Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together? Or when a rumor plays out perfectly ? We’re looking at a case of the latter here today, as HP ‘s oh-so-lovable 12-inch TouchSmart tm2 is now available to order with a Core i5 processor. Just months after gaining Core i3 support, the convertible tablet can now be ordered with a 1.2GHz Core i5-430UM (capable of hitting 1.73GHz with Turbo Boost)
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HP TouchSmart tm2 gains Core i5 CPU option, a whole new level of respect
In this tutorial we will be pivoting from our last tutorial on Graphical Elements to start focusing on databases in Android development. The android platform uses SQLite databases in its applications and is one of five data storage options in android development.
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Android Development 101 – Part 3:Introduction to Databases
STM Bags is an Australian company, founded in 1998, that is dedicated to making laptop bags that “don’t look like a laptop bag.” Lately, they’ve expanded their offerings to include some bags designed for the Apple iPad. Just like their laptop bags, the iPad offerings are sturdy-looking bags that are at home on a college campus or in the business world. STM were nice enough to send three iPad bags to The Gadgeteer for review. I’ll cover the Scout and the Micro Extra Small iPad Shoulder Bag in separate reviews. I’ll be discussing the Jacket for iPad in this review.
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STM Jacket for iPad Review
With all the talk about Android and iOS 4 , you may forget that there is another kind of phone on the horizon: the Windows Phone 7 . I got a chance to check it out for myself last week and immediately knew I was dealing with something fresh. Unlike other app-based phones on the market today, the Windows Phone 7 comes with customizable tiles on the front page, bringing things like your favorite contacts, music, and calendars to your home screen.
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Windows Phone 7: Clean, Smart, Coming With "Polish"
After compiling and posting ROMs for hundreds of smartphones — from HTC, RIM, Motorola, and more — Conflipper is throwing in the towel and no longer updating his popular Shipped ROMS website. The decision is part of a compromise negotiated with HTC following a Cease and Desist letter from the handset manufacturer over these publicly available ROMs. As part of the agreement, Conflipper is permitted to keep all current ROMs on his site but is forbidden to upload any new ones
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Popular Shipped ROMS website now in suspended animation
Android 1.5 and 1.6 are still major players in the field, together accounting for some 41 percent of all Google-powered phones in use as of July 15 — but for the first time, Android 2.1 is on significantly more than half of the phones out there, up from an even 50 percent in mid-June . 55.5 percent of devices are running Eclair to be exact, and Froyo also makes an appearance with a little sliver of 3.3 percent — an anemic figure obviously hampered by the fact that no one outside Google itself (on the now nearly-defunct Nexus One ) has deployed the latest version yet. It’s fascinating to see the change in the version mix over time get visualized like this — now all we need is that dark green line at the very bottom to shoot upwards and obliterate everything else on the graph. Let’s make it happen, guys. Google: Eclair is on more than half of all Android phones, Froyo bursts onto the scene originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:38:00 EDT.
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Google: Eclair is on more than half of all Android phones, Froyo bursts onto the scene
This is a sticker you can apply to a suitcase to make it look like you’re a drug mule. I just bought one and you better believe airport security is gonna be ROFLing their metal detecting asses off! Oooor pointing their guns and yelling to spread my buttcheeks. BUT THEY’RE VIRGIN! (Haha, no they’re not either ) The stickers are $25 for a set of four and include this one, stacks of money, a tied-up hooker, and dildos/anal-beads. That’s right, dildos/anal-beads .
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Haha, Airport Security Loves A Good Joke!: Contraband Luggage Stickers
A hotmail phishing scam that took over more than 10,000 accounts proved to be problematic as a combination of severe hacking and good spelling made the attack particularly convincing. Emails arrived seemingly from friends claiming to be in dire…
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Microsoft offering little help to victims of Hotmail phishing scam
BP photoshops its own oil leak promo image – Switched How to handle and prevent online harassment – Urlesque Write your first email like a tweet to grab attention – Lifehacker Apple was duped into approving a tethering app – Dvice How Inception’s amazing visuals came to life – Gizmodo
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Daily Tech: BP Photoshopped Pic of Oil Leak Command Center
Let’s face it. Some of us gadgetophiles tend to be gadget collectors, even hoarders. No shame in that, but how do you organize it all, especially your EDC, daily commute or travel items? The GRID-IT! Organizer from Cocoon Innovations may be a good solution. It’s a rubberized woven elastic object retention system for gadget organization. It’s versatile, endlessly configurable and designed to hold items firmly in place. And the back of GRID-IT! doubles as a mousepad. There are multiple sizes to fit wherever you might want to organize, even car sun visor and 3-ring binder versions. Available in multiple colors and prices ranging from $9.99 to $29.99. [via
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Organize your gadgets with GRID-IT!
Recognized as the #1 shoe in golf, FootJoy has been a long-time industry leader in terms of performance and comfort. With the recent departure of the tremendously popular FootJoy Classic and the introduction of their new flagship model, the FootJoy ICON undoubtedly has some pretty big shoes to fill. Heritage inspired, the FootJoy ICON combines contemporary styling, classic top-notch full grain leather and calfskin detailing, and an advanced lacing system. For those of you not familiar with Boa, the Boa Lacing System is designed to address deficiencies found with laces, buckles, ratchets, and Velcro by providing a reel and steel lace cable network that allows you to dial in a precise and consistent non-slip fit. It also adjusts down to 2mm with each click to ensure precise fit.
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FootJoy Icon | Boa Lacing System
Autom is a tiny robot , and he’s getting closer than ever to availability. His whole job? To coach you to lose weight… that’s right, Autom is a dieting robot. You start off by entering the details of your diet, fitness level, and exercise into Autom’s databank, and then he sits on your countertop and has daily ‘conversations’ with you — which we assume are full of a lot of reassuring aphorisms and ‘go get ‘em’ talk.
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Autom, the robot weight loss coach: we’ll just keep the friends that lie to us, thanks
By Andrew Liszewski I don’t think anyone can ever get tired of playing Tetris . The game definies ‘replay value.’ But if you feel you’ve already mastered those falling blocks and are looking for more of a challenge, then give this version of the game a shot. Not Tetris looks and plays just like the original game, except that real-world physics and gravity come into play. And it doesn’t clear lines either, the goal of this version is to basically stack as many pieces as you can without them reaching the top of the screen.
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Not Tetris = Classic Tetris + Real Physics
Gears of War is by far one of the most popular video game titles on the planet. It’s a success, in every sense of the word, for Microsoft and Epic Games, with the first two installments amassing millions of copies sold, and some of the most highly rated games to ever get released. And now with the third one about to drop onto shelves (relatively speaking, mind you — it’s not tomorrow, by any means), there’s one question on everyone’s mind: How’s the rookie going to die? Well, turns out that the rookie, also known as Carmine, will have his Fate decided this time around. And by you
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Microsoft and Epic Games Let You Decide the Fate of Carmine in Gears of War 3 for Charity
Section: Communications , Cellphones , Cellular Providers , Smartphones , Mobile Yesterday brought us the image of the Motorola Droid 2 settings screen which clearly displayed the version of Android as 2.2. And just in case we needed anything further to suggest that the Droid 2 would arrive with Froyo—here is another piece of evidence.
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Further evidence of the Motorola Droid 2 launching with Android 2.2 Froyo
Yesterday, RIM teased the BlackBerry-loving masses with seven new screen shots of BlackBerry 6 in several multimedia-like poses. The music player, picture viewer, camera, social capabilities, and new podcast application all got a little love on the official BlackBerry blog. Things are starting to shape up nicely, but like most of you, we want to see BB6 running on some hardware! Hit the read link to see all RIM is willing to show you. Read
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RIM teases, shows BlackBerry 6’s media capabilities
Simple, sleek, and sophisticated, the Loop iPad Stand ($29) from Griffin is a modern iPad stand that will prop your iPad comfortably at a variety of angles in both portrait and landscape orientation. The stand is weighted with nonslip rubber feet to prevent slipping or tipping over, and is shaped to accommodate your iPad standing straight up or down at a lower angle suitable for typing. Plus, the open design ensures there’s plenty of room to plug in your iPad’s dock cable
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Prop Your iPad With the Loop Stand
We asked Howard Odgen about some of the other people getting interested in Augmented Reality, Foursquare for example who recently released “layers” of their own. Though he remained a little tight-lipped about that, he did agree that it would…
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Top AR Developer Howard Ogden on the big names interested in AR and those damn limited internet deals
We were quite surprised (to say the least!) to see the original Windows 7 HP Slate 500 appear yesterday on the company’s site , and HP officially confirmed this morning that the product is still very much in the works. The outfit’s not sharing much, but a spokesperson from its Personal Systems group did tell us that they’re “in customer evaluations now and will make a determination soon on the next steps.” It all seems very vague and mysterious at this point, but the evidence is surely mounting that we’ll be seeing HP join Microsoft’s “hardcore” tablet push.
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HP confirms that Slate is still kicking, ‘next steps’ being determined
Here at Shiny Shiny we really like Augmented Reality – the technology that overlays reality with computer data and makes pictures, icons and tweets float over an image of the real world. We are soo into it. Layar is…
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Top AR Developer Howard Ogden on changes in Layar, and why it’s still two steps ahead
Bioartifical organs differ from, well, plain ol’ artificial organs because they consist of biomaterials and cells. And while bioartificial livers are becoming increasingly commonplace, it’s only recently that working lungs have been grown in a lab. Working at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, researchers removed the left lungs from rats and stripped them of cells with a process that left the blood vessels, airways, and connective tissues intact. Using all that as a sort of scaffolding, lung cells were regrown on the scaffolding in a bioreactor.
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Rat lungs successfully grown in bioreactor: groundbreaking, yet also kind of gross