Some might not know this, but Apple had a hard time entering the Chinese market. Obviously the reasons are aplenty. There are so many ‘fake’ phones and ‘imitation’ phones out there, and many resemble the iPhone very much. Too much that you can hardly identify them, until you turn on the phone. Dual sim iPhone? They have it at China! There’s just the iOS that’s missing. Read more…

There’s still some time before Intel’s Sandy Bridge hit stores, but Gigabyte seemed to be very anxious about showing off their Sandy Bridge ready motherboard. Here we have a look at their high-end GA-P67A-UD7 motherboard, which is a socket LGA-1155 processor. Note that Sandy Bridge uses LGA-1155 compared to the previous LGA-1156 socket, which is very much different. Read more…

NASA’s been quietly shooting lasers at the moon, perhaps trying to create a portrait of Mona Lisa, or something similar. To be more specific, they’re shooting at the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, specifically — for some time now, but it only just opened its Laser Ranging Facility at the Goddard Space Flight Center to the public this weekend and, as you can see, it didn’t fail to put on a show. Of course, the lasers do more than provide the backdrop for all-night NASA raves, they also measure the precise location of the LRO and ensure the accuracy of the lunar maps its generates. Lunar GPS next?

Fring has been around for quite some time. Back then it’s the only messenger that I can get up running on my Symbian S60 phone. There’s no Skype compatibility either. But other time, they’ve grown. Well if you compare them to Skype they didn’t manage to get as much attention as they wanted. But with their new FringOut, they hope to get back some slice of the market from their old rival Skype. Read more…

No, this thing won’t let you have 1Gbps connection in your body for fast communication among you and your iDevices. More like linking artificial limbs and your real organs. The Department of Defense and Southern Methodist University have teamed up to develop prosthetics that use two-way fiber optic communication between artificial limbs and peripheral nerves to essentially give these devices the ability to feel pressure or temperature. Read more…

Wearable sensors that monitor physical activity are hardly anything new. People use that to make Avatar you know? But some researchers from MSU’s Department of Kinesiology are taking the idea quite a bit farther with their latest project. No they’re not making Avatar 2 with James Cameron. They’ve developed a new system that employs a network of sensors that not only track movement, but can monitor things like tilt, posture and the proximity of limbs to each other. That, the researchers say, allows them to detect different types of activity, and more accurately measure the energy expended on them. Of course, it is still just a protoype, but it’ll apparently soon be put to the test by some graduate students, and there’s plenty of backing behind it — the project is being funded two-year, $411,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health.

SOURCE via physorg

People used to build airplanes to go faster, and carry more chicks on board. But apparently DARPA wasn’t in the mood to do that. No, they wanted to be on board for 5 freaking years! So, they’ve slid Boeing a cool $89 million to develop a plane that will stay in the air for five years, just so they can party nonstop. The 435-foot-wingspan’d SolarEagle will do just that. It will use photovoltaics to help keep it at 65,000 feet, where Boeing spokesman Pat O’Neil says it will “perform persistent communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions,” which we hope means it will just be hanging around doing “how’s the weather down there” tweets all day long. SolarEagle’s first demo flight is slated for 2014. Sadly there’s no seat for anyone.

SOURCE via TG Daily

Hello Kitty. Who would’ve liked them, all pinky and acting innocent? I guess the whole world really loves them, as I recall people queuing up at McDonalds early in the morning to get Hello Kitty stuff, some way over 10 years ago. And Sanrio’s lucrative partnership with Mimoco has spun the famous cat’s rep into… more awesome flash drives. Like we don’t have enough cute flash drives out there already.

It seems like Sanrio is always celebrating some kind of birthday, and for the company’s 50th anniversary they’ve busted out more than their fair share of gear. This time, it’s a “classic” Hello Kitty flash drive that comes in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, and 16GB capacities. We’re kind of in love with Kitty’s elongated face on this model, so if you so choose, you can grab one of these up for a starting price of $34.95.

SOURCE via Mimoco

I can’t see how Apple manage to get quite some attention by just changing the icon of their ‘famous’ iTunes, but they’re not the only ones changing their icons. Microsoft has released their Internet Explorer 9 Public Beta, and along with that is a slight modification of the IE logo that we’re all so ‘familiar’ with. But as kind as Microsoft always was, they’ve given quite some insight into the development of the icon, as far fetch as 15 years ago. Yea mate, the Internet Explorer has been here for some god damn 15 years! Respect that homie!

Microsoft explained in their IE Blog, that the original blue “e” was designed to represent a globe, with the “orbiter” envisioned to depict speed and exploration. For Internet Explorer 9 both elements were updated, with the “e” getting a slightly more modern cue, while the “orbiter” was given a fuller, more continuous connection and the appearance of an even faster orbit. That’s just scratching the surface, though — hit up the source link below for a detailed look at the making of the new logo, and a look back at its evolution over the past 15 years.

SOURCE via Microsoft

GM Chevrolet has launched a new toy for your living room. More like a case modding for CPU though. They’ve fitted a 20-inch long Camaro model car with some funky hardware, and turned it into a personal computer. A hood ornament serves as the power switch, working headlights and taillights indicate you’re up and running and 8X DVD-RW Optical Drive into the front bumper. Read more…