iPod nano GPS hack ensures that you and your MP3s make it home safely

We’ve seen iPod hacks run the gamut, from the useful to the just plain absurd , but no matter how rough around the edges such a project may seem, we always get a kick out of the ingenuity and hard work involved. Today’s DIY wonder comes from a cat named Benjamin Kokes, who’s using his engineering chops to put together a GPS peripheral for the iPod nano. As the project stands right now, he’s taken a reference board sporting a Nemerix GPS and written a screen driver for it, allowing it to do its thing on the handheld

Keepin’ it real fake, part CCIV: Nokla beats Nokia to the touchscreen N98 punch

Good ol’ Nokla , with its punny branding and utter shameless, has taken upon itself to build the touchscreen N98, based on a sketchy Nokia concept that was making the rounds last year and never materialized. There’s a 3-inch QVGA screen and dual-sim support, but things lean into the realm of Nokia parody with the complete lack of 3G or EDGE data

Audyssey DSX surround sound takes the speaker-count war to 11

You might think the future of surround audio lies in sophisticated DSP-driven single-box soundbars or even crazy wireless headphones , but Audyssey Labs knows the truth: what you really need is more speakers. Up to 11 of ‘em, to be exact, as part of the company’s new Dynamic Surround Expansion system. Like the 9.1 channel Dolby Pro Logic IIz, DSX focuses more on the audio in front of you, since that’s what your ears are tuned to differentiate the best — in addition to the left, right, and center channels, DSX includes two speakers mounted up high at a 45-degree angle, and two speakers placed farther out to each side to create width

Archos 2 gets official in US, new color leaks out

Oh sure, you could already get your paws around the Archos 2 flash-based PMP if you really, really wanted to, but we’re still thrilled to see the company come clean and begin offering it up on its own website. As of now, prospective buyers in the United States of America can “soon” select the 8GB version in black or white for $59.99, while the 16GB model arrives in the same color options for $40 more.

Doomsday alert: internet to become an "unreliable toy" in 2012

Okay, so first things first — we all know the world’s on track to end in 2012, so it’s not like this really matters. But if , just if it manages to survive (à la Y2K), you can pretty much bank on a mass reversal of culture as we all push aside our netbooks and return to the playground.

T-Mobile’s connected Cameo digiframe plummets in price, gets reviewed

Man, that was fast. Really fast. Not like we’re shocked at all to hear that T-Mobile customers weren’t really digging the idea of paying ten bones per month to keep a digital photo frame alive, but hey — it was worth a shot, right?

GMABooster gives your netbook’s integrated graphics a nudge

It won’t exactly provide an Ion -level boost in performance, but it looks like the GMABooster app that’s been floating around for a little while does indeed deliver on its promise of providing a small helping hand to the stock Intel GMA 950 graphics found in the majority of netbooks out there. More specifically, the application boosts the clock speed from the standard 133MHz or 166MHz to a full 400MHz, or the same as the non-low voltage chipset found on standard laptops.

T-Mobile neither confirms nor denies Android 1.5 availability for G1

Ready for some totally prototypical corporate non-answers regarding the alleged release of Android 1.5 on T-Mobile USA’s G1s ? Good. Here you go: “T-Mobile USA will confirm details of Android 1.5 availability for our T-Mobile G1 customers in the near future.” Doesn’t mean much to us — and it’s hard to tell from that alone whether 1.5’s actually begun over-the-air distribution — but at any rate, it seems like they’re not ready to talk about it yet

Palm Eos: super-thin, 3G, and headed to AT&T?

Liked that blurry photo of a new Palm webOS phone we saw earlier? Well how about some specs, a name, and a better look at this thing?

Marco Tempest’s Augmented Reality card trick makes David Copperfield look positively ludditic

Illusionist and augmented reality artiste Marco Tempest has put together a video preview of his newest act, called (aptly enough) ” Augmented Reality Magic 1.0,” and has been kind enough to share it with us. In the video, Tempest uses AR to demonstrate what’s going on in his fertile imagination as he performs a card trick — cards levitate, Jokers dance, and the birthday cake? Well, you’ll just have to see for yourself

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