The DelFly Micro is an image sensing mini-dragonfly that weighs a mere 3 grams (0.000472419133 stone) . You can fly it manually or transmit video back to a Computer which then moves the wee one through the air autonomously. This thing has become smaller and smaller over the years and now it’s a tiny bigger than […]

The DelFly Micro is an image sensing mini-dragonfly that weighs a mere 3 grams (0.000472419133 stone) . You can fly it manually or transmit video back to a Computer which then moves the wee one through the air autonomously.

This thing has become smaller and smaller over the years and now it’s a little more massive than a Euro coin. You sadly can’t buy this thing, but anticipate them to be in the first wave of war machines when the robots rise against us.

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It doesn’t look exciting, really, but it’s worth taking into account that as people move their entire personal experience on the internet, the local footprint of a personal computer gets smaller and smaller, until eventually it’s this. The Cherrypal is ridiculously underpowered: a 400MHz processor, 256mb of RAM, 4GB of space (used pretty much exclusively for the OS and […]

It doesn’t look exciting, really, but it’s worth taking into account that as people move their entire computer experience on the internet, the local footprint of a computer gets smaller and smaller, until eventually it’s this. The Cherrypal is ridiculously underpowered: a 400MHz processor, 256mb of RAM, 4GB of space (used pretty much exclusively for the OS and Firefox), and the usual ports (VGA output though?!). It costs $250.

The idea is it’s entirely cloud-based computing. Cherrypal provides 50GB of space on the web, and what with Flickr, GMail and apps, and stuff like Last.fm, most of the basic programs you’d use on your personal are replaceable. Its power consumption is a ridiculous two watts, and it’s missing, they state, 80% of the components of other computers (lower waste and consumption). I agree with Tom’s Hardware that this is a disruptive product, but I’m skeptical that it will really catch on — after all, there is still a lot of local stuff that needs dealing with: temporary pic storage, a media player, and so on. But it is the lightest computing solution possible at this stage, and I think that deserves a tiny recognition.

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Vaka’s concept for lightbulbs revolves around silicon orbs that you squeeze to turn the light on/off, or twist to make the light dimmer or brighter. But the bulbs are also chargeable, meaning you can remove them from the fixture and take them wherever light is needed…like those village raids against the local vampire. [Yanko]

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Did a quick video of the Acer AspireOne. If you have any questions or tests you’d like me to run, let me know in comments.

Did a quick video of the Acer AspireOne. If you’ve any questions or tests you’d like me to run, let me know in comments.

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“The 21st Century Begins Now”, according to David Granger, Esquire’s editor in chief. At least that’s what the magazine cover will flash at newsstands in September. E-Ink is the company that produced the upcoming cover, and if that sounds familiar, that’s because E-Ink tech is used in Amazon’s Kindle. While it has never been done […]

“The 21st Century Begins Now”, according to David Granger, Esquire’s editor in chief. At least that’s what the magazine cover will flash at newsstands in September.

E-Ink is the company that produced the upcoming cover, and if that sounds familiar, that’s because E-Ink tech is used in Amazon’s Kindle. While it has never been done for a magazine cover, the technology has been used for supermarket displays.

While it’s apparent the wording on the cover is meant to underscore the importance of the technology, the route is as backwards as the statement. The burgeoning technology is seen as a realistic substitute to the distribution of information, with a paper-less future envisioned by some. The Esquire cover has a 100,000 hard count press run with batteries that’ll run out after 90 days.

Esquire’s parent company, Hearst Corporation, is a major shareholder in E-Ink. As such, it’s hard to envision that they will continue to produce unwieldy magazine covers, instead opting at some future time to utilize electronic ink in a manner more appropriate of its capabilities. Hopefully it won’t take until the 22nd century for Esquire to start creating downloadable issues.

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