Sharp’s New Japanese Android Phone Has a Retina Display Equivalent [Android]
Sharp’s new IS03 Android handset has a 960 x 640, 3.5″ screen, putting it toe to toe with the iPhone 4’s super crisp Retina Display. Oh, and then there’s the 9.6MP camera and the TV tuner
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MSI Air Keyboard Mouse Is Like a QWERTY Keypad Crossed With a Wiimote [Peripherals]
The upcoming MSI Air Keyboard is an HTPC keyboard/mouse combo that fits right in your hands much like a game controller. Because aside from the typical QWERTY layout, the back is ergonomic for dual-handed use, and it even includes LB and RB shoulder triggers.
The upcoming MSI Air Keyboard is an HTPC keyboard/mouse combo that fits right in your hands much like a game controller.
Because aside from the typical QWERTY layout, the back is ergonomic for dual-handed use, and it even includes LB and RB shoulder triggers. And much like the Wiimote, the Air doubles as a mouse through the use of an internal accelerometer, allowing you to aim the device to control an onscreen cursor—effectively eliminating that whole where does the mouse go on the couch problem.
Through a USB dongle, the MSI Air (which is technically a rebranding of an existing product by Cideko), can connect to PCs and Macs up to an impressive 160 feet away. It’s available overseas now for the equivalent of $110 bucks. [ElectricPig via EverythingUSB]
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Brilliant and Blinding Blow Outs: The Wallpapers [Photography]
The entrants to this week’s Shooting Challenge: Blow Out are now available in wallpaper form. They’re spectacular, but you might want to set your icon text to black before proceeding
The entrants to this week’s Shooting Challenge: Blow Out are now available in wallpaper form. They’re spectacular, but you might want to set your icon text to black before proceeding. [Giz Flickr]
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Brilliant and Blinding Blow Outs: The Wallpapers [Photography]
Limited Edition Pentax K-7 Camera Forgets Silver Isn’t a Rare Color In Camera-Land [Cameras]
I’d be more excited if this special limited edition color was a never-seen-before color, but alas Pentax thinks the camera world can still get excited about silver . Or maybe silver is rare in Japan, where this model is launching? The K-7 has been around since last summer , but only 1,000 of these limited edition model exist.
I’d be more excited if this special limited edition color was a never-seen-before color, but alas Pentax thinks the camera world can still get excited about silver. Or maybe silver is rare in Japan, where this model is launching?
The K-7 has been around since last summer, but only 1,000 of these limited edition model exist. If the new silver color, a reinforced LCD screen and new firmware and image processing software is making your fingers itch at the thought of flying out to Japan to scoop one up, it’s on sale March 13th for the equivalent of $1,420.
Apart from those minor changes, it’s still the same old 14.6-megapixel, 720-p-shooting camera which can be picked up for as low as $1,000 on Amazon. [CrunchGear]
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Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 [Architecture]
Looking like an English hedgehog with over 60,000 7.5m-long transparent acrylic rods shooting out of the building, the United Kingdom Pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo is costing the equivalent of $38.6m to construct. [ MSN ]
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Seed Cathedral Could Do Some Serious Damage To Skydivers at the Shanghai World Expo 2010 [Architecture]
