We’ve seen a few iPhone credit card payment systems recently, and now other platforms will be getting the credit card love too, in the form of ROAMpay from QuickPay Merchant Services. ROAMpay is a credit card machine that supports iOS, Android and BlackBerry. Users will be able to key in transactions and generate receipts after that.
You may think that you have the coolest coffee table on the planet, but have you seen a giant-sized NES coffee table before? This enormous Nintendo Entertainment System comes with a clickable jumbo NES controller hidden under the lid. Aside from being fully capable of taking care of your coffee cups, this table also has controller ports that are really power outlets, allowing you to plug your electronic devices in and keep them juiced
As we close in on the release of the public beta for Internet Explorer 9 (IE9), a leaked video of the upcoming browser has surfaced, giving us a short demo of it.
Now that the PS3 jailbreak code is out in the wild , you shouldn’t be too surprised to hear that all sorts of hacks are surfacing to allow various devices to jailbreak the PS3, allowing users to backup their games to the internal or external hard drive. We’ve previously had reports of users jailbreaking the PS3 with a Nokia N900 or Palm Pre , but this time a user has managed to do so with his TI-84 calculator, which sounds really neat, though Sony probably won’t be too happy about the whole deal
Google’s logo has decided to parade the power of HTML5 via a whole bunch of super bouncy balls whenever you check out Google’s UK homepage . This unique Google Doodle might just blow your mind away whenever you mouseover its logo – and just in case you happen to be in the minority who cannot view Google for any particular reason, the video right after the jump ought to do its job in conveying the message. Surely HTML5 is shaping up to be a decent competitor to Flash, and only consumers will win in the end as both platforms go up head-to-head against one another
If the theremin wasn’t impressive enough by allowing you to control the music by waving your hands around, this latest mod takes it one step further, allowing you to control the music with just your mind (who needs hands anyways). A Mattel Mindflex game was modded into a controller interface for this instrument, allowing the user to control the pitch just by thinking. The more you think, the higher the pitch; the less you think, the lower the pitch.
Samsung’s Super AMOLED displays, as used on the Galaxy S phone, are already popular, as many folks were hoping that the freshly-announced Galaxy Tab would offer a 7-inch Super AMOLED display. While it would be a drool-worthy idea, Samsung executives have confirmed that the tablet will not be using a Super AMOLED display, but will instead offer a Super TFT display, touted to offer performance similar to that of a Super AMOLED display, while offering better battery performance at a lower cost
Want to make your iPhone’s camera even cooler? If you have $5 to spare, you might be able to do just that . The mod itself is pretty simple, as it involves picking up a SE Mini 45X microscope and attaching it to the phone.
There’s something about lasers that seems to appeal to everybody, and now LaserMotive has managed to use a few watts of laser power to keep a 22-gram model helicopter hovering for about an hour.
This device on this car is probably the future of auto security as we know it. Someone has gone to the trouble of installing an Eee PC 900A into the dash of this Volvo, and has gone to even more trouble to make the computer part of the automobile’s systems.
