1. Ford's inflatable seat belts headed to Explorer in 2010, other whips in due time 26 minutes ago permalinkInflatable seat belts. At a glance, that doesn't seem like such a bad idea after all, particularly for those rear seat passengers who aren't blessed with two huge bags or air right in front of their chest. We're guessing the top brass at Ford feel pretty much the same way, as the outfit has just announced that these very devices will be making ... 2. Review: Sons of Anarchy - Fa Guan 3 hours ago permalink(S02E09) - "I know the greater devil when I see it." - Deputy Chief Hale to Clay The great thing about a show like Sons of Anarchy is you never exactly know when you're watching its true boiling point. You might think the situation you're watching is the apex of the conflict, particularly the beef between Clay and Jax, but it always finds an ...
3. Cambridge 2 hours ago permalinkLoads of medical stuff that'll need researching and checking here - essentially just assume that the whole section has QQ throughout it. It's also where I explain that the normal isolation procedures wouldn't work with CLBD-7. ----- After all the packing and the promise of travel I’m somewhat disappointed that my first appointment is at ...
4. Comcast lining up more day-and-date HD VOD this month 1 hour ago permalinkFiled under: Cable Consider another shot fired in the HD VOD wars, now Comcast is claiming "most same day VOD & DVD releases" for the month of November. Angels & Demons, Bruno, The Ugly Truth and others are among those hitting the VOD slate the same day they hit shelves, while movies like the Transformers and Ice Age sequels make their ... 5. Safa Xing LED features MP3 playback, 27 pixel resolution 2 hours ago permalinkSafa is a Korean firm that has put out quite a few forgettable DAPs in its day, and while this one isn't going to win any awards for technological advancement, it does look like "fun," for whatever that's worth. The Xing LED is a none-too-shabby 12mm thin and boasts 12 hours of playback time on a single charge. The company fails to mention ... 6. Managed Copy hits Blu-ray Discs December 4th, but you still can't use it 4 hours ago permalinkFiled under: Blu-ray The egg had to come before the chicken right? Well either way, one of 'em came first and in the case of the latest Blu-ray feature, Managed Copy enabled Blu-ray Discs will come before the hardware. Less than five months since AACS was finalized and the details of Managed Copy were revealed and so far we've only seen one demo ... 7. How would you change Windows Mobile 6.5? 6 hours ago permalinkWe know, today is totally Android 2.0's day to shine , but what would a Friday night be without a little diversity? Windows Mobile 6.5 officially landed on a gaggle of Windows Phones back in early October (a month ago to the day, in fact), but by and large, all of 'em have seemingly drifted off into some forgotten corner while Motorola's DROID ... 8. Nokia's latest batch for emerging markets includes its cheapest phone ever 7 hours ago permalinkWe spend most of our time talking about Espoo's Maemo- and Symbian-based lineup, which makes it easy to forget that the company has a vibrant business taking care of the very lowest rungs of the wireless industry -- devices that shatter price barriers and take service to entire new market segments in the furthest reaches of the world. Last year, ...
9. YouTube Is Falling Apart Again 6 hours ago permalinkThe ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all ... 10. IPhone Application Translates Babies’ Howls 7 hours ago permalinkHaving trouble understanding your baby’s burbles, screeches and noisy, wheedling screams? There’s an app for that. The Cry Translator listens to a whining child and analyzes the pitch, volume, tone and inflection of his nerve-jangling noise. Ten seconds later, it provides you with one of five “translations”: hungry, sleepy, stressed, ...
11. The Just Because We Love You TwitterPeek Giveaway #Crunch 9 hours ago permalinkIf you're a Twitter freak and think that a dedicated Twitter device is just the thing for you, read on. This week we saw the launch of the TwitterPeek , a cute little device built by Peek that will do just about anything you want it to do, as long as all you want it to do is access Twitter. It won't surf the web. It won't make phone calls. It won'
12. IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010 10 hours ago permalinkMany signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...
13. Gowalla Hops Onto Android Via The Mobile Web 9 hours ago permalinkUp until now, if you wanted to use the location-based service Gowalla on the go, you had to have an iPhone. Today, that expands to Android. But rather than building an app, Gowalla has extended support to Android using the mobile web . This works because Android's browser is closely tied to the device and is able to access location information, ...
14. Dvorak Poll: Should Government Flags Be Flown At Half Staff ONLY For The Fort Hood Dead? 9 hours ago permalinkPresident Obama ordered flags be flown at half staff. Governors of many, if not all, states ordered the same. Obviously what happened Thursday at Ft. Hood was a tragedy. Just as obviously, Sgt. Kimberly Munley who got shot while taking Hasan out is a hero. So are others who helped the wounded as the firing continued. So, flying the flag at half ... 15. Comedy Central wants a bite of The Onion 10 hours ago permalinkPart of me is surprised that this deal took this long to happen. But when you watch the recent crop of new shows on the Chortle Network (with the exception of Tosh.0 ), it really shouldn't surprise anyone. Comedy Central has ordered a half-hour scripted pilot based on the Onion's Sports Network. The OSN is part of the popular satirical magazine' ...
16. Verizon's LG Chocolate Touch is nice but nothing new 10 hours ago permalinkThe LG Chocolate Touch from Verizon Wireless is a terrific music phone with Dolby Music equalizer settings, an FM radio, and more, but it doesn't the "wow" factor we were expecting. Originally posted at Dialed In Podcast 17. Free Conferencing CEO Asks FCC to Keep on Google Voice 10 hours ago permalinkEven though less than 1 percent of the population uses Google Voice, David Erickson, president of the Free Conferencing Corp., a conference call company whose numbers are blocked by the service, is pretty aggrieved. So he met with the FCC and filed a letter urging the regulatory agency to get Google to play fair. [...] 18. Mozilla Jetpack contest winner harnesses GPU power to process data 11 hours ago permalinkFiled under: Mozilla , Browsers Mozilla Labs has announced a winner of the Jetpack .5 contest . While Jetpack is known primarily as a framework for allowing coders with a web development background to put together add-on type enhancements for Firefox, the winner 's project wasn't your run-of-the-mill sidebar hack. Alex Miltsev's submission was ...
19. Brad Fitzpatrick Talks About Programming 11 hours ago permalinkBrad Fitzpatrick, born in 1980, started to learn programming at the age of 5. In high school he went on to create a voting booth script called FreeVote, which he says earned him as much as 27 cent per click on banner ads back then (making for 25, 27 grand per month). He went on to create blogging platform LiveJournal, thinking and implementing a ... 20. Tetris, Eastern Bloc stylez 11 hours ago permalinkSays it all, really. More info here . |
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