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- Control your Nexus One or Droid with a Wii Remote for fun and profit
- New software converts 2D cell phone games into 3D
- You could be the first to own the MyTouch Slide
- Apple refreshing the MacBook Air this week?
- iPad’s International Roll-Out Begins: Here’s What You’ll Be Paying
- CubeSat XI-V: Japan gets tweeting satellite
- 8-inch screen, accelerometer: Sony takes the wraps off its updated Vaio P
- Good idea? Internet voting coming to U.S. elections for military, overseas citizens
| Control your Nexus One or Droid with a Wii Remote for fun and profit Posted: 10 May 2010 06:00 AM PDT If you have a Nexus One or Motorola Droid and play classic games with an emulator, you must do this hack. It essentially turns the Nexus One into a full-fledge portable gaming system. The Wii Remote is even small enough to travel with, too. Can’t you see yourself pulling out the phone and firing up Metroid while cruising at 30,000 feet? I can. [via NeverKnowTech]
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| New software converts 2D cell phone games into 3D Posted: 10 May 2010 05:41 AM PDT
Details are relatively scarce at this point (HI will demo the technology during an exhibition in Tokyo this week), but what we know is that players will need to look straight at their handsets to get the 3D effect (otherwise, the images will get blurry). And “MascotCapsule eruption” will be compatible to a special 3D LCD screen made by NEC LCD Technologies only. This means the software won’t work with screens offered by other makers, but NEC is already offering that display to a number of cell phone manufacturers worldwide. HI plans to collaborate with NEC to get MascotCapsule eruption embedded in ten million handsets by 2013.
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| You could be the first to own the MyTouch Slide Posted: 10 May 2010 05:40 AM PDT  If you've got lightning-ninja skills, and a spare $750, you could be the first kid
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| Apple refreshing the MacBook Air this week? Posted: 10 May 2010 05:20 AM PDT
The rumor is anything but solid, with Macworld.com.au stating a “well-placed source” tipped them off about some new SKUs. But a single random source is certainly enough to get the Apple rumor mill grinding away. Of course we can dream of an ULV Core i3 or Core i5 MacBook Air, but the 13-inch Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro seems to state a different story. It seems logical that if Apple was working working with those chips, we would have seen a slightly more powerful 13-inch MBP announced a few weeks back. Apple instead opted for battery life instead of power, and that’s what will probably happen with the MacBook Air as well. Hopefully the Apple Engineers worked on heat displacement, too, because when chugging along on processor-intensive loads, the Air puts out enough heat to roast marshmallows.
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| iPad’s International Roll-Out Begins: Here’s What You’ll Be Paying Posted: 10 May 2010 04:59 AM PDT  People in Australia, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Spain and Japan can now pre-order the iPad from their respective Apple Stores, reports Boy Genius Report. Late last week, Apple had already shared some details on the international roll-out, including the fact that the tablet computers will effectively hit stores in the nine countries cited above on May 28. Details on pricing at the time weren't disclosed yet, but now these are live, too. We've taken the liberty of checking out all nine local stores to see what the respective starting prices look like:
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| CubeSat XI-V: Japan gets tweeting satellite Posted: 10 May 2010 03:01 AM PDT
As if the Akiba Pulse Box (the Twitter heart beat posting device) or the Bowlingual (the iPhone Twitter app for dogs) weren’t enough: Japan now boasts the world’s first tweeting satellite, the CubeSat XI-V. Developed by the Nakasuka Lab at the University of Tokyo, the pico satellite (four inches) is currently orbiting Earth and keeps posting [JP] various data to its followers on Twitter. It’s mostly relatively cryptic stuff like the satellite’s position in outer space, the current temperature, etc., but you also get the occasional image of mother Earth, for example this or this one (too bad these are so small). It’s been posting its status to Twitter for ten days, and it has well over 2,500 followers already. The XI-V, which weighs 1kg and was developed in twelve months, has been orbiting in outer space for about five years. You can find more technical info on the satellite here. Via Asiajin
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| 8-inch screen, accelerometer: Sony takes the wraps off its updated Vaio P Posted: 10 May 2010 12:21 AM PDT
Sony Europe today unveiled their newest version of the “ultra-mobile PC” VAIO P, which was teased by the company late last month. And apart from a new design and fresh colors, Sony added quite a number of interesting features and functions. For example, there’s an accelerometer now, which allows you to browse through websites, pictures or PDF pages by tilting the device to the left or right. Turn the VAIO on its side to view that content in portrait mode, “turning pages” with the trackball, mouse buttons and an additional touchpad.
And it has quite a few other nice specs (model name: VAIO P11S1E):
The new Vaio P will be available in five colors (orange, green, pink, black or white) starting June, at least in Europe (Japan gets it on May 22). Sony hasn’t said anything yet about pricing in the US or Europe. But Japan is to get a model with an Atom Z530 (1.60 GHz) for $1,080, which means Sony plans to roll out a number of different versions of their new PC. Note: As of this writing, neither Sony America nor Sony Global are mentioning the new Vaio P on their sites.
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| Good idea? Internet voting coming to U.S. elections for military, overseas citizens Posted: 09 May 2010 11:30 AM PDT
This is probably a case of where the idea is sound but humans will no doubt muck everything up. Thirty-three states here in the good ol’ U.S. will allow military and overseas citizens to vote via the Internet beginning with the mid-term election in November. This is being done in part to ensure that overseas voters’ votes, you know, count. I don’t know how many of y’all have ever lived overseas, but it’s probably easier to find Jay Leno funny than it is to obtain a ballot, then have it count. It’s 2010 and we still don’t have simple things like voting figured out. Amazing. In steps the Internet to the rescue, right? The idea is to have these voters (including military personnel) vote via the Internet in some capacity. Now, whether or not that means you’ll be able to e-mail some overseas county clerk, as it were, with the subject MY VOTE and the body I VOTE FOR CANDIDATE A, HE’S COOL AND STUFF is completely unknown. There’s been a bunch of trial programs to figure our exactly how the votes would be cast. Do you set up a VPN for votes to pass through? Maybe a special Web site with super fancy authentication? No idea. The problem with this, of course, is that the Internet is wildly insecure. Any teen with a copy of ettercap could, if he wanted, snoop an entire cafe’s Internet traffic while sipping a latte. Don’t think SSL will protect you, because it won’t! I’ve seen it effortlessly defeated so many times that I’m hesitant to even check my throwaway Gmail account on a public connection (airport Wi-Fi, at the café, heck, even at the TechCrunch office in New York). Unless I can see the pipe coming from the street into my modem, then to my router, I have zero control over who or what could possibly “hack” my connection. When you’re dealing with something as important as voting, you can guarantee that there will be people looking to cause trouble—it’s just human nature (which is partially why I want “I, Robot” to actually happen). Internet voting: a solution to a very real problem that unfortunately will never work as well as you’d like. Maybe it would work if people weren’t jerks…
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