The A-DATA SH93 hard drive looks to be covered in caution tape, but you needn't worry about dropping it on land or water. Both shock and sea bath-proof (to depths of a modest one meter for 30 minutes at a time), the rubber-coated SH93 protects up to 640GB of files through your stupidest (or clumsiest) adventures. Still, the most handy feature might not have to do with its toughness: The drive's wrap-around USB cord means that, typhoon or mudslide, you won't be fumbling around for the wire [...more]
Windows Mobile 6.5 rolls-out tomorrow, so expect to hear about a bunch of new handsets this week. Getting in early, AT&T has gotten official with its versions of HTC's TouchPro 2 (Tilt 2; shown left) and Touch Diamond2 (Pure) [...more]
Apparently, every T-Mobile Sidekick user from sea to shining sea has been without data access on their mobiles this weekend. Unfortunately, word on the wire is access should have returned yesterday (but it didn't). How do we know this outage is serious business? [...more]
As a child, learning to ride a bike vexed me to no end. [...more]
I once had a crush for a Swedish girl named Lisa. Now I wish it worked out, just to be able to wear this " In Love with Lisa " t-shirt and don't feel like a total Apple dork. [...more]
Android Central has more details on Motorola's Android phone for Verizon which may or may not have a 600 MHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, 3.7-inch 854x480 screen, 5-megapixel camera, video recording and Android 2.0 Eclair (w/ native flash support!). The phone has floated around under the names "Sholes," "Tao" and "Droid," the last of which seems to be the name most people are betting on. Phonedog says the Android device also packs a second 430MHz C64x+ DSP + ISP (Image Signal Processor), plus a PowerVR SGX 530 GPU, giving this thing a bit of muscle. [...more]
We already knew about painting by Windows error , but this mindbending chair at the London Design Festival looks like it was designed in the middle of a full-on Win 98 meltdown. [ Core77 ] [...more]
The sensors dome mounted on this Cessna 182 comes from a Predator. And it's under that wing because there's a shortage of Predators and Reapers , so pilots can't get training with real drones. The solution [...more]
It looks like a modern version of a van Gogh painting rather than the future headquarters of an oil company, but with its concert hall, museum, hotel and business center, Gazprom Tower will be the tallest, greenest building in Europe. [...more]
HP puffed its chest when announcing the Photosmart Premium web-connected touch-enabled printer, and I understand why. You can print coloring books, movie tickets and news reports without even owning a computer [...more]