Sony may be winding down its OLED operations in Japan, but over in South Korea OLED is big business for LG—with news coming in today saying they’re investing a whopping $225.7m into tripling production. But who’s buying? More »
Author: Kat Hannaford
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LG Tripling OLED Production As Sony Sounds The Death Knell [OLED TV]
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Nexus One 3G Bugs No Longer Of Interest To Google [Google Nexus One]
Start pricing up HTC’s Desire or Incredible, Nexus One owners, as Google has put down its hammer and announced “we are no longer investigating further engineering improvements.” You’re stuck with those bugs for good. More »
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A Lamborghini Yacht Would Be The Perfect Playmate This (Italian) Summer [Yachts]
Hey it’s summer, what better excuse do we need for posting three yachts in one week? Especially when one of them has been styled after Lamborghini’s sportscars, taking the angle of the chassis and creating a 15m long waterbeast. More »
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PS3 Owners Can Sign Up For Live Major League Baseball—For A Hefty Price [Playstation3]
It’s not just 3D gaming that the PS3 will be offering soon. Major League Baseball will apparently be streamed live to consoles by the end of this week, but if you’ve got grand ideas of free baseball, think again. More »
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Vodafone Ad Uses Rube Goldberg Machine to Show Awesomeness of Apps [Video]
I do love a good Rube Goldberg Machine example. While not as grand in scale as OK Go’s, Vodafone Italy‘s commercial looks like it was insanely fun putting together—all those smartphones, in one room! Working together! Amazing. More »
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Samsung Leaks ARM’s Roadmap For Next Three Years [Processors]
Thanks to Samsung leaking a document, we now have details about ARM’s roadmap for the next three years. It’s not the best leak of the decade (or even the century), but helloooo 2013’s Aquila, the 1.2GHz quad-core Cortex-A9. More »
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Gundam Cafe Opens In Akihabara [Japan]
There’s no place more fitting for an official Gundam Cafe than in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. Sadly Japanese maids don’t draw hearts in syrup over your pancakes or put “love spells” on you like at Maid Cafes…but there are Gundam biscuits! More »
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Fisheye Tin Camera Mounts To Canon DSLR For 180º Photos [Cameras]
We’ve seen all manner of SLR trickery in the past, but Bhautik Josh has cobbled together a fisheye camera from a soda can. Sounds totally MacGyver, but he’s put the steps up on his blog for you to try out. More »
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On Street View, Google Knows Of Your Daily Torment [Google Street View]
Last seen in Hammersmith, London, England: a teenage boy’s pride. For now the whole world knows he’s no match for his kid sister. [GoogleSightSeeing via Twitter] More »
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Raisin Health Monitor Sends Heart Rate Details To Your iPhone [IPhone Apps]
What looks like a bulky female hygiene product is actually a health monitor that hooks up to an iPhone via Bluetooth, sending bodily information such as heart rates to the compatible app. More »
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Apple Awarded Patent For Compact Camera Color Correction [Apple]
Buried amongst 15 patents granted to Apple this week by the US Patent and Trademark Office is one that describes color correction—for a stand-alone camera. Not an iPhone camera, a compact camera. More »
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Anti-Paparazzi Laser Shield-Equipped Yacht No Match For Video Camera [Yachts]
It must be superyachting season, with Russian billionaires fighting for column inches about their most expensive/lavish/largest/laser-equipped yachts. Roman Abramovich‘s $1.2billion 557-foot Eclipse has appeared on film, as it sets sail from Germany this week. More »
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Google Looks To Go Into Travel Business With Airline IT Purchase [Google]
Whatever could Google want with an airline IT company? Well, considering that company, ITA, supplies travel information to websites such as Kayak.com, CheapTickets, Bing Travel and Orbitz, quite a lot, actually. More »
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ASUS’ EeeKeyboard Finally Available For Pre-Order at $599 [Asus]
It was beginning to look like vaporware of the meanest kind, but finally ASUS’ EeeKeyboard has been given a pre-order price on Amazon with shipping expected by end of next week. More »
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Volcanic Ash Grounds Commercial Flights In UK, But Tiger Moth Antiques Soar High [Airplanes]
It was dubbed a “once in a lifetime opportunity” by UKAirshowReview, and I’ve got to agree—these photos of 13 Tiger Moth planes flying over Gatwick airport, with commercial planes grounded below due to volcanic ash, are amazing. More »
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Rumor: Nintendo 3DS Hitting This October, Six Months Early? [Nintendo]
We’ve already circled January – March next year in our pink filofaxes as the Big Launch Period for the 3DS, but according to CVG it’ll actually be going on sale this October—around the same time as Project Natal. More »
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Apple Replacing iPod Shuffle Headphones [Apple]
A particularly sweaty Californian man has already filed a lawsuit against Apple for the iPod Shuffle headphones, but as of this week Apple is offering anyone who’s had problems with them a replacement pair for free. More »
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Chrome OS Netbooks Will Be Under $400, Google Hopes [Chrome Os]
Google’s removed the video for inexplicable reasons, however TechRadar dug it up on YouTube, and found Eric Schmidt promising an affordable price-point for netbooks with Chrome OS and the potential for it to be offered on-contract by phone networks. More »



















