The Tech Market on Stranger Tides

This is turning out to be an amazing decade, with companies getting a rebirth, other firms getting new identities, and still others sliding into delusional obscurity.
Microsoft released the impressive Windows Phone platform and recently added 500, yep 500, new features, which should give the Android folks a bit of a scare, though Jobs, who is apparently doing OK, likely thinks they missed a meeting.

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Underwater Camera Is Cheap Enough to Drown

One of the quickest ways to add some impact to your photos is to change your perspective. If you’re tall, crouch or sit on the floor. If you’re short, climb up high. Even better, get in the water.
Photojojo has a new waterproof camera and it costs just $35. That’s the cost of a couple rolls [...]

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A Hanger That'll Help You Get Over Your Mom Not Doing Your Laundry [Video]

The worst part of doing laundry isn't the actual laundering, but the hour it takes to cram your clean clothes back into your closet. The SOLO hanger makes that a bit easier, by folding in half to slip into (and quickly out of) your collars. [Quirky] More »

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Quantum effect transistor is the world's smallest, hopes to make a big impact

What's better than billions of transistors? Billions of miniature two-nanometer ones, leaving room for billions more. A team of researchers accomplished just that, using the quantum effect to shrink these semiconductors -- and set a new size record in the process -- while also managing to keep them operating at room temperature (note: that photo above is from a different team's study). The team of South Korean, Japanese, and British researchers at Chungbuk National University expect them to "enhance the capabilities of mobile electronic devices" -- a mighty vague claim if ever there was one. Not one for modesty, lead researcher Choi Jung-bum proclaims that it "effectively changes the paradigm of such devices." With no word on mass production, though, we'll just have to wait and see for ourselves how big of an impact these lilliputian circuits will have.

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Revenge of the stylus: Ten 1 Pogo Sketch for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad [Sponsored]

Revenge of the stylus: Ten 1 Pogo Sketch for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad [Sponsored] When it comes to the stylus, Steve Jobs might have said “yuck!” but a lot of note takers, drawers, painters, and other TiPb readers are saying “oh, yeah!”. Especially when it comes to the the Ten 1 Pogo Sketch, a [...]

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Eutelsat's Ka-Sat satellite goes into service, provides broadband to 13 million homes across Europe

Europe's already extensive broadband coverage may be expanding even further, now that Eutelsat's Ka-Sat satellite has officially gone into service. The new craft, which launched from Kazakhstan in late December, uses spotbeam technology to generate areas of connectivity that are about 250 kilometers wide, with each beam carrying a total capacity of 900Mbps. Unlike the Hylas 1, its reach will extend far across the continent, providing Tooway's high-bandwidth services to 13 million households in remote locations. Subscribers will have download speeds of up to 10Mbps and upload rates of 4Mbps, though they'll still have to put up with latency on the order of 250ms, making life even more difficult for Eastern European OnLive gamers. Of course, this access won't come for free, but Ka-Sat's 82-beam network structure significantly lowers its operating costs, allowing Eutelsat to offer prices that are on par with market rates. According to company CEO Michel de Rosen, customers should expect to pay around €30 for basic service, in addition to €250 they'd have to spend on a 77cm satellite dish. That's not necessarily a small amount of cash for low-income families to fork over, but at least they'll have an option that didn't exist before. Head past the break for a video about Tooway's Ka-Sat services, along with a full PR.

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Punch Someone in the Face with 500,000 Volts of Electricity [Video]

Getting socked in the jaw really sucks. But at least you didn't get popped by someone wearing the BodyGuard electro-gauntlet, which combines a laser pointer, video camera, taser, and armored beating-plate into one wonderful little garment. More »

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iCloud Is Coming to WWDC [Apple]

Apple is finally ready to show off iCloud, its cloud service that they built that massive data center for. It was always a matter of when, rather than if, but at WWDC, we'll finally get to see what they're planning. More »

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