The Washington Post has an interesting article that describes how forensic analysts using specialized tool suites can often recover most of the data that resides on a sold or discarded smartphone, even after a hardware reset has been performed or if the data is encrypted. The article makes note of companies like Trust Digital and [...]

Korean gadget maker Digital Cube has a new media player dubbed the i-mini. The device measures 80.5×52×16.5mm, weighs 85 gr, has a 2.4in QVGA screen and plays back many of the usual audio and video file formats including MP3 and MPEG-4.
The i-mini has up to 4GB of storage, and can receive DMB TV. The unit [...]

We’ve already made note of the Panasonic 103 inch plasma TV…the world’s largest such. Well…actually at 2603.8 mm, it really only measures 102.511811 inches diagonally, but who’s complaining?. Here’s yet another nice pic of the thing…

The House of the Raging Bull, aka Lamborghini, announced their Murcielgo LP640 back in 22 February 2006 and first showed it at the 76th International Motor Show Geneva. Its now becoming available.
The LP640 has a 6.496 liter 631-hp V12 engine and accelerates from 0-100 Kph in 3.4 seconds. Good looking wedge, er, car. Starts at [...]

Cell phones are becoming so last century…Sony’s new mylo personal communicator may well be harbinger of their eventual demise by virtue of telephony via Wi-Fi.
The mylo has an interesting feature set - the device works in Wi-Fi hotspots and supports instant-messaging, web browsing and Skype/free phone calls over the Internet. Also plays music [...]

Bang & Olufsen finally enters the American cell phone space by launching their Serene mobile phone, first announced over a year ago. The Serene was co-developed with Samsung, and has been well received aesthetically, but less so, technologically.
$1300 buys you a phone with a VGA camera, messaging, the ‘best sound quality’ on the market, voice [...]

The SETI project has been bugging the Milky Way galaxy for about 46 years now, and still has no results to show for all of its efforts. It’s all for a good cause though … they’re hoping to find radio signals from extraterrestrials and are eavesdropping on them via radio telescopes. While SETI has made [...]

Here’s a nicely designed & well spec’d phone by Motorola, their (presumed) model E9. The E9 has a 3.2 megapixel camera and both Bluetooth and WiFi …Or, the attached image might simply be a nicely Photoshop’d speculative rendition by persons unknown…We’re hoping its the former.

3.2 million pixel photography Motorola ultra-thin mobile phone E9 - [...]

At the intersection of gadgets and rockets, we find amateur rocketeers, who combine their love of flight with things that go boom. The NY Times describes the goings-on at the Tripoli Rocketry Association, and some of their recent accomplishments, such as sending an amateur rocket to a record altitude of 94000 feet. The article also [...]

Virtual instrumentation and glass cockpits continue their migration from the world of aircraft to that of the automobile. Mercedes-Benz gave the process a boost last year with the 8inch LCD dashboard on their 2007 S-Class, and now Sharp has announced a bright and contrasty LCD instrument cluster also intended for autombiles. Sharp says this new [...]