The hot news today isn’t the global financial crisis. Nor is it the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not even the US presidential election. No, hot news in the UK this morning is the kerfuffle surrounding entertainers Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand who find themselves embroiled in mounting criticism over crude phone calls the pair made during Brand’s BBC radio show on October 18 to veteran actor Andrews Sachs (best known for his role as Manuel in Fawlty Towers). The kerfuffle has spiralled rapidly to the extent that MPs are making statements. And you know things have got pretty...
Shortly after we covered the Logitech VX Nano Notebook Mouse, the guys from Gyration got in touch to tell us about their Air Mouse, a mini travel mouse with a twist: it works without a table. Yesterday FedEx dropped one off and we have been playing around with it. The Air Mouse looks just like a regular mouse but it has a couple of additions. Inside there is a gyroscope, which detects motion in three dimensions. And outside, on the bottom, there is a big switch, which triggers the in-air mode. It's a little smaller than the Logitech, as...
Scosche announced on Monday its new multi-function clear polycarbonate case with a kickstand feature designed specifically for the iPhone 3G...
I faced the worst case of "OS discrimination" ever last week. Yup, it was at our Mobilize conference and it didn't take long. I walked into the room where the entire GigaOM team set up shop and looked around at Mac after Mac after Mac. But that wasn't the worst of it. Om walked in and took his seat next to me and that's when it really started. "What are you doing with Windows on that little computer?" he asked. At one point it got so bad that at the main office James and I were seated at a table...
Movie download service Vudu, which seems to be having trouble convincing customers to first buy a $299 set-top box, is laying off 16 to 18 of the company's 100 employees, and has hired a new CFO, Chris Watts, according to PaidContent. Seems to be a clear case of trying to reduce the company's burn rate as the $21 million from venture investors begins to dry up. And it's another indication that the startup's desperate descent is accelerating. Months ago, the company slashed the price on its hardware. More recently, it began offering porn and shortly thereafter introduced a sale on...
At last the scientific world has pushed me a few feet closer to living my dream of being a brain inside a robot ninja body. A team of British researchers took a blob of neurons from an embryonic rat's brain, hooked it up to a robot controller, and used the resulting brain-computer mashup to make a small robot (pictured). The brain cells help the robot navigate around a room, and damn if it isn't a little squicky to imagine that a rat brain peers out of those robot eyes. According to BBC News: As the cells are living tissue,...
If AOL founder Steve Case is leading a revolution in healthcare, then Revolution Health is shaping up to be the Long March for this Mao Zedong of medicine. Workforce Management, an industry trade publication, reports that Revolution Health has hired Morgan Stanley to shop the company around. Brad Burns, a company spokesman, denies that Revolution Health, which operates a health-information website, is up for sale. Burns previously worked for WorldCom, so take his comment as you will. What is clear: Case, after cobbling Revolution together through a series of acquisitions, has already shown a willingness to sell it off in...
Most of us do not give a second thought to our toothbrushes when we travel, but have you ever wondered just how many germs crawl all over it? With the iZap Travel Toothbrush Sanitizer, all that is a thing of the past. The iZap is a travel toothbrush sanitizer, the tinted (or clear) case works with most electrical toothbrush heads, as well as the standard ones. The case is lightweight and not all that much larger than a traditional travel toothbrush case…but the iZap contains a Germicidal UV bulb that is proven to eliminate up to 99.9% of germs....