Archive for April, 2008
T-Mobile to debut 3G as voice-only. No data. We’re over it.
Filed under: T-Mobile, GSM, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTSWell screw us — T-Mobile’s 3G network debut tomorrow? It’s going to be voice only. That’s right, you heard us, VOICE ONLY. So trepidatious is this company to actually get their 3G data rollout, um, rolled out, they’re launching first with kneecapped voic…
China Mobile delivers production 3G network in time for Olympics
Filed under: Samsung, China MobileA nice, thick blanket of 3G might still be years away for China, but who the heck knows — if they can keep fast-tracking it like they’re doing here, maybe they can tighten up that schedule just a teensy bit. After kicking off a trial… like, whoa, this month, Chin…
Yahama’s notepad / keyboard hybrid concept: a songwriter’s dream
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Yamaha’s got a thing for making dreams into reality, and we must say, we’re crossing our fingers and hoping to all that’s good and merciful in this world that the above pictured device goes commercial. Little is actually known about the keyboard / notepad hybrid aside from…
Yamaha’s notepad / keyboard hybrid concept: a songwriter’s dream
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Yamaha’s got a thing for making dreams into reality, and we must say, we’re crossing our fingers and hoping to all that’s good and merciful in this world that the above pictured device goes commercial. Little is actually known about the keyboard / notepad hybrid aside from…
Chelpa Ferro’s foosball table is seriously wired for sound
Filed under: Gaming, Household
Highly modified foosball tables are a dime a dozen, but this contraption could easily be mistook for some sort of Martian gaming machine at first glance. Dreamed up and crafted by designer Chelpa Ferro, this Tota Treme Terra looks to be a vanilla foosball table with an…
Researchers show off laser-guided wheelchair that docks with vehicles
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We first heard about this laser-guided wheelchair way back in 2006 but didn’t really have much more than promises from the team behind it about exactly what they had in store. As New Scientist reports, however, it seems that the folks from Lehigh University and Freedom Sci…
Verizon follows AT&T on the black ink trail
Filed under: Verizon Wireless
It looks like it’s a surprisingly good time to be a behemoth US carrier, with both AT&T and Verizon reporting some pretty aggressive profits in the first quarter of 2008 in the face of a flagging economy. Many of Verizon’s results closely mirror AT&T’s actually,…