Chipophone is the chiptune organ that you’ve always wanted

This is no ordinary electric organ, my friend.

Britain’s Ministry of Defence unveils unmanned Taranis combat aircraft

Well, it looks like Boeing’s unmanned Phantom Ray stealth aircraft just got a bit of company courtesy of Britain’s Ministry of Defence.

Shocker! Apple approves apps for using LED on iPhone 4 as flashlight

Nah, your sarcasm detector isn’t busted — we genuinely are surprised that Apple has lifted the iron fist and allowed a piece of hardware on its handset to be used for something other than Jobs himself intended. It may seem trivial to those who haven’t witnessed Apple block the most sensible of programs in the past, but allowing applications that enable end-user control of the LED camera flash is a pretty big deal .

Swiss lab builds lightweight, tree-perching glider robot, swarms to follow

Last we heard from Mirko Kovac of the Switzerland-based EPFL Laboratory of Intelligent Systems, he was setting a robot high-jump record with his grasshopper-inspired bot . Now he’s back with what might be an even more impressive robot — a 4.6 gram glider that can fly headfirst into any surface, perch itself, and then detach on command

White House throws its weight behind wireless broadband, wants 500MHz of spectrum reallocated

Ask, and ye shall receive, FCC: hot off Julius Genachowski’s National Broadband Plan asking for 500MHz of additional spectrum to keep up with anticipated demand over the coming years, the White House appears to be totally on board with an Obama-penned memorandum out today demanding that federal agencies under his control get on board, while also “strongly encouraging” independent agencies to do the same. This isn’t some open-ended, pie-in-the-sky deal, either; the 500MHz needs to be turned loose in the next ten years, and the president wants a plan on his desk — penned with the help of the FCC — by October 1 of this year on exactly how to make that happen. It’s looking more and more like at least some privately-held spectrum is going to need to be reallocated involuntarily, but there’s a lot of underused and unused airspace out there right now, so it’ll be interesting to see if these guys can comply with the order in a drama-free manner

Super AMOLED vs AMOLED vs LCD in direct sunlight… fight! (video)

By now you know that (one of) AMOLED’s Achilles’ heel is readability in direct sunlight . But Samsung’s been working hard to fix that with its new Super AMOLED technology

Apple suggesting you head into a store if things aren’t working out online

Oh, to be tapped into the conference call going on between Apple’s and AT&T’s server tech teams right now! Update: Seems folks have been seeing this message intermittently since the wee hours — first time we’ve seen it here, but then again, we’ve seen no fewer than five or six unique failure modes today. Quite a sight. Apple suggesting you head into a store if things aren’t working out online originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:51:00 EDT

AT&T sends apology email to customers affected by iPad 3G security breach

Good news if you’re one of the 114,000 iPad 3G owners whose email address was uncovered by hackers spoofing the AT&T ICC database the other day — AT&T is very, very sorry, and it’s written you a nice email to make it all better.

Apple screenshot confirms iWork coming to iPhone

Well well, what’s this? Our pal Stuart Miles at Pocket-lint spotted an interesting detail on one of Apple’s iPhone 4 screenshots: an “Open in ‘Keynote’” button while viewing an attachment in Mail.

Researcher promises petabyte Hyper-CDs as we struggle to maintain interest

Holographic storage sure has a lot of potential , but so far all those promises have resulted in nothing more than broken dreams . Now we have some new promises, promises that we’ll report with due skepticism. Romanian scientist Eugen Pavel is pledging that his company, Storex Technologies, can create a “Hyper” CD-sized disc (120mm diameter, 1.2mm thickness) capable of absorbing a whopping 1,000,000GB

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