Daily Archives: September 10, 2008

Brando SpyCam masquerades as a phone

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Sometimes the best place to hide something is in plain site. (I said as I opened my trenchcoat.) That’s the theory behind this camera set from Brando, which puts its lens inside a clip-on Bluetooth headset designed to be worn … Continue reading →

BlackBerry Pearl Flip is just what it sounds like

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Joel Johnson

BlackBerry is showing off the upcoming Pearl Flip phone, robbing gadget bloggers everywhere the opportunity to make themselves useful by explaining — or at least mocking — its given name. Like the standard Pearl, the Pearl Flip (model number 8220 … Continue reading →

Slim Chips: zero calorie potato chips made out of flavored paper

Posted on September 10, 2008 by John Brownlee

Fighting the creeping gelatination of my late twenties, I have often lamented the lack of zero calorie food: there’s just so many saltines and mustard a man can eat. So while everything I know about nutrition is recoiling at this … Continue reading →

Large Hadron Collider fires its first proton beam, collisions to follow

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Joel Johnson

Congratulations to CERN and everyone who contributed to the Large Hadron Collider project, which shot off its first beam of protons today without causing immediate space/time to be slurped like a slushee into a local black hole. It’s a tremendous … Continue reading →

T9 inventor shows off Swype: finger-tracing predictive text for touchscreens

Posted on September 10, 2008 by John Brownlee

What his T9 predictive text entering system was to numeric cell phone keypads, inventor Chris Kushler hopes Swype will be to touch screens. And it may just be. It looks intuitively simple: if you want to enter a word, just … Continue reading →

Morning tech deals highlights

Posted on September 10, 2008 by Joel Johnson

• Laser Printer – Samsung ML-1630 laser printer for $100, shipped. That’s a good looking printer, even if it is only black & white. [Dealhack] • Nicotine Gum – Free starter pack of Nicorette gum. My lungs tell me I … Continue reading →

Toshiba announced two 1.8 inch HDDs, but only one goes in the belly of the iPod Classic

Posted on September 10, 2008 by John Brownlee

There’s a certain expectation that Toshiba will announce new 1.8 inch hard drives every time the iPod Classic line is refreshed, and Monday’s “Let’s Rock” (we didn”t) was no exception: Toshiba revealed two new 1.8-inch hard drives, a 120GB and … Continue reading →

Dell’s new courtesy keyboard and mouse apparently surprisingly great

Posted on September 10, 2008 by John Brownlee

The arrival of a new Dell is synchronous for the average user with the subsequent contemptuous dumping of its stock keyboard and mouse into a cardboard box full of unusable peripheral offal. But Jason over at Techware Labs says that … Continue reading →

Eolos: Ceci n’est pas une pipe

Posted on September 10, 2008 by John Brownlee

Yanko Design — enthusiastic posters of all things pie-in-the-sky conceptual — have dampened their seats and filled the air with squeeing over this concept pipe by designer Hakan Bogazpinar. Says Yanko: When I think of pipe smoking, I imagine an … Continue reading →

Sony announces new wireless Bluetooth sports headphones

Posted on September 10, 2008 by John Brownlee

Sony’s latest line of bluetooth headphones is aimed solely at the cyborg-obsessed sports crowd. The DR-BT160AS headphones are splashproof, built-in volume and play control buttons, a microphone for cellphones and massive behind-the-ear pods that house the batteries and workings. An … Continue reading →