Archive for September, 2010 - Page 9

The fact that Apple will launch a new iPad, the iPad 2 at some point in early 2011 is crystal clear to anyone following this impressive tablet business. Apple took the lead in this computer niche with a new product and it can’t afford to lose that lead so a [...]

A tipster, allegedly an AT&T employee, tipped off Android blog AndroidGuys yesterday that AT&T retail stores are receiving units of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in store for employee training and education purposes. While that’s good news, the rumored data plans for the tablet don’t sound so hot.

We have been talking about the SHAtter-based GreenPois0n jailbreak for quite a while now and I guess we all assumed an unlock tool is going to be available right around the corner. But according to the Chronic Dev Team that’s currently working on the iOS 4.1 / 3.2.2 jailbreak, the [...]

Apple announced its next-generation Apple TV hobby at the beginning of September and the first units are now shipping. That also means that we can now confirm the Apple TV is running iOS 4.1, just as we suspected all along. So in the future we can expect various TV apps [...]

For those of you humming along with the opening bars of Black Sabbath’s “I Am Iron Man” right now, you’re not alone. That’s exactly what I thought when I saw this amazing piece of hardware, by name, the Sarcos XOS 2 from Raytheon.

Anyone else remember the Sega Dreamcast? Anyone else still have one? You’re not alone there–I’m raising my hand on that point too. But now, you’ve got a whole new use for your old VMU (Virtual Memory Unit): a protective outer shell for your iPod Nano.

Sure, there are all sorts of golfing peripherals out there–clubs, balls, tees (I had a relative who sold a line of golf tees topped with small patches of mink fur), but today we talk about the SensoGlove, a glove with sensors that will let you know, to the finger, if [...]

I had genuinely thought, before today, that synthesizers were largely dead, rendered unnecessary by computers and everything else. But clearly, I was wrong, because the folks out at Teenage Engineering are bringing it back in spades with the recently-priced OP-1.

Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Bob, the official Volvo Test Dummy. That’s him getting an involuntary meet-and-greet with the Volvo’s bumper in the picture below. He did not have a good day recently, in fact, one time in four it was an utter disaster. He spent the day [...]

The T-Mobile G2 (known as the HTC Desire Z, or the HTC Lexikon for Verizon) isn’t supposed to be coming out until October 10th in the United States. But, some lucky T-Mobile stores have been receiving the phones early and pictures of them have started leaking out to the internet.