Sony Ericsson W508a
(Credit: Screenshot by Bonnie Cha/CNET)
Earlier this week, we saw the FCC give up the details on the Motorola A5400, a QWERTY Windows Mobile smartphone headed for Verizon Wireless. However, there was plenty more action at the FCC, including the approval of the Sony Ericsson W508a …
Samsung's sleek UNB6000 cuts a dashing figure, but it costs.
(Credit: Sarah Tew)
We’ve already checked out one Samsung LED-based LCD TV this year, the UNB7000 series, but that’s not gonna stop us from reviewing the less expensive version, logically called the UNB6000 series. The verdict? …
I’m stuck indoors. First it was the Swine Flu, and now it’s raining. Oh well, I’m still going to equip my iPhone with apps that’ll be perfect for when the world is safer and warmer.
Doodle Jump: Kind of like a backwards Fall Down (calculator game) meets Space Invaders, this application is another mindless, yet quite addicting, game where your objective is to jump to the highest spot in the universe. Moreover, you can also compete with people around the globe, all for $1.
Hottie Detector: Maybe you’re drunk at a bar with lower inhibitions, or you’re looking to knock down a few egos, or even prove to your friends how hot a chick is, this hottie meter will analyze how hot that hottie truly is on the spot. $1 for your lack of judgement.
Trivial Pursuit: Once just a hot board game played with family and friends, Trivial Pursuit became a confusing TV game show, hosted by Peter Brady in the flesh. If you’re not into shouting at the TV or you think board games are too old-school, this app puts the old game on a new platform with 1,000 new questions and better graphics. $5.
Mock Draft: Get ready for the NFL season with this Mock Draft application, that’ll let you become a general manager and scout the best college football players for your own all-star team. It’s on sale only this week only for $2 (normally $5).
Radiation Passport: If you’re looking for the best ways to potentially gain superpowers—or you’re trying to avoid radioactive spiders and possibly cancer—this application will help you log and calculate your run-ins with radiation and estimate your cancer risks. Stay cancer free for $3.
This Week’s App News On Giz:
• Swine Flu Tracker iPhone App Allows You to Panic Anywhere
• Morse-It iPhone App Makes Samuel Morse Proud on His Birthday
• GV Mobile iPhone App Hands On
• Apple Is Serious About Gaming: Steals Xbox Senior Director of Strategy
• Perfect Cocaine Simulator Will Never Make It to the iPhone App Store
• Reason #1 to Get Epicurious iPhone App: Entire Contents of big Yellow Cookbook
• Grab the Ask a Ninja iPhone Game Now
• iPhone Developers Threatening Apple Over Outrageous App Payment Delays
This list is in no way definitive. If you’ve spotted a great app that hit the store this week, give us a heads up or, better yet, your firsthand impressions in the comments. And for even more apps: see our previous weekly roundups here, and check out our Favorite iPhone Apps Directory and our original iPhone App Review Marathon. Have a good weekend everybody.
There’s not exactly a ton of details on this one, but it looks like Deutsche Telekom CFO Timotheus Hoettges caused a bit of a stir at the company’s recently shareholder meeting, where he reportedly suggested that T-Mobile UK would likely have to merge with another carrier or face the possibility of going bust. Specifically, Hoettges said that “in our view consolidation is a means to take excess capabilities out of the market,” adding somewhat ominously that “nothing is unthinkable on our side.” Of course, that immediately brings up the question of which carrier T-Mobile might merge with, and MarketingWeek suggests that one of the most likely suitors would be 3, which it currently ranked fifth in the UK market right behind T-Mobile, although O2, Orange, and Vodafone would no doubt also be in the running.
[Via Electronista]
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T-Mobile UK apparently being pressured to merge or bust originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 16:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-G3 ($499 direct) is the first camera with built-in
Wi-Fi and a Web browser. It can connect
to virtually any b/g Wi-Fi network to directly upload pictures/video to
YouTube, Picasa, Shutterfly, and a few others. It also has tight integration
with the Sony PS3 via a networking
protocol called DLNA.
Check out the video
for a close look at all of these features, and stay tuned to PC Mag.com for a full review.
Post by PJ Jacobowitz
When ordinary reality is just too banal, wouldn’t it be nice if you could transform everything you see into something mysterious and wonderful?
Augmented reality does that, by overlaying computer-generated effects on the real world. It makes for some really magical effects, as techno-magician Marco Tempest demonstrates in the nifty magic trick here. It combines good old sleight-of-hand with some computer graphics wizardry that utilizes “open source software (OpenFrameworks, OpenCV, ARToolkit, MacCam)… a head mounted PS3 EYE toy camera… [and] a MacBookPro,” Tempest told us. He says it was done with 100% real-time processing, no effects added in post-production.
But magic isn’t the only thing you can use augmented reality for. How about making your environment into an aquarium filled with swimming turtles and fish?
That’s what Canon did with its prototype MR Aquarium, a research project that combines a head-mounted camera, VR goggles, and a computer. Put it on, and it shows you exactly what you’re looking at — except with the addition of swimming critters. (See video below.)
This would have been just the thing to have at the cocktail party I was at last night. Just imagine a sea of black suits with a few sharks and turtles swimming around over their heads. As it was, I needed more than a couple martinis to achieve the same effect non-technologically.
Hat tip: Engadget
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Mute Mic is the perfect addition to your next antisocial karaoke event originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 16:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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"Excuse me, is Sarah Conner home?"
It sounds like an Astroturf campaign for the upcoming computers-gone-bad movie “Terminator: Salvation,” but in fact New Scientist magazine is being completely serious when it asks if the Internet itself could soon become “self-aware.” The article explains:
In engineering terms, it is
…
Originally posted at Digital City Podcast
If you thought the VW Golf GTI was small before, wait until you check out the GTI Project.
(Credit: Volkswagen)
Volkswagen takes its fun, compact GTI and makes it even smaller in the new GTI Project Web game.
In the GTI Project, you find yourself behind the wheel of a …
Originally posted at The Car Tech blog
We’re hearing that the Alias 2 is on track for a release in less than two weeks from now — May 11, to be exact — which would mean that we’re just a few short days away from seeing the very first E Ink handset launch in the States. Yes, that’s right, we said it — after all the heated debate over the technology powering the Alias 2’s configurable keypad, our tipster tells us that new information floating down from corporate confirms that the device is using E Ink, which would explain why it’s able to maintain state even with the power off. We still think it’s one awfully ugly phone, but this might be one of those all-too-frequent cases where cool tech ends up winning our hearts anyway. As for pricing, the tipster thinks it may come in at $79, which seems improbable even with deep contract discounting and a big mail-in rebate — but if by some miracle it does end up being accurate, they’re going to be selling tons of these to text-heavy geeks like ourselves.
[Image via PhoneArena, thanks ehjun]
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Samsung Alias 2 launching on May 11, E Ink confirmed? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 May 2009 15:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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