Palm Eos: webOS debut on AT&T?

While the Pre has been the talk of the town concerning Sprint and Palm, a new beast has come forth to take the spotlight, the Palm Eos, or more secretly known (castle). The phone physically will be thin…10.6mm thin. And with a 320 x 400 capacitive display, I’m sure multimedia capabilities will at least be a small part of the Eos’s future. As with all good bleeding edge leaks, the info should be taken with several grains of salt and put in the nice little rumor bin that you have sitting in the corner of your mind for the time being. While you sit on that rumor, here are the specs that have been leaked so far:

Quad-band GSM/HSDPA

2 megapixel digital camera w/flash/fixed focus/and video record capabilities

4GB onboard storage

2.63-inch, 320 x 400 capacitive display (finger friendly)

Bluetooth 2.1 w/ A2DP & EDR, USB not forgetting A-GPS

SMS, MMS, IM

Media net

Cellular Video

Email support for: POP3, IMAP4, and EAS support

For Audio: WAV, MP3, AAC, AAC+ ringtones/Video: MPEG4, H.264, H.263

Removable 1150 mAh battery with up to 4 hours of 3G talk time.

Size: 55mm x 111mm / 100 grams. (rougly 2.1 by 4.3-inches for standard measurement users)

Whew! So, was the Pre not doing it for ya? What about this? Huh? Huh? Huh?

Source: Engadget

Get a sneek peek inside of Twitter thanks to leaked admin shots!

Have you every been sitting around, navigating though Twitter and all of its social openess and wondered to yourself what an admin on Twitter would see? Well, you now can thanks to Nowhereelse.fr. What all can you see? Well, for starters there is a “Darkmode” status which lets you blacklist/disable pretty much any feature you want. You can see how many followers any one particular user gains/looses in a day, in the case of these screenshots, Ashton Kutcher. You can also gaze upon some pretty cool stats for the site such as users added/lost in the last day/week/month. among others. Come inside for the shots that show you the other side of Twitter.

Wireless document delivery on Kindle set to cost you more. [Super]

If you are an avid Amazon Kindle user and routinely transfer large documents wirelessly to and fro using Whispernet, you are in for a rude awakening – to the tune of a minimum 50% increase in wireless transfer charges. [Gasps] Say it ain’t so. Sorry, but it is very so. The old $0.10 flat fee that covered everything from a single byte transfer to that monstrous 400MB transfer will now be billed according to total size. What is the new cost that you find Kindle readers now get to foot? $0.15 per megabyte. And of course, it will be rounded up to the next nearest megabyte. So if you use 1.01 megabytes, guess what, you’re getting billed for 2MB. Oh the humanity. It isn’t a complete loss however as you now will have the ability to view DOCX and RTF files which I’m assuming is some reassurance to some of you eBook readers out there. Is it enough to compensate for the rate hike? Or, is the Kindle looking less attractive than it was last night before you went to bed?

Source: Gizmodo, Gear Diary, Engadget

Accerssorize your microwave with “Microwave Stickers”

One of the key examples of a recession is the plethora of start-ups you see springing up from all areas of the market. Some ideas brought forth are in fact ingenious, others…not so much. I’ll let you decide on this one. Have you ever looked at your microwave, your little box on the counter that makes snack time come all the more quicker and though to yourself: “Golly gee, I sure to wish I could make my microwave look like an aquarium.” If you are in fact that particular about even household appliances, you just might want to give these little stickers a try. They are simply big stickers that you slap on the front of your big ‘ol food nuking box and can easily be removed and replaced as the mood strikes you. Don’t come running to me when you little brother starts making fun of you…just sayin’.

Source: Slippery Brick, Craziest Gadgets

Android 1.5/Cupcake being kicked out the door by T-Mobile…right now?!

As the title states, G1 users on T-Mobile have been reporting certain new goodies appearing on their G1′s.  Goodies such as onscreen keyboards, video recording capabilities as well as a whole host of other features.  G1 users, tell is it is so!

Source: Gizmodo, Image Source

Bring new age tech to old age farming world [Digital Scarecrow]

Scarecrows are pretty simply objects.  They have the sole purpose of remaining static, keeping an ever watchful eye over the land and scaring of any predator that should come and try to steal the fruits of some dear farmers hard labor.  I’m not active in the scarecrow scene, so I can’t really say how much (or little) scarecrows have come in the last couple decades or even centuries.  All I can tell you right now is that if they haven’t made any big strides technologically speaking – they have now.  The Digital Scarecrow brings  a level of style and sophistication to any field and will effectively do its duty to protect the land that it watches over.  How does it work?  Sound waves.  The Digital Scarecrow watches over its produce flock by means of its infrared eyeball that will alert the device to intruders (with a theoretical 16,529 sq. meter coverage area) and in return, emit powerful high pitch sound waves that will persuade said intruders to look for nom nom snacks elsewhere.  That is a pretty large swath of land to cover if you ask me.  Don’t worry PETA, it won’t hurt the cute little animals.  (KFC sounds amazing right now by the way).  Digressing from obvious criticism, the Digital Scarecrow will further reduce its dependence on the environment due to its integrated solar panels located on each of its arms.  *Tree huggers this is where you clap.*  Is the Digital Scarecrow piquing your interest?

Source: Coated, Yanko Design

Palm Pre too big and ugly for ya…how about a Mini-Pre?

The Palm Pre hasn’t even been released yet, however that isn’t stopping Palm from grabbing the cellphone market by the horns and trying to own the market like they used to.  While rumors of a smaller “iPhone nano” have been persistent on the web, nothing has materialized either physically, or in writing.  Many even suspect that Apple doesn’t want to have a stratified line up of phones.  Palm on the other hand isn’t taking the slow road wit their new webOS powered devices and is now rumored to be “very far along” on a “mini-Pre”.  How mini?  Dunno.  I would assume some of the excess fat would be trimmed and possibly the slide out qwerty tossed in favor of an onscreen jobby that will directly compete (sorta kinda) with the iPhone/Blackberry Storm, and several other full touchscreens out there.  Only time will tell if the “mini-Pre” is really just that – a miniature sized Pre, or if it is in fact a completely new model line.  I’m hoping for the latter.  A new model will help grab more market share and attract more users as opposed to simply a shrunken Pre.  Thoughts and concerns?

Source: Tech Crunch