Colorfly Media Player Targets High-End Audio Snobs 13th Jun 2011
For audiophiles in search of equipment with perfect sound reproduction quality, media players like the iPod are out of the question.
If you don’t mind shelling out a wad of cash, you could score a slick, high-performance alternative: the .
The Colorfly Pocket HiFi C4 Pro not only looks awesome — check out the hand-engraved black walnut case, a retro pushrod volume slider, and an almost Steampunk-style brassy face — the hardware specs read like they’d make even the most seasoned aural aficionado swoon.
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Google announced on Thursday that its web-only laptop, the Chromebook, is now available for pre-order in the United States via Best Buy or Amazon websites.
Google’s Chromebook hardware is currently offered by two manufacturers — Samsung and Acer — with two different product designs. Both manufacturers are offering Wi-Fi only and 3G versions of the device.
“Nothing but the web,” account wrote Thursday evening, linking followers to the sale page.
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by Jesus Diaz,
One day and iOS 5 has been hacked already. Gizmodo reader and Apple lover has discovered how to upgrade to iOS 5 without developer accounts, using a simple backdoor. Everyone can do it following these extremely simple instructions:
The method exploits a security flaw in the activation screen, apparently related to the Voice Over system. Here’s how to do it.
Warning: While this operation should be simple and inconsequential, we are not responsible for what you do to your iOS device.
Continue...Amazing High-Speed Photos Use Lethal Home-Made Flash 1st Jun 2011
Alan Sailer is a photographer. He fires things very fast at other things, and then uses a homemade high-speed flash to capture some quite stunning images. Here’s how he got famous:
Was a very, very obscure photographer working in his garage shooting stuff with a pellet rifle and photographing the results with a home built flash.
Then in early 2009, someone linked one of my pictures to a social networking site. My boss came by one day and told me my site was getting a huge number of views. Emails from magazines, newspapers and even Good Morning America started clogging my FlickrMail box.
It was very stressful.
Stressful indeed. Thankfully, things settled down a bit for Alan and now he continues to add to the almost 1,000 high-speed photos on his Flickr photostream.
Continue...Business Card With Functioning Aperture Iris 30th May 2011
The Iris business card, with its functioning resizable aperture, is pretty much a printshop gimmick. But as gimmicks go, this one is awesome. It’s unlikely that this design has anything to do with your business (unless you make aperture-equipped business cards, I guess), but who wouldn’t want to give out a tiny cardboard gadget with their phone number on it?
Better still, you don’t have to pay the $6 asking price. The inventor — Clide — has made available and for you to make your own. Download, print onto card and get busy with a laser cutter or an X-Acto knife and you will be on your way to a business card with a three-leaf aperture.
Continue...Amazon Brings Ads to Kindle 3G 23rd May 2011
This has been a pretty hot week for e-reader news, with new machines from Kobo and Barnes and Noble. It’s only Wednesday, yet there’s even more news. Amazon, not wanting to be left out, has announced an ad-supported 3G Kindle to its lineup, joining the already very successful ad-supported Wi-Fi Kindle.
Like the Wi-Fi-only version, opting to let Amazon serve ads to the Kindle’s screensaver will save you $25, dropping the price of the e-reader from $189 to $164 (the Wi-Fi versions are $139 and $114).
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Livescribe smartpens aren’t just pens.
They’re “multimodal computers,” according to CEO Jim Marggraff. And with the launch of Livescribe’s Connect service, his multimodal computers get an array of useful new ways to send and share notes and information.
Livescribe Connect is available today as an update to the Livescribe Desktop application and as an app for Echo and Pulse smartpens, including a new 2-GB Echo model also launching today.
Previously, notes written on Livescribe’s dot paper could be exported as “pencasts” — PDFs or as audio files — through Livescribe Desktop.
Continue...Sticky Magnetic Strip Fixes Smart Cover to iPad 1 16th May 2011
I’ll admit it: One of the main reasons I traded in my first-gen iPad for an iPad 2 was the Smart Cover, Apple’s ingenious magnetic half-case-half-stand. It turns out that the faster processor and thinner, lighter body are also great, but the Smart Cover really does make the iPad easier to use.
And if Smartfix had come up with its Smartsnap a month earlier, I might have saved myself $1,140 (the Euro price of the 64GB 3G model).
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The Verizon Wireless 4G network has been lauded as lightning-fast. Now, the company is launching a second phone that will work with its speeds.
The Samsung-built Droid Charge will launch on Verizon on Saturday, joining the Thunderbolt, HTC’s flagship device. In our tests, the Thunderbolt delivered some of the .
But Verizon’s 4G network recently went down across the country, which raises the question: Is the company ready for another 4G phone?
For a period of more than 30 hours from April 26 through 28, Verizon customers experienced nationwide downtime on the company’s 4G LTE network. Those using Thunderbolt smartphones were the first to spot the problem, as they were only . Since 4G only handles data transfer, voice and text messaging services were not affected.
The Droid Charge was originally slated for release the same weekend as the outage. Samsung’s addition to the Droid brand is only the second phone to run on Verizon’s 4G network, giving those that don’t want to buy the Thunderbolt a bit of choice.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Many Android customers know the frustration of buying a new phone, only to find out that they can’t get the latest version of Android on it.
Google has heard their cries, and replied with a plan to get the most-recent updates onto more people’s phones.
At its I/O conference here Tuesday, Google announced a new initiative to fight against software version fragmentation across Android devices.
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