Archive for June 18th, 2013
Cell Phones
Sprint Intros Realtime Captioning Of Telephone Calls
SprintNextel intro’d a new service today for the hard-of-hearing. Sound’s counter intuitive given hard-of-hearing and phone calls hardly go hand-in-hand, right? Wrong. Called CapTel, the new service dictates word-fo...
Photography
Olympus E-420 Is The World’s Smallest Digital SLR Camera
Olympus introduced the world’s smallest Digital SLR camera on the market today. Measuring just 5.1-inches by 3.6-inches by 2.1-inches and weighing a mere 13.4oz, the E-420 looks more point and shoot then power house SLR. ...
Keyboard
Optimus Tactus: Touchscreen Keyboard
As you know, Art Lebedev finally started shipping the first Optimus keyboards a few weeks ago, but only to customers that ordered over a year ago. The original Optimus is in fact a bunch of mini OLED screens jammed into key siz...
Lighting
The Hand Crank Lamp
When the power goes out there are a few options: flashlights/battery operated lights, or candles. Candles aren’t practical with kids, and chances are the batteries are half dead from the last power outage. I know the hand...
MP3
Ripserver: Super Powered Consumer Level Music Ripping Server
Ripserver has long been in the prosumer game providing the necessary technology for companies to ‘rip’ massive amounts of music. Today they’ve announced the availability of their consumer level rip station cal...