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This Is Why You Shouldn’t Put Drunk Ewoks On Live TV [Star Wars]

In honor of Halloween, the Today Show had a Star Wars themed episode. The only trouble is that no one considered that sticking a bunch of drunk midgets into Ewok costume might end with dry humping, fighting, and moon-walking. According [...]

Are Muscle Sensors The Future Of Gaming?

We’ve seem a simple game controller for games such as Pong, controllers for the Playstation and also Nintendo’s Wiimote, but will the gaming in the future see the absence of controllers? Well, with the muscle-computer interface technology being investigated by [...]

iPhone Problems With Win 7?

If you’re running an Intel P55 chipset, Windows 7, and an iPhone, you might be encountering some problems, if the experience of quite a few people online is anything to go by. Apparently many folks are unable to sync their [...]

Leaked docs show HTC’s DROID Eris launching on November 6th for $99, running Android 1.5

Like it or not, we’ve got it on pretty reasonable authority that HTC’s first “DROID” phone is nothing more than a rebadged, shape-shifted Hero (something we’ve been hearing for a while now), and that it’ll be launching on Verizon on [...]

Leaked Docs Confirm Droid Eris Details: November 6 for $99 [Rumor]

New leaked documents suggest all the Droid Eris grumblings we’ve heard were true: it should launch November 6, and will supposedly run $99 after rebate. That’s pretty cheap considering it matches the specs of the $180 Hero. What we’ve heard [...]

HTC’s “Virtual Book” UI Patent Could Be Sense UI’s Successor [Htc]

HTC’s new UI patent that “organizes applications, widgets, and web pages into pages of a virtual book” may “borrow” a few ideas from Palm, but it’s cool with me. I’m all for a snazzier version of Pre’s card system. It [...]

Bell Announces Samsung Omnia II

Bell should be feeling rather smug; as the announcement is out that the Samsung Omnia II will be exclusive to Bell. In case you’ve forgotten, this is the phone that is powered by Windows Mobile 6.5, sports a 3.7-inch AMOLED [...]

Cell Phones Reduce Bone Density?

Sometimes you just have to take pity on cellphones, last time people used to claim that it caused cancer, now it’s being blamed for bone degeneration. Next we’ll have a study that concludes that cell phones make is hungry or [...]

Spooky DIY Tesla Radio

Fancy a little DIY project over the weekend? Well, a nice little guide has appeared online, giving you instructions on how to come up with a weird little radio (of sorts) in a jam-jar. Apparently this non-powered radio will pick [...]

Week In Review—The Second Coming of Android [Roundup]

Think of this week’s round of announcements as Android’s débutante ball. She’s gone from a lovable ragamuffin to a mature OS that’s ready for the spotlight. With Android 2.0, Motorola Droid and Google Maps Navigation, she stole our hearts. Google [...]