Tell us, readers — haven’t you dreamt deeply about shoving your hand into a toasty, moist hamburger at work in order to warm your digits without cranking the thermostat and irritating the Antarctica-born top brass? And tell us, haven’t you always wanted a USB hub that doubled as an airplane toy
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Crapgadget: ‘All hope just might be lost’ edition
It’s not at all clear what the root cause of the problem is, but we’ve noticed a big uptick in people complaining about performance issues on new 27-inch iMacs on Apple’s support boards. The most common symptom seems to be incredibly slow Flash video playback, but people are also claiming that there’s a bug forcing the hard drive to spin down, that there’s a corrupted Snow Leopard build preinstalled, and even that the problem is bad permissions, which is basically how an OS X user gives up trying to figure things out. Apple hasn’t said anything yet, but neither of the 27-inchers we have here are having problems, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed while we wait for an official resolution
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27-inch iMacs having performance issues?
Hot on the heels of the word that RIM’s BlackBerry Curve 8520 would be heading for Vodaphone in the UK , Pocket Lint’s gotten a hold of one. The optical trackball-boasting, entry-level non-3G darling looks pretty brilliant in the photos, despite its stripped down form factor. Pocket Lint is also reporting that it’ll be Vodaphone-bound in August, and it’ll also be available through Orange for pre-paid deals and from Carphone Warehouse where it’ll be offered in violet
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BlackBerry Curve 8520 gets a hands-on, photo shoot
It’s official, Olympus’ first MIcro Four Thirds camera is up and dancing upon the global stage. Dubbed, E-P1 “digital Pen” (reflecting the camera’s Olympus Pen-series heritage) aligns with the looks and specs that came our way yesterday in leaked format. In other words, we’re looking at image stabilized (sensor-shift) 12.3 megapixel Live MOS sensor with TruePic V image processing, ISO 100-6400 sensitivity, a 3-inch LCD, 20 shooting modes (5 exposure, i-Auto, and 14 automatic scenes), an SDHC slot, and HDMI TV-out for playback of 720p (1280×720 pixel) recorded video at 30fps
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Olympus E-P1 ‘digital pen’ gets official, so does our lust
If you haven’t been following this phenomenon in geek culture, you’ve truly been doing yourself a grave disservice. Not quite an Obama-level disservice , but we digress. Just a few months after refreshing its SATA HDD dock to bring along multicard support , the outfit has done the multimedia crowd one better by offering up an HDMI-equipped version
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Brando’s latest SATA HDD Multimedia Dock does HDMI, the ancestors proud
