"No Quiet," a watch band-like ring
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"No Quiet," a watch band-like ring
Samsung SCH-W880 is more phonecamera than vice-versa
Next month, South Korea sees the launch of a true chimera from Samsung : the SCH-W800. It’s a socking great 12-megapixel camera with a 3G phone attached, making it a real departure from all of the talky-talk, snappy-snap hybrids we’ve seen over the past five years. There are proper camera controls on the body, and you get 3x zoom, HD video, HSDPA data, WiFi, GPS, Bluetooth, microSD slot, and, this being a phone for the Korean market, mobile TV. There’s also a huge 3.3-inch AMOLED display. Samsung isn’t giving anything away as to whether the SCH-W880 is going global or not, but I would be surprised if this model (or, at least, something very similar) doesn’t make it to the West. And, speaking of Samsung, last night I was lucky enough to catch a great programme on the BBC (I live in the UK) called Upgrade Me . Presented by writer and poet Simon Armitage it examined our obsession with gadgets — and why we insist on having the most up-to-date, coolest models. Armitage headed off to Samsung’s headquarters in Seoul and discovered just what goes into the company’s cellphone concepts — and it’s not just about functionality and convergence. According to Eliot Park, Principal Designer of Samsung’s phones, the most important part of your phone is not what’s inside it, but rather what its backside looks like; because that’s the bit that other people see, hence that’s the image you project. The most mind-boggling bit was the flip chart with the buzzwords of whichever cellphone project they were working on written on in black Sharpie. Confidence. Hybrid and fusion. Harmony and Contrast. Authenticity and craft. Light as material. That, my friends, is what your cellphone should really mean to you. ? ? Via Engadget and Via BBC iPlayer
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Cars! Interior textures of the 2010 E-Class (Gallery)
Disclosure: Mercedes-Benz is a sponsor of BBG. Last week, we drove the new E-Class and were the first bloggers or journalists to get a look inside their North American R&D lab. In return, we agreed to present five posts about their latest tech, but they have no editorial control over these posts. Everyone knows what the new E-Class looks like from outside; and the dashboard, and all its technological doodads, feature strongly in all the extant coverage. So the first thing I noticed when clambering into the E-Class were the fine details that never get mentioned: textures, stitching, friction pads on air vents. I bet you can’t guess where all of these are from! O.K., so that one’s pretty easy. More info is at Mercedes-Benz’s website . ?
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Cars! Interior textures of the 2010 E-Class (Gallery)
Snow business
Neat fact: about a third of Boing Boing readers use Macs, and of those, 21.28 percent have already upgraded to Snow Leopard. For reference, BBG is at 35.31 percent, Offworld at 27.92 percent, Daring Fireball is at about 60 percent and Macworld reports just over 50 percent. Unfortunately, there is no word yet from the Official Webpage of The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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Rocky Mountain Bank sent your banking details to random Gmail account, got judge to shut it down
When Rocky Mountain Bank mistakenly sent banking info to the wrong email address, it demanded that Google tell them who owned this email address. Google: “No.” How did Federal Judge James Ware respond? He ordered gmail to close the innocent gmail user’s account . [TechDirt] Deleting an account to delete a single email sent to it? It’s not even the sort of thing one can map to useless “best justice money can buy” assumptions about the U.S. legal system. It’s just plain stupid, a line of drool linking this clueless bench jockey’s bottom lip to 1972’s best guess about who should prevail when the interests of businesses conflict with those of the general public. This particular Judge, as you might imagine, has an interesting history.
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PSP Go reviewed and ripped apart
Sony’s renovated Playstation Portable gets its public debut, and performs as expected: it is a smaller, better, less UMD-ey gaming gadget. Ross Miller calls it a sturdy, classier game system but chokes on the mean-spirited marketing gamesmanship that Sony will never, ever realize is bad for its image. “Needless to say, there’s still no second analog stick” adds Mark Wilson, who finds its charms dated by newer tech like the ZuneHD. iFixit provides the most interesting coverage, as usual, splaying the machine’s insides out for the world to see and understand , a tableux that our future robot masters will doubtless cite in their condemnation of mankind. On the other hand, maybe it is merely an exercise waiting to be recapitulated as art .
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Cars! Battle of the little green electric urban go-carts
Nissan’s Leaf is out next year; a year after that comes the Reva NXG , recently shown off at the Frankfurt motor show. It’s a similarly equipped little plug-in, with the emissions of a butterfly and the driving range of a bee: it lasts 125 miles and can go 80 MPH. Perfect for Pittsburgh, but not so much for anything that involves tasks other than shopping and commuting. Unless it is making technologically suspect “MPG” claims, of course! But still, I want one: in pastel lime green, naturally. And with a free tankful of electrons. [Jalopnik]
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Behold! RED camera accessories rendered in THE THIRD DIMENSION
It is unfair to accuse RED of pushing vaporware, as its technology is real and it rules . But its relentless teasing of product concepts hit the hype ceiling long ago, and maintaining the interest of those already convinced is the order of the day. Today’s news is that some accessories made the omnidirectional leap from working prototype to 3D rendering . Meanwhile, intrigued amateurs drift back to affordable prosumer junk , while the “DSLR cams that also shoot HD” meme is already last year’s dog and pony show, precisely 12 months old .
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Behold! RED camera accessories rendered in THE THIRD DIMENSION
