March 16, 2010 - 5:20 am
Tags: concept, curved-frame, curves, design, even-graphed, graph, home furnishing, none-solid, posts-tagged, sofa, stop-thinking, thoughts
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Sometimes something as simple as a pile of metal frames and cushions can be so inexplicably appealing that we can’t stop thinking about it. This curved frame sofa was one of those things and we even graphed out our thoughts: More
March 16, 2010 - 2:10 am
Tags: cellphones, handsets, microsoft, mix10, morning, phone, posts-tagged, the-handsets, windows phone, windows phone 7 samsung
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We’ve become acquainted with Windows Phone 7 handsets from Asus and LG , but during this morning’s demo , we saw a new one from Samsung. So, what do we know about this—or any—of the handsets we’ve seen so far? More
March 16, 2010 - 2:00 am
Tags: apple, appleipad, develop-apps, employers, greener, greener-pastures, his-sights, microsoft, remainders, team-members, things, windows, windowsphone7series
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In today’s Remainders: new beginnings. Tim Bray, co-founder of XML, starts a new job at Google (and has his sights set on Apple); several Windows Phone 7 team members are leaving…to develop apps for Windows Phone 7; and more.
March 16, 2010 - 1:00 am
Tags: app store, apps, interview, microsoft, one-lingering, possibly-catch, posts-tagged, windows, windows phone, windows phone 7, windowsphone7
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Microsoft’s already done a lot right with Windows Phone 7 , and it’s not even out until late this year. But after today’s announcements , there’s one lingering question: How can Windows Phone 7 possibly catch up, in terms of apps? More
March 16, 2010 - 12:20 am
Tags: military, none-solid, one-time-use, posts-tagged, robots, rum, underground, unmanned-ground, vehicle-having, weapons
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The US Defense Threat Reduction Agency wants a robot capable of navigating underground—drilling through soil and rock—to deliver an explosive load. A “one-time use, air-delivered, highly mobile vehicle having certain characteristics similar to an unmanned ground vehicle”.
March 15, 2010 - 11:00 pm
Tags: bogus, digital-water, distinctions, hermetically, ipad, iphone, kirf, kitchen, plasticbag, review
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Filed under: iPad I was surfing on Amazon over the weekend and decided to see what would come up when I searched for “iPad”. One of the first results was: TrendyDigital WaterGuard Waterproof Case/Cover for Apple iPad, Blue Border and what caught my attention was that it only had one star. That seemed pretty severe, given that the iPad was only available for pre-order on Friday.
Form, meet function. The 42-story Strata Building —also known by its much cooler nickname, ” The Razor “—will get 8% of its energy from three wind turbines built into its façade
March 15, 2010 - 9:33 pm
Tags: 100-million, clean energy, fcc, government, known-some, main-long-term, major, million-homes, mobile, national, national broadband plan, none-solid, posts-tagged
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We’ve known some of the major details about the FCC’s sweeping National Broadband Plan —namely 100Mbps broadband in 100 million homes —for a while now, but today they’ve made it official. It’s a sweeping proposal, with six main long-term goals: More
March 15, 2010 - 9:30 pm
Tags: AT&T, atandt, bandwidth, country, data, entry, fcc, flickr, iphone, location, network, personal, results, united-states, verizon
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Filed under: iPhone You may remember that Verizon started running ads a while ago showing AT&T’s anemic 3G coverage map . AT&T responded by saying “Our coverage includes 97% of the country!” In the small print on Verizon’s ads they make it clear that AT&T does have coverage outside of 3G
March 15, 2010 - 9:20 pm
Tags: account, account-setup, apple, from-the-iphone, googlesync, ipad, iphone, ipod touch, level-or-ninja, like-on-android, microsoft, tipb asks, unique, yahoo
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Gmail may only be the 3rd most popular email service on the planet (behind Yahoo! and Hotmail) but it ranks first in the hearts of geeks everywhere and can be used in a variety of ways on the iPhone: IMAP (or POP if you’re really old school) right from the iPhone Mail app.