Gadgets & Technology
End of the Road for Polaroid Instant Film
Polaroid Corp. is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs. This year’s closures will leave Polaroid with 150 employees at its Concord headquarters and a site in the nearby Boston suburb of Waltham, down from peak global employment of nearly 21,000 in […]
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Nokia turns people into traffic sensors
100 UC Berkeley students took place in a test of a new technology that, among other things, will enable phones to “proactively say, I see you have a meeting that’s coming up in an hour, the route you usually take is congested. You probably need to leave 15 minutes early.” [Video Included]
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Namco blames Wii for arcade closures in Japan
Namco Bandai is shuttering between 50 and 60 arcades in Japan, and it’s laying the blame squarely on Nintendo’s shoulders. “A lot of the types of games that people played at an arcade can now be done at home,”
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Dell Prepping for the Launch of Latitude E Line Laptops
It is not officially announced yet, but its according to the news circulating around the tech community, Dell is prepping for the unveiling of the Latitude E line of laptops soon.
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Can a Lightsaber Cut Through Superman?
Can a gadget defeat a superhero? Here’s a question our sister site io9 posed: can a lightsaber cut through Superman? We put both our nerdy gadget knowledge and our nerdy superhero knowledge to the test.
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Sony’s game division finally turns a profit
After bleeding red for months, Sony’s games division finally turned a profit last quarter. This after Sony slashed prices on consoles,
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Open access for all: prime 700MHz Block C hits reserve price
The FCC’s 700MHz spectrum auction hit an important milestone today as bidding on a nationwide license with open access requirements passed the reserve price of $4.638 billion. So far, total bids have exceeded the FCC’s $10.3 billion minimum.
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Skyfire browser for Windows Mobile is game changing, does Flash
The Skyfire browser is set to finally bring PC-like browsing to your Windows Mobile device with crazy speeds and support for all manner of embedded content. Sure, there are ways to get Youtube and other mobile video content through proxy sites that convert on the go or with other 3rd-party applications, but this puppy does […]
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