Robert Green writes "Following and complimenting the Netflix instant streaming video service for the PC, Roku has produced a Set-Top Box offering instant streaming of Netflix video to your home television set. Set to compete with Apple TV (major announcement pending), it began shipping last week and here is one of the first reviews." As has been discussed before, the device is fairly limited, but inexpensive (around $100).
Astronauts debuted the international space station's newest piece of equipment Saturday during a successful but very limited test. Space shuttle Discovery crew members Akihiko Hoshide... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:58 am
More details on the some of the interactive new media properties being created by Katalyst Media (the production company created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg). Last week Kutcher and Goldberg gave... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 8 Jun 2008 | 12:26 am
Flu writes "Sweden's major engineer newspaper NyTeknik writes about a new technology which is used to automatically convert 60.000 aerial photographs of Stockholm, Sweden, into a 3d-world, similar to Google Earth's rendering of major buildings in some US cities. But unlike Google's laser-measured rendering, this technique took less than 8 days (including the photography) to automatically generate the 3D-model of Stockholm — which includes every building and details as high as individual trees! The program was developed by C3, a subsidiary of the Swedish defense industry company SAAB, together with a PC gaming company called Agency 9. The complete article is available (sorry, Swedish only), but the 3D-rendering of Stockholm is available as a Java applet from the Swedish phone-dictionary service Hitta.se (tick the checkbox — it's an ordinary disclaimer, and click 'Till 3D-kartan')." The technique used gives a cool water-color look to the scenes, too.
AP - Leaders of Hollywood's second-largest actors union approved a new contract with studios that grants actors more money for Internet work an issue that sparked a crippling writers strike this year. Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:28 pm
Rising up next door to an Otis Spunkmeyer cookie bakery in a nondescript Texan business park, the hulking new factory did not look like an answer to the world's energy problems. But John Langdon, a director... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
Vodaphone is close to clinching a deal to buy Tiscali, the Italian fixed-line broadband company, for £1.2bn in a move that would put it head-to-head with BT, BSkyB and Virgin Media for customers... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:04 pm
By THE CANADIAN PRESS NEWMARKET, Ont. - Families, descendants and friends of five Mounties who drowned in a Lake Simcoe boating accident 50 years ago gathered today in Newmarket, Ont., to commemorate the lives of the fallen officers. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
FRESNO, Calif. _ Nearly two months ago, a Fresno judge invalidated part of a federal water plan because it did not adequately protect California's Central Valley steelhead and two species of Chinook salmon. Now, the question is what _ if any _ action should be taken to correct the problem. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
Imdaad, a Dubai World company exhibited its commitment to environment protection and conservation by marking the World Environment Day on June 5 with various activities aimed at spreading green awareness among children and adults. The programme was based on the theme "Global Resources. Reduce. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
By Rocio Blanco Garcia, The Miami Herald Jun. 7--Make some money and have fun at the beach when you participate in a study to find the effects of being exposed to microorganisms found in marine waters. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
** Intel Corp. and its smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have been subpoenaed by the Federal Trade Commission about possible anticompetitive behavior in the microprocessor market. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
Premiership player Pascal Chimbonda was released from police bail yesterday by officers investigating allegations of football corruption. The French Tottenham defender, now 29, was arrested last September by officers from the City of London Police on suspicion of conspiracy to defraud. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
By Tony Henderson AROUND 100 walkers from the North East will be part of a bid to reach the summits of the UK's 100 most popular mountains and hills for charity today. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 11:00 pm
Right now, Jerry Yang should be taking Carl Icahn out to the finest meal The French Laundry can offer. At the very least, Yang should add Icahn to his holiday wishe list as Icahn has done something that... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:58 pm
The Human Rights Tribune is reporting that the US has pulled out of the United Nations' Human Rights Council, "an international body within the United Nations System. Its stated purpose is to address human... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:40 pm
The news that the US has completely withdrawn from the Human Rights Council spread like wildfire Friday afternoon (June 6) through the corridors of the Palais des Nations in Geneva. There was general consternation amongst diplomats and NGOS. Reached by phone, the American mission in Geneva neither confirmed nor denied the report. Although unofficial, the news comes at a time of long opposition by the Bush administration to the reforms which created the Human Rights Council in June 2006. Washington announced from the beginning that the US would not be an active member but its observer status would mean that it could intervene during the sessions. To date even this has rarely happened.
Martin Ralya writes "I spent several hours with the three core D&D 4th Edition books on launch day, and wrote a detailed look at all of them based on my first impressions. Two big takeaways: Yes, the World of Warcraft comparisons are fair (and a good thing), and the way character powers work now will make the game more fun for everyone."
An eye-opening figure in a weekend LA Times piece about the downward spiral in fortunes for the Hummer: Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:27 pm
If more people are searching on Google for “Obama” than “McCain” does that mean he is more likely to win the election? Not every voter in the U.S. uses Google, or even uses the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:20 pm
An important implicit question in the great interview with Goldman Sachs oil analyst Arjun Murti in Barron's this weekend. What oil price will make U.S. consumers change their behavior enduringly, versus... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 10:14 pm
PC World - SourceForge.net's annual Community Choice awards highlight the most promising open source projects-- and the most troubled. Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 7 Jun 2008 | 9:41 pm
We've showed how Gen Y is going to change the web. In doing so, Gen Y is also changing the world. Despite all of this, the world of Generation Y eludes a lot of the previous generations. Generation Y... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 9:40 pm
Insanity in an insole: For some reason, the folks mstrpln (wasn't that one of Superman's pests?) along with Ubiq (a homophone for a Philip K. Dick novel) have released a Nike Dunk add-on that shows you... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 9:37 pm
TedCHoward writes "On the heels of the recent mention of HyperCard comes the launch of a brand new site called TileStack. Cnet's Webware blog writes "The idea behind it is to bring old HyperCard stacks back to life by putting them on the Web, meaning you can take some of those long lost creations from the late '80s and early '90s and make them working Web apps. You simply upload them to TileStack's servers and they'll be converted and hosted for just you or the entire world to use once again... Since the service runs without Flash... TileStack is perfect for the iPhone and other devices that run on the Web." They also have a video showing the upload process."
An anonymous reader points to a mention at MozillaZine of "a screencast by Mozilla developer Mike Beltzner, demonstrating some of the new features in Mozilla Firefox 3, which is due out very soon. Weighing in at under four minutes, the screencast gives a concise overview of why you should be excited about Firefox 3. Due to its visual nature, the screencast shows Firefox's features far more clearly than the many written previews that have been published. A picture really is worth a thousand words."
Spotted on Mobiletor, KDDi's new Toshiba Sportio mobile phone with a motion sensor which counts the number of calories burnt out during the workout sessions. It also includes GPS system to track your... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:06 pm
By MEG KISSINGER A congressional committee investigating the safety of chemicals in everyday plastics is expected to have some pointed questions for scientists from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency when it meets at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
By The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C. Jun. 7--Water wisely Plants need about 1 inch of water per week to thrive. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
By JANES, Andrew FONTERRA is one of four or five parties on the short-list to buy Australian co-op Dairy Farmers. Source: RedOrbit News - Science | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
By PULLAR-STRECKER Tom A PROPOSED US$12 billion takeover of multinational computer services firm EDS by Hewlett-Packard would result in a seismic shift in the information technology services market in New Zealand. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON An online advertising partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and Google Inc. is facing opposition from consumer and civic groups that didn't wait for an official deal announcement to voice their discontent. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Jun. 7--Intel disclosed Friday that it is the target of a federal probe involving allegations it improperly discouraged PC makers from using chips sold by its bitter rival, Sunnyvale-based Advanced Micro Devices. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 8:00 pm
Astronauts debuted the international space station's newest piece of equipment Saturday during a successful but very limited test. Space shuttle Discovery crew members Akihiko Hoshide... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:35 pm
I tried to fight it. I really did. But everyone was doing it. I couldn’t resist any longer. I had to have a Beema of my own. The idea behind Beema: You sign up, call an 800 number, talk a bit, and... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNBlogTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:34 pm
The use of GPS-enabled mobile phones is expected to quadruple by 2011, and if GPS is introduced on the new iPhone on Monday as expected, it could accelerate the shift away from portable navigation systems.
The use of GPS-enabled mobile phones is expected to quadruple by 2011, and if GPS is introduced on the new iPhone on Monday as expected, it could accelerate the shift away from portable navigation systems.
Michael Giuffrida writes "Google Trends is a free application produced by Google that shows how often a given keyword is search for, over time. After seeing how candidates in the 2008 primaries have done in Google Trends in different states, it's clear that this tool can be very useful for campaigns." Read on below for some of the specifics about how these candidates have fared, Google-wise.
Japan and the United States on Saturday agreed to cooperate on research into methane hydrate, known as the "ice that burns" which is seen as a promising future energy source. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 7:01 pm
KrispyBytes writes "Windows XP SP3 has been named as the culprit causing home routers to go into a crash and reboot cycle. One router maker has released firmware updates to fix the problem, but has not yet revealed what is actually different about XP SP3's networking stack or UPnP behaviour that causes the problem. Router maker Billion Managing Director Raaj Menon said "as Microsoft plans to make Windows XP SP3 an automatic upgrade this month, the number of affected routers may increase significantly.""
Torchwood will return for a third, but very brief, season with series star John Barrowman in command. The third season will include just five episodes that will most likely air all in one week as a mini-series.
China has sent medics to offer reverse sterilisation operations to women who lost children in last month's Sichuan earthquake but want to give birth again, state media reported. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:53 pm
sample of Martian soil into its tiny testing oven but scientists say an unknown glitch kept any of the dirt from reaching the instrument. Photos released today show a scoopful of dirt... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:35 pm
Accusations that the firm Gethal had been illegally logging in the Brazilian rainforest are false and politically motivated, a source close to owner Johan Eliasch told AFP on Saturday. Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:28 pm
The Phoenix lander has made its first attempt to dump a sample of Martian soil into its tiny testing oven but scientists say an unknown glitch kept any of the dirt from reaching the... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:21 pm
NASA scientists have discovered a way to craft very large mirrors using carbon nanotubes, some epoxy, a little bit of aluminum, and large quantities of lunar dust. They say the technique will allow the construction of massive telescopes on the moon without the expense and risk of transporting the mirrors from Earth. Douglas Rabin of the Goddard Space Flight Center is quoted saying, "Our method could be scaled-up on the moon, using the ubiquitous lunar dust, to create giant telescope mirrors up to 50 meters in diameter." While this breakthrough was relatively cheap, NASA is currently offering up to $10 million for other good lunar research projects.
The Adventure Church, an interdenominational church in Draper, and Zions Bank are teaming up to offer a program called "Financial Peace University," at the Adventure's Draper Campus, 352 W. 12300 South. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
By Bloomberg News Walt Disney Co., the second-largest U.S. media company, has merged its video-game and Internet units to better coordinate the operations. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
The U.S. Supreme Court's chief justice and another justice have substantially lowered their stock investments, financial disclosures indicate. The decisions by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
By Sally Claunch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Jun. 7--ARLINGTON -- An e-mail that circulated Friday wrongly accuses City Council candidate Robert P. Shepard, an Arlington attorney, of questionable travel expenses as a member of the North Texas Tollway Authority board. Source: RedOrbit News - Technology | 7 Jun 2008 | 5:00 pm
mjasay sends us a link to a CNet story, which begins: "In the '20 percent time' that Google employees have to work on projects of personal interest, it turns out that an increasing number are spending time writing open-source projects for their Macs. Google has long had a fondness for the Mac, with upwards of 6,000 of its 20,000 current employees opting to use the Mac over Windows. It is in the 20 percent employee development time, however, where this statistic becomes interesting. At Google, development time translates into products. The more Mac-friendly employees, the more Mac-related development. The more Mac-related development, the more Google-sponsored Mac-based open-source code. As Google's Mac Developer Playground demonstrates, some of this code is quite interesting."
Astronauts made preparations Saturday morning to take the international space station's newest piece of equipment out for a spin, albeit a limited one. Space shuttle Discovery crew... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 3:22 pm
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Scientists P. Neumann, N. Mizuochi & co. have advanced quantum computing by finding a new method to get two-way and three-way, high quality quantum correlations that persist for hundreds or thousands of microseconds, even at room temperature. Their paper (subscription required) describes how they manipulated electrons from nitrogen vacancies in diamond using microwaves to entangle adjacent carbon-13 nuclei. Even better, this builds on previous results which indicate that diamonds with nitrogen impurities may be the key to creating useful quantum computing devices. The article provides a good description of what nitrogen vacancies are and why they prove useful."
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia has raised the alert level for a volcano on Sulawesi island to the highest after it began spewing hot lava and clouds of smoke, a vulcanology official said on... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 2:35 pm
Here's a smart tip from Parenthacks: turn a wheeled under-bed storage box into a mobile, lidded sandbox that you can roll into the garage on rainy days and out into the yard on nice ones:
My husband came up with a great idea for a small sandbox: an under-the-bed storage container. This container has a hinged top but the hinge broke so I put it in the garage for another day. My husband filled it 1/2 way with play sand and our daughter loves it. We can play with sand in the garage (if it is raining outside), on the back porch or take it to Grandma's for the afternoon. When we are done we just put the top over it and slide it under the stand that holds the yard tools or under the workbench.
Mike sez, "To show off the open-source animation program Blender, a small team just finished a great ten-minute cartoon, 'Big Buck Bunny.' They were funded by foundation support and pre-orders of the DVD by the Blender community. What's more, the whole thing is Creative Commons-licensed, and all the files for the animation are available. Here in Worcester MA, our local TV station took advantage of the licensing and broadcast the thing last night in prime time."
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(Thanks, Mike!)
Escalating the world's largest computer chip maker's legal woes, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into Intel Corp.'s sales tactics, a victory for its much smaller rival, Advanced... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNPaperTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 9:37 am
Escalating the world's largest computer chip maker's legal woes, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into Intel Corp.'s sales tactics, a victory for its much smaller... Source: Infocious RSS raw feed - channel BNewsTech | 7 Jun 2008 | 9:29 am
AP - Escalating the world's largest computer chip maker's legal woes, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into Intel Corp.'s sales tactics, a victory for its much smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
JapanForum's group gallery of Harajuku fashion is gigantic, fantastic and mind-blowingly weird. William Gibson once described his "Sprawl" as being "designed by a bored researcher who kept one thumb permanently on the fast-forward button" -- Harajuku is like that, only more so.
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(via IZ Reloaded)
Flickr user and master cupcakist Hello Naomi (she of the fantastic Super Mario and Pac Man cupcakes) has outdone herself with these interchangeable robot cupcakes whose bodies, heads and legs can be swapped around. Deliciously awesome!
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(via IZ Reloaded)
As part of Bocchignano, Italy's group project "20 Eventi," Jan Vormann went around town and filled in all the cracks in the walls with painstakingly clicked-together patches made from legos.
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Michael sez, "I had this wacky idea a few days ago, about writing some Paul-Bunyan kinds of stories from the point of view of a post-Singularity storyteller. I always had a thing for tall tales."
I just LOVE these -- I mean, who wouldn't love stories called "Paul Bunyan and the Spambot," "Bruce Schneier and the King of the Crabs," and "Lord Cthulhu Walks the Desert"? The Spambot one is especially tasty. This deserves to be a meme -- and maybe a podcast!
Naturally, just getting Paul Bunyan online was already no mean feat. There was no broadband available in the remote areas of the woods where they'd been working, so the first thing he had to do was string optical cable from the nearest T1 line, which was clear down in St. Paul. For anybody but Paul Bunyan, that would have been near impossible, but ol' Paul just ordered a couple flatbeds of the finest glass windows Minnesota had to offer, chewed'em all up in a single mouthful, and drew'em out between his teeth to spin three hundred miles of perfect fiber optics. Then he just coiled it all up in a loop, and walked all the way into town, stringing that cable all the way. So getting online wasn't a real problem.
No, the real problem was using a computer built to the scale of a normal man! To Paul, the biggest font available was like microfiche, and he'd never been fond of reading much but lumber futures, anyway. And the largest screen they could find was no better than an old Nokia mobile phone for Paul.
Alex Holden made this stupendous steampunk* Dalek out of junk, shampoo bottles and paint.
The main body is made from a plastic Dalek bubble-bath bottle I bought very cheaply at Woolworth's in the post-Christmas sales. At the time I had no idea what I could use it for, but it looked too cool to pass up. I disassembled it and spray-painted the parts with a can of gold Plastikote paint after masking off the two silver arms on the front. The wheels, cylinders, chimney stack, and 'bumpers' came from a rather tacky brass model of Stephenson's Rocket I bought for £5 at a car boot sale. The brass brush on the end of the gun is the head of a rotary wire brush attachment that came with a mini-drill set. The pressure gauge, dome, whistle, safety valve, water level gauge, and valve are all bits and pieces I had lying around the workshop (I used to be into model engineering). All the brass parts were painstakingly cleaned and polished with Scotchbrite, Autosol, and Brasso. It is held together with a combination of screws, hot melt glue, and cyanoacrylate glue. I left the plastic bottle inside the body because the neck acts as the turret bearing - I haven't opened it so it must still be full of bubble-bath!
Alarmed that Bell Canada is throttling and degrading P2P traffic, David Fewer and some of his friends have created a wiki to list "all of the legitimate things that P2P can and is doing. Kind of a one
stop shop for evidence of how this technology has the capacity to change the
world." The idea is that this can be used in regulatory proceedings and other policy fora to establish the legitimacy of P2P. They want your input!
Why peer-to-peer is efficient
When a user wishes to download a file from a website, the submit a HTTP GET request. This request for the file uses a single TCP socket, and communicates with a single server which transfers the entire file. By contrast, a P2P protocol creates TCP connections with multiple hosts and makes many small data requests to each. The P2P client then combines the chunks to recreate the file. A single file host will usually have limited upload capacity, but connecting to many servers simultaneously allows for higher file transfers, and disperses the costs associated with data transfers amongst many peers. Moreover, a client mid-way through downloading the file also acts as a server, hosting the bits to others which they have already downloaded. These differences from traditional HTTP GET requests allow for lower costs and higher redundancy since many people are sharing the files.
With the Incredible Hulk tracking surprisingly well and threatening to smash Iron Man's box office records next weekend, director Jon Favreau is keeping Tony Stark and company in the news by hinting at the plot of the Iron Man sequel.
The creative types that make up Apple's fan base have been busy dreaming up the ideal iPhone, Version 2. (Steve Jobs is expected to introduce the real thing on Monday.)
The release of a new Apple product is an opportunity for Apple fans to dream big -- and make fun of the company they love.
This collection of iPhone 2 mock-ups runs the gamut, from the mundane to the mind-blowing. Check out the iPhone Pico -- a mini-iPhone that's smaller than a pinkie fingernail. We wish!
These mock-ups were designed by the readers of iLounge, which held a competition to find the best ideas for the new iPhone. The full list of winners are included in iLounge's free iPod + iPhone Book 4.
iPhone See-through
Left: This mock-up by Robert Davis of Cornelius, North Carolina, is thin, lightweight and crystal clear. It runs a full version of Leopard (not a stripped-down one) and has a 5-megapixel camera. Not very realistic -- or practical -- but pretty.
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iPhone Pro
The iPhone Pro by A. Berio of Los Angeles is an iPhone for well, the pros. Boasting a 1024x768 display, the iPhone Pro also has Intel's latest Atom processor and runs OS X Leopard. Dream on!
: iPhone Mirror
The iPhone Mirror by an unnamed iLounge reader from Boston has two touch screens and two cameras -- one on either side. This makes video conferencing very easy -- and also taking self-portraits
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iPhone Shuffle
The iPhone Shuffle by Michael Hornbek of Hornslet, Denmark, has no screen and calls random people. "Think Indifferent," Michael says.
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iPhone Pico
iPhone Pico. Smallest. iPhone. Ever.
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iPhone Classic and Mini
A lot of Apple watchers expect the iPhone line to diversify like that of the iPod: different models for different pocketbooks. Many except to see a smaller, slimmed-down iPhone -- like the iPhone Mini. By Frank Reinders, Venlo, Netherlands.
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iPhone 3-G Slider With Virtual Keyboard
This 3-G iPhone by Aaron Besson of Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, is a slider with a difference. The slide-out keyboard is actually a second touch screen, and the keyboard its displaying is virtual. Clever.
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iPhone Air
The iPhone Air by Renato Ruiz of Oxnard, California, is the perfect complement to the MacBook Air. It's a clamshell and has two screens -- one for a virtual keyboard -- that are both protected when the device is closed. There's a third screen on the lid that shows what music is playing while the iPhone is being used as a media player.
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Two Trackballs
This next-gen iPhone has two home buttons, which are now trackballs for gaming and easier scrolling. It also uses the built-in accelerometers as game controls. Designed by an unnamed iLounge reader from Skokie, Illinois.
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iPhone Bio
The iPhone Bio has the usual 3-G for video calls and video chat, but also uses biometric fingerprint security to protect your sensitive data.
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iPhone Duo
The iPhone Duo is slimmer, slicker and a slider to boot. By I. Sugiharto of New Zealand.
The creative types that make up Apple's fan base have been busy dreaming up the ideal iPhone, Version 2. (Steve Jobs is expected to introduce the real thing on Monday.)
The release of a new Apple product is an opportunity for Apple fans to dream big -- and make fun of the company they love.
This collection of iPhone 2 mock-ups runs the gamut, from the mundane to the mind-blowing. Check out the iPhone Pico -- a mini-iPhone that's smaller than a pinkie fingernail. We wish!
These mock-ups were designed by the readers of iLounge, which held a competition to find the best ideas for the new iPhone. The full list of winners are included in iLounge's free iPod + iPhone Book 4.
iPhone See-through
Left: This mock-up by Robert Davis of Cornelius, North Carolina, is thin, lightweight and crystal clear. It runs a full version of Leopard (not a stripped-down one) and has a 5-megapixel camera. Not very realistic -- or practical -- but pretty.
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iPhone Pro
The iPhone Pro by A. Berio of Los Angeles is an iPhone for well, the pros. Boasting a 1024x768 display, the iPhone Pro also has Intel's latest Atom processor and runs OS X Leopard. Dream on!
: iPhone Mirror
The iPhone Mirror by an unnamed iLounge reader from Boston has two touch screens and two cameras -- one on either side. This makes video conferencing very easy -- and also taking self-portraits
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iPhone Shuffle
The iPhone Shuffle by Michael Hornbek of Hornslet, Denmark, has no screen and calls random people. "Think Indifferent," Michael says.
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iPhone Pico
iPhone Pico. Smallest. iPhone. Ever.
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iPhone Classic and Mini
A lot of Apple watchers expect the iPhone line to diversify like that of the iPod: different models for different pocketbooks. Many except to see a smaller, slimmed-down iPhone -- like the iPhone Mini. By Frank Reinders, Venlo, Netherlands.
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iPhone 3-G Slider With Virtual Keyboard
This 3-G iPhone by Aaron Besson of Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, is a slider with a difference. The slide-out keyboard is actually a second touch screen, and the keyboard its displaying is virtual. Clever.
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iPhone Air
The iPhone Air by Renato Ruiz of Oxnard, California, is the perfect complement to the MacBook Air. It's a clamshell and has two screens -- one for a virtual keyboard -- that are both protected when the device is closed. There's a third screen on the lid that shows what music is playing while the iPhone is being used as a media player.
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Two Trackballs
This next-gen iPhone has two home buttons, which are now trackballs for gaming and easier scrolling. It also uses the built-in accelerometers as game controls. Designed by an unnamed iLounge reader from Skokie, Illinois.
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iPhone Bio
The iPhone Bio has the usual 3-G for video calls and video chat, but also uses biometric fingerprint security to protect your sensitive data.
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iPhone Duo
The iPhone Duo is slimmer, slicker and a slider to boot. By I. Sugiharto of New Zealand.
"Hockey Night in Canada," the long-time theme song of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's hockey broadcasts won't be heard next season. Instead, the CBC is holding a contest to find a winning replacement.
The perfect compliment to a long summer day is an ice cold glass of the thirst-quenching summer beverage -- iced black tea, brewed by the sun. Get your solar-powered hydration injection by following our guide.
AT&T's chief technical officer John Donovan talked with Wired.com about the company's network growth, its position on BitTorrent and a planned test of usage-based pricing.
Reuters - T-Mobile USA is suing Starbucks,
saying the coffee shop chain secretly colluded with AT&T to
offer free WiFi Internet access in its cafes despite an
exclusive agreement with T-Mobile. Source: Yahoo! News: Technology News | 7 Jun 2008 | 12:32 am
My husband came up with a great idea for a small sandbox: an under-the-bed storage container. This container has a hinged top but the hinge broke so I put it in the garage for another day. My husband filled it 1/2 way with play sand and our daughter loves it. We can play with sand in the garage (if it is raining outside), on the back porch or take it to Grandma's for the afternoon. When we are done we just put the top over it and slide it under the stand that holds the yard tools or under the workbench.
AP - Escalating the world's largest computer chip maker's legal woes, the Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal probe into Intel Corp.'s sales tactics, a victory for its much smaller rival, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
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