Techno Island

We have seen our fair share of subscription-dependent giveaways in the past in the form eee PC, and even rare PS3 offer – but to go with the Wii include cable services strikes us as somewhat remarkable. According to the offer from Comcast, the newcomers into society “Triple Play” on digital cable, VOIP services, and high-speed internet will also be able to bag po?ádného-to-goodness Nintendo Wii on their way out the door.
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Mizanur Rahman is clearly sick and tired of traditional mousing devices. So sick and tired, in fact, that he’s kicked out a rendering of the Project: Alien Mouse. In short, this decidedly gigantic mouse shoots for ergonomics by providing a place for your wrist, lower arm and maybe your elbow if you’re a small enough person. We’ll be honest, all those gel cushions sure look comfy from here, but the amount of brain energy that would be required to use it kind of puts a damper on the whole deal. [via]

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We’re not sure if you check most mobile provider’s sites every ten minutes or so (like we do), but if you did, you would have noticed that the latest Palm Windows Mobile device — the Treo 800w — is available for purchase at Sprint’s online store. The phone, which features a 320 x 320 screen, EV-DO Rev. A, WiFi, and GPS, is currently listing for $249.99 after a $250 instant savings, $100 mail-in rebate, and two-year contract. So if you’ve been absolutely, positively dying to get your hands on this thing — now’s your chance.

[via : engadget]

"We had a chance to play with Research In Motion’s upcoming BlackBerry Bold handset tonight, and we came away happily impressed. To start things off, the keyboard felt easy enough to use, at least easier than the 8830 we’re often forced to use for work email. Gone are the sharp protrusions, replaced with a nice flat surface upon which to click.
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This is a really cheap and probably illegal shortwave transmitter, don’t build it. It just feeds the output from an LM386 audio amplifier directly into the power pin of a crystal oscillator can to produce AM-modulated shortwave radio frequencies. This works better than one might expect — this particular oscillator seems to provide a stable waveform with voltages anywhere from 2.0v to 5.0v!
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engadget.com says Nokia’s finally fessing up to its latest E series QWERTY phone, but took this one in a seriously surprising direction… for Nokia, anyway: thin. The E71 is one of the thinnest phones we’ve ever seen exit the doors of the Finnish giant, at 10mm thick, but there’s still plenty of room for everything you’d expect out of an E series phone like WiFi, HSDPA, A-GPS and even a 3.2 megapixel camera and a front facing camera for video chat — the main place the E71 differs on specs from its new E66 sibling is the 2.36-inch QVGA screen, just a fraction of an inch smaller. The E71 even manages to squeeze in extra battery, with 20 days of standby, 10.5 hours of GSM talk or 4.5 hours of 3G talk. There’s 110MB of built-in storage and a microSD slot if you grow out of that, and the same business / personal switcher of the E66. Folks accustomed to previous Nokia QWERTY phones in the form factor like the E62 will find the screen noticeably smaller, but with the same number of pixels and an incredibly pocketable form factor there’s plenty to love about this new entry.

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