Archive for March 2nd, 2008Amazon Unbox HD Rentals Coming Soon? [Rumor]
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The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #18: From Nokia’s Phone of the Future to thePosted by: admin in UncategorizedThe Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #18: From Nokia’s Phone of the Future to the DIY-Friendly Chumby Gadget
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast is sponsored by Kensington. In this week’s Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Jose Fermoso discuss some of the latest concept gadgets, like the flexible, self-cleaning, beer-opening phone of the future from Nokia, and the skin tattoo phone that is supposed to use your blood to power up. Maybe these phones will never become real products, but they’re strange enough to liven up a conversation. In addition, they’ll go over Everex’s Cloudbook Notebook personal and the Chumby gadget that developers and Linux lovers in particular have been raving about. Finally, they will talk about the latest, and somewhat surprising, battle for the shelf space on your desk: attractive mini personal that are being used as an extra storage option and entertainment center substitute, including the gPC Mini and the Mac Mini. We thank you for listening, and remember that you can subscribe to the podcast feed by clicking right here. And you can find the seventeen (!) previous podcasts after the jump. The Podcast (above) requires Quicktime (you can download it at Apple’s page here). The last few Gadget Lab podcasts are below: The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #17: The Bankruptcy of The Sharper Image and Insider Info on the Death of HD DVD The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #16: The End of the HD DVD Format, 1080p Projectors, and More The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #13: Macworld 2008 Review and MacBook Air First Impressions The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #12: CES 2008, with Pioneer’s Project Kuro, the Dystopian Life Wall, and More The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #7: From the Blu-ray/HD-DVD Wars to the Exploding Battery Mystery The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #5: From Google’s Android Alliance to the iPhone’s iBricking Firmware The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #4: From Wal-Mart’s Early Black Friday To NBC’s Word War With Apple The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #3: From the CTIA Trade Show to the Leopard Launch The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #2: We’re Giving Away Good Times (Nokia N810 Tablet and iPhone Apps) The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #1: Listen and Be Amazed (Microsoft’s Zune and the Gateway One PC)
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You’ll still need to chop out the individual tracks and hand-roll the MP3s, but it’s vinyl, right? You guys are used to all that manual turning of disks and dropping of needles. You’ll care about it. $150. Product page [Sony Style]
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WiMax Cellphones Phones From Sprint Later This Year [WiMax]Posted by: admin in Tech News Today
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ONELink Wireless, Networked, Talking Smoke Alarms Tell You When to Get the HellPosted by: admin in Tech News Today
The ONELink can also give you verbal alerts that define whether you are dealing with smoke or carbon monoxide and where the problem is occurring in your home. They can even be tested and/or programmed using your standard television remote. As you might anticipate, the ONELink is a bit high-priced at $99 a unit, but if they work as advertised, it may be a small price to pay. [Smarthome and First Alert via Gizmag] Popularity: 1% [?] |
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Amazon’s Unbox service might finally get some HD action. This screencap is from a survey sent out to their customer panel—notice the $4.99 pricepoint to rent an HD motion picture is the same as iTunes. Where’s the “cheaper, plz” option? They also asked whether there’s interest in subscriptions—like to “hit movies,” or state, indie flicks. What say ye? [Thanks Michael!]
If you’ve just updated your iPhone to the 1.1.4 firmware and have been awaiting an simple jailbreak and unlock process, iNdependence v1.4 beta 5 is out and brings “jailbreak, activation, SSH installation and ringtone/wallpaper/application.” The Mac-only software is still beta and as it goes with any iPhone hacking, you must use caution, especially with the SDK coming next week. [
During the earnings call where Sprint got to chat about bleeding $29.5 billion this past quarter (thanks to the Nextel merger), CEO Dan Hesse confirmed that they’ll be releasing dual CDMA/WiMax handsets sometime this year—the first solid word they’d be packing WiMax in phones. Question: Do you care? [
If you’re ever confronted with a fire or carbon monoxide situation in your home, it goes without saying that you would want an alarm that’ll give you the best opportunity to escape. That having been stated, the ONELink system from First Alert does just about everything outside of physically carrying you out of the building. Because they can be wirelessly networked (up to 16 units), when one of the devices goes off, they’ll all go off, giving you more time to take action no matter where you are in a building.
