spending in 2009 ("...the environment next year will be bleak."). But a few layoffs at Valleywag don't begin to scratch the surface of what an ad slump could do to our beloved online lifestyles.

Here at AppScout, we focus on consumer apps and Web sites, the vast majority of which are free. Some, like Flickr, are free to casual users but make their money with paid pro or enterprise accounts. Others, like Twitter, have no real discernible way of making money, but survive by living off investor cash until they figure out a business model or get purchased. But the vast majority of the fun stuff we look at here at AppScout is free to users and paid for with advertising (heck, so is AppScout itself).

We've had the luxury of using these sites and services for free because there have been advertisers to pay their bills, but with online ad inventory at an all-time high, what's going to happen if demand softens? Denton isn't the only one who sees this coming—I've spoken with several advertising and marketing people over the past few days who all say the same thing: ad/marketing budgets are among the first to get slashed by struggling companies.

Even more troubling, what happens when ad-supported startups can't get funding anymore because their revenue model is too risky? How many brilliant or cockamamie Web startups were fueled ...

Most people have a good idea of how much it costs to fill up your gas tank, but do you know exactly how much your daily commute to the office costs you? How about your weekly trip to the grocery store, or that out-of-town drive to visit family? Cost2Drive tells you. You can now explain to your boss how much of a dent in your paycheck your commute is making and argue for a raise.

Simply enter your origin address, your destination address, and select the year, make, and model of your vehicle, and the service scours its database for your car's average highway mileage, the average cost of regular unleaded, and pulls the distance traveled from Google Maps to calculate your travel cost. In addition to telling you how much your trip costs (for example, my commute to work costs me $4.28 each way) the service shows you how long your trip is (in both miles and minutes) and how many gallons of gasoline your trip consumes.

For example, I found that my commute takes a depressing 45 minutes to travel 35 miles, and that my poor Nissan only gets about 26 miles to the gallon. It might be time to look into a more fuel efficient vehicle, or a job that's closer to home.

The cost of gasoline doesn't appear to be going down significantly in the near future, and many analysts expect Americans to pay more than $3 for a gallon of gas indefinitely unless something dramatic changes. That being said, knowing exactly how much your trips to ...