Tearing down the iPod Shuffle may look easy – it is, after all, made of a few pieces of aluminium press-fitted and glued together – but the poor lads at iFixIt had a dickens of a time. Their complaint? Although this step makes it look super-simple to open the Shuffle, it’s not. It took us [...]
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Remember when special effects were hard? Douglas Trumbull certainly does. Douglas designed many of the miniature sets for Blade Runner and his descriptions of how he built one of the most amazing sci-fi scenes ever You can watch the whole six minute video here but it’s amazing how they had to build a miniature set [...]
What do you get when you connect your customers to each other? If the customers like your product (and I’d say 10 billions songs sold shows definite positive bias) you get more sales. This echo chamber is what everyone – from Facebook on down – is trying to create and while I don’t believe Apple [...]
How many of you have been the victim of cybercrime? And for the sake of argument, let’s just define “cybercrime” as having contracted malware (viruses, trojans, etc), having your identity stolen, or having been the victim of credit card fraud. I’d be shocked if you don’t fit into any of of those three, since 73 [...]
We first blogged about it back in April this year, and now it’s here: the world’s first world’s first watch with an active matrix e-ink system. Developed by Seiko, the “Active Matrix EPD” watch [PDF] crams a total of 72,000 pixels into a 2x3cm display. Seiko says the high-resolution 300dpi display offers an extra-wide viewing [...]
Sanyo Japan has rolled out a number of eneloop-branded warmers in the past, for example for the hand or the whole body (in blanket form). And today the company unveiled rechargeable waist and neck warmers [press release in English]. Both devices are eneloop-branded (meaning they use Sanyo’s rechargeable batteries) and do what the names suggest: [...]
Kinect Adventures and a 250GB HDD is also included in the bundle Microsoft just revealed. The bundle has been spotted a month ago and now it is confirmed that the package has a steep retail price of $399. Go to Source
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We speculated this morning that the new Nikon P7000 was going to be a G11 fighter, and now that we have the official specifications it certainly appears that is the case. I’d go so far as to say that Nikon specifically went after the Canon G11 by putting a 10.1 megapixel sensor in the camera, [...]
Ths S8100 is the cheapest of the three cameras being released by Nikon today, and although at $300 it’s starting to get into the luxury range for point-and-shoots, I think it looks like a pretty solid deal. You’ve got the usual 12.1 megapixels and HD (1080p) video, but the S8100 also does some interesting photographic [...]
