As if having to signify your arms all about while playing Nintendo Wii games wasn’t grievous plenty, those Riiflex Wii weights that we heard around exactly a year ago are for good up in the interest of bargain-priced. Each authority adds two pounds to the already powerful burdens of the Wiimote and nunchuk, which continue many times I checked, was a kismet on someone who’s habituated to to stationary gaming and looks audacious to games that don’t be lacking any motion at all. The Riiflex cases are ergonomic and are made of spongy rubber (which sombrely doesn’t fall upon them any lighter), and you can grow older a convention on Amazon in that awkward nave color for the purpose $30.
The year last year, or more specifically the second half of the 2009, was gratefully decorated with major smartphone announcements. Just to name a few let's bring up in mind iPhone 3GS and Palm Pre coming one after another and followed by the mobile hero of the year - the HTC Hero. Then the long awaited Sony Ericsson XPERIA X2 and Motorola Droid made their appearance. By now we have Nexus One added to that lot. iPhone 3GS, despite being a revamped one and a half year old second-gen iPhone is holding very strong to its positions and better still beats the newcomers by an immense rate when it comes to loading a web page, as our colleagues were lucky to discover. If take a look in the future however we might see there an eye-pleasing glow of iPhone 4G coming out in May, 2010. At least this is what rumor mill has erected. It is hard to be precise knowing that the point about Apple iPhone 4G is based on unofficial information, speculation about it and generalized wishlist which Apple definitely follows through evolution branches of all of its products. But we have the approximate release date - May, 2010. We also have the announcement date - that should be January 27th - the day when Apple introduces their not any less rumored tablet to the public.
Hint: it's not from space and it's not from inside your body. But it does represent something you're totally reliant on. It's an electrograph of a brass wire gauge, made in 1900 to help show the wary public that electricity didn't come in just the form of tree-felling and fire-starting lightning. Scientists needed to prove that it was a safe thing to allow into their homes, and that involved visualizing electromagnetic waves in a way that the public could understand. This was one of the ways they did it. It just happens to look pretty awesome. [Wired; Photo courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ] Send an email to Adam Frucci, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@mada > moc.odomzig@mada
With an unexpected snowfall blanketing much of the East Coast for New Years, someone—either a traffic worker with a sense of humor or an average Joe with a sense of civic duty—reprogrammed this New England traffic sign. This time last year we posted a quick bit on how weirdly easy it was to hack road signs. Before that post led to the rash of hacks, usually featuring some permutation of zombies, Nazis, and the Apocalypse, Mark mused: You should never hack a road sign as part of a prank. But what if you know that there really are Zombies ahead? What then?? Well, it seems like some New Englander found that the roads were, in fact, wicked slippery and thought it prudent to warn his fellow drivers such. A further message to my driving bros: winter driving is hella dangerous as it is, save the texting for when you reach your destination. [Reddit] Send an email to Kyle VanHemert, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@tremehnavk > moc.odomzig@tremehnavk
This is a tricky one. What's the QR Code on that flag our little Android friend is waving? Turns out the QR code that leads to a game on the Android site, where you can play a Nexus-One-only game of Android-themed memory. It's basically that classic game in which you have to find the pairs of cards with matching icons, except here the icons are adorably dressed Android logos. By the way, it's supposed to be limited to users of the Nexus One, but, well, it's pretty easy to get around that. Phandroid has instructions if you're interested in playing. [Phandroid, GDGT and TechCrunch] Send an email to Dan Nosowitz, the author of this post, at < moc.odomzig@ztiwosond > moc.odomzig@ztiwosond
