Archive for July, 2009

Robot With iPhone 3GS Head Reminds Us Of A Cuter, More Magnanimous Steve Jobs

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Who’s this little guy? Oh, that’s just Robochan — the Kondo KHR-2HV bot with a fully-functioning iPhone 3GS fused to his head. Not interested? Well, hear us out — because we, too, have seen many an iPhone mod project in our day, leaving us jaded, easily susceptible to waking in the middle of the night [...]

Apple Unveils 2TB Time Capsule, Ships Today For $499

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Nearly four months after we first saw evidence that a 2TB Time Capsule was in the works, Apple has finally come clean and listed said device for sale in its webstore. So far as we can tell, the 802.11n router + NAS drive isn’t any different than existing models save for the internal capacity, and [...]

Acer Reaffirms That Android-based Netbook Still Coming in Q3

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

In an effort to quell all sorts of kicking and screaming that resulted from an evidently erroneous report earlier in the week, an Acer representative has reportedly reaffirmed that an Android-based Aspire One is still on schedule for a Q3 release. If you’ll recall, we first heard of Acer’s intentions to dole out an Android-laden [...]

Dell Fined $30,000 By Taiwan Government Over Pricing Mishaps

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Let this be a lesson for all you kids thinking about opening some online shop with a funky database: pricing errors can cost ya, especially if you’re doing business in Taiwan. After a couple of downright embarrassing slip-ups on Dell’s Taiwanese web store, followed by a failure to compensate those who got orders in appropriately, [...]

Leica S2 DSLR Hitting UK Scene in October For Eye-opening $26,165 Without Lens

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Remember Leica’s S-system flagship DSLR camera? We’d wager a nickel you probably stuck this in the deep in the back of your brain after its September 2008 debut, figuring something that boasts 37.5 megapixels and Leica branding was gonna be just out of your budget range. Well, you were right. The company announced that it’ll [...]

LG Releases First Official Shots of BL40 “New Chocolate”

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

We’ve already got a pile of evidence taller than the BL40 itself that told us LG’s latest Black Label device was that ultra-wide, glossy red and black slate we’ve seen floating around — but now, for the very first time, it’s totally official. The company has just released the first fully-revealed press photos of the [...]

Intel Exec Speaks The Obvious: First-time Buyers Aren’t Going For Netbooks

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Intel’s chief sales and marketing officer Sean Maloney wants you to know something you probably already figured out on your own. “Netbooks are predominantly… a second or third purchase from someone who’s already got a notebook,” he suggested today at the company’s Technology Fair event, further extrapolating with an anecdote of him watching people in [...]

Unofficial Google Voice client for Palm Pre makes the scene

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Google Voice might have just been unceremoniously thrown out of the iPhone App Store, but that doesn’t mean development isn’t racing forward on other platforms — say hello to dkGoogleVoice, an unofficial client for the Palm Pre. Yeah, it’s buggy and has a bare-bones feature set, but hey — it exists, and it’s only going [...]

Video: Creative Zii EGG 3D Gaming Demo

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Now that the gang at Creative have ‘fessed up to the Zii EGG first seen at the FCC earlier this month, we imagine we’ll be encountering this bad boy quite often over the coming months. If you need your StemCell Computing fix right now, we have a video that showcases the newest developer platform running [...]

HP Reportedly Beginning Production of New 10.1-inch, 11.6-inch Netbooks / ultralights

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

This is about as early and unofficial as it gets, but DigiTimes is reporting that HP has contracted Quanta to begin production of an apparently all new 11.6-inch netbook in August, and another new 10.1-inch before the end of the year, which SlashGear rightly speculates could well be CULV ultralights rather than standard “netbooks.” That’s [...]