by Techno Witch on July 17, 2008
Have you seen those crazy parachute planes that combine a propeller driven engine with a chute and allows bored weekend warriors to kill themselves without a pilot’s license? Well, now there’s a company taking the next “logical” step by creating a flying dune buggy that does the same thing – kill a reckless driver and anyone else who is unfortunate enough to be on the ground when this 2,500 pound rock drops on their heads.
The specs on this supposed green death trap are as follows: powered by a biodiesel-modified motorcycle engine, the Parajet Skycar has a take-off distance of less than 200 meters and a top speed of almost 70MPH. Cruising altitude will be 2000 to 3000 ft with a maximum ceiling of around 15,000 feet and it has a maximum range of around 185 miles. It looks rather tempting considering it allows just about any road surface become a runway and it does appeal to the ?Q? like Bond impulses in me, and I?m sure those ultra thin wires adhering that heavy dune buggy to the chute are aircraft grade ? but if that chute were to fail, that baby drops like a rock worse than the space shuttle. But at least you get to live your Slim Pickens Dr. Strangelove fantasy.
Cost is around $70,000.
Hat Tip ? D?Vice
by Techno Witch on July 17, 2008
BlackBerry?s Curve, Pearl and 8800 series is to receive Palringo; a messaging service which extends full functionality of PC based IM services to mobile devices such as picture and voice messaging.
BlackBerry users who use Palringo will be able to chat using voice and picture messages along with the more traditional text, BlackBerry users will also be able to chat with their friends who are using other IM clients such as Windows Live Messenger, GTalk, and AIM all via the Palringo interface.
As with some similar IM applications Palringo shows user contacts from all IM services in a single pane list and therefore eliminating the need to constantly switch between IM tools. Palringo?s “vocal instant messaging” combined real time text functionality with walkie-talkie style voice chat and the ability to share images all within a single threaded conversation.
Palringo for BlackBerry can be downloaded free from the Palringo website.
by Techno Witch on July 17, 2008
Well for once it would appear that Rogers Wireless of Canada has learned a valuable lesson concerning data plans. Following on from their attempts to appease the irate iPhone 3G hoards with its generous $30.00 data plan, The GSM carrier has now announced they are to extend the more reasonably priced data plan to cover all their smartphones.
One thinks that this may be a smart more for Rogers, and probably rather than face even more criticism and damaging complains over their data plan pricing, Rogers is to be giving their customers 6GB on monthly wireless data transfers for only $30.00 on their mobile phones such as the iPhone 3G, Motorola Q9h, Palm Treo, Nokia N95, and HTC TyTn.
Although, Rogers is backing this offer up with a “Limited Time Offer” attached, so my guess is if the Canadians customers want to get I of the good data pricing they need to be pretty quick.
by Techno Witch on July 17, 2008
Apple launch the App Store so what?s the next move, Microsoft shoves up an attempted competing website, attempted simply because it looks somewhat rushed although it is powered by Silverlight. The new website is dubbed “Windows Mobile Applications” and carries the slogan “DO MORE.”
The Microsoft “Windows Mobile Applications” is there to promote most of the applications that are presently available for Windows Mobile, something like 1800 of them. Unfortunately Microsoft has sort of gone overboard in their attempt to seduce users from the App Store and has slavered it with Flash rather than usability.
Mr. Microsoft is not taking a cut of sales for every Windows Mobile app, he just wants to offer one singular website which users can explore to locate new software. Only problem is, said users are not going to find those apps without the use of a search function. So what do Microsoft do, they create a slow moving carousel for looking through those 1800 apps.
Not good enough Mr Microsoft, you?ve been in the game long enough to know better! Although Microsoft has had their Windows Mobile App Catalogue running before the launch of the App Store, so one point to Microsoft.
by Techno Witch on July 17, 2008
If you can remember, Samsung?s original try to create a dual SIM card full touch-screen mobile phone, the P720, wasn?t what one could call a success, well in fact it was actually cancelled due to Samsung not being able to make a dual SIM card UI that would work o the Armani phone like device.
But low and behold, what?s this? Those clever techs at Samsung have improved the touch capabilities with TouchWiz interface and so you guessed it, it?s time for another bash at the dual SIM mobile handset.
So, what in their infinite wisdom do Samsung believe to be the best handset for this new dual SIM card touch-screen second time round? None other than the Armani?s successor, the Samsung F480.
So Samsung has managed to slip in the dual SIM functionality into theF480 to make the Samsung D988 mobile handset which is destined for China, but will probably become the Samsung D980 DuoS if shipped to other countries.
Spec wise: tri-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE 900/1800/1900MHz, 2.6 inch QVGA display, 5 megapixel camera with auto-flash, Dual SIM GSM card slots, Bluetooth 2.0 and USB. But as yet no word on if or when Europe will see it.
