Filed under: Cellphones
So, what web dev over at AT&T is getting a black mark on his next annual review? It seems now that both the Nokia N75 and the LG CU500v have been pulled from AT&T’s site following an exciting morning that was shaping up to be one of the more memorable for AT&T subscribers […]

Filed under: Transportation
While there unfortunately still isn’t any word on when it might be available, those curious about the long-in-development Segway Centaur may want to head over to MotorcycleUSA, which has put together a fairly in-depth look at the four-wheeled vehicle for those that haven’t been following its every move. Of course, it’s still to […]

Filed under: LaptopsJust a quick note from Sonny the Explody Battery: those with Apple laptops should take care to download the Battery Update 1.2 released by Apple today. We don’t know for sure it alleviates any of the wierd issues people have been having with bloated, hazardous cells, but it’s hard to imagine an update […]

Filed under: GamingEveryone reading now is likely to be significantly older (and thusly worse at video games) by the time they’re actually released, but the legendary departing Kutaragi-san told EE Times, “As a matter of course, I have the vision of Playstation [sic] 4, 5 and 6, which will merge into the network.” Proud father […]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Wearables
It’s taken ‘em nearly three years to get around to it, but Finis have a new version of their SwiMP3 underwater MP3 player coming out. Like the original, the SwiMP3 v2 uses bone conduction, rather than regular earphones, to transmit sound directly from your cheek bone to your inner ear (it […]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, WearablesLess than a year after challenging researchers to develop a bionic arm that looks, feels, and works like a real arm by 2009, DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics Program has now netted its first prototype, PhysOrg reports, with one patient already putting the arm through its paces. Developed by a team at Johns […]

Filed under: Robots
This year’s RoboCup is still a few months away but entrants are already getting a chance to size up some of the competition, with Team Osaka unveiling its roster of players this week in Japan. As you can see in the videos on the site linked below, the bots are definitely built to […]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Slicing up ole Xbox consoles or using immensely powerful lasers to heat your morning cup of joe are certainly entertaining ways to make industrial machinery a bit more fun, but the CNC Toast printer ups the ante by providing an over-the-top replacement for those plastic molds we used as youngsters. By hacking […]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
While we’ve been seeing methanol fuel cells pop up in all kinds of concept devices for a while now, there have been precious few actual shipping products that get their juice on with a fuel cell. That might be slowly changing, as a research team at the National Tsing Hua University in […]

Filed under: Cellphones, Displays
No sooner than a furry display patent application surfaces from Philips, it looks like Intel has jumped on the patent-a-random-display bandwagon along with Apple and a few others. Of course, flexible displays have long since been a figment of reality, but the “method of fabricating flexible displays” patent tends to focus more […]