Class Action Lawsuit Against Apple Alleges That iPads Get Too Hot When Used In The Sun
Apple must make a big, juicy target to lawyers trying to cobble together class-action lawsuits. They make promises in plain English that, as is the case with almost all advertising, don’t exactly pan out, but usually allowances can be made. Does Old Spice make you “smell like a man”
This is a viral marketing campaign for some kind of extra-fine point Pilot pen. I love the minifigs themselves, but the campaign bugs me for a couple of reasons: 1) I’ve been Googling around pretty hard and can’t seem to figure out exactly which of Pilot’s many pens these photos are promoting, and 2) nowhere does it explicitly state that the art on the minifigs was actually done with whatever pen they are advertising. So even if I could figure out which one that was, it’s not at all clear that I could actually use it to tattoo my own minifigs.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Anticipating California voters will back a November ballot measure to legalize casual marijuana use, officials in Oakland have approved two tax rates on pot sales in their city, already a hub of the state’s medicinal marijuana scene.
Facebook Finally Allowing Some Users To Delete Their Accounts [New Facebook Privacy Settings Allows For Permanent Account Deletion, Higher Sense Of…
In the early days of the Internet it was used pretty much solely to exchange ideas, talk about various topics and so on. However, now a days, it is used for so much more. Arguably one of the most effective uses of the Internet is the ability to buy something and have it shipped to your house (which I’m sure all of you have done) without every leaving your desk
Cloud Music iPhone App Streams Tracks Uploaded to Google Docs [IPhone Apps]
Cloud Music iPhone App Streams Tracks Uploaded to Google Docs [IPhone Apps] Heaps of music-streaming apps already exist for the iPhone, but Cloud Music has one novel selling point: you upload the music files to Google Docs, and then stream the songs from there. Docs is not just for word-processing anymore, remember ?
Qi Wireless Power Is Now A Standard [The Wireless Power Consortium Looks To Make Devices and Chargers Run On One Standard, Allowing Interoperability]
The whole wireless power issue is an interesting one, no mistake there, but there are plenty of problems with it. The biggest of them is that some devices won’t work on some chargers. The Wireless Power Consortium, meanwhile, is working to make that problem a whole lot less prevalent, and to that end, has announced the Qi standard.
Today, in 1938, Ernest Gary Gygax was born in Chicago, IL. He would go on to create a gaming and publishing empire, built on math-driven storytelling and gem-like Platonic solids dice (co-creating the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ). Anybody who’s ever played Dungeons & Dragons will know why Gary Gygax is suited to be celebrated in a Maker Birthday shout out.
Chevy Volt Finally Gets Official Pricing From GM [Highly Anticipated Chevy Volt EV Now Priced At $41,000 Or $350 Per Month With 3-Year Lease]
Global warming and rising gas prices are forever a concern, especially to those who pride themselves in being extremely environmentally friendly. Fortunately, as gas prices continue to creep skywards, car manufacturers are coming frth to release extremely efficient models with high gas mileage ratings. However, just getting better MPG doesn’t exactly remedy the problem, it just puts a band-aid on it
RIM, AT&T To Announce Mystery Product Next Week Tuesday [RIM and AT&T To Unveil Something On August 3rd, Everybody Knows It's The BlackBerry 9800]
The folks at BGR just got their invites to a press event being held by AT&T and RIM in New York next Tuesday, August 3rd. What could they possibly be announcing? Only one thing would require such a grand unveiling, and that would be the BlackBerry 9800
Dell Releases Pricing Scheme For Streak Android Tablet [Dell Confirms $299 Price Point For Streak With 2-Year Contract, $549 Without]
There have been a plthora of iPad competitors getting announced in the form of Android powered tablets but we have yet to see any of them hit the streets and be made available for consumer purchase. However, one of the most highly sought after Android tablets is undoubtedly the Dell Streak. This device, other than Dell’s forthcoming Windows Phone 7 offerings, have been generally viewed as Dell’s reentry into the mobile marketplace after going on a leave of absence since their PDA days
Saitek Pro Flight Brings Out Host of Flight Sim Gear [Saitek Offers Even More Realism With the Combat Rudder Pedals, The Backlit Information Panel and…
Via io9 , Arizona State University has assembled the highest-resolution Mars map to date , the images drawn from 21,000 pix shot by the Mars Odyssey orbiter’s THEMIS camera. The maps show Mars as if sliced from a globe, unwrapped and flattened out on a table. Nearly 21,000 individual images have been smoothed, blended, fitted together and cartographically controlled to make a giant mosaic that web viewers can zoom into and scroll around
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Tuesday 27 July 2010 at 19:50:00 Patient, brilliant and better funded, warns networking firm Malicious hackers are winning the enterprise security fight, according to Cisco’s chief security officer. John Stewart said in the Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report that the hacking industry is now…
CD Design’s iPhone Game Pad Hits Prototype Stage [iPhone Gamers Will Get A Chance To Control Games With Buttons on the iPhone Game Pad]
One thing that’s been a rather common lament for a whole lot of iPhone gamers–is that they’re limited to touchscreen gaming. Thus, any console gaming ports are sort of left out in the cold. Sure, you could play Boomshine with no trouble, but try and get a copy of, say, Donkey Kong Country
T-Mobile Teases First HSPA+ Phone [T-Mobile Further Promotes Their 3.5G Network, First Full-Speed HSPA+ Phone Is Coming]
So, the Sprint fanboys didn’t like my article on why T-Mobile’s HSPA+ network was better than Sprint’s WiMax network, despite T-Mobile’s being ‘just’ 3.5G. At any rate – T-Mobile has recently unveiled a new teaser site that teases their first HSPA+ smartphone that’ll offer full connectivity for the 3.5G network, with impressive 4G-like speeds
Amimon Demonstrates Wireless 3D HD Video [Amimon's Transmission Systems Require the 5 GHz Band To Send 1080p 3D Video]
It seems more and more like 3D is not just some kind of cheesy gimmick so much as it is the cheesy gimmick that everybody and his mother is embracing. So to that end, we’ve got places like Amimon, who are actually using wireless transmission to send 3D HD video.
Chevrolet Volt Gets Price, Coming This December [Mass Produced Electric Car Coming To Select Markets, Selling For $41,000 Sans Tax Benefits]
General Motors pioneered the all-electric vehicle market in the 1990′s with their EV1. However, despite that, surely many people would say that the American auto giant has fallen behind Toyota and Honda in green car tech. Now, GM strikes back with the Chevrolet Volt – their all-electric car, which is coming soon to seven US markets
Young maker Sasha shows us how to assemble the solar frightened grasshopper kit from the Maker Shed in this, another kid-made video on the MAKE ‘tubes.
I have been following the development of Windows Phone 7 for some time now, and noticed a very worrying development recently. It seems that even the most passionate supporters of the upcoming phone OS, are starting to prepare us for the worst! Windows Phone 7: Not the game-changer we were promised? Just a few weeks ago, the tech news jungle was buzzing with reports of a new “game-changing” phone OS. Then, suddenly, reports started to come out slamming it! Maybe the strongest post came from InfoWorld, with Windows Phone 7 – Don’t bother with this disaster . This is to be expected, right? Even the original iPhone drew some negatives for lack of certain features, like cut-n-paste (remember?). But now it seems that even the most vocal supporters of Microsoft, like respected Microsoft blogger Paul Thurrott , have started preparing us for a far less game-changing OS than we were originally promised. When people like Thurrott start preparing us to be underwhelmed, I take notice. He is extremely well connected with Microsoft and is currently writing “Windows Phone Secrets” having been given a device by Microsoft for the book