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Samsung Galaxy S Review: Hands-on With the Android Smartphone
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I recently had the chance to get my hands on Samsung’s new Android smartphone, the Galaxy S. To be specific, I tested the GT-I9000 – which appears to be the reference model for the series – and put it through its paces. The model I tested came with an AT&T… |
July 14th, 2010
Frash: Android Flash Ported to iPad: Could It Make Jailbreaking Worth It?
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The quest to bring Flash to Apple’s tablet continues, and we have yet another contender. A developer going by the name of Comex (who also made the iOS jailbreaking software Spirit) has ported the Android Flash runtime to the iPad.… |
July 5th, 2010
Espresso Machine Gets Android Power, World Asks Why
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Android is really hot right now with many of the world largest makers of smartphones and other gadgets looking to the open source OS, and consumers adopting it in droves. I guess this is the reason some weird products are surfacing with Android as their only redeeming quality. A good… |
June 10th, 2010
Fossils of the Mechazoic Era: the What Now?
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Poor dead bird. Wait what the – It’s a dead robo-bird! Artist/illustrator/futurechologist Justin Chase Black, more respectfully addressed as Mr. ThrowingChicken, recently finished the awesome looking Creatures of the Mechazoic Era, a series of sculptures that look like fossilized remains from a time yet to come. |
June 7th, 2010
Hard Kernel Odroid-T: High-Def Android Tablet Geared to Power Users
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It seems as if there’s a new Android-based tablet just about every day, so it’s getting hard to tell the difference between them all. Hard Kernel’s new Android 2.1 ODROID-T hopes to differentiate itself with superb HD video and gaming capabilities. The tablet’s 10.1-inch capacitive touch screen offers 1360 x… |
June 2nd, 2010
Htc Evo 4g Price, Release Date and Specs Revealed by Sprint
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Sprint today revealed full details for their new HTC EVO 4G, the first Android phone to support 4G/WiMAX connectivity. Hardware specs include a Qualcomm Snapdragon QSD8650 (1GHz) processor, and an 800×480 4.3″ capacitive touchscreen display. Battery life is rated at 6 hours of talk time. And while Sprint bundles an… |
May 12th, 2010
Android-Winmo-Iphoneos Guitar: What Happens When the Phone Rings?
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This crazy looking contraption isn’t just a bunch of smartphones, it’s a musical instrument. Made for a presentation at MobileCampBrussels, the Phone Guitar is made out of five smartphones (actually there’s an iPod Touch standing in for the iPhone) on three different mobile platforms using three different programing languages as… |
May 10th, 2010
LEGO Robot Runs Android OS, Solves Rubik’s Cubes
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I probably couldn’t solve a Rubik’s cube in 25 minutes, let alone under a minute. However, this cool ‘bot can solve it in less than 25 seconds! Now how neat is that? Oh, by the way, it’s made out of LEGOs. You read right, it takes this contraption 24.02 seconds… |
May 5th, 2010
Dell Thunder Android Smartphone Pics Storm Onto the Scene
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In a week that’s been filled with stories of Apple’s smartphone leaks, I guess Dell got a little jealous and let some photos slip out of their own new mobile handset. The Dell Thunder looks pretty slick from these early pics the guys over at Engadget managed to get their… |
April 21st, 2010
Japanese Scientist Makes Robotic Clone
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Only the Japanese would make robot clones of themselves. Check out this latest robot by Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University. Instead of cloning himself, which is what he did before, he decided to clone a woman. The Geminoid-F is pretty freaky, especially when you see the lady it was modeled… |
April 5th, 2010
