Its that time again ! Blendtec brings you the iPhone 3G installment of WIll It Blend. Enjoy !

Firefox 3 has born a lovely widget that allows for some NES action whilst browsing your favourite sites (ahem :P).

Check out the main site here.
Grab it from here.

I highly recommend you get this as it is a lot of fun but be warned as time will disappear very quickly !

So with the launch of the iPhone on Friday the 11th of July at 12:01am (The first country in the world) people have been waiting with baited breath… well… WAIT NO MORE!!!

Except, the plans Vodafone are offering suck, the pricing sucks and, it’s cheaper to buy an iPhone from the USA and import it than it is to buy one here…

GG Vodafone… G G.

A petition has been started HERE for Vodafone to create a pre-pay plan

There has been an immediate backlash, with what seems like thousands of people who are very unhappy.

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400gb in blu-ray… 1TB HDD’s pfft

Just last month we were reporting 42GB research DVD technology, but Panasonic’s scientists have blown that figure out of the water with a 400GB optical disc. The trick’s been done by making a 16-layer deep Blu-ray disc, and a player with sufficiently clever optics that it can pick up the light scattered by all those layers. The player is also compatible with standard Blu-ray, and for now it’s limited to playback only, designed to demonstrate the technology. But apparently in the future you’ll be able to burn 400GB Blu-ray discs, which is mind boggling.

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I still use my 1st gen ipod nano. The reason: it runs Rockbox.

Rockbox is alternate firmware for a whole lotta players, like the apple ipods. There were many players for a while that had the same architecture, so a group of opensource hackers wrote rockbox to run on the lot. iRivers, Apple, Sandisk, Samsung..

Doom on my ipod nano:

These days, they’ve far exceeded apple’s own firmware. Rockbox has Stephen Hawkings -style menu reading, great for the blind, but also handy for anyone who is too busy/lazy to pull their ipod outta their pocket to read the screen.

continue reading "Audio gadgets - so many features apple never got"

I’m in the market for a Bluetooth GPS.

The usage in mind is giving positioning info out to my phone, which in turns relays it to those location services websites. There’s lots out there, and they all seem to be in web2.0 style invite only beta.

continue reading "Bluetooth GPS"

The ASUS eeepc was the first to make sub-notebook computing really happen. Some credit the OLPC (one laptop per child) as the first, but they are a very niche target (education in equator climates) and they fail to ship to remote places like New Zealand (or even to Australia). I like the the Stephen Fry quote that i’ll proceed to misquote as “eeepc: i’ll always remember you as the first of what was to come”.

The first eeepc has 4Gbytes of solid state flash storage where you’d usually find a harddrive in a laptop. Solid state means you can drop it a few times, which might void your warrunty, but doesn’t normally break it.

Having only 4Gbytes means if you run windows you’ll have less 2Gbytes left to keep your both apps and files on; if you run linux you’ll have 3.5Gbytes to keep apps and files on. You won’t be keeping terrabytes of divx on these things.

continue reading "new eeepcs, and then yet more new eeepcs"

It is with great pleasure I introduce our newest member to the team, Shiny. Shiny will be posting all things gadgets including news, reviews and previews for Gaming Generation.

Shiny’s own blog Coffee Geek is a hit with developers and gadget fans across New Zealand and has high praisers from Wellington Blog Reviewers.

Shiny is the creator/director for Super Happy Dev House within New Zealand. Shiny also helps to organise Linuxchix New Zealand and helps maintain the Linuxchix International website. As well she has been a major organiser in bringing Girl Geek Dinners to Wellington, New Zealand.

If that’s not enough she’s a coder/hacker of many formats. We’re enthusiastic to welcome Shiny to our Gaming Generation team!

We have imported previous posts of Shiny’s from gadgets.geek.nz which you can find here.

The iPhone is coming to NZ on July 11th (Aparently) no word on pricing for NZ yet, but the 8gb and 16gb versions are selling in the USA for $199 and $299USD respectively.

“It’s amazingly zippy,” Jobs said, showing off the highly anticipated encore to the device that melds a mobile phone, iPod media player and Web browser, which will now come in black and white.

We will keep you posted!

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