This Water Bobble is a recycled plastic water bottle with its own filter purifier in the cap. Just fill it up with tap water and get some carbon filtered goodness down your throat instead of buying all that fancy shmancy 112 words | permalink | 2 comments | digg this
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Water Bobble – recycled water bottle with filter cap
The federal government can’t be bothered with space exploration anymore (which is terribly disappointing, by the way), so private industry has to pick up the slack. A company by the name of Bigelow Aerospace plans to put an entire space station in orbit within the next four years.
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Bigelow Aerospace building first private space station
Kwon Jieun’s concept Bookmate is a book-cover, a stand, a light and a bookmark, all in one. The flexible jacket has a pair of wraparound grips which grab the two halves of the book when it is open, keeping the book either flat on the table in front of you or – if you flip out the kick-stand – propped up on a counter-top or your lap
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Bookmate, The Multi-Tasking Book-Holder
When we ran our review of the Alienware M11x a few months back , there were a couple of things that really didn’t sit well with us. They had decided on the older Nvidia chipset (which forced you to basically shut everything down to change from discrete to active video) and you were somewhat limited in what CPU options were available. Well, no longer
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Alienware officially updates the M11x
Adobe has released the final, baked, non-beta version of Lightroom 3, its photo organizing and editing software. Most of you will likely have been using the very stable betas for some months now, but there are a few extra goodies in this final release that will tempt you to upgrade
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Adobe Lightroom 3 Released, Adds Lens Distortion Tweaks
The Spider Holster people have added a boxful of accessories to their belt-mounted camera-carrier, letting photographers hang their cameras on belts from various other manufacturers and generally make their DSLRs more secure. The Spider Holster, you will remember, is not a way to keep an arachnid close at hand for some comedy mom-scaring action
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Spider Holster Adds Arca-Swiss Mount, Third-Party Belt Support
AdHack is a new crowdsourced DIY advertising marketplace, which links up people making ads with those looking for them. The idea is similar to SpotMixer, Zooppa and even AdReady which does DIY banner ads. The difference with AdHack is they’re 159 words | permalink | One comment | digg this
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AdHack – crowdsourced DIY advertising community
Updated to include more information on Qik Apple’s new iPhone 4 is the company’s biggest update yet for the handset and it will have you drooling. The phone is a snazzily slim, glass-backed slab that boasts some impressive specs: dual cameras, a big operating system update and video chat, among other things. Apple introduced the phone at its developer conference Monday and said it will be available on AT&T’s network starting June 24.
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Showdown: iPhone 4 vs. HTC Evo 4G
This Emerson Multi-Function Photo Frame Weather Station is clever all right. They’ve taken a standard 7 inch LCD screen and stuffed a weather display as well as clock, calendar and photo viewer software into the innards.
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Emerson Multi-Function Photo Frame Weather Station – clock, photos and some cute cumulonimbus
Along with all the laptops that Dell accidentally leaked today, they also announced an update to the Latitude E5410 and E5510 models. These two refreshed systems are based off of the ever popular E-series of laptops, and feature the latest Intel processors and chipsets. Dell is focusing on the business user with the new Latitude models, including improved deployment time, stability, and global support.
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Dell announces new Latitude E5410 & E5510 notebooks
Looks like Sony is pulling out all the stops in its imaging department. Not only are we getting some hot new interchangeable lens compacts , but also a sweet camcorder with the same system — and now we hear what any of us could have guessed: that the next Alpha DSLRs will also do video. Paul Genge of Sony UK has confirmed that an improved processor will allow the next series of Alphas to shoot video, although he didn’t mention resolution, framerate, codec, or anything like that.
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In addition to point-and-shoots and camcorders, Sony Alpha DSLRs to do video
Nissan has decided that Hawaii will be in the first wave of Leaf-enabled states . They say (truthfully, I think) that it’s because of Hawaii’s commitment to green power and all that.
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Hawaii to get Nissan Leaf early (because they’re eco-friendly there (and it’s an island))
You tend to think of archaeologists as academic types, dusting off pottery shards and bones, and a comfy tent in the desert. Generally speaking, you don’t think of them buzzing Mayan ruins and bombarding the jungle with lasers.Yet that’s just what Arlen and Diane Chase are doing in Belize. They’re using LIDAR to scan below the trees, which form an effective screen against satellite imaging, and it’s making mapping the ancient Mayan city of Caracol a snap
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Mapping the Mayans with high-powered lasers
There is certainly a market for business-ordinated netbooks and Dell’s latest Latitude netbook ensures that it can keep up with the corporate world. An Intel Atom still resides at the core, but it’s the new 1.83GHz N470 model backed with the latest Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, the 3150
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The Dell Latitude 2110 netbook packs mobile broadband and touchscreens
Apple’s supposedly confidential agreement with AT&T was not a secret after all: They struck a five-year exclusivity contract to carry the iPhone in 2007, an old court document reveals. Still, the validity of the contract remains a question. An ongoing class action suit filed against Apple and AT&T in 2007 alleged that the two parties held a monopoly over the iPhone by locking consumers into a contract for an indefinite amount of time
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Apple’s Contract With AT&T Does Not Quash Verizon Rumor
News has been pretty sparse about the pricing or availability of the PlayStation Move controller, but GameStop thinks they have the down low on when and how much. GameStop’s Canadian site is showing the (expected) release date along with the pricing. This could of course be idle speculation (GameStop usually just puts an arbitrary date in their system when they start accepting pre-orders), but the pricing looks about right
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PlayStation Move Controller will cost $60, expected Sept. 1st
Microsoft’s two newest phones, the Kin One and Kin Two, take aim at the same demographic as the company’s earlier Sidekick phones: Text-happy tweens. The phones have a promising new interface that puts social media updates front and center, with tweets, Facebook updates and other tiny news blurbs stacked up in an attractive column on the phones’ home screen
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Video: Hands-On With the Kin One and Kin Two
Close readers will have noticed that A) I write quite a bit about soccer+technology but B) never about Team USA. Messi this, Cristiano Ronaldo that. Well that ends today! Nike recently unveiled the kit that Landon Donovan & Co.
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Say hello to the environmentally friendly Nike kits that Team USA will wear at the World Cup
A little while ago I brought news of the super-duper technology that adidas’ kits (“jerseys”) will utilize at the World Cup . We all had a good time, yes? Well today there’s news of the boot, the F50 adiZero, that the likes of Leo Messi and David Villa (soon to be teammates at FC Barcelona maybe ~!) and Jozy Altidore will use to score many goals.
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Adidas F50 adiZero: Messi (and others) will wear the lightest soccer boot in human history at the World Cup
DustPan+Bin: a name as ruthlessly descriptive as it is full of annoying designer-y typographic quirks. The concept product it refers to is a combo trashcan and dustpan, complete with a handsome matching broom. The idea seems to be that you would leave the triangular receptacle in the corner of the room, just like any other trashcan, but when a rubbish-strewn-on-floor emergency arises, you are merely ninety degrees and a good sharp kick away from cleaning up
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DustPan+Bin: A Convertible Trash Receptacle
Sony has at last made good on its promise of mirrorless, interchangeable-lens compact cameras. We saw some mock-ups of the slab-like cameras back in February, and now Sony’s answer to the Micro Four Thirds and Samsung’s NX1 is here
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Sony’s NEX Mirrorless Cameras Are the Smallest in the World
I know nothing about the American version of rounders that you call baseball, but if I did I would say that the crowd-sourcing company Quirky just keeps hitting balls out of the park. This time the committee-designed product is a handsome lap-tray for the iPad, called the Cradle. The Cradle, which would actually be a pretty great work-in-bed laptop stand, is a bent-wood design which wraps over the lap to support the iPad in front of you
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Cradle, a Spinning Lap-Tray for the iPad