You know how you have to load batteries into products a certain way? Get ready to have your minds collectively blown. Microsoft has developed what it’s calling InstaLoad battery installation technology, “which allows users to easily install a battery without regard to positive and negative polarity.”
Finally, a lifetime of being …
The end is near, my friends. A handful of geniuses at Harvard and MIT have developed programmable matter based on origami principles.
According to the press release:
“Called programmable matter by folding, the team demonstrated how a single thin sheet composed of interconnected triangular sections could transform itself into a boat-
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Less than 24 hours after it was announced that Microsoft was scrapping KIN, Microsoft’s other carrier partner T-Mobile has stated that it will halt all sales of the Sidekick line starting tomorrow.
As T-Mobile looks to further innovate and raise the bar for the next iteration of the T-Mobile Sidekick, as of July 2, the Sidekick LX
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Rather see a New York Times article than a Huff Po link? Google can arrange that.
Today, Google unveiled its latest News update, a customized ranking system that relies on rankings made by you to display a more tailored news feed. The latest feature, “News For You,” will offer localized, personalized news based on your preferences. By …
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Yahoo! has just made available apps for Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Search.
Also, Yahoo! Mail and News have been HTML5 optimized for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
That is all.
Press release after the jump.
The ocean is something near and dear to my heart. I love the ocean. I hope to surf in any one of our beautiful oceans until the day I die. Well, maybe not the Arctic unless I have one of those heated suits from Rip Curl cuz, you know, it’s freezing cold. Even if you don’t surf, bodyboard, bodysurf or dive, you should join the …
Despite “Dubious Verizon iPhone Rumor #22,500,001” hitting the internet this week, the new Motorola Droid X is shaping up to be the best wonderphone available on Big Red this summer (although the forthcoming Samsung Fascinate may give it some serious competition). Here’s a quick look at the Droid X on video—stay tuned for a full …
I’m not sure about anyone else but I’ve been having issues with my Exchange account since upgrading to iOS4 on my iPhone 3GS. Updates are extremely slow and I’m talking, like, 4-6 hour delays. Apple released the following config file last night but I’m still not seeing any improvement. Maybe I should inform the IT guys.
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Let the record show that I, Peter Ha, do not like 99% of the cases available on the market for the iPhone 4. They’re just really, really ugly. But Element Case’s Vapor case is one hot piece of aluminum ass. Crafted from aircraft-grade CNC’d aluminum, the Vapor weighs less than 30 grams and is lined with a shock-absorbent …
Starting today, every citizen of Finland has the legal right to a broadband internet connection with speeds of at least one megabit per second. That’s not to say that the internet service will be provided for free, just that it must be made available to every home.
According to the BBC, “It is believed up to 96% of the population are …
According to Lucasfilm it is, even though Wicked Lasers doesn’t advertise it as such. But let’s be honest, the hilt looks exactly like a lightsaber. Here’s what Lucasfilm’s General Counsel David Anderman had to say:
“It has come to our attention that a company called Wicked Lasers is selling a highly dangerous product
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Got way too much money burning a hole in your pocket? Sex.com is back on the auctioning block, officially being brokered by domain giant Sedo. Originally registered in 1994, the Sex.com domain name was put up for sale back in March of this year and fetched a million bucks just place a bid.
The company that owns the domain name, Escom, …
