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New BUGBase Brings Self-Build Mobile to Pre and Droid Smartphone Levels

by Jay Garrett on February 15, 2010

Every hardware tweaker will know about BUGLabs‘ build-a-phone, kinda like a Modu self-build, but now it’s had a refresh.

BUG 2.0 is now faster and Android ready.

The latest BUGBase, which is essentially the brain and nerve center, has been upgraded to TI’s OMAP 3 platform.

Before I get “huh?” from you – this actually brings the base up to spec with the likes of Motorola’s Droid and the Palm Pre.

Because it now stands shoulder-to-shoulder with top-end smartphones it’s only reasonable that it should support Android – thankfully it does. This also gives the new BUGBase tastey access to the Android App Market.

Worry not gadget builders! Although the BUGBase is new and sparkly it will still play nice with all those other bits you’ve been using to create your frankengadgets with – whether they be WI-Fi radios, GPS receivers, speakers or the BUGMotion accelerometer.

As yet there’s no price or release date for the new BUGbase.

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iPhone OS 3.1.2 Wakes Up Your Apple Handset From Coma

by Jay Garrett on October 9, 2009

iPhone-ComaI know that my 3Gesus phone and those of my two bandmates have all been hit by the coma so we’re pretty happy that this minor update to the iPhone OS should fix some that and the other annoying issues that some users have been having.

Also it will stop Rom from being so smug with his BlackBerry!

Apple say that they’ve fixed three bugs in the latest iPhone OS with an update issued via iTunes.

According to Apple, the update addresses three issues:

  • A “sporadic issue” that prevents the iPhone from waking from sleep (which may be iPhone coma)
  • An “intermittent issue” that kills the mobile network until you restart the phone
  • A bug that causes the “occasional crash” while streaming video

We’re gonna hit this up tonight – have you had any problems?

Are they fixed now?

Let me know.

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Panasonic Fukitorimushi – Robotic Worm Floor Cleaner

May 7, 2009 Click to read more →
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If you have hardwood floors and love robots to do the tedious task of wiping up after you then the Fukitorimushia floor-cleaning robot should be on top of your wishlist.
It inches along wriggling your floor clean like a cleaning compulsive caterpillar.
The Fukitorimushi (“wipe-up bug”) has been thought-up by Panasonic and is wrapped-up in a sticky nanocloth sleeve which [...]

Zune Suicide Bug Fixed

January 1, 2009 Click to read more →

Yesterday the sound of the Zunepocolypse terrorised thousands of Zune owners.
Tears and the gnashing of teeth sent ripples across the interweblogosphere.
Microsoft blames a leap-year handling bug and that’s why the Zune 30GB failed.
They’ve provided a fix which will sort itself out today – January 1 2009.
Early this morning we were alerted by our customers that [...]

Please Fix The iPhone – Nag Jobs and Apple Folk

October 24, 2008 Click to read more →

I am still lovin my 3Gesus iPhone.
But, it still aint quite the perfect machine – not yet.
Fullsix has launched a site dedicated to the more vociferous moaning-mini’s out there called “Please Fix the iPhone.”
The site gets owners to vote on the most pressing issues that’s ‘bugging’ them and their iPhones – hopefully Jobs and friends will get to work [...]

iPhone and iPod Fix 2.0.2

August 19, 2008 Click to read more →

Apple has released the latest update for the iPhone – version 2.0.2.
Apparently this is to fix problems that some folks have reported with reception of 3G.
Once you hook up to iTunes users of the iPhone 2.0 software and iPod Touch 2.0 software are recommended to download the latest update.
So, what is it for?  What is it going to [...]