Flying your Bell Ranger in a ball cap is something of a fashion statement. But it lacks that iconic, ant-head panache that until recently only military pilots wearing restricted, government-use-only night vision-equipped helmets could pull off. (Credit: Nivisys) The NVAG-6 Night Vision Goggles change all that.
Staff, not patents, this time Research in Motion is suing Motorola for not allowing laid-off employees to seek work with the owner of the Blackberry brand, who is hoping to scoop up some cheap engineers now that Motorola is shedding so many.…
Open OS on open hardware Google’s mobile phone platform, Android, has been ported to the OpenMoko’s open-sourced hardware platform, though it’s not quite the perfect combination as yet.…
Stick-on lenses If you’re an iPhone owner who’s disappointed with that oh-so-popular device’s oh-so-limited camera, there’s good news from Hong Kong gadgeteer USBfever: stick-on lenses.…
Claim ley line interference The new-age residents of Glastonbury are up in arms about the council’s deployment of WiFi, claiming the wireless networks are interfering with their chakras and generally getting them down.…
‘Flattop’ Jones surrenders LG Electronics has lately been trumpeting its plans to debut a 3G wristwatch phone with a touch screen technology at the Consumer Electronics show in January.…
Orange is not the only fruit French retailers have started selling iPhones, previously only available from network operator Orange, though at such a high mark-up that the offer is not that tempting.…
FCC proposes smut for all FCC Chair Kevin Martin has proposed dropping the content-filtering requirement attached to the AWS band, in the hope that someone will build a network if they’re not required to remove all the pornography.…
Yes, it’s a refurb Although the rumors of a $99 iPhone 3G from Walmart recently died an ignominious death , that yearned-for two-digit price point has again resurfaced – and this time it’s real. To make the deal even sweeter, if you buy before December 31 you can knock another fifty bucks off the price.…
On this week’s installment of the Digital City, we discuss the Facebook koobface virus, PlayStation Home’s launch, sleazy old ’80s urban video game arcades, tech blog Gizmodo’s cool NYC retro gadget gallery, our New Year’s resolutions, and (seriously) Dance Dance Revolution: The Musical.
