- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: Feb 14,2010
This mouse is called the “G-Spot” – I am not even effin with you. Where to find the mysterious spot of pleasure’s center? With which woman will it be found? Can it be found?
These are all questions. Is this spot to be found within devices? Perhaps a mouse? And if so, what would happen if that spot were found?
Any sensible person’s mousy G-Spot would lead directly to Yanko Design, of course! Oh my goodness! The shame! I’ve told you the truth.
This mouse has a secret spot. When you find it, to your favorite place on the computer it’s connected to you will go, be it your email provider or your favorite industrial design blog news website. There ye shall be. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple, iPhone
- Date: Feb 12,2010
These iPhone apps can impress your valentine, provide dating advice, send virtual flowers, or even help you work out your anti-Valentine’s Day resentment.
Romantic Love Note/Card
1. iWrite: Love Poems
iWrite features eight different Valentine’s-appropriate styles of poetry. For each one, it walks you through the process from brainstorming, to examples, to step-by-step guidance. If you really want to cop out, it’ll even generate your poem for you.
I have to admit I was skeptical that an app like this could be anything but hokey, but it’s actually great. I am not a poet at all, but in about one minute it helped me create a poem I’d actually like to share with my boyfriend.
For a less helpful, but more humorous version of this try the (free) Love Poem Generator. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Apple, iPhone
- Date: Feb 10,2010
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, then you know how helpful some apps can be—like the one that makes navigating public transportation easier than navigating through your own house! Well, these aren’t those kind of applications. These are the ones that do little more than give us a good laugh. Poke around our picks for the best of the worst.
Love Calculator Pro (99¢)
Meant to help detect companionability between two people based on their first names, this app attempts to break things down in terms of the likely percentage of love, lust and like—before the awkward small talk. Photo courtesy of iTunes. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: Feb 9,2010
What do you do if your netbooks are starting to look so last season? Well if you’re ASUS, you hire a leading industrial designer like Karim Rashid to revamp it, of course. The Eee PC 1008P’s snazzy new design and removable battery certainly caught our eye at CES, but now so is its $499 pricetag.
Positioned as a designer netbook, the 1008P is a mixed bag of specs — it has got the now-typical Intel Atom N450 processor, boasts 2GB of RAM and larger 320GB hard drive, as well as a disappointingly small three-cell battery. So, are the 1008P’s slimmer body and eye-catching design enough to make you shell out $100 more than the typical netbook?
And how does the the smaller capacity battery compare to the $380 Eee PC 1005PE’s that lasts for eight hours on a charge? Follow on past the break for some answers. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: Feb 9,2010
Fujitsu’s stylish little Lifebook MH380’s just popped up over on the company’s site for sale. The 10.1-inch, Pine Trail Atom N450-boasting netbook’s specs include 2GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD, built-in Bluetooth, six-cell battery and a 1366×768 resolution screen.
It also seems to be available in brown, white, black, and red — though the only one that seems to be available to buy on Fujitsu’s site as of now is the Glossy Red model. Let us know when that cute little brown number’s up for grabs and we’ll probably be back.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: Feb 9,2010
3D’s happening whether you like it or not — but the good news is that there won’t be any format war to go with the adoption of the new tech.
At least that’s the sense we’ve been getting, as most manufacturers are adopting active shutter glasses, delivery will happen on cable, satellite, and Blu-ray, and now the HDMI Licensing group has opened up the 3D portion of the HDMI 1.4 spec so non-licensees can make their gear compatible.
There’ll be some changes coming down the pike in HDMI 1.4a, but that’s also due for public release, so really we’ll all be one big dorky family in 3D glasses when this is all over.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Laptops
- Date: Feb 9,2010
Back in the beginning of December, when Dell outed its business-oriented, 17-inch Precision M6500 laptop, it boasted some pretty meaty specs: Core i7 CPU, up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, a choice of ATI FirePro M7740 or NVIDIA Quadro FX 3800M graphics chips, plus support for up to three storage devices, and a 1920×1200 LED-backlit display.
Well, it’s added some new configuration options today, including USB 3.0 and a Core i5 processor, making this one bad boy all around.
There’s no word on the pricing yet, but the previously available Core i7 configuration runs around $2,700. We’ll let you know when we find out what these new options will cost you.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Displays
- Date: Feb 9,2010
BenQ is on the warpath today, updating its V series and crying from the mountaintops about unbeatable slimness and contrast ratios. We could care less about the supposedly class leading 10,000,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, but the 15mm thinness on the flagship V2220 certainly intrigues.
It’s claimed as the thinnest 21.5-inch monitor around and its junior sibling, the 18.5-inch V920, shaves another millimeter of thickness off while claiming the same title for its size class.
Naturally, they’re supplemented by slightly bulkier 23- and 24-inch varieties (V2320 and V2420, respectively) for those who need the extra room, with H variants offering HDMI and headphone connection options.
You can expect 1920 x 1080 (1366 x 768 on the V920) resolution, 250 nits of brightness, 5ms response time and a good 1,000:1 real contrast ratio across the board, with the Taiwan launch set for the next couple of months followed by global availability in June.
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Microsoft
- Date: Feb 9,2010
The military currently trains its soldiers using PCs, but they were interested in switching to the Xbox 360 for a number of reasons. Unfortunately, Microsoft was not too interested in helping them out.
According to Danger Room, Microsoft refused to sell consoles to Roger Smith, chief technology officer for PEO STRI, the Army command responsible for purchasing training equipment. Why wouldn’t Microsoft sell them consoles? Well, according to Smith, three reasons:
* Microsoft was afraid that the military would buy up lots of Xbox 360s, but would buy only one game for each of them, so MS wouldn’t make much money off of the games.
* that a big military purchase would create a shortage of Xbox 360s.
* that if the Xbox became an Army training device, it would taint its reputation. Microsoft was concerned that “do we want the Xbox 360 to be seen as having the flavor of a weapon? Do we want Mom and Dad knowing that their kid is buying the same game console as the military trains the SEALs and Rangers on?” Smith told me during an interview for Training & Simulation Journal.
When asked about this, a Microsoft rep claimed to have no knowledge of that conversation and suggested the Army uses the XNA Game Studio development tools. Sure, Microsoft. But they didn’t say they were opposed to working with the Army. Read the rest of this entry »
