Tag: Gary Cutlack
The… Amazon… Shipping Box… Robot…
Your company is NOTHING in Japan without a friendly mascot. Here’s Amazon’s attempt at hitting the big time – the Amazon Shipping Box Robot. It is the most incredible thing you will see on the internet today, as long as you haven’t been Googling “Gemma Atkinson bra” for the last hour with Safe Search turned off.
This is such a staggering toy we have NO OPTION but to break out the full-width image embedding code. You know it’s an important thing when that happens.
Volkswagen's "space up! blue" hybrid solar concept van thing
Yes, it’s really called “space up! blue”. Hopefully it’ll get a more modest name should the thing ever arrive here. The VW 145, for example. Or, if they want to be really fancy, the V2000. There’s no need for exclamation marks in product names.
The sweet little mini concept car is powered by batteries and hydrogen, running for a very impressive 220 miles when charged to the max with both options…
Online-only MySpace TV show 'Quarterlife' transfers to proper telly
Online show Quarterlife has been signed up by US network NBC, in a deal to show the thing on TVs worldwide and to flog those lucrative DVD box sets.
Only it’s not quite the fantastical dreams-coming-true story as it seems. The “online show” was created by a couple of guys called Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who just so happen…
Sanyo's little Eneloop electric pocket heater
About 20 years ago you could buy small paper packets of hazardous chemicals, which, when shaken vigorously, would start up a chemical reaction and stay hot for a few hours. Then you threw it in the bin. It was a Christmas morning novelty.
How technology has improved! Battery maker par excellence Eneloop (a part of Sanyo) has revealed its rechargeable pocket heater, a fashionable little…
Warner ditches Total HD hybrid disc format – for good
Learning that two wrongs don’t make a right, Warner has decided it’s probably best not to launch its “Total HD” Blu-ray and HD DVD combined disc format after all.
We last mentioned Total DVD when news that the launch of the possibly market-saving dual format disc was delayed a few months…
LG.Phillips develops a "dirt-resistant" LCD screen
This will come in very handy. You know why. Fingerprints. Not just fingerprints, but little bits of food you spit out occasionally during the course of a mammoth in-bed laptop browsing session. It’s OK, everyone sprays a few droplets of gob on their screens a couple of times a day. There’s nothing wrong with your mouth.
Sailing to the rescue of smudged displays is LG.Phillips, which must be…
Run the Palm OS on your fancy Nokia N810 tablet
The tortured and confused development of the Palm OS is till ongoing, with new owner Access opening up its rejigged software so it can be whacked onto the new wave of Nokia web tablets.
The new Linux-based Palm platform uses something called GHost, which is a Garnet virtual machine
The world's fastest lift!
I grew up in the country. Lifts were rare and therefore very exciting. Even getting to go on an escalator was something of a white-knuckle thrill ride into the possible future, coming around about once a year when going Christmas shopping in a town big enough to have two branches of WH Smith. Once you've felt it, the excitement of effortless upward motion never goes away.
This, the world's fastest lift, is located within the massive Taipei 101 tower. It can take passengers to the 89th floor in 37 seconds, at a speed of nearly 38mph. This is the ultimate in LIFT PORN:
The AMAZING HP Scitex TJ8300 is the biggest printer ever
If you’re a bit simple and get easily excited by things that come in unusual sizes, check this bad boy out – a printer the size of Wales.
Almost the size of Wales – the awesome Scitex TJ8300 is capable of printing out sheets at a maximum size of 165cm by 370cm, meaning it can knock out 100 billboard posters in an eight…
Flickr hits two billion photo uploads – Australian gum tree immortalised
Flickr’s been doing quite well. It’s now officially more than a bit popular, with the photo sharing mega-site revealing it now hosts a staggering two billion photos.
We have no idea whether this is impressive or not, but if Flickr’s sending out a press release about it and bragging about it on its blog it’s obviously pretty pleased with itself.
