Jumbo Airplane Hotel Allows Mile High Club Experience on the Ground [Airplanes]
August 31, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Gizmodo
Back in 2006, Oscar Diös heard there was a dead Boeing 747-200 built in 1976 on one of the runways at Arlanda Airport, the largest international airport in Sweden, north of Stockholm. It was once…
Robot Uses Master/Slave Remote Control Suit [Robots]
August 31, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Gizmodo
newVideoPlayer(“/marufightingbots_giz.flv”, 475, 376,”"); Naoki Maru may live in Hikone, north of Kyoto, down the road from a samurai castle full of katana swords and armor, but for him, the ancient…
Gorenje Fridge Is Officially Made for iPod, As Lickable as the Touch Itself [Ifa 2008]
August 31, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Gizmodo
Believe it or not, this beautiful Gorenje fridge is an official Apple-licensed Made for iPod refrigerator. And believe it or not, it’s not just a speaker and a dock glued to a glossy black fridge:…
Stunning Desert Canyon Flight Scares the Underpants Off Me [Airplanes]
August 31, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Once upon a time I wanted to be a fighter pilot, which is probably why I write so much about the biggest and baddest machines ever. My feeling then and now is that there’s nothing that can match the…
Gadget Lab Podcast #43: Nikon D90, Palm Treo Pro, Final iPhone 3G Survey Results
August 31, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Wired: Gadget Lab
In this week’s Gadget Lab Podcast, Dylan Tweney, Daniel Dumas, and Brian Chen talk about the first big-time DSLR camera with HD video recording capabilities, the Nikon D90. With eye-Fi geolocation compatibility and new image transfer options, the D90 is one of the most hotly anticipated gadgets of late 2008.
In addition, they review the new Palm Treo Pro, and go over the final reports from the Gadget Lab’s iPhone 3G survey. The final tally reports that Europeans have the fastest speeds, American have the most dropped calls, and 3G towers are being overloaded all over the country.
Finally, they pass on some rumors of a Nokia WiMax phone, and Brian goes trolling for a date with a certain Apple worker.
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If you prefer, you can also download the MP3 file for this episode with this link: Gadget Lab Podcast #42 MP3. Check out the previous forty-two Gadget Lab podcasts after the jump.
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #42: Palm Treo Pro, The iPhone 3G Study, and Lenovo’s U110 Notebook
Gadget Lab Podcast #40: Nokia E71, New T-Mobile Sidekick, and the WinePod Wine-maker
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #38: Atomic Watches, The HP 2133 Mini Notebook, and iPhone 3G Bugs
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #35: 3D Holograms, The Image Fulgurator, and New Phone Reviews
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #34: Samsung Instinct, Toshiba’s Portege R500, and the Nikon D60 DSLR
Gadget Lab Podcast #33: iPhone 3G, POV Racing Toy Cars, and the Polaroid Pogo Printer
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #31: Dell’s Mini Laptop, Nokia N96, and Fake GPS Art
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #30: The OLPC 2.0, iPhone 2.0, and Roku Netflix Player
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #28: Maker Faire, Samsung Glyde and Olympus E-420
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #27: Psystar, T-Mobile 3-G, and AT&T TV
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #22: Motorola’s Split, The Sony Crapware Saga, and More
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #20: Exploding Batteries, Lost Gadgets, and the Week’s Best Reviews
(For links to podcasts episodes #1-19, hit the link for #20, above.)
The Wired Gadget Lab Podcast #40: Nokia E71, New T-Mobile Sidekick, and the WinePod Wine-maker
Researchers: Adults 31 and Older Hate, Fear Cell Phones
August 31, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Wired: Gadget Lab
After surveying 75 people in one area, a research firm has concluded
that adults over 30 years old are luddites who hate their cell phones with a fiery passion.
Bowen Research conducted the interviews mostly in San Francisco and classified 40 participants older than 30 as "quite vehement about
[their phone,] have problems they can’t solve, and feel the phone does
things randomly by accident." Some complained that text messaging requires them to "think too much" because they have to spell words correctly.
The other 35 participants were ages 30 and
younger, and they "generally have no problem with their phone
interface."
The study also found that the under-30 participants used at
least 50 percent of their phones’ features, while the 31-and-up group used
about 40 percent of their handset features. Quite an astounding disparity.
Bowen Research is
selling its study for $5,000 to anyone who wishes to peer into
groundbreaking research suggesting that young’ins are generally better with technology than older folks.
I’m sure my 32-year-old
friend Trisha would be interested in buying this study. Let me just
call her and hope her teeth don’t fall out and she doesn’t curl up in a fetal position and cry, "The
horror! The horror!" when her phone rings. Oh, wait — she lives in Sacramento. Maybe this
study won’t apply to her.
Bowen Research [via ComputerWorld]
(Photo credit: NCavillones/Flickr )
Star Wars Fan Shows Off Drivable Landspeeder
August 31, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Someone sound off the geek alert: Star Wars fanatic Daniel Deutsch has assembled a replica of the Landspeeder — and he claims it’s perfectly drivable.
Mind you, it’s not actually as fast as the actual Landspeeder in Star Wars; Deutsch says the fiberglass vehicle runs on electricity at a max speed of 25MPH. It allegedly can travel several miles on a single battery charge.
Cool! It’d be even cooler if Deutsch devoted his life to engineering electric cars that greatly benefit society rather than worshipping a stale franchise.
Check out Deutsch’s site for more pics and even a video.
Full Size Drivable Landspeeder and R2D2 [via Geekologie]
Unreal Rocket Launcher PC Mod Will Blast Your Pants Off [Ifa 2008]
August 30, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Gizmodo
newVideoPlayer(“/unrealmode_gizmodo.flv”, 520, 410,”"); One more IFA, one more gallery of absolutely crazy PC mods by nutty Europeans. The best of the lot was, without a doubt, this menacing Unreal…
More HTC Dream Pictures Leaked [Cellphones]
August 30, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
Filed under Wireless
Gizmodo
We already saw the HTC Dream on video. Now, as the release date gets closer, more people are getting to play with—and leak pictures of—the first Android cellphone. Slide this, slide that, it looks…
Yamaha Trumpet…Cellphone? [Cellphones]
August 30, 2008 by wizTEQ Staff
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Gizmodo
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Yamaha and KDDI put together a group of concept cellphones with musical themes, including a trumpet, guitar, DJ scratch pad, and drums. [MobileMentalism and…