Picture of Motorola ‘Shadow’ leaked, inverted on Taiwanese forum

Picture of Motorola ‘Shadow’ leaked, inverted on Taiwanese forum

While everyone’s gearing up to celebrate New Year’s Eve, it seems that Motorola’s busy squeezing out the last bit of rumor juice of 2009. We’re looking at what’s purported to be Motorola’s ‘Shadow’ (not ‘Mirage’ as Google Translate unhelpfully suggests) a phone with 9mm thickness, 4.3-inch 850×484 screen (larger than ...

SmartQ V5 MID available now to a world that’s just stopped caring

SmartQ V5 MID available now to a world that’s just stopped caring

When we first laid eyes on the SmartQ V5, we were pretty underwhelmed… yet another resistive touchscreen MID? We’re beginning to long for those halcyon days of late 2009 when an Android handheld was a thing of awe and wonder. Just a refresher: this guy features a 4.3-inch display, 600MHz ...

Appeals court sides with Apple in iPod hearing loss dispute

Appeals court sides with Apple in iPod hearing loss dispute

Well, it looks like that iPod hearing loss lawsuit that’s been nagging Apple for the past couple of years may finally be going away (in its current form, at least), as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has now affirmed a 2008 district court ruling and rejected ...

Acer Aspire One AO532h joins the Pine Trail party with a $299 pricetag

Acer Aspire One AO532h joins the Pine Trail party with a $299 pricetag

It’s about time that the number one netbook manufacturer officially release details on its Pine Trail packing netbooks. The 10-inch Acer Aspire One A0535h seems to look slightly different than its predecessors, but its brand new Intel Atom N450 CPU, GMA 1350 graphics and promised 10-hours of battery life should ...

Dell netbook modded into a rather large handset (video)

Dell netbook modded into a rather large handset (video)

Eager to get a hold on your very own Dell-branded Android smartphone? This guy here took matters into his own hands with nothing more than his modding skill, his imagination, and a Dell Inspiron Mini. Of course, this thing won’t exactly fit in most pockets, but as a curiosity (and ...

Obama Could Decree Wider Use of Full-body Scanners in Airports

Obama Could Decree Wider Use of Full-body Scanners in Airports

With the failed Christmas Day attackfresh on the mind of many Americans, many are calling for increasedsecurity in our airports. Security is already increased in the post9/11 world of air travel, but many Americans still don’t feelsafe. Some lawmakers in Congress are calling for increased useof full body scanners that ...

Russian Scientists Working on Plan to Deflect Asteroids

Russian Scientists Working on Plan to Deflect Asteroids

Hollywood has made several movies thatcenter on how humans could destroy an asteroid or comet that was on atrajectory to hit the Earth. Some astronomers believe that the chanceof an asteroid impact is high enough to warrant preparation and plansto be readied to prevent such a catastrophe. The most credibleasteroid ...

McAfee Predicts Adobe Will Surpass Microsoft in Exploits During 2010

McAfee Predicts Adobe Will Surpass Microsoft in Exploits During 2010

With more and more people conductingtransactions and spending ever increasing amounts of time on thecomputer, hackers are increasingly targeting software and othercomputer services as a way to steal information and other nefarioustasks. The security community is working as hard as hacker groups toprevent attacks from compromising the computers of users ...

LCD TV Market to Return to Growth in 2010

LCD TV Market to Return to Growth in 2010

The poor global economy hit theelectronics industry hard. LCD TV makers were hard hit right alongwith computer makers and other companies. The economy is slowlystarting to come back though and DisplaySearch has released its LCDTV numbers for Q3 2009. DisplaySearch reports that total TVshipments for the quarter were up on ...

Study Indicates Hydrogen Cars’ Lifecycle Emits More Carbon Than Gas Cars

Study Indicates Hydrogen Cars’ Lifecycle Emits More Carbon Than Gas Cars

The hydrogen vehicle movement appearsstalled.  The push to use the diatomic gas as auto fuel neverexactly made it off the ground due to a lack of infrastructure production, distribution, and storage facilities.  However, fora time automakers like Toyota and Honda were pushing ahead withtesting of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles.  Even ...

AT&T asks FCC to phase out landline regulations

AT&T asks FCC to phase out landline regulations

A day without landline phones? Some may say that’s inevitable, but it looks like AT&T is now starting to try to speed things up a bit, with it recently responding to an FCC request for comments with a 32-page filing that details its position on the matter. That more or ...

Mophie iPhone credit card reader coming to a CES near you

Mophie iPhone credit card reader coming to a CES near you

iPhone accessory maker and recession antidote regular Mophie is about to make the most buzzworthy move of its short history by offering a credit card reader and accompanying transaction app for the Apple handset. Positioned as a direct competitor to Jack Dorsey’s Square iPhone Payment System, Mophie’s solution looks to ...

Stanley Torch Watch lights your path, highlights your odd aesthetic sensibilities

Stanley Torch Watch lights your path, highlights your odd aesthetic sensibilities

It takes a rather unique or hilarious! flashlight to make the pages of this august publication. We’ve seen torches that record video and torches that induce nausea, but never before have we seen a flashlight that’s been haphazardly shoved into a digital clock and called a “watch.” The Stanley LED ...

Liquid Image Snow and Swim camera goggles

Liquid Image Snow and Swim camera goggles

Liquid Image announces wide angle Snow Camera Goggle at  CES 2010 The Liquid Image Summit Series is the world’s first snow goggle with an integrated digital camera. The goggle contains a wide angle lens to capture all the action while skiing, boarding, sledding or snowmobiling. The hands free unit has ...

A-DATA’s USB 3.0 / SATA II flash drive announced for January

A-DATA’s USB 3.0 / SATA II flash drive announced for January

We’re a few precious breaths from 2010, and if there’s anything we’re looking forward to, it’s some wicked fast USB 3.0 storage Intel be damned. Set to hit shelves sometime in January, A-DATA’s N002 Combo Flash Drive sports both SATA II and a USB 3.0 connection. Using the latter, the ...