Young American woman travels over to Jerusalem to meet some friends, see the sights, live the life. Overzealous border security officers ask her a bunch of questions, take issue with her answers, and a few well-placed bullets later she is allowed entry into the country with a somewhat altered MacBook in tow. So what can we all learn from this incident?
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Border security guards kill — literally kill — a MacBook (update: video!)
The mystery of the Nexus One continues to grow ever deeper, but we can pretty much confirm Google’s planning to sell something under that name: the search giant filed an intent-to-use trademark application for “Nexus One” on December 10th, and in order to be granted the trademark registration it’ll have to use the mark in commerce at some point in the future. Now, don’t get too carried away — sure, that could mean free unlocked GSM Android sets for all, but it could also just mean Google’s planning to sell the Nexus One as its next-gen Android Developer Phone. Considering everything we’ve heard points to the device being limited to T-Mobile 3G, we’d say the developer phone theory is still the most likely, but it’s all up in the air until Google provides a sample of the Nexus One mark being used in commerce to the USPTO — or, better yet, announces something official.
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Google files for Nexus One trademark
CES 2009 was a biggie for Palm, what with webOS and the Pre and all. Will they top it in 2010
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Palm invites us to ’see and hear what’s new’ at CES 2010
Broadcom’s busting out some big muscle on the video chip front today, launching both a 1080p smartphone camera chip and a single-chip Blu-ray player chip.
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Broadcom announces 1080p camera phone chip, single-chip Blu-ray decoder
We’ve seen plenty of PC casemods that look more like a traditional piece of furniture than a computer case, and plenty that take a decidedly more modern approach, but we haven’t seen many that combine the two as effectively as this so-called Cygnus X1 built by Attila Lukacs.
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Cygnus X1 PC casemod mixes otherworldly design, old world charm
ITG has managed to keep its xpPhone in the news ever since firing up its pre-order page back in September.
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ITG xpPhone seen powering up on video
If Cormac McCarthy was an inventor of gadgets instead of words then this better (measured in awesome) mousetrap might have been the result.
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Jake Easton’s Better Mousetrap leaves no country for old mice (video)
Look, we’re not going to spend any more time on this than absolutely necessary. But we will point you to Steorn ’s live free energy demonstration so that you can ponder for yourselves how Orbo “uses magnets to gain energy” on a trio of live cams
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Steorn Orbo livestream begins: Look, fairies!
Outside of the occasional leaked roadmap, one of the best ways to predict the future of consumer electronics is by looking at the evolution of the components within. Take this Toshiba NAND package for instance. While the launch of a 64GB embedded NAND flash memory module (the highest capacity in the industry) that combines sixteen 32Gb NAND chips fabricated using 32nm manufacturing processes might sound a bit boring, consider its uses
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Toshiba announces 64GB NAND packages: Apple winks, gives a nudge
The long-rumored little brother to the Galaxy , the i5700 , has finally been made official by Samsung — and sure enough, it’ll go by the trade name “Galaxy Spica.” Sammy’s latest Android-powered set clocks in at 13.2mm thick and comes equipped with a 3.5mm jack (which, frankly, every smartphone in the world should be including at this point), an 800MHz core (presumably the same as the Moment’s ), and an Android first: built-in DivX support. This one appears to be a no-frills Google Experience device considering the number of times that “Google” is mentioned in Samsung’s press release, but for some Android connoisseurs, the purest, unskinned look and feel is preferred. Sammy says it’s already out in Europe and the CIS and will be coming to the Middle East and Asia shortly
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Samsung unveils Android-equipped Galaxy Spica i5700
