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Eric Power used paper to summary the Star Wars trilogy to the tune of a Jeremy Messermith's Tatooine. I was expecting more Bowiezowiepower, but i guess the feelgood Nickdrakery sound gives it a nice contrast. More » EMC ELECTRONICS FOR IMAGING ELECTRONIC DATA SYSTEMS ELECTRONIC ARTS Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Take a look at this photo of Saturn's rings, taken by Cassini's wide-angle camera last month, 270,000 miles behind Saturn. When I first saw it, I thought it couldn't be real, but the explanation is easy. More » QUANTUM QLOGIC . PROGRESS SOFTWARE PLANAR SYSTEMS Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Steve Jobs attended a the ceremony to honor the signing of California SB 1395, a bill that simplifies organ donation status and creates the nation’s first kidney donor registry. Steve Jobs, who had liver transplant last year while on leave of absence from Apple, has been a strong proponent for... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Be Sure To Wish Super Mario A Happy 25th Birthday Today Just In Time For Halloween: The iPazzPort Bluetooth Mini Keyboard Back To School 2010: Storing Your Data $400,000 Garage Robot Is Now Available For Purchase Video: New Amazon Kindle Ad Shows How Impossible It Is To Read The iPad... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Today during their event, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg talked about "the biggest problem in social networking". What he means by this is social sharing. You need to be able to map out all of the real world groups that you have in the social graph. If Facebook can do this, Zuckerberg... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
In the market for a MacBook Air? Well, now may not be the best time. Apple Insider is reporting indirect sales channels (read: non-Apple stores) are running out of the thin-and-light with no indication of a replenishment. Indeed, we just checked Amazon, Best Buy, and a few other online retailers... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Filed under: Microsoft, Mobile In a continuing, drawn-out, and rather banal storyline that's reminiscent of a cheap daytime soap, Microsoft has sued Motorola for infringing nine patents in its Android phones. The patents cover functions such as "synchronizing e-mail, calendars and contacts." This all comes just a few days after... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Toshiba on Monday announced what it claims are the world's first LCD TVs that render three-dimensional images without the need for glasses. The new Glasses-less 3D Regza GL1 series was unveiled at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies in Tokyo. They use technology similar to that employed in the Nintendo... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
This goes out to those of you that are always on the lookout for a unique wallet. Remember the Flipside wallet? Well, they’ve updated it with some cool new features that make me want to try one right away. Updates include the ability to hold 7 credit cards instead of... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Here it, ladies and gents. The Logitech Revue. The device's minisite just went live ahead of the official unveiling at 3:00 PM EDT today and that's fine by us. The site itself doesn't talk all that much about Google TV -- at least there isn't anything here that wasn't on... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
At Logitech's Google TV event, they're "allowed to tell" us that Google and Hulu are in the middle of negotiations right now to bring Hulu to Google TV. Wooo. More » JDA SOFTWARE GROUP JACK HENRY & ASSOCIATES IXYS ITRON Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
We'd gotten a glimpse at some juicy info about Intel's next-generation SSDs in August—and were already pretty excited about it—but now AnandTech's full spec rundown has us downright giddy. More » PEROT SYSTEMS PALM OSI SYSTEMS ORACLE Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
This video begins with a one-meter square. Every ten seconds we zoom out by one power of ten. 101, 102...all the way to 1024 meters—the size of the observable universe. Then we get closer again. A lot closer. More » SONIC AUTOMOTIVE SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS SILICON LABORATORIES SI INTERNATIONAL Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Logitech's Google TV event is just getting started, but Dish Network's page is live and among extolling the virtues of an internet/satellite mashup, it points out Revue will be offered to its subscribers for (the previously rumored and presumably customer survey approved $179. Click over a for a few more... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Okay, that might not be a chameleon -- we're not the reptile experts we wish we were -- but NTT DoCoMo claims it is. Regardless, we were pretty impressed with this little setup NTT DoCoMo had going in the R&D (that is, not-for-production-just-yet) section of its CEATEC booth. The crown... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
None other than the Wall Street Journal, and the notoriously well-informed Yukari Iwatani Kane, is saying Apple will have a Verizon-compatible iPhone ready by the end of 2010, which means if a deal can be worked out, Verizon could be carrying it by early 2011 (as numerous previous rumors have... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Sprint, in partnership with big names like Notre Dame, Oprah and MTV, announced its Sprint ID service for Android today at the carrier's CTIA press event (see the liveblog here). Sprint ID takes the idea of HTC's scenes to the next level, giving the user an "ID Pack" for different... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Filed under: Audio, Internet TorrentFreak is reporting that Mulve, just one week after we first wrote about it, has been shut down by the RIAA. It seems that, while the RIAA was unable to touch the majority of the service, Mulve had a portion of its site hosted with USA-based... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Maybe you just recently bought the phone of your dreams. Maybe you're due for an upgrade. In any event, the phone you coveted six months ago is probably not the one you're coveting now. So which would you buy today? More » HCL TECHNOLOGIES HEWLETT-PACKARD HIGH TECH COMPUTER HON HAI... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
It sounds too good to be true, but researchers at the University of Cincinnati are convinced that they've developed a revolutionary electrofluidics display that combines the color and video capabilities of an LCD with the low power consumption of e-ink. More » INVENTEC KDDI KLA-TENCOR KONINKLIJKE KPN Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Cisco's rumored telepresence-at-home system is now official and it's called Umi. The set up comprises a set top box, a remote, and a 1080p camera that sits on top of your TV. It's the new way to visit grandma! More » LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS LAWSON SOFTWARE LAND SOFTWARE LAM RESEARCH Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Filed under: Web services Relevant ads can sometimes be useful -- Google's recent hyper-local announcement is one such case. However, there are plenty of users on the Web who aren't all that keen about the behavior-tracking that ad providers employ in order to serve those ads. And apparently the people... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Instagram is yet another iPhone photo-finessing app, but it?s one that you?ll keep coming back to instead of playing for five minutes and then forgetting about it. Wired.com editor Micheal Calore?s says it?s ?like a mashup of Hipstamatic and Tumblr.? The app combines a lot of pretty, Lomo-like filters to... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Filed under: Utilities, Android Sleep Bot is a cute little application that helps you get a better understanding of your sleeping habits. Sadly, it doesn't use the phone's accelerometer to check how much you toss and turn at night, which could have been interesting. Still, for a free application it's... Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog
Gene Simmons. Once upon a time, he played bass and unrolled his tongue out for that brown paper bag of musical hurt that is Kiss. Now, he just goes around saying stupid things like this: More » SONY DELL SAMSUNG LG Continue reading
Posted Oct 6, 2010 at Robinclark386's blog