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New Vids of Google’s Android

Sean Trafton — Fri, 30 May 2008 23:23:34 +0000

BlackBerry 9000 Side by Side Comparison Video

Sean Trafton — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:24:14 +0000

OSX Hacked Onto OQO

Sean Trafton — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:14:40 +0000

Though tfr has only gotten Leopard to work at a fixed 800×480 resolution and hasn’t tried to get WWAN networking working, Mac OS X running at all on the VIA-based hardware is interesting nonetheless. Another curiosity is that OQO was founded by ex-Apple employees who left the company when their idea for an OQO-like device running OS X was supposedly shot down.

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Quake 3 Multiplayer on iPod Touch

Sean Trafton — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:35:34 +0000

Canadian game developers HermitWorks, creators of the rather cool Space Trader, have just posted a short blog entry showing a ridiculously impressive video of Quake III Arena running on two iPod Touch units. Yes, I said two. Network play, baby! The game appears to run at a very impressive frame rate, and it uses the accelerometer for movement and screen taps for firing.

New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It’s Spooky

Sean Trafton — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:50:56 +0000

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Boston Dynamics keeps working on their BigDog quadruped robot, which will probably grow to be the future AT-AT of the Pentagon.

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Ambient Corp. Demonstrates “Telepathic Chat”

Sean Trafton — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:13:37 +0000

A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.

With careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that converts them into words spoken by a computerised voice.

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Satellite Explodes “Like Death Star”

Sean Trafton — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:35:57 +0000

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The US Military blotted their newest, least operational spy satellite from the heavens this week. Regardless of WHY they did it (and it seems like everyone has an opinion on this one), or the fact that the Chinese already pulled off this same trick just over a year ago, you have to admit the idea of one object striking another at a speed of 22,000 MPH while orbiting 130 miles above the Earth is still impressive, if even just for the fireworks. While geeks and nerds like us would have lined up to watch this on Pay-Per-View, the military was kind enough to release footage of the impact to the general public, and at least one major news source has compared the footage to demise of the Death Star.