When you talk ultra portable notebooks, you also mean crappy touch pad or nipple. The touch pads on standard size notebooks are crap, then ultra portables make them a quarter the size. The only other choice is to carry a mouse, but even the smallest mouse can be a inconvenience.
Some genius may have a solution to my woes, and that is with an inflatable mouse. The concept is called the Jelly Click, and has to be manually blown up to work. When deflated the device is so small, that it can slide between the screen and the keyboard on majority of notebooks (probably not the Air).
Very interesting concept which will hopefully become reality (expect for the silly looking buttons). I could even see hackers in the future filling it with other things, e.g. the 12 monkey virus or radon (heavy inert radioactive gas).
For more info, click over to Gizmodo.
I didn’t make the review, but the great people over at AnythingButiPod did. As a bonus it is a video review. If you are thinking about buying a Sansa View any time soon, I would definitely check it out.
For the review, click over to AnythingButiPod.
Sony have announced their 35mm equivalent, 25 megapixel (24.81 effective megapixels) CMOS camera sensor. It doesn’t just give you a high megapixel image, it also does it at all-pixel scan time of 6.3 frames per second with 12-bit colour. Don’t expect it to be seen in a camera any time soon though, with an estimated mass production within this year (which could mean December).
For more info, click over to Gizmodo.
How do you move 13 tonne motorbike? With a truck diesel engine and a lot of know how.
Ray Baumann, a stunt driver from Perth Australia, has spent the last 3 years developing what appears to be a world first. The “Monster Motorbike from Hell” is a 9 metre long by 3 metre high motorcycle on steroids. It moves along on 2 gigantic tyres (3 metres high) sourced from a Caterpillar 80 tonne front end loader (mining truck).
If you want to see the Monster, you will have to go to Melbourne Motor Show in late February. If you are extra lucky, you might even see it get motorcyclist revenge on a car.
For more info, click over to Gizmag.
As you probably noticed the 25th of January has already flown by and no sign of the Everex Cloudbook. I know everyone is excited to see the little guy who can actually compete with the EeePC, but according to Everex that ship date is now the 15th of February. They didn’t change the price, keeping at $US399, so I will still give them some respect.
For more info, click over to Engadget.
If you didn’t know what a Maxdata Belinea s.book 1, it is basically the same deal as the Asus EeePC (if you don’t know what that is you have a lot of catching up to do). It is based on the Via Nanobook spec, so runs a slightly slower Via processor, but makes it up with a touch screen, Bluetooth, VOiP phone, Windows XP and 80GB HDD. It is also a hell of a lot more expensive then the EeePC, at £420 ($US835 currently).
The beautiful review was done by the lucky fellows at The Register. They liked it enough to give it 80%, but said “A highly portable, well-connected sub-notebook hindered only by a high price, low battery life and unnecessary add-ons…” It looks like the EeePC is still top of the UMPC pile, for this month at least.
For the review, click over to The Register.
If you thought it was only the MacDonald’s hamburgers that could last 12 months without decomposing you are now wrong. Trekking-Mahlzeiten, a subsidiary of Katadyn (they don’t make cat food btw), have created the worlds first canned hamburger. The purpose, such is the purpose for most canned items Trekking-Mahlzeiten make, is for trekking and survival in extreme conditions. Preparation is as simple as chucking it in a fire for 1-2 mins, fishing it out, and enjoying the burger goodness. Don’t ask me how they manage to keep lettuce, tomato and onion fresh for 12months, that is above me.
For more info, hike over to Gizmag.
It is time for the top of the range video cards to battle to the death for our viewing pleasure. This time it was about 20 difference websites. That is a lot of people with some down right impressive HD 3870X2 cards lying around. What do they all think? It’s damn fast and will take the seat at the head of the table, but with the upcoming 9800 from NVidia with a very similiar dual GPU setup, the 1 TeraFLOPS beast might not be there for long.
For the Inquirers massive list of benchmarks go here.
Been waiting off on buying a Wii until hackers could exploit it enough to not use a modchip? Your time has now arrived, with some genius’s working out how to crash Zelda and then hack into the system to run exploit code. What’s next? Maybe Linux Wii Edition?
For more info, click over to Engadget.
I was digging as I do (it is a new habit that is hard to kick), and I came around a interesting article about the ten myths of nuclear power. I thought you guys would like to check it out. Though it has to be taken with a grain of salt (as you do with everything on the internet), it does open yours eyes a little. It is logical to think that we haven’t perfected any power technology as yet, and though he is right about nuclear power currently, with advances in solar and wind power, it may not be the best way to go in the future.
For the whole article, jump over to Spiked Online.