World Of Gadget

The video below is a demo of a robot running at 7 kilometers per hour, constructed and developed by Toyota R&D. I’ve always wondered why Toyota and Honda have been working on motive robots for the last decade or so. Will future models be more reminiscent of Mechwarrior or Heavy Gear?

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Robot Runs in Place Before Charging Towards You at 7 kph

Tech-heads know Hitachi’s Deskstar hard disk line for its 1TB variant, but that may soon change, as the company recently rolled out a 2 terabyte variant. Courtesy Hitachi The Hitachi Deskstar 7K2000 is the first of its capacity that runs at 7200 RPM

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Hitachi Comes Out With World’s First 2TB 7200 Hard Disk

Gaiser might be on the wrong market, trying to appeal to geeks with the big bucks with its $32,000 gold and diamond plated mini PC. Surely the first-class aesthetics are appealing, but how would you explain paying that much money for a quad-core PC and integrated graphics to tech-heads? In other words, rich people may admire the craftsmanship (a shell of three kinds of Gold sprinkled with some Swarovski crystals) of the so-named “design09 | TRICOLOR Gold”

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For the Rich and Clueless: $32,000 for a Core 2 Quad Mini PC!

C’mon, I dare you, watch the two online videos below: So, without thinking whatsoever, which one did you funny (if at all)?

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An Experiment on Acceptable Racism

The Contortionist is a bike that folds into an oreo of sorts, with the entire mechanism somehow tucking between both 26-inch wheels, and part of the assembly sticking out for easy pulling. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9_XEgGQBkQ] The inventor?

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Totally Awesome Bike Folds Into Wheel Circu

With 1 terabyte hard disks costing less than $100 , it’s pretty amazing how far we’ve come. Consider this: back in the early 80s, according to a random commenter on Reddit, this totally awesome 10MB hard drive from XCOMP went for a shade under $3400

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Blast From the Past: the $3398 10MB Hard Disk

Mix poor memory and a lack of tech-savvy, and you’ve got a teacher disciplining a high school student for launching “foxfire.com”. Not sure if this is real or a hoax, but here are some details: The incident report narrates how the teacher apparently asked the class to do some work through an internet browser, only to catch a student starting a program called foxfire.exe.

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Teacher Detains Student for Using “foxfire.exe”

Yesterday, Apple blocked Google’s official Google Voice application from the App Store. And this after Apple’s Phil Schiller, the Senior VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, gave his personal approval

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Apple Blocks Google Voice App

So don’t start squeeing yet, Linux lovers: a list on Amazon Germany (amazon.de) is hardly a sign of widespread adoption of the “alternative” OS, especially since the German market isn’t visible for the US-centric English-writing tech media. It’s still worth scoping out both stellar performers. The 400 euro (around $568) ASUS X5DIJ-SX018L (second) features a 250GB hard disk, 2GB of RAM, a 2GHz Pentium Dual-Core CPU, and a 15.6″ screen

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Linux Laptops Rank Well in Amazon Bestseller List (in Germany)

A Chinese worker suspected of stealing a prototype iPhone committed suicide last week when he jumped off a 12-floor building. The former classmates of 25-yeer-old Sun Danyong allege that Sun was driven over the edge by the security team of his employers. The teamallegedly searched his house, beat him, and lock him in a room

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Man Accused of Stealing iPhone Prototype Commits Suicide