We’ve been hearing vague rumblings about potentially flawed MacBook hard drives for a day or two now, but a report from UK data-recovery firm Retrodata finally backs up all the noise with some hard data — according to the company, revision 7.0.1 Seagate drives manufactured in China have defective read / write heads that can [...]
Why merely steal the entirety of your product’s industrial design and user interface when you can gank so much more? Philip Warner of Lithium Picnic studios posted on deviantArt that the wallpaper being used on the latest rendering of Meizu’s M8 MiniOne is his own work — and surprise, surprise, Meizu hasn’t licensed it, which [...]
While it’s not quite on the level of some of the steampunk gear we’ve seen, devientART member porkshanks’ so-called “Ambience Enhancer” is at least considerably more practical than some of those previous contraptions, and it recycles some gear that would otherwise have been discarded, or has already been discarded. That bit of kit is an [...]
Old laptops are a geek modder’s best friend: this particular example is one of the better mods we’ve seen to incorporate an old lappie, with a guy called Ben sticking his old machine behind the strings of an electric guitar. He then linked up the sound produced by the guitar to a visualizer in the [...]
Several readers have noted a new web-only advertisement from Apple that has appeared on a number of sites, including News.com, Engadget.com, and PCMag.com. The Apple advertisement features “Mac” and “PC” as played by Justin Long and John Hodgman in a web ad composed of two separate components. The first is a traditional 720×90 pixel horizontal [...]
As many of you know, crysis is one of the games that we hear at 53tabs have been waiting along time for. We talked about the single player demo last month, and its interesting to see how it has progressed since then. The Story: The plot for the game sees players as Codename: Nomad, an [...]
Well, what do you know? Nearly four years after Arizona State University opened its very own flexible display center comes this, a prototype device that’s purportedly easy to manufactur, easy on the environment and practically as strong as Thor. HP and ASU have teamed up to demonstrate the fresh e-displays, which are constructed almost entirely [...]