Archive for June, 2010 - Page 19

Today, the Palm shareholders held their meeting to vote on whether to accept HP’s offer ($5.70 per share, plus HP takes on Palm’s debt). As was expected, Palm’s investors approved the deal and there was said to be general excitement about the deal.

Have you been getting poor reception from your iPhone 4? We’ve had more than a few articles here covering the iPhone 4′s new reception problems, but who’s at fault for them? Spencer Webb is an antenna specialist and consultant who runs website AntennaSys. He’s not to blame for the iPhone [...]

The first ever Olympics for robots concluded this week in China, and it was quite a competition. The International Humanoid Robot Olympics, hosted by the Harbin Institute of Technology, brought together 18 universities from around the world for a three day competition that started Monday.

This is patently incredible news, folks–apparently, doctors out at Rice University managed to take a commercially-available Olympus E-330 and soup it up sufficiently to give it enough zoom to see oral cancer cells, on the camera’s LCD monitor.

If you’ve ever played the game Warhammer 40000, you’re familiar with the Orkz, a race who is ideologically convinced that painting a vehicle red increases its speed. And with that bizarre segue in place, I introduce you to the SD UHS-I line of memory cards, because, to misquote the Orkz, [...]

While we here in the US are still awaiting the release of a Samsung Galaxy S, there are other areas of the world that are more fortunate in terms of the availability. And one of the latest deals to come available is by way of Virgin Mobile UK.

You read here, back in May, about how a Taiwanese company got sued by its own workers over being poisoned by a substance in LCD monitors called n-hexane. Well, they may have spoke too soon, because the University of York has identified a component of LCD monitors that could have [...]

Speakers? Speakers are for the poor schmuck in the driver’s seat, thank you very much! For everybody else, at least for everybody else in a Mercedes, they clearly need their own headphones. And this particular innovation will be facilitated directly by the folks out at Kleer.

The new iPhone 4 is in town and those goofy guys from Blendtec have already gotten it. In case the name is not familiar to you then it means you haven’t watched enough “Will It blend?” videos yet to remember them.

If you’re as big a home theater buff as I am, then oh man, are you ever happy to hear this particular chunk of news. The folks out at Pioneer just announced a price drop on their Elite A/V receiver, and it’s pretty nice.