HTC Dream
Sunday, August 31st, 2008Engadget reveals the look of the new HTC Dream, the 1st mobile phone based on the Android mobile operating system.
HTC’s Android-driven Dream revealed in glorious spy photos - Engadget, Aug 30th 2008
Engadget reveals the look of the new HTC Dream, the 1st mobile phone based on the Android mobile operating system.
HTC’s Android-driven Dream revealed in glorious spy photos - Engadget, Aug 30th 2008
The new Sony T-series Cyber-Shot DSC-T500 ostensibly a 10.1 megapixel 5x optical zoom ultra-slim point and shoot still camera now offers hi-def 720p 30fps video recording.
We’ve used & liked the T series - they’re nice & thin. Also tried the newish DSCW-170 .. it has a good screen plus a wide angle zoom, altho the optional GPSCS1 gps dongle [...]
Nice of Blaupunkt to splice together a GPS navigation system with a video camera, plus traffic sign recognition, a DVB-T TV receiver, voice control, web-access via WLAN, hand-free phone calls, music via Bluetooth, speed-camera warnings, and an integrated Traffic Message Channel (TMC … must be a Europe-only thing), into one handy mashup. Here’s a simulated demo [...]
MythBusters debunks all those theories about the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 NASA manned lunar landings being faked. Their Aug 27 2008 show entitled Moon Landing Hoax Hour examined the flapping flag, footprints, shadows, wonky moonwalking in 1/6 gravity and so on. They declare the myth to be Busted, with their strongest [...]
Use a Reuleaux triangle drill bit to create square holes (…well, almost-square holes).
…sort of like a Wankel engine for woodworking.
Reuleaux Triangle - Mathworld … via Hacker News
Canon has on offer a new compact digital camera, model PowerShot E1. Very organic looking /w soft, rounded shapes. Design comes to the fore with the body available in a white-vanilla savanna-grasslands theme, or an aquamarine-seagull harbor-blue finish, or a pink-cotton baobab-tree motif. And in a first, the initial start-up screen harmonizes with the body color…
Reminiscent of [...]
Trusted Reviews reviewed the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 digital camera and liked it so much they gave it an overall rating of 10/10.
While the DMC-FZ28 may indeed be the best of the superzooms (>> run-of-the-mill 3-4x optical zoom), the associated rating of perfect suggests that TR has moved beyond hyperbole, to adynaton, and that their article is more [...]
Lamborghini LP640 - LuxCars, Samedi 19 juillet 2008
Nice scrollable panorama of the Beijing National Stadium ( 北京国家体育场 ) on 15.8.2008…
Beijing Olympics Stadium about 30 min before men’s 100m Final
RIM’s new BlackBerry Bold smartphone arrived in North America yesterday. The Bold is a bit bigger & heavier than most previous BlackBerry models, but offers a larger display (480 x 320), works over 3G networks and supports 802.11a/b/g. 1GB onboard memory + up to 16GB on a media card. Specs are here.
The Bold has been [...]