Gadgets Control

by Joshua Topolsky, posted Sep 21st 2008 at 12:39PM Look, we know there’s some kind of good explanation for these things existing, but Apple, don’t you think it’s a little weird how they keep cropping up in stores even though you never, ever mentioned them? That’s right, those 4GB ipod nano 4Gs we saw at Dutch retailers last week have now made their way onto Best Buy’s Canadian website. Over in North America, the players will apparently sell for $139, and will be available tomorrow… (Read the full post about ‘4GB iPod nano 4Gs show up on Best Buy’s Canadian site’…)

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by Sean Cooper, posted Sep 21st 2008 at 4:00PM Yeah, we’ve seen the PR, ogled the specs, but real honest-to-goodness pics are doing nothing but make our grins bigger. LG’s KC910 packs everything under the sun into its newest and flashiest handset, from an 8 megapixel cannon to Dolby Mobile, GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, 7.2Mbps HSDPA, this will be a tough review unit to return if we get our paws on one. Apparently still slated for an October release, we’ve no word on pricing, but you can expect it to sting dearly off-contract. We’ll be following this set really closely, so do swing back and we’ll be sure to tell ya what we find out. Follow the read link to get the pics. Read PermalinkEmail this37 CommentsFiled under: cellphonesTags: gadgets, wireless, ipod, Ogg (Read the full post about ‘LG’s KC910 Renoir detailed in pics, is high art’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Sep 21st 2008 at 11:56AM We’ve only one thing to say here: it’s about time! Dell’s Studio Hybrid has been shuffling around for well over a month, and we’re just now seeing someone with the nerve to take a putty knife to this cute ‘lil desktop and photograph its innards for all to see. As expected, there ain’t much breathing room in the 7.7- x 2.8- x 8.3-inch box, but there’s a smattering of pictures and a full disassembly video waiting in the read link below. (Read the full post about ‘Dell’s Studio Hybrid torn down for kicks and giggles’…)

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While the Internet has been a valuable tool for small business owners, teleconferences remain a popular way to meet with clients, employees and colleagues. However, in today’s busy world they aren’t always easy to set up. With the increasing popularity of ultra portable notebooks and mobile broadband, the people you need to conference with are as or more likely to be out of the office than in it.

FreeConference, a service offering free audio conferences, has announced a new text messaging service that can make it easier. For just $0.45 a message, they will send a text reminder to your phone 15 minutes before your conference.

(Read the full post about ‘Setting up conferences gets easier’…)

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You can now get over 170,000 books on Amazon’s Kindle, the e-Book reader that Amazon has had a hard time keeping in stock. 170,000. That’s a lot of books! That # does not include all of the free content that you can pull down from the Internet onto your Kindle. It does not include the newspapers, magazines, and blogs also listed in the Kindle Store. If you’re looking for more free content, including books, take a look at ManyBooks.net for example, of FeedBooks.com. (Read the full post about ‘Kindle Store has over 170,000 Books. Also, where to get free books’…)

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Some of the most entertaining products, are the ones that haven’t made it into production just yet and are merely a concept design. This one may not seem very technology based, after all it is a ring, even if it has unique little dots encoded into it. Well those are dots are more than they initially appear to be. They represent letters within binary code. Which means you can have a ring with a secret message placed within it. Although, as hard as I try I can’t really think of a single thing I’d want to encode onto a ring like this. It can hold up to 64 characters, so you can get at least a fairly decent sized message. (Read the full post about ‘Encoder Ring lets you hide super secret information’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Sep 21st 2008 at 9:23AM Remember that Linux-infused H9 UMPC we spotted last year? Have a look at its proper successor, the Porient H12. The handheld packs a 4.8-inch 800 x 480 resolution display, a 520MHz Intel XScale PXA270 CPU, 2GB of flash storage, an SD / MMC card slot, 802.11b/g WiFi, GPS and DAB / DVB-H / DVB-T tuners. The 10.6-ounce device also features a web browser, RSS reader, multimedia player, PDF viewer and an undisclosed office suite to boot. Pricing has yet to be announced for individual units, though these are available now if you’re down with importing vast quantities. And you aren’t, so that’s that.Read PermalinkEmail this10 CommentsFiled under: HandheldsTags: camer (Read the full post about ‘Details flow on Linux-based Porient H12 UMPC’…)

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by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 21st 2008 at 10:39AM Espoo’s usually a pretty cold place, but HTC’s S740 has to feel the heat coming off Nokia headquarters now that the purported E75 slider has been spotted in its natural habitat. We don’t have a ton of information about this thing, but considering the length of time that transpired between the E71’s first spy shot and its release, we do know that we could still be in for a bit of a wait before this thing is announced, much less retailed. If Nokia manages to keep the thickness in check, we’re thinking this could be a fantastic form factor for S60, Eseries or otherwise — and since the phone borrows heavily from the ID of the beautiful E71, we’re optimistic it’s going to be a looker. (Read the full post about ‘Nokia’s E75 QWERTY slider spotted in the wild’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Sep 21st 2008 at 3:44AM If you had any urge whatsoever to try to your hand at drug trafficking over water while these “weird” economic times sort themselves out, uh, you may want to reevaluate your options. The ever-so-stealthy Stiletto has come to life after tracking down a remarkably quick drug-running boat near Florida; the bad guys were cruising at 42 knots, but that comic book-esque thing you’re undoubtedly peering at above can reach speeds of up to 60 knots. The double-M-shaped hull enables it to navigate in extraordinarily shallow waters without trouble, and a plethora of sensors and radars give it all the power it needs to track down goons. (Read the full post about ‘Carbon fiber Stiletto boat runs down baddies at 60 knots’…)

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by Darren Murph, posted Sep 21st 2008 at 1:11AM We’ll warn you in advance, this is only for those who dig the weird, all things Stephen Hawking or clock-making in general. This £1 million ($1.83 million) timepiece took seven years to completely construct, and the initiative was led by inventor John Taylor who designed it in tribute to John Harrison (only the world’s greatest clockmaker, it’s said). The bizarre Corpus Clock visually explains that it relies on grasshopper escapement to function, and to let you know that time can never be regained once lost, that beast on top actually gobbles down time every 60th second. (Read the full post about ‘Stephen Hawking unveils the most morbid, amazing $1.8m clock you’ll ever see’…)

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