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Archive for June, 2008

Samsung Instinct Review

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

Techno-guru Walt Mossberg reviews the soon-to-be available Samsung Instinct mobile phone and deems it to be merely “ok”. Walt says the Instinct lacks the iPhone’s greatest strength namely its software.
He concludes by stating that “Samsung’s Instinct, a clone of Apple’s iPhone, doesn’t measure up”, and for good measure, adds that it’s “no iPhone”.
Samsung’s Instinct Doesn’t [...]

Launch of STS-124

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

The Sky, From Above - Boston Globe, Jume 9 2008

Apple iPhone 3G

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Apple today announced their much-anticipated next-gen iPhone. The iPhone 3G as it’s called, is both faster and cheaper than the original model that it replaces.
Walt Mossberg lists the good points of the iPhone 3G as being speed (about 2x faster) price (about half) and the 3rd party apps. On the down side he knocks [...]

Samsung YP-S2 - MP3 Player

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Samsung has started selling their YP-S2 washed-river-pebble-esque MP3 player. $58 gets you 2GB. Light-weight at 13.6 grams. Feature comparison to iPod Shuffle, iriver Mplayer and the Zen Stone at this link.

Samsung Electronics’ design stone that ‘MP3 player market - News release, 2008 6 4

Pedestrian Airbags

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

Toyoda Gosei is in the process of developing pedestrian-protecting exterior airbags that deploy when onboard radar and image-recogition cameras detect a pending impact.
…alternatively, the pedestrians could wear the airbags instead.

Cars with hood and grill airbags for pedestrian protection! - FarEast Gizmos, June 3, 2008