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| Jan 16, 2012 | The Surface 2.0 From Microsoft And Samsung Ships At Last | If you’re wondering why we didn’t stop by to test out the Samsung SUR40 touch-table, AKA the Surface 2.0, during CES, there’s a good reason: we did that last year. The device, while impressive, isn’t exactly new. But as it has little in the... |
| Dec 20, 2011 | Casio Cancels Its CES 2012 Press Conference | Hopefully you weren’t looking forward to Casio’s CES 2012 press conference. It’s not going happen. The Japanese manufacturer just sent us a note indicating that while they will still be at the show, “we are not prepared yet to announce our ... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | Asus: Netbooks Outsold Tablets Nearly 3 To 1 In 2011, Big Things In Store For 2012 | Netbooks are still big business for Asustek. So much so that the hotness from 2009 outsold Asus tablets in 2011. Per numbers released at the company’s global sales meeting (and relayed by Digitimes), Asustek expects to ship 4.8 netbooks by ... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | TC50 Company iTwin Wins Popular Science’s Best Of What’s New Award | iTwin launched at TC50 back in 2009 and now, in 2011, Popular Science gave the device one of the publication’s highest honors. Two years ago at iTwins first presentation, we were instantly taken by the device’s simple approach to file shari... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | 40/40: Zelda Skyward Sword Lands Perfect Score From Famitsu | The Famitsu, Japan’s (and maybe the world’s) biggest video game magazine, has tested Zelda Skyward Sword (the newest Zelda game for Wii) in their newest issue. And apparently, they liked what they played: as the first game this year, Zelda ... |
| Aug 31, 2011 | Sony’s Head-Mounted 3D OLED Display Is World’s First, Produces 750-Inch Virtual Screen | Earlier this year, during CES 2011, Sony showcased a prototype of a wearable 3D display that looked much like those virtual reality helmets we’ve been seeing since the 1990s. And today, the company announced that it’s actually ready to star... |
| Aug 30, 2011 | EA Exec: New Playstation And Xbox “Hard For Me To Conceive” | While gaming company higher-ups aren’t always the best bellwether for the direction the industry is taking, they do tend to view the sector as an RTS commander views his troops and resources. What they tend to lack in taste and on-the-groun... |
| Aug 15, 2011 | Supply Line Troubles To Delay iPad 3 Launch? | Analysts and pundits have been predicting an iPad 3 with a late 2011 launch for some time now, but if accounts from suppliers in Asia are to be believed, there just is no way that’s going to happen — if the rumors of the high-DPI screen are... |
| Aug 11, 2011 | Have No Fear, The 7-inch HP TouchPad Go Is Almost Here! | Never mind the marketplace is having a hard time selling the first TouchPad. Never mind that it has a fraction of the apps found on competing platforms. Never mind that it works best when paired with the least popular smartphone. HP is prep... |
| Aug 10, 2011 | Nintendo Leaning On Star Fox 64 3D, Flame Red 3DS To Relaunch The Struggling Handheld | Meet the red 3DS. It’s a lot like the standard blue and black model, but, you know, red. The Flame Red color flavor debuted in Japan a while ago, but Nintendo is finally bringing it here as part of the system’s relaunch this Friday. (As if ... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | Quirky Raises $16 Million for Social Product Development | The following is an excerpt from the press release announcing Quirky’s $16 million Series B funding. To read the complete original article, please click here: Quirky Raises $16 Million in Social Product Development Platform |
| Aug 4, 2011 | Quirky Raises $16 Million For Social Product Development Platform | Quirky, a social network for product development, has raised $16 million in Series B funding led by Norwest Venture Partners with RRE Ventures participating in the round. This brings Quirky’s total funding up to $29 million (Quirky quietly ... |
| Aug 3, 2011 | Tesla’s Q2 Earnings: Steady As She Goes | Tesla has released their shareholder statement for Q2 2011, and while it doesn’t make for the most exciting reading, it’s at least full of fairly good news. They’ve been on cruise control for quite a while now, if you will, designing and te... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | Zune HD Gets A Handful Of New Apps | Yes, you read the headline correctly. The Zune HD, which was recently rolled up and borged into the Windows Phone 7 brand, has received no less than nine new apps. We heard that the existing Zune games and apps would be ported to WP7, but p... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | Logitech Loses Big On Google TV, Revue Price Cut From $250 To $99 | I’ll just say it: Google TV is sinking and taking its crew down with her. The service promised to bring new life to HDTVs when it launched last October. But it didn’t. Big media made sure of it by blocking access to their online streaming, ... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | Motorola CEO: Droid Bionic Will Launch In September | After six… Wait, let’s make that seven months of uncertainty, we might finally have something solid to work with. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha said in an interview with CNET that the Droid Bionic will land in September. Just so we’re clear, that... |
| Jul 28, 2011 | Polaroid’s Z340 Isn’t Quite The Gaga-Inspired Beauty We Saw At CES | Back at CES, we spent a long time waiting for Lady Gaga to show up (again) and introduce her new product line, a collaboration with Polaroid called Grey Label. The camera sunglasses and Bluetooth printer didn’t exactly blow our socks off, b... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | Watch Out! International Space Station To Crash Into The Pacific After 2020 Retirement | Better lay your millions on the table now and reserve your spot on the ISS now. Russia, NASA, and the rest of the ISS’ partners announced today that they are going to allow the ISS to crash into the atmosphere after it’s decommissioned in 2... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Sony Pulls The Plug On 8MM Video | Sony is discontinuing yet another format: after killing the cassette Walkman last year and deciding to stop producing MiniDisc Walkmans just 2 weeks ago, the company today announced [JP] in Japan they won’t be supporting the 8mm video forma... |
| Jul 22, 2011 | Doubts About Lytro’s “Focus Later” Camera | I’ve been meaning to address this Lytro thing since it hit a few weeks ago. I wrote about omnifocus cameras as far back as 2008, and more recently in 2010, and while at the time I was more interested in the science behind the systems, thoug... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Microsoft Ready To Take On Apple Stores With 75 More Retail Stores | Microsoft’s clearly done testing the retail waters. It’s ready to dive in head first according to COO Kevin Turner who recently showed attendees of the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference the company’s retail expansion plan.
The plan is ... |
| Jul 13, 2011 | Kindle 3G with Special Offers Sponsored By AT&T, Now Priced At $139 | The Kindle 3G is now available for a lower price. That is if you don’t mind seeing AT&T ads. Amazon and AT&T just announced that two have teamed up to offer the Kindle 3G for $139. That’s a price drop of $50 off the retail model and... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Review: Razer Chimaera Wireless Headset | Short version: Looks good, sounds good, fits… okay. It’s not for marathon gaming or all-day use, but the Chimaera is a solid headset for home gaming. Nothing out of the ordinary.
Features:
2.4 GHz wireless transmission (10m range)
Closed-ty... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Quick Hands-On With AT&T's 4G TouchPad | We may have already reviewed the TouchPad’s most elementary form, but last week we saw a leaked roadmap that has the 4G version coming out in August. AT&T had an event today where we got a quick hands-on, but other than a speed test and... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | A Mid-Summer Trip To The Apple Rumor Mill | It’s almost that time of year again, friends. New movies are terrible, kids are sucking down popsicles, and my office is like a moist toaster oven. It’s nearly back to school time!
That means in our trivial world that it’s time for new gadg... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Video: The Bicycle Wine Rack In Action | Remember the bike wine rack? The little leather sling that hung from your bike and solved one of the world’s lasting conundrums? No? Here’s our original post and the creator just dropped this video in our inbox as proof that it actually wor... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Samsung CTO Responsible For The Galaxy Tab Line Steps Down | Omar Khan, the Samsung CTO who was responsible for the rise of the GalTab and other Android-powered smartphones, is moving to Citibank to handle that company’s global digital banking initiatives. He will be replaced by Nick Dicarlo and Gavi... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Size Does Matter: Android Mini-Tablet Projects Display Up To 100" In Size | There are pros and cons to everything in this life, technology included. The more power you have packed into a device, the clunkier it usually is. If it’s cheap, it’s probably buggy. With mini-tablets, portability costs you screen size, whi... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Microsoft Patent Describes Detachable Dual-Screen Device | We have mixed feelings about dual-screen devices. The dual-screen Kyocera Echo landed rather flatly, despite its unique form-factor, and though we’re excited to see Sony’s folding S2 tablet up close, we’re still hesitant about all those hin... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Nyko Zoom For Kinect Shipping August 23 | If you’ve been watching for the Nyko Zoom for Kinect, the space-shrinking lens system that allows you to use the Kinect in a smaller room, you only have a little over two months to go. The kit will ship on August 23 for $29.99.
We covered t... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Video: Fujitsu Shows Next-Generation Color E-Paper | Electronic paper has come a long way, but displaying content in color in a way that makes sense (refresh rate, resolution etc.) is still a problem. One of the bigger companies working on color e-papers is Fujitsu whose FLEPia is among the m... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | Apple Files Second Complaint Against HTC, Asks To Ban Imports | It’s been a good year or so since Apple and HTC were originally duking it out in the court room over Android patent infringements. The case has gone rather quiet since its original filing, until today when the ITC posted a new complaint fil... |
| Jul 11, 2011 | iriver Story HD Becomes The First Google eBooks Ereader, To Be Sold Exclusively At Target | There’s a new ereader in town, gals and pals. The iriver Story HD will soon be available at Target for $139.99. While by all accounts, it’s a fine piece of hardware — 7.3 ounces, first six-inch XGA e-ink screen, SD card slot, WiFi, six week... |
| Jul 9, 2011 | Daily Crunch: Ride The Lion Edition | Smart Design: Fanless Heatsink Spins Itself
Concrete Speakers Look Good, Yet I Question Their Fidelity
The Five Best Things About OS X Lion
Watch The Final Space Shuttle Mission Here (Maybe)
CrunchGear Is Headed To TechCrunch/Gadgets |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Android 2.3 Gingerbread Headed To The HTC Droid Incredible 2 | If you’re a proud owner of the HTC Droid Incredible 2, get ready: your weekend just got a bit sweeter. Android 2.3 Gingerbread is on its way by means of an OTA update, and should bring with it all the goodies of Gingerbread, and then some. ... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Daily Crunch: Desert Surveillance Edition | At Last You Can Fabricate Your Minecraft Creations
The Gem Hsin Topaz Speakers Do Multifunction Right
Scientists Create Microscopic, Lens-less Camera
This Case Lets You Attach An SLR Lens To Your iPhone
The Gem Hsin Topaz Speakers Do Multif... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Concrete Speakers Look Good, Yet I Question Their Fidelity | These “Exposed Concrete” speakers are a grad school design project by Israeli designer Shmuel Linski. His rationale for the unusual material choice is that… well, okay, there is no rationale, he just thought it’d be cool.
And certainly more... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | The Ides Of July Should Bring Us New Apple Products | OS X Lion and (probably) updated Macbooks Air (Macbook Airs?) should arrive on July 14, according to 9to5’s spies. Apple is holding an “overnight” on July 13 where they will train employees on the new hardware and, as we all know, OS X Lion... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Apple Patents Surface Describing Conductive Chargeable Stylus | Two Apple patents have just surfaced in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, both of which describe methods for stylus input on a capacitive touchscreen, as well as other surfaces. Now, Apple hearts patenting things, whether the company ac... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | CrunchGear Is Headed To TechCrunch/Gadgets | By now you’ve probably seen Mike’s post about the redesign coming next week and I wanted to talk a bit about where things are headed. CrunchGear, in short, is being subsumed into TechCrunch/Gadgets, a plan that has been long percolating at ... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Sony To Kill The MiniDisc Walkman In September | After discontinuing the production of cassette Walkmans last year, Sony is now about to kill another one of their original inventions: the MiniDisc Walkman. And as Japanese business daily The Nikkei is reporting today, Sony plans to pull th... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | The Five Best Things About OS X Lion | If all goes according to rumored plan, OS X Lion should hit stores by July 14 alongside new hardware to run the new OS. I’ve played with the Gold Master over the weekend and I’m pleased to report it is stable and a unique version of OS X, m... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Motorola Continues Locked Bootloader Policy On Droid 3 (For Now) | Listen up, hackers. This one’s for you.
Motorola’s Droid 3 is finally out and about in all of its tech spec glory, but one thing’s missing: an unlocked bootloader. That’s right, Motorola’s gone and done it again, locking Droid 3 owners in a... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Target Slaps Ridiculously Low Price Tags On The Samsung Droid Charge and LG Revolution | Everybody wants a 4G-capable phone. That’s a given. The only issue is that, like all new technology, they cost a pretty penny, especially from good ol’ Big Red. As in, way more than we’re used to seeing on any smartphone (most high-end hand... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Heads Up! TechCrunch Will Look A Little Different Next Week | Next week we’ll be rolling out significant enhancements to TechCrunch. A new design and a new logo will be the first thing you’ll notice. But behind the scenes we’ve made significant changes to the other end of TechCrunch as well – the admi... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | MobileCrunch Is Moving, But Just Down The Block | A bit over 3 years ago, I applied for an internship at CrunchGear on a whim. I didn’t quite know what I was getting myself into.
As luck had it, the powers that be liked my style. I wasn’t even too sure I’d hear back regarding the intern po... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Video: Panasonic Shows Android-Powered E-Book Reader/Tablet Hybrid | Panasonic is prepping an Android 2.2-powered e-book reader/tablet hybrid [JP] that’s specifically designed for the Japanese market. The device will offer e-books through a store set up by Rakuten, the country’s biggest e-commerce company, w... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | ASUS Eee Pad Slider Will Be Delayed Until Fall | The ASUS Eee Pad Slider, a tablet with sliding keyboard that was supposed to launch in August has been delayed until the Fall, according to the ASUS Facebook Page.
“Eee Pad Slider will be coming to the UK this Autumn” and ASUS will “confirm... |
| Jul 8, 2011 | Dell Peju Windows 7 Tablet Design Documents Leaked | I can’t say the market for Windows tablets is blowing up right now, what with the iPad-Android war heating up and the enticing Windows 8 on the horizon, but there is a market and Dell would want a part of it. Their Peju tablet was leaked be... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | At Last You Can Fabricate Your Minecraft Creations | I’m not one of these guys who creates functioning computers or scale models of the Vatican in Minecraft, but occasionally I’ll put together a sweet little tower and house that could just possibly be worth saving. Unfortunately, I can’t take... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Apple Loses Preliminary Injunction In Amazon "App Store" Scuffle | Judge Phyllis Hamilton, who is presiding over the Amazon-Apple “app store” war, certainly meant it when she said she would “probably” reject Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction. And that’s exactly what she did. Hamilton earlier ref... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Exec: Wii U Arriving After April 1, 2012 | Although his statement could be an elaborate prima aprilis prank, Nintendo COO Reggie Fils-Aime stated that the Wii U would be arriving after April 1, 2012 and would co-exist on the market alongside the Wii, DSi, and 3DS. In a Forbes interv... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Scientists Create Microscopic, Lens-less Camera | And I thought this salt-grain-sized camera was small. Cornell researchers have created an even tinier imaging device that does away with the last holdout features of traditional digital cameras.
The Planar Fourier Capture Array (PFCA) doesn... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | CivWorld For Facebook Beta Goes Live… If You Can Get It To Load (Update) | Back in May, we reported that Sid Meier’s Civilization game would be migrating over to Facebook under a new name, Civilization World. Today, the Facebook game went live in its beta version, and we’re more than excited to get civilized.
Whil... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Marathon Now Available For iPad | Just a quick heads-up: that iPad version of Marathon (Bungie’s classic Mac FPS) is now available to be downloaded to your very own little iPad. And it’s free! Free, I tell you!
If you haven’t ever played the game, I’d actually recommend pla... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Motorola (Re)Posts Droid 3 Tutorial Videos | Where have we seen this video before? It was released today, but is still… oddly familiar.
Oh, that’s right, it was leaked about a month ago, and then abruptly pulled by Motorola. The star of the show, Motorola’s Droid 3, made its way onto ... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Android 3.1 Is Now Rolling Out To The Acer Iconia Tab A500 | Acer’s honeycomb tab is now feeling the good graces of Android 3.1. The update is now rolling out to the Iconia Tab A500 just a month after it was officially released by Google. Of course updates like these take time and aren’t generally av... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Daily Crunch: VR Drone Edition | Giant VR Helmet Is Very 90s, Yet Way Cooler
Europe Launching Gigapixel Probe To Map Milky Way
Effectology: Paranormal Spooooky Sounds
Do A Barrel Roll: AR.Drone Challenges You To Become A Great Drone Pilot
Kid-Tested, Grant Imahara Approved... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Motorola Droid 3 Hits Verizon's Shelves For $199.99 On-Contract | Even though Verizon tried to pull a fast one on us by skipping pre-order altogether, we were still accurate when we originally pegged the Droid 3 arrival for today, July 7. That’s right folks, the Motorola Droid 3 is available now from Veri... |
| Jul 7, 2011 | Kobo eReader Touch Edition Gets Updated With Font Customization | We had mixed feelings when it came to Kobo’s Touch Edition eReader. Specifically, we felt that the device was “not really a better reading experience than other devices (though not a worse).” However, that sentiment might change since the K... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | China Close To Allowing Freer Access To Console Games | China has always, as Kotaku writes, “cockblocked” consoles. The reasons are manifold, but the official party line is that a ban on consoles will prevent kids from poisoning their minds with video games and gaming. Considering the market is ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Daily Crunch: Finish Line Edition | Thanko Sells Underwater Video Camera Goggles
The Pringle’s Can Antenna Is Now 10
This Wood Bike Looks Like It Came Out Of Minecraft – In A Good Way
Laser Research Company TeraDiode Starting Humble, But Hopes To Make Ray Guns Soon
Card-Case ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Waterfield Outs A Case For The Apple TV | It’s a case…for an Apple TV. I guess this might be useful if you purchased the $99 streamer through some sort of electronic co-op and need to share the device with other owners. At least the $45 Waterfield case, yep, $45, includes spots to ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Pioneer Announces Car Navigation System Specifically Designed For Electric Vehicles | First an Augmented Reality-based car navigation system, now a model that’s specifically designed for electric vehicles: Pioneer has today announced [JP] the AVIC-ZH09-MEV, which doubles as a multimedia entertainment system and comes with a ... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Exec Pleads Guilty To Wire Fraud After Spilling Apple's Secrets | If I can steal a quote from Mr. Shimoon, Apple has long been “crazy” about keeping new products a secret. Analysts love to throw out prediction after prediction, but when we get down to the truth of the matter, none of us knows anything abo... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Video: Japanese Company Shows 32-Inch Multi-Touch Display Powered By Android | One of Android‘s advantages is its versatility, as a Japanese company called SKR Technology [JP] now demonstrates: SKR has developed a 32-inch digital signage display that runs on Android 2.3 and that supports multi-touch.
The display, whic... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Sony's S1 And S2 Tablets Caught Posing For Glamour Shots | Since their announcement, we’ve been keeping a hawk eye on the S1 and S2 tablets from Sony. Both running Android (3.1 Gingerbread most likely), the S1 is a 9.4-inch wedge-style tablet while the other takes a page out of the Kyocera playbook... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | comScore: Android Still Leads The Pack While RIM Continues To Slide | Well, what do you know? Android is still on top, with a 38 percent U.S. market share in May, according to comScore’s latest numbers. This should come as no surprise, as we’ve been hearing the same story for the past few months. Android lead... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Sony S1 And S2 Go Wild On Video In Italy | Anyone speak Italian? Eh, I think you get the gist from watching. These two videos show the elusive (though decreasingly so) S1 and S2 tablets we heard about from Sony back in April. You can see the Playstation Suite with games and movie tr... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Video: Robot Mimics Snail Style For Omnidirectional Movement | Biomimetic robots are nothing new (snakebot, ro-bat, shark-tail wave harvester), but as there is a great variety of animals to mimic, there’s no shortage of interesting takes on the idea. This one, from Chuo University’s Biomechatronics Lab... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Wi-Fi Xoom Drops To $499 | Are you still pining for a Xoom? Shame on you. But really, who am I to judge? Have I not made mistakes of my own? For instance, every time I order a shot of Fireball. No one wants to kiss that mouth. But I digress. You were looking for a Xo... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Toyota Joins Linux Foundation | The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit consortium dedicated to fostering the growth of Linux, announced yesterday that Toyota is its newest Gold-level member. This is a pretty interesting development for both organizations. From the official p... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Could You Do Linus Torvalds' Job? | Linus Torvalds leads the largest software development project in the world. Thousands of people across the globe contribute to what started out as his little research project. Individuals and multi-national corporations have opinions on whe... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Analyst Predicts Higher-Res "iPad 2 Plus" Will Launch In Late 2011 | Word on the street, specifically Wall St., is that Apple has an “iPad 2 Plus” in the works, with plans to ship in late 2011. Go ahead and grab a salt-shaker now, because despite the truckload of congruent predictions, I still don’t quite bu... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Microsoft Aims At Samsung To Continue Milking Android Cash Cow | Remember that somewhat confusing equation that left Microsoft with 5x more Android dough than Windows Phone profits? We already detailed the situation, but for those of you who missed it, Microsoft holds patents on certain facets of Android... |
| Jul 6, 2011 | Elder Scrolls: Skyrim To Get Proper PC Version | Some Skyrim developers have been answering questions in the Elder Scrolls forums, and have confirmed that Skyrim will indeed get true PC optimizations, and should be free of the kind of console holdovers that plagued Crysis 2. Not that ever... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | HTC Marvel Spotted Passing Through FCC With Support For T-Mobile's HSPA+ Network | If you’re a big fan of the HTC Wildfire S, you’ll be happy to know that its T-Mo-friendly counterpart is making its way through the FCC as we speak. Dubbed the HTC Marvel, speculation suggests that the phone will sport a 3.2-inch screen and... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Play Tetris Through The Kinect | This isn’t the first Kinect Tetris hack out there. In fact I wouldn’t call it the most elegant. But it’s certainly one of the most intense and bordering on exercise. It looks like P90x meets Nintendo, which makes me wonder if it’s awesome o... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Samsung Component Sales "Flat" | Samsung, the former Korean powerhouse, has been busy suing Apple and now we probably know why: their LCD sales are flat and they are attempting to combine their LCD and semiconductor business to reduce accounting loss.
Rumor has it that App... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Motorola Droid 3 Gets Leaked From 360 Angles | Verizon has yet to officially announce Motorola’s Droid 3, but we expect to see that announcement cross the wires in a matter of hours. In fact, we reported along with other sites that the phone should hit shelves on July 14, with pre-order... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Rumor: 15 Million Apple iPhone 5s Set To Ship In September | While rumors surfaced a couple weeks back suggesting that Apple had two new iPhone models in the works, at least one thing is for sure: Pegatron Technology, a notebook maker in line to supply parts for the upcoming iPhone, has been given a ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | International Space Station: Great View, Lousy Internet | Don’t expect to play TF2 with anyone aboard the International Space Station. The Internet connection is too slow says Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield. The topic was brought up at a Canada Day presentation in a historic airport hangar in E... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Buy An HTC Flyer From Best Buy, Get The $80 Stylus For Free | The most novel part of the HTC Flyer is the Scribe Digital Pen. But HTC doesn’t bundle the pen with the Android 2.3 tablet. Why? The company clearly wants the tablet to fail. Instead, the stylus costs an additional $80.
It seems that Best B... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Best Buy Whips Out Toshiba Thrive Inventory Ahead Of Schedule | When I sat down with Toshiba executives about a month ago, they promised that the Toshiba Thrive (once known as the Toshiba Tablet) would hit shelves in mid-July. So imagine my surprise when I found that the Thrive was already for sale at a... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Rumor: T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide To Hit Shelves July 27? | Even though someone in T-Mobile‘s media relations department is banging their head against a desk, we’re really glad to see all the leak love this morning. First, we got a sneak peek at some internal documents promising a July launch for bo... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Apple Tries To Get Rid Of Samsung Copycats Once And For All | Rather than tap dance around the problem any longer, Apple is trying for a slam-dunk style win against Samsung in their never-ending patent war. In other words, Apple has filed for a preliminary injunction against four of Samsung’s hottest ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Sony's Tablet-Related Rube Goldberg Weirdness Continues | The new Sony S1 and S2 tablets are coming at things from a rather different direction, in both design and promotion. The dual-screen and wedge-shaped form factors, as well as the Playstation branding, set them apart from the other guys… and... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Thanko Sells Underwater Video Camera Goggles | Have you ever wanted to shoot video while you were out diving in the ocean? But using a waterproof video camera isn’t for you? Then you should consider Thanko‘s newest product, underwater video camera goggles [JP], which is waterproof to a ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | NEC Develops Next-Gen Household Power Storage System | NEC is ready to use some of the expertise it gained by developing lithium-ion batteries for Nissan’s electric vehicles in recent years for home use: according to a report in Japanese business daily The Nikkei that was published today, that ... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Fujifilm Plans To Make Big Camera Push, Release EVIL Model | Fujifilm’s popular and beautiful X100 has been making a lot of waves lately, so you might not guess that Fuji isn’t exactly the hottest camera maker on the block. Sure, they’re in fifth place as far as volume goes, but they’ve decided that’... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Leaked Roadmap Outs 4G Touchpad For August, Pre 3 And "Opal" In Fall | The TouchPad is here (we reviewed it), but it’s far from done. There are more varieties of the webOS tablet to hit, to begin with, and we’ve heard that a 7-inch version is on its way as well. Then, there’s the Pre 3, which was supposedly hi... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Supply Line Sources Say PS4 Coming In 2012 | Taiwanese daily Digitimes is reporting that Sony is planning a PS4 launch for 2012, based on manufacturers’ claims. Foxconn and Pegatron are supposedly to assemble the systems in late 2011. Digitimes usually has its finger on the pulse when... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | Laser Research Company TeraDiode Starting Humble, But Hopes To Make Ray Guns Soon | The ongoing search for cartoon-style laser guns is likely to continue for a while, given the rather poor showing by even large, ship-mounted lasers. But that shouldn’t stop researchers from looking into it and making handheld lasers, even i... |
| Jul 5, 2011 | This Wood Bike Looks Like It Came Out Of Minecraft – In A Good Way | The last wooden bike we saw, from Audi, was considerably more… well, elegant than this one. Yet I think if I had to have one as my everyday ride, I’d go with this one from Chicago-based Lagomorph Design. It’s got a simple, blocky beauty, an... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | Nokia Says Sayonara To Japan – Again | That was a long sayonara: in November 2008, Nokia decided to pull the plug on their Japan operations, at the same time announcing they will re-enter the market with their luxury sub-brand Vertu. They started offering those phones (and the s... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | Livescribe Shuts Down App Developer Program | We were excited back in 2009 to hear that Livescribe was launching an app store. I remember, we were particularly impressed with the fact that a device so small, like the Pulse smartpen, could ignite such a thriving developer community. Unf... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | Japan Last Country To Resume All PlayStation Network Services On Wednesday | It took them a while, but Sony today announced [JP] that they will fully restore all PlayStation Network services plus streaming media-on-demand service Qriocity in Japan this Wednesday. Sony’s home market is the last country in which the c... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | CrunchGear Week In Review: Independent Edition | Here are some stories from the past week on CrunchGear:
Weekend Giveaway: Toshiba 47-inch TL515 Series 3D LED TV
Starbucks Merges Their Two iOS Apps, Lets You Gift Your Friends Coffee From Your Phone
Warn Friends And Foes With These Nine Ap... |
| Jul 4, 2011 | HP's webOS Boss Encourages Team Through Early Reviews | We didn’t exactly heart the TouchPad. We didn’t hate it, either. We even said that “WebOS and the Palm TouchPad are nearly perfect, an excellent amalgamation of everything that was ever right about Palm.” Granted, perfection in this industr... |
