Archive for July 7th, 2008

Robo arm Diggs without complaining, smells better than your brother

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Filed under: Robots Look, this top ten celebrity child-rearing tips list of ours is gonna make it to the top, we just know it, and we're tired of hitting up family members to get stories out of the single digits. Luckily there's a better way. The robotic Digg arm -- which ...

Save Arecibo: because aliens don’t do voicemail

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets The folks at SETI@home have put out a desperate plea for the community to bust out those quill pens and start writing strongly-worded letters to congress persons. Apparently the Arecibo Observatory, the world's largest radio telescope and SETI@home's data source, is being threatened with some massive budget ...

Yamaha Tenori-on: everything you wanted to know (with video)

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds, Portable Audio From the mind that brought you ElectroPlankton comes the Tenori-on (finally!): an 8 x 8-inch magnesium square brimming with 256 tiny, pressable, blinking LEDs and even gestural controls that make it easy to sequence electronic music on the fly. It's a spectacular tool for ...

Modder aims to turn Eee PC into e-book reader

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds, Laptops Eee PC mods are already nearly as plentiful as actual Eee PC variations these days, and it looks like you can now add one more fairly ambitious one to the mix, with Australian modder Bismar aiming to turn the humble netbook into an e-book reader that he's ...

Casio EX-F1 gets “prerecord movie” function with new firmware update

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras Casio's EX-F1 camera already had a pretty solid claim to fame with its 60 fps burst mode and ability to shoot 1,200 fps SuperSloMo video, but it now looks like it's getting another solid boost with its new, slightly unnerving firmware upgrade. According to Casio, it adds ...