Archive for February 23rd, 2008
Feb
23
2008
 
Google Lunar X Prize: Send your shoeboxes to the mooooooonPosted by: admin in Life GadgetsGoogle is sponsoring a $20 million prize to the first group that can drop a robotic spacecraft on the moon. Once its there it has to send video and data back to Earth and move 1500 feet. They expect the contest to end in 2012, just in time for a lame-duck President Obama to send […]
Team Italia’s solution, shown above, uses a nice bit of sausage and a ball of mozzarella to traverse the moon’s surface while home team Carnegie Mellon wants to land on the Apollo 11 site. Why don’t we start a Team CrunchGear? Oh, right. Matt’s not supposed to handle explosive propellants. 10 teams sign up to land toaster-sized bots, cellphone-sized rovers on the Moon [DVice]
Seems to make sense, considering that Sharp’s had the lead in big LCD making, based on the 108-inch champ from last year’s CES. This affects you in a few ways: Sony LCDs have long used Samsung panels. By comparison, Samsung has traditionally been behind in response times, contrast and black levels. But in the past lots of Sharp LCDs in bigger sizes have blotchy backlighting. Maybe the 10th generation factory Sharp is working on, reported to be the biggest in the world, will have eliminated all of these issues by the time it goes online in 2010. [Reuters]
Feb
23
2008
Fly’s new cell phone brings lineup of Nintendo favorites with itPosted by: admin in Life GadgetsFly has a new handset, the MC100, that has built-in support for NES, SNES, and Gameboy games, along with built-in game downloading. It’s saying this is the first phone to ship with the support built-in, and we don’t doubt it. Really, though, shouldn’t all cell phones have built-in NES? Shouldn’t everything, really? I want it on […]
Really, though, shouldn’t all cell phones have built-in NES? Shouldn’t everything, really? I want it on my fridge. New phone runs Nintendo games [Mobile Ent]
Feb
23
2008
IPhone SDK will be late, but there’s seriously no reason to freak outPosted by: admin in Life GadgetsWe’re not one to cause a mass panic in the markets but listen — the iPhone SDK is late. People are already selling Apple stock in droves and this could mean that Steve Jobs has gone totally power-mad and is now “marrying” his employees to each other and buying conservative newspapers in D.C. but none […]
We’re not one to cause a mass panic in the markets but listen — the iPhone SDK is late. People are already selling Apple stock in droves and this could mean that Steve Jobs has gone totally power-mad and is now “marrying” his employees to each other and buying conservative newspapers in D.C. but none of this is necessarily true and it would be unwise to think so, even if you’re an itchy analyst worried about iPhone flash memory shipments. If you’re a developer working on iPhone applications, you’re just going to have to sit and wait (provided you don’t already have a dev kit and already have built a boat-load of apps for when the SDK does launch) and not get antsy. And if you don’t particularly care because you’ve been using third-party apps since the iPhone came out, then you’re in the right place. The iPhone SDK Will Be Late [BusinessWeek] Bill Gates was recently giving a speech at Canegie Mellon and said the following: “We say that there’ll be more searches done through speech than through the keyboard five years from now.” That’s five years from now. 2013. We’ll have jet packs and flying cars and push-button girlfriends by then, too. At least I will. Bill, as your […]
Bill Gates was recently giving a speech at Canegie Mellon and said the following:
That’s five years from now. 2013. We’ll have jet packs and flying cars and push-button girlfriends by then, too. At least I will. Bill, as your neighbor and friend, I must recommend you stop buying the cheap crack. Go to Belltown and get the good stuff. In related news, Logitech has been accused of hiring a hitman for an anonymous murder in an affluent Washington State neighborhood. (No, not really.) Gates predicts rise of voice-based search [Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog] |
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The iStick concept is the size of lipstick tube. But it has four touchscreens for four times the Coverflow. I don’t really get the white cube eating up a quarter of the stick though—why not just make the whole thing a solid tube of touchscreen, with the bottom and top holding the single button and earphone jack? It also has Wi-Fi, for browsing the iTunes Store on a screen the size of your finger. [
There’s a rumor going around the tech finance pubs about Sony using Sharp panels in its future Large LCDs. 
