New Form of Touchscreen Displays Pioneered, Extremely Multi-Touch
You've heard of resistive touchscreens, and hopefully you've been fortunate enough to own a capacitive touchscreen phone. But have you heard of Interpolating Force-Sensitive Resistance, or I.F.S.R touchscreen technology? Touchco hopes you soon will. A bunch of scientists at New York Universit![DIY Moped Runs on Air [Air Powered]](http://gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2008/04/800_AirPropelVehicle09PlanetMechanics.JPG)
DIY Moped Runs on Air [Air Powered]
This Puch moped only has a range of about 7 miles and with a top speed of only 18 mph, it isn't going to break any land speed records, but there is definitely something special about it: it runs on air. Jim Stansfield, an aeronautics graduate outfitted his Puch with a pair of carbon-fiber air cylind
Broadcom Wi-Fi Chips to Have Skyhook Wi-Fi Positioning Built-In
Broadcom already makes a boatload of the GPS chips found in mobile phones and other location-aware gadgets, and now they're adding Skyhook's Wi-Fi positioning service to most of their mobile Wi-Fi chipsets, spreading the location-based love even without GPS. This is how iPhone regular finds you
Nokia C6 and C7 Touchscreen Phones Have 8MP Camera and New ClearBlack Displays
Describing the C6 as a "premium touchscreen," it has a new ClearBlack Display which they're trying to position as the Pioneer KURO of the phone world—blacker blacks, but also brighter colors. The C7 is an even skinnier version. Both Symbian^3 phones have 8MP cameras and shoot video at 720p reso
CCleaner 2.21.940
CCleaner is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normal
12TB DVDs Could Be On The Way
A storage density of 51MB per square centimeter? Whatever, standard DVDs. Australian scientists developed a new multilayer optical storage medium that can house data at 1.1TB/cm3. Unlike existing DVD technology, the key to this data storage technique is the fact that multiple pieces of data can b
Sign Up Now to Test Google Wave in September
Yesterday we told you that Google Wave was opening to 100,000 regular folk at the end of September, but on closer examination, it looks like Google's already allowing users to get in line for their invite to the limited preview. Just head over to the Google Wave's sign up for updates page, enter i
Ready to Flip Out? Then Here Is the Motorola…Flipout
Posted by AceNik on May 22, 2010•
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Remember that square little Android handset by Motorola that was floating around nets a few weeks ago? According to HDBlog.it, Motorola will be unveiling it officially as the Motorola Flipout. It will be an Android 2.1 device with MOTOBLUR on top(…)
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HTC Wildfire Revealed
Posted by AceNik on May 18, 2010• Email This Post | |
Ready for another HTC handset yet? This time we are talking about the HTC Wildfire, the latest to be unveiled. The Wildfire is a pretty typical mid-range offering, with quadband GSM and 900/2100MHz UMTS/HSDPA radios. You’ll be getting the (thankfully) now standard Android 2.1 (though you won’t be so thankful when 2.2 is already out), and a bevy of other goodies under the hood.
The dirty on specs:
- 525MHz Qualcomm MSM 7225 CPU
- 5MP autofocus camera with LED flash
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LG Ally Suits Up, Shows Some Specs
Posted by AceNik on May 17, 2010• Email This Post | |
If you haven’t checked over the LG/Iron Man 2 tie-in site, it has now gone live giving us a small taste of what you can expect from theLG Ally. The phone will run on Android 2.1, feature a 3.2? touchscreen, and run(…)
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Google Buys BumpTop, But Why?
Posted by AceNik on May 15, 2010• Email This Post | |
Yesterday, TechCrunch caught wind of a very interesting rumor that stated Google was either preparing to buy BumpTop, or that the deal has already gone down. Since then, the story has been confirmed by Google themselves, however there was no reason
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Android 2.2 (Froyo) features
Posted by AceNik on May 7, 2010• Email This Post | |
It sounds like a beta version of Android 2.2 (Froyo) is out in the wild for testing — and it has some interesting features that I’m sure Android users will find interesting. The new version of the operating system will be(…)
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