Arstechnica & Wired.com both report of a new phenomena that devices such as the iPod could be making us all deaf: Researchers fear the growing popularity of portable music players and other items that attach directly to the ears — including cell phones — is contributing to hearing loss in younger people. “It’s a different [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Mobiles & Gadgets'
What’s The Idea Behind ROKR?
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Audio, Mobiles & Gadgets, Telephony
CoolTechZone has an interesting analysis on why Apple developed the ROKR the way it is and made it not so great: The answer to that question is strategy. There was nothing wrong with the creative cells of the designers at Apple; ROKR is simply Jobs taking a calculated risk. He doesn’t want a cell phone [...]
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New Krell Boheamoth To Be Released
September 13th, 2005 · No Comments · Audio, Mobiles & Gadgets
Engadget reports of a new Krell monster to be released that’s capable of pushing out 11,500 watts: Next time we upgrade the audio in our home theater setup, we’ll be sure to consider Krell’s HEAT system. With no less than 16 separate speakers pumping out 11,500 watts of 7.1 sound, this one should definitely rock [...]
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iPod Nano Review
September 12th, 2005 · 3 Comments · Apple, Mobiles & Gadgets
Anandtech has a very thorough review (including stress test) of the new iPod Nano: The iPod nano is clearly intended to be Apple’s new best-selling iPod product, as the iPod mini used to hold that title but no longer exists. And honestly, given all of the improvements that the iPod nano has seen over the [...]
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Use Your Cell Phone To Phone With Skype
September 11th, 2005 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets, Telephony
Phoneyworld.com reports of a new usb gadget that allows you to use your mobile phone with Skype: IP based voice chat is nothing new. In fact the release of Google talk brought the issue back into the limelight with arguments over which IM (Instant Messenger) was best suited or offered the best voice chatting over [...]
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Get Your Own Robot Slave
August 30th, 2005 · No Comments · Cool Geeky Stuff, Mobiles & Gadgets
The BBC reports that it’s now possible to get your own personal domestic robot: A robot that recognises up to 10 faces and understands 10,000 words is to be offered to Japanese consumers looking for a high-tech helper in the house. The one-metre tall humanoid Wakamaru robot is being marketed as a mechanical house-sitter and [...]
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The Ultimate Linux Based Car PC
August 13th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Cars & Tuning, Cool Geeky Stuff, Hardware, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets
Somebody has built The Ultimate Linux Car PC: I am throwing up this page because I have yet to see a decent LINUX based CarPC that shows the potential of what can be achieved if the effort is put forth. I have spent the last month or so tweaking the software as well as fabricating [...]
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Doom Ported To iPod
August 7th, 2005 · No Comments · Apple, Linux, Mobiles & Gadgets, Video Games
Some crazy dude has ported Doom to the iPod. Of course you first have to install Linux to run it. The controls are clunky and the framerate is probably shitty but this is a really cool hack nontheless.
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Eavsdropping On Bluetooth
August 3rd, 2005 · No Comments · Mobiles & Gadgets, Security
Just read an interesting blurb on Bruce Schneiers blog on a new tool called The Car Whisperer to listen in on Bluetooth and take part in other peoples conversations : The carwhisperer project intends to sensibilise manufacturers of carkits and other Bluetooth appliances without display and keyboard for the possible security threat evolving from the [...]
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Your Cellphone Tells All About Your Life
July 29th, 2005 · 1 Comment · Mobiles & Gadgets, Privacy, Security
Bruce Schneier has written a disturbing piece on how your cellphone could literally give out all sorts of information about your life to dataminers: Eagle’s Realty Mining project logged 350,000 hours of data over nine months about the location, proximity, activity and communication of volunteers, and was quickly able to guess whether two people were [...]
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