iLuv iPod Alarm Clock Shakes Sleepy Head...
Posted by admin in Gadgets on 06 23rd, 2009 | No Comments
By Shane McGlaun The iPod is the most successful and popular digital music player by a huge margin. With the raging popularity of the iPod a world of accessories are available from speaker systems to car chargers and all sorts of gear in between. iLuv is one of the makers of many accessories for the...
Samsung YP P3 Reviewed. Verdict: Audiop...
Posted by admin in Gadgets on 05 15th, 2009 | No Comments
By Ian Chiu Samsung’s P2 from 2007 has been universally praised as the most successful MP3 player in the history of the Yepp series. One can only expect a follow up to the formidable flagship touch-screen player. Well, the wait is over. The YP P3 has arrived with a number of improvements over...
Sight-Impaired Novelist Finds Freedom wi...
Nan Hawthorne, a successful historical novelist, was born with Stargardt’s Disease, a form of macular degeneration that causes the deterioration of a person’s vision over time. Nan has been partially blind her entire life; now with 20/1200 vision, she has learned to live with the disease...
Feds Want Prison for MySpace Hoax Mom...
Posted by in Tech News on 05 8th, 2009 | No Comments
A Missouri mother should serve three years in prison for her role in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krause outlined the government’s position while requesting the maximum sentence...
Podio MP3 Player is the Bicyclists Frien...
Posted by admin in Gadgets on 05 1st, 2009 | No Comments
By Shane McGlaun There are tons of bicyclists riding around my town. Typically, you see them in big groups clad in spandex and weaving in and out of traffic. Sometimes you see them in singles though and they are often wearing earphones. I always wonder how they will evade some wanker out to prove the...
Mashimaro Weird Rabbit MP3 Player...
Posted by admin in Gadgets on 04 27th, 2009 | No Comments
By Evan Ackerman This is Mashimaro. It’s supposed to be a rabbit, but it’s called Mashimaro because it looks like a marshmallow or something. It is, I guess, Korea’s defense against Hello Kitty, in that it supposedly has some kind of anime series behind it (that “puts a humorous...
iTunes Store’s new pricing scheme ...
An interesting sidenote on the intersection of music and commerce: Billboard reported last week that the iTunes Store’s new variable pricing plan has had a bit of an impact on sales rankings on individual tracks, giving $.99 songs an advantage over their $1.29 counterparts. According to the magazine,...
iFrogz EarPollution DJ Style headphones ...
Posted by admin in Gadgets on 04 10th, 2009 | No Comments
Look at that will you, just look at it. That’s a pair of $50 iFrogz EarPollution DJ Style (heavy on style, light on the DJ) headphones we’ve been testing for the last week. As you can tell by the colors, graphics, faux-chrome accents, and over-the-top bulk, these headphones are meant to...
Sprint employees now training with the P...
Posted by admin in Gadgets on 04 10th, 2009 | No Comments
We’re not totally sure here, but it sounds like Sprint employees are now being trained on the anxiously awaited Palm Pre . Over at PreThinkin g, they seem to have gotten their paws on an internal Sprint email that says that “employees can expect training to start in April as well as multiple...
Elan turns the tables on Apple, sues for...
Remember all the fun everyone had watching Palm and Apple’s legal wordplay regarding multitouch patents? If you missed it, Apple delivered a very thinly veiled threat to Palm, flouting how it had touch-sensitive intellectual rights up the wazoo to protect itself from the competition. Apple, though,...
Lenovo MRT800 touchscreen PMP unveiled, ...
On the surface, Lenovo’s MRT800 doesn’t seem to have any surprises, but if you look closer… well, it’s more or less the same. The touchscreen PMP’s got a 4.3-inch TFT LCD with 480 x 272 resolution, a microSD expansion slot, FM tuner, and a voice recorder. Codec support...
Giant Nokia 5800 XpressMusic invades Ant...
Posted by admin in Gadgets on 04 5th, 2009 | No Comments
We’re not sure why giant phones are suddenly all the rage, but it seems to be a trend — Nokia just put up this four-foot 5800 XpressMusic in Antwerp. Unlike the giant Samsung Messager that recently invaded Chicago, it’s not actually a working phone, but the custom Flash interface designed...
Gadgets- Understanding and Controlling MotorsDriving motors from a microcontroller will be required for a project eventually. This video by NerdKits will go over some of the basics that are needed. Thanks Humberto. "Electric motors are a key way of converting electrical power (voltage and current) into mechanical power (torque and speed), and because electric motors are simple and reliable […]