Archives: 2007 November

Filed under: Digital Cameras

It looks like those looking to put together a quick and easy surveillance system for spying on their employees could soon find their solution courtesy of NEC, which is set to debut a new security cam that draws all its power from a standard fluorescent light. But that’s not all, the camera […]

Filed under: Laptops
It’s not like ThinkPads have been immune to the notorious overheating battery issue, but a fiery incident in Ohio may not be IBM’s fault. In a somewhat bizarre tale, it’s reported that an Ohioan purchased a replacement battery from Shentech for his ThinkPad, only to later have it overheat, catch on fire and […]

Filed under: Gaming
Details are unsurprisingly light on this one, but DigiTimes has it that NVIDIA is gearing up to launch its next-generation GPU just after the Lunar New Year in February 2008. Reportedly, “sources at graphics card makers” have revealed that the GeForce 9 series will include the D9E — a “high-end product that adopts […]

John Gaeta, the the Oscar-winning special effects guru behind The Matrix trilogy and the forthcoming Speed Racer film, just told me about one of his favorite online hangouts: VRMAG. It’s an online magazine about virtual reality in all its forms including, as John describes it, “interactive photography and explorable documentary art.” Prematurely hyped during the […]

Filed under: Transportation

This one’s been making the rounds lately, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t take a moment to acknowledge any invention that boasts to be the “Segway of the sky,” which is just what upstart Air Buoyant claims its so-called “Vertipod” could one day be. According to Danger Room, this flying machine employs […]

WFMU has mp3 files of the late humorist Roger Price’s album, Roger and Over. Price was the author of several humor books as well as the classic critique on dumb culture -The Great Roob Revolution.
I was fortunate to become friends with Roger Price […]

Filed under: Handhelds

What is it with this sick pleasure we derive from watching beloved devices torn to pieces by ruthless uber-nerds? Who knows, but it certainly isn’t getting old just yet. Amazon’s Kindle got just such treatment at the hands of RapidRepair, and if you’re one of those doubters that was never quite sold on […]

eBoy, the art collective that designed the Boing Boing logo, has created several styles of beautiful giftwrap, which you can purchase from the eBoy site. Link

Filed under: Gaming

Doesn’t Nintendo know we’ve got a bit of a weight problem going on over here Stateside? The company just released its highly-anticipated Wii Fit in Japan today, which will most likely sell like gangbusters, while simultaneously symbolizing the death of the hardcore gamer in Nintendo land to a small portion of the faithful […]

Article in the Telegraph reports on scientists’ thoughts on the idea that the life of the universe might come to an end sooner because people are studying it.
New Scientist reports a worrying new variant as the cosmologists claim that astronomers may have […]