Iain Thomson and Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Saturday 12 June 2010 at 08:01:00 Pros and cons of the new Apple handset In case you haven’t heard yet, Apple had a little do last week, and the star of the show was a new iPhone….
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Top 10 reasons for and against the iPhone 4
The Paperless Orifice A Glimpse of Things to Come There was a time in this country, and it wasn’t that long ago, when paper was considered just too precious for some of the—er— hygienic purposes to which it is now routinely put. It was one thing for Pa to wipe his waste disposal port with a scrap of last year’s Sears & Roebuck catalog, but to do so with a pristine piece of otherwise unused tissue paper
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Sony Digital eReader Touch Edition
Via Dinosaurs and Robots come these amazing pictures of a derelict machine shop in the mountains of North Carolina. “No one on the mountain can remember it being open” says the Mondo-Blogo author who snapped the pics. It looked like, one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s, that they just up and closed without even clearing off their desks
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Embracing decay at Sid’s Machine Shop
When I first saw Chris’s gorgeous brass-and-wood irising door peephole mechanism in the ShopBot booth at Maker Faire, I knew it was something special: A beautiful piece of machinery, designed and built solely for the pleasure of operating and observing its operation. When Chris contacted us wanting to sell them in Makers Market , naturally I was excited, but I was also a bit skeptical
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Chris Schaie’s mechanical irises for sale
• New offensive coordinator Jeremy Bates talked about the building process for the offense with the team’s Web site, saying that the organized team activities are coming up with a blueprint with the real construction beginning once the players put on pads at training camp. • Who do you blame for the NCAA sanctions against USC? Well, Los Angeles Times columnist Bill Plaschke says blame USC and the ego the program had .
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Friday site seeing
Benjamin Eckel from Gumbolabs wanted to be able to decode the signals from his universal remote, so he hooked an infrared receiver up to his Arduino and created this Radioshack infrared receiver . Could be just the thing for creating that remote-controlled robot! Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
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Control an Arduino project using an infrared remote
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 20:13:00 Soldier said to have passed on 260,000 military and diplomatic cables The US authorities are seeking to interview Wikileaks founder Julian Assange following allegations that he was sent a huge cache of classified State Department cables by a disgruntled soldier in…
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US hunts Wikileaks founder after national security disclosure
Jeri experiments with Dupont Luxprint Electroluminescent inks and converts an old LCD into a simple EL display. She also demonstrates that super glue can be used as the dielectric and that zinc sulfide glow powder does not work well as an EL phosphor.
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Jeri Ellsworth turns an LCD into an EL display
Combing through hundreds of blog posts and news articles daily, Dirk Klingner, our technology-trend watcher, sifts through the noise to bring you the tech news most important to consumers.
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Daily Dispatch: Google launches short answers on mobile; iPhone 4 to enable advanced augmented reality apps
Panasonic's VT20-series 3D TV, pre-game. While many of you were getting ready for work this morning, I, too, was preparing for my workday. But my guess is that for most of you, that didn't involve preparing a late breakfast, climbing back into bed, and turning on the TV
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ESPN’s broadcast of the FIFA World Cup in 3D: How does it look?
Snow made it into the Technique Junkie Newsletter . The technique I did was Faux Fossils. Sounds cool, eh?! When Pat said we could do scrapbook layouts, I was thrilled because I love to scrapbook and am so behind. Now I can catch up easily, so you will be seeing more layouts. How many of you are behind in your scrapbooks? Why not create a brick wall like I did, and stick a photo on it. It will help to get you started in catching up
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Snow is a Technique Junkie Too
Dan Worth, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 17:34:00 RIM offers payments and royalties as part of deal to share licence agreements Research in Motion and Motorola have announced a worldwide end to litigation over licensing disputes. The companies have entered into a cross-licensing agreement to share intellectual property on a range…
Khidr Suleman, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 17:17:00 Analysts believe download limits are here to stay Analysts have predicted that the major UK mobile networks will follow O2 and cap data use, but stressed that such a move will affect only a small proportion of consumers….
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UK operators likely to follow O2 with data caps
V3.co.uk staff, V3.co.uk , Friday 11 June 2010 at 14:59:00 V3.co.uk readers’ most popular stories this week No prizes for guessing the most popular stories with V3.co.uk readers this week. The launch of the iPhone 4 has taken the smartphone market by storm, and the major UK…
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Top 10 articles: The iPhone 4 arrives
With Steve Jobs predicting that tablet computers will supplant laptops and desktops, this is a good time to take a look at what new tablets Mr. Jobs will soon find his iPad competing against. Many will run on Google’s Android operating system which, unlike the iPad , supports flash-based videos and animations
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Watch out, iPad: More tablets on the way
More than a hundred thousand Apple iPad user e-mail addresses reportedly found their way to Gawker.com after hackers sent the addresses to the site. Among those whose addresses were leaked were important personalities, including executives of the New York Times, Time Warner, and HBO. There were also several e-mail addresses that ended with @us.army.mil – pointing to several members of the military as iPad early adopters
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FBI Looks into iPad e-Mail Leaks
Tie-up with Google Street view offers street-level photos Expedia has joined forces with Google to offer holiday makers the chance to really discover the amenities and transport links close to a hotel before they book.
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Expedia lets web users explore their holiday destination
While iPad applications are so far reporting strong numbers, Scribd co-founder believes there is a better way for journals to produce mobile news, PaidContent reports . Jared Friedman , CTO and co-founder of the document sharing website Scribd, believes that his website would function better then iPad applications in communicating news to iPad users.
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Co-founder believes Scribd is better alternative to Apple’s app
Service could come to iPhone, Android & BlackBerry ITV is thought to be working on a mobile app that will allow iPhone, Google Android and BlackBerry users to watch its catch-up TV service, ITV Player, on their handsets.
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ITV working on mobile catch-up TV app
Fox News has recently reported the launch of a its new website Fox News Insider, WebNewser reports . The site, which focuses on an integration of social media, allows for users to post on a “live wall” and displays the tweets of Fox correspondents in a Twitter Tracker. Other features of the site include an open question and a poll to which users can respond.
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Fox News introduces more social website