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Submission + - Top 10 things to hate about the Apple iPhone

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SlinkySausage
SlinkySausage writes: "APC Magazine has looked at Apple's iPhone with a critical eye and spotted 10 areas that are significantly lacking. In summary: slow mobile data, battery life that sucks, non-user replaceable battery, potential for touch screen problems, heavy data usage, last-generation camera, proprietary tie-ins, no video chat, carrier lock-in, and not much storage space for video.

"Don't get me wrong," writes the article's author Dan Warne. "I want an iPhone as badly as the next guy, but in the midst of the gushing hype-stream out there, I'd like to provide a little balance and point out that the iPhone's far from perfect. Is it one of the most technologically advanced phones on the market? Absolutely. Do we live in a perfect world? Of course not. Do I wish Apple had reconsidered a few aspects of the iPhone to make it even better? Yep."
Microsoft

Submission + - Microsoft tries to patent RSS

Submitted by bitserf
bitserf writes: As some blogs are reporting, Microsoft appears to have submitted a patent application for RSS. This appears to be a pretty cynical move on their part, think back to when people were pushing for them to integrate this into their platforms. It would be quite ironic if the inventor of RSS ended up not being able to use the technology he developed and evangelized for fear of infringing on their patent. The filing date of the patent is June 21, 2005.
Announcements

Submission + - Pee soup is off the menu in China

Submitted by
TheCybernator
TheCybernator writes: "Pee soup is off the menu as China makes its English more savoury "Complicated cake", "pee soup", "five sliced things", "dumpling stuffed with the ovary and digestive glands of a crab" and, hopefully, "crap in the grass" are being banished from Beijing's restaurants — as part of a plan to improve English spelling and standardise signs and menus for the 2008 Olympics. http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article20 91871.ece"
Handhelds

Submission + - Taking GPS underwater

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Jonathan Fogg
Jonathan Fogg writes: "The local BBC channel here in the UK is reporting that Node, a mobile media company, are making a specialist version of their device for deep underwater use. The product seems to be targeted at scuba divers and the many people who enjoy snorkling etc. with a view to guiding them to, and around, the many amazing underwater sites in the world.

Their technical researchers have been demoing it on a wreck off the south west coast of the UK. It uses GPS to help you navigate around the wreck, whilst triggering various media and information that relates to the site — all whilst your 35 meters underwater.

It got me wonder whether there were actually any Divers out there who would be interested in using such a specialist device, and whether the explosion of specialist gadgets like this one has once and for all proved that the convergence theory is codswallop?"
Robotics

Submission + - iLimb Bionic Hand trialled in Scotland

Submitted by
Fix'll Jim It
Fix'll Jim It writes: "The BBC News website has a video report featuring the first recipient of the iLimb prosthetic hand, the 'world's most advanced bionic hand'. From the site: "An advanced version of a bionic hand, with five individually powered fingers, has been fitted to a man in Scotland.".

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nolavcons ole/ukfs_news/hi?redirect=st.stm&news=1&bbram=1&bb wm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=6197793

Web 3D Studio, a leading agency specialising in interactive 3D content for the Internet, have had an interactive model of the iLimb up on their site for a while now.

Link:
www.web3d.co.uk (Portfolio -> Touch Bionics)"
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Submission + - Discovery of mammals that can smell underwater

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Science_afficionado
Science_afficionado writes: "A scientist using a high-speed video camera has discovered that some semi-aquatic mammals can do something that experts had considered to be impossible: using their sense of smell underwater. A multimedia story on Exploration, Vanderbilt's online research magazine, includes video clips that show how the critters do it. The URL is http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/stories/unde rwatersniffing.html. (FLASH is required.)"

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