Archive for March, 2009
NIF scientists set the controls for nuclear fusion
It looks like nuclear fusion is no longer just for precocious teenagers. Among the flurry of experiments going down worldwide, significant work will start rolling at the US National Ignition Facility sometime that June. Under construction for twelve years, the lab will focus 192 giant laser beams o…
Digital Album: it’s a digiframe, just more capacious
Okay, so possibly that mysterious Digital Album really is nothing more than a relatively plain 7-inch digital photo frame, but the included 4GB of storage is certainly appreciated. whether, for whatever reason, you honestly feel the need to keep more than a thousand or so shots of little Joey on th…
Samsung Instinct S30 now official, coming to Sprint on April 19th
That didn’t take towering. After Samsung showed off its Instinct S30 (a.k.a. Instinct Mini) last night with some official imagery — and less than an hour after we spotted it in the wild at CTIA — Sprint’s gone ahead and made it official with a press release. The carrier-exclusive touchscreen phon…
Moixa Sphere multitouch orb bends minds, credulity
Ordinarily we’d take one look at Moixa’s Sphere interactive display ball around that day of year and immediately dismiss it as an April Fools joke, but something tells us not even the most committed would-be pranksters take the date and expense to patent their little diversions. That said, we’re de…
Samsung Instinct S30 in the wild
Samsung’s officially announcing the Instinct S30 for Sprint as we speak, but why wait for all that jazz? We spied a dummy unit in the flesh out and about in Samsung’s mobile charging center here at CTIA, and while we would’ve preferred it not be behind a thick plate of glare-tastic glass, we’ll tak…
Clearwire’s Clear Spot portable WiMAX / WiFi router now official, coming early April
Good news for those who happened to live in Portland — and elsewhere in the years to come. Clearwire’s announced that the CradlePoint-manufactured portable WiMAX-equipped WiFi router we saw back in January will be hitting stores in early April as the Clear Spot Personal Hotspot. Up to eight 802.11…
Ion-based Acer Hornet nettop specs leak out: 1080p HDMI playback, Wii-like gaming, $299
Well, well, what’s that? We just received a ton of data on that hot little Acer Hornet nettop we’d heard about a while back, and whether that pile of documentation is as real as it looks, that thing could be the holy grail of cheap HTPCs — not only does it support 1080p video playback by HDMI, the…
