Areogel , the 90% air material previously used in such space platforms as the Mars Pathfinder Rover, is actually dropping in price. So much so that’s actually being used as insulation in some commercial applications.
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Your next home might be insulated with aerogel, really
When GeoHot talks, you listen because you never know what he’s up to. Earlier today he gave some pretty disappointing news on Twitter by basically saying that there was no way to jailbreak the latest iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch models on OS 3.1.3, and that there was not much hope for an untethered jailbreak . But we all know GeoHot and how he likes to be challenged.
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GeoHot Says “No Jailbreak For You”
When it was announced that this administration was redefining space-related goals (and, many seemed not to notice, increasing NASA funding by $6bn) there were mixed reactions. We’d already spent a bundle on moon mission stuff, but it was over budget and behind schedule.
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Buzz Aldrin: this “new direction” for space programs sounds great
Intel’s Core i5 and i3 CPUs have found a new home in MSi’s latest notebook offerings. The CX520 and CR20 Classic Series combine otherwise standard specs and a 15.6-inch 16:9 screen with the powerful cores. Both seem like solid rigs although you’ll likely pass over them in favor of something a bit more flashy.
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The new MSi Classic Series CX520 and CR620 notebooks rock Core i5 or i3 CPUs
Scosche Industries announces the availability of its solBAT II – solar powered charger and battery backup. The solBAT II works with almost any handheld device that can be charged via a USB cable and feature’s a simple two light indicator that lets users know when the solBAT II it is charging from the sun or a USB cable (red), and when it is passing that stored energy to a handheld (green) like a Blackberry, iPhone, iPod, or PSP.
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Scosche Launches solBAT II – Solar Powered Back up Battery and Charging Device
It seems Apple ( NSDQ: AAPL )’s change of heart in regards to letting VoIP iPhone apps work over 3G networks is having a halo effect on other VoIP services. Shape Services, makers of the popular IM+ chat client, has announced that it has updated the IM+ for Skype app for BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) to offer free WiFi-based Skype calls. The update makes IM+ for Skype the only BlackBerry app that allows free Skype calls – even internationally.
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IM+ for Skype brings free VoIP calls to BlackBerry!
Samsung, give them credit, loves to push that old industrial design envelope by making strange new control designs for their products. It’s only too bad that, most of the time, these industrial design features often wind up being little more than lipstick on a pig. And today’s polished turd will be the Samsung Alias 2. The Samsung Alias 2 is a convertible flip style cell phone that offers call timer, conference call ability, voice recorder, caller ID, Bluetooth connectivity, TTY compatibility, VZ Navigator, Chaperone parent/child, a sixteen gig microSD card slot, V CAST Music, Rhapsody, GPS, speakerphone, a phone book with capacity for a thousand names and numbers, mobile email, internet browser, a two megapixel digital camera, and a battery capable of generating five hours of talk time on one charge
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Samsung Alias 2 Cell Phone Review–Strange and Lacking
Just because something is cool doesn’t mean it’s a good idea. Transparent displays, for instance: we’ve all seen them in movies. Of course, the reason they’re transparent in movies is because A : it looks cool and B : it lets the camera see the operator’s face
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Samsung may actually make some of them transparent laptops
Last time we heard , Sony’s motion controller was named Gem. That was according to EA’s CEO, John Riccitiello, back in early December. But THQ’s head man said today in an investor call that it’s named Arc.
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THQ CEO says Sony’s motion controller is actually named Arc, not Gem
There is a virtual cornucopia, so to speak, of games out there right now, readers. From Mass Effect 2 and Borderlands to Bayonetta and Dark Void , to the constant stream of demos, freeware, and indie games — it’s a good time to be a gamer. We chat about games throughout the day, but we’d like to hear from you guys
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What are you playing?
Fujitsu presented the Lifebook T900 back in December 2009, and a few days ago it become available for purchase for $2,000. The LifeBook T900 is a convertible notebook and you can pick one of the 3 processors: Intel Core i5-520M processor at 2.4GHz, or an Intel Core i5-540M at 2.53GHz, or lastly a i7-620M at 2.66GHz.
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Fujitsu Lifebook T900 available for purchase
We have mentioned the LifeBook UH900 a few times before, but only today Fujitsu made the product available for purchase. It has a price tag of $850, that is, after the mail-in rebate valued at $150. Specification-wise this Fujitsu UMPC – Ultra Mobile PC – has an Intel Atom Z530 processor at 1.6GHz, and 2GB of RAM.
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Fujitsu LifeBook UH900 released in the US
CX620 and CR620 are the codenames of the new laptops made by MSI, which go directly into the “Classic Series Laptops”. Both models feature the latest Intel Core i Series processors and can feature up to 4GB of memory RAM. One of the differences is the graphics card: while the CX620 has the ATI Radeon HD5470 with 1GB, the CR620 boasts an Intel GMA HD.
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MSI announces CX620 and CR620 laptops
Beginners Guide to Five Fingers – The good lads over at BirthdayShoes.com put together an interesting presentation on VFFs and barefoot running. It’s fairly concise and nicely designed so I’ll excuse the fact that “free ebooks” are pretty dumb generally.
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Beginner’s guide to barefoot running
The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.
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Symbian Operating System, Now Open Source and Free
The American Museum of Natural History has comes up with their own iPhone and iPod Touch app known as DINOSAURS: American Museum of Natural History Collections. It allows users the ability to see 800 images of the Museum’s archives, as well information on the dinosaur digs and the creatures themselves. This app is available for free
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The Amercian Museum of Natural History App
Samsung has decided to make a surprise for everyone and earlier today added a new cellphone to their website, also known as Samsung T139 Mayon. It can be considered a medium-level cellphone that comes with dual displays for conference calls, and an HTML browser for the internet experience. The T139 Mayon supports aGPS, Java applications, and comes with a speakerphone.
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Samsung T139 Mayon
We’ve been seeing a lot of an in-the-works device from RIM sporting both a full physical QWERTY keyboard and a clicking touchscreen, code-named the BlackBerry Magnum or Dakota . TD analyst Chris Umiatowski has it on good word that there will be a BlackBerry ( NSDQ: RIMM ) that has those features as well as an optical trackpad
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Upcoming BlackBerry Packing Both Trackpad and SurePress Screen?
If you’ve grown bored of using any number of your human senses to tell when someone’s within ten feet of you, then it’s probably time to start trying to convince everyone around you to buy one of these $20 proximity sensing shirts. Powered by three AAA batteries stuffed into a hidden pocket inside the shirt, the large decal will emit radar-like waves when nobody’s nearby and then lock on and start flashing when someone else wearing the same shirt gets to within about ten feet. You may ask yourself why someone would buy something like this
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Proximity sensing shirts light up within ten feet of each other
Apple launched the iPad exactly 1 week ago today , and although they said it wasn’t going to be shipping for another 60 days, they were nice enough to post a new version of the iPhone SDK (3.2) so that developers can start working on their new higher definition versions of iFart. Inside that SDK there just so happens to be some information about the next iPhone. Codenamed N89, the next iPhone has support for 720p video recording and version 3.1 of the AVC codec according to the MediaValidator.plist file that stores what types of media a device can handle
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Next iPhone found in new SDK, codenamed N89, has support for 720p video recording
I just finished reporting on Nokia’s Ovi Labs Racing , and if that game were available for the iPad, this would be the peripheral that you need. This iDraft, a concept model from designer Micheal Greenberg, definitely looks like “the” accessory to have for racing games
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iDrift for iPad racing games, if any
O2 has announced that Azzurri Communications, a leading independent managed service provider has become a strategic partner. Azzurri will help to deliver services to customers as part of 02’s Centre of Excellence programme.
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O2UK and Azzurri create strategic relationship