- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: Feb 4,2011
If you’ve seen our Hong Kong feature from awhile back, then you would’ve already heard about my favorite gadget hangout Sham Shui Po.
By chance, my post-flight stroll in said district yesterday coincided with Apliu Street’s Chinese New Year flea market, which featured many vintage items like jade figurines, paintings, jewelry, video tapes, vinyl records, etc.
Naturally, what really caught my attention were the old gadgets that were literally piled up along the street, and from just HK$30 (US$3.85), you could easily pick up an old classic such as a Sony Clié, an HP iPaq, a WonderSwan Color, an original GameBoy, a MiniDisc player, or even a proper old school laptop or camera.
Hell, some guy even had a couple of Nintendo Micro VS Systems (Donkey Kong Hockey and Boxing)! Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: General
- Date: Feb 3,2011
A new player has entered the electric motorcycle game, joining the likes of Brammo’s Empulse but doing it with rather more… unconventional styling. It’s the Agility Global Saietta, an all-electric sports bike that will come in two flavors: the 50 mile range Saietta S and the 100 mile Saietta R.
The latter of the two will be quicker than the first, getting to 60 in under four seconds, whereas S riders will have to wait another tick of the stopwatch. Naturally that extra range and speed will cost you: £9,975 for the S and £13,975 for the R, figures that equate to roughly $16,200 and $22,650.
Hefty sums, both, but nobody said being on the cutting edge of the humpbacked sport bike trend was going to be cheap. Read the rest of this entry »
Maemo 5 didn’t stand on its own for long before being mashed together with Intel’s Moblin, but Nokia’s N900 still stands as one of the best handhelds for web browsing.
It’s hardly the world-beater that Nokia (may have) hoped it to be, but that’s not because the internals aren’t impressive. We’re guessing that only a handful of you made the effort to fork over wads of cash in order to pick an unlocked version up, but if you did, you no doubt have some opinions post-purchase.
Is the display living up to your expectations? Are you and Maemo getting along alright? How’s that keyboard? We’re eager to know how you’d tweak the N900 if you had the keys to the design kingdom, and with MeeGo already being announced, we’re forbidding you from suggesting the obvious. Read the rest of this entry »
- Author: admin
- Filed under: Handhelds
- Date: Jun 19,2009
Here’s the one-line summary of the Kindle DX: It’s Kindle 2 with a larger screen, hair-trigger orientation sensor, and an awful keyboard. Seriously awful.
Yes, we know we should be focused on things like PDF support or even content partners like newspapers and textbook publishers, but we’re having a hard time getting over the keyboard — it’s emblematic of some puzzling design choices Amazon made with the Kindle DX. What do we mean? Read on. Read the rest of this entry »
