Archive for May, 2008
SANDISK GOES EXTREME WITH PRO-HG DUO STICK
SanDisk introduces the fastest card in its Memory Stick product family: the SanDisk Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo. The new card offers with read and write speeds of 30 megabytes per second, and is capable of functioning in extreme temperatures, from -13 to 185 degrees Fahrenheit or -25 to …O…
Rock Band Drum Kit accessibility mod helps everybody rock harder
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
While we of course rock oh-so-very-hard on Rock Band’s drums, the pedal just never felt right under our weakling calves. The problem is naturally exacerbated for folks in wheelchairs, since there’s no way to avoid the kick drum or re-route it to another button — at …
Napa Valley winery flips on Flotovoltaic solar array
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Chalk another one up for Sharp. The company has landed yet another partner willing to utilize its solar panels in order to build news, wow onlookers and give Mother Earth a modicum of a break. Napa Valley winery Far Niente has flipped on its self-coined Floatovoltaic insta…
FreeHand puts a pocket on your wrist, L on your forehead
Filed under: Wearables
that day and age, there’s really no excuse to have too little room in your average pair of cargo shorts for all the gadgets needed in a day. Convergence and shrinking PCBs have left us with do-it-all handhelds that can fit in the rear pockets of size 2 jeans on a size 4 gal, s…
Computer designed to read thoughts from brain scans
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Frighteningly suitable, that isn’t the first (or second) moment that we’ve seen scientists pat themselves on the back for creating a mind-reading machine, but a committed team from Carnegie Mellon has just announced a computer that “has been trained to read people’s minds …
Giant bunny formed from GPS path
Filed under: GPS
First things first: considering the huge amount of press garnered by a recent position art scam, that here could indeed be just another spoof to get your hopes up. That being said, we’re pretty certain no one with any level of decency would do such a vile thing on Easter Sunday, whi…
StyleTap announces Palm OS emulator for iPhone
If you are one of the countless humans that condemn the iPhone for its inability to emulate the Palm OS, soon after it may be moment for you to take another look at Apple’s wonder device. StyleTap has announced that they plan to bring that capability to the iPhone in the near future, whats mor…
