Archive for 2008/04


BlackBerry 9000’s official spec sheet leaked

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

A fistful of RIM documentation on Waterloo’s upcoming BlackBerry 9000 has found its way onto the interwebs courtesy of the good folks at Boy Genius Report, and while there’s nothing groundbreaking here, BlackBerry fanatics are sure to be drooling by the time they get to the last slide in this page-turner. The […]

MacBook Air hacked with internal EV-DO — finally lives up to its name

Filed under: Laptops

One of the most surprising things about the launch of an ultra-portable laptop dubbed “Air” by Apple wasn’t its thinness but the lack of an embedded WWAN radio. No more, at least if you’re not intimidated by smoldering solder and warranty violations. Jordan Bunnell has posted a step-by-step of his success at integrating […]

Researchers tout progress in spinning artificial spider silk

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We’ve seen plenty of attempts to mimic spiders in robot-form, but that’s not the only bit of inspiration arising from our eight-legged friends, with a number of other researchers also doing their best to artificially replicate the way a spider spins silk. Now, according to the BBC, it seems that a team […]