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Readers, you may have seen that I was infected with a virus this weekend . It is better now, but to say that is misleading because it was never bad so there is no better state. You see the virus was actually quite beneficial. I did not need to worry about what it wanted because as it turned out what it wanted was the same as what I wanted. So as you can imagine, it was easiest to just allow it to retain control

Hey you jailkeepers, you know how the inmates been asking about keeping harmless little pigeons around? Well, it’s a con: They’re using them to smuggle in cellphones. The AP reports that at the Danilio Pinheiro prison in Sorocaba, Brazil, inmates were raising pigeons, having them smuggled out, strapped with packs on their legs containing cellphone parts and, in one instance, an entire cell charger. The pigeons’ weakness?

Spoilers Ahead! After long weeks of dancing his heart out, propped up on his busted up legs by only his resolve, courage and legions of SMS-voting geeks, Steve “ThunderToes” Wozniac is booted from Dancing With the Stars. For some, he was hard to watch dancing. OK, maybe for most. But not to me. To me he was a giant (but rapidly decreasing in weight, mind you) bundle of circuit board, segway riding, love bouncing around with the enthusiasm of a child on two barely-functioning legs. The man who could out design professional mainframe builders in his early teens found dancing impossible, but here he was trying, bucking what fate handed him (genius, riches) for what nearly everyone else took for granted (having fewer than two left feet)

Whoever thought the future wouldn’t be filled with humming radio-connected spheres is just plain dumb, but Moixa’s mesmerizing Sphere i/o interface device seems to buck the current trend of natural interaction. It’s not totally clear whether Moixa’s device—whose patent was just revealed—is a standalone system or a display-equipped gyroscopic mouse for computers. What is clear is that can be either spherical or it can collapse into an elliptical shape, and its construction will rely on flexible screens, presumably coated OLED sheets. The concept is basically a humanist riff on “He’s got the whole world in His hand,” with Google Earth coming up as an actual globe, or a carousel of browser screens or game scenarios that you can ease through, a flick at a time. In Moixa’s description, there will be multitouch interaction and gyroscopic control, something like an iPhone Wiimote love child.

Ordinarily we’d take one look at Moixa’s Sphere interactive display ball around this time of year and immediately dismiss it as an April Fools joke, but something tells us not even the most dedicated would-be pranksters take the time and expense to patent their little diversions. That said, we’re definitely not so sure this thing will make its planned 2010 ship date, since it’s just a render right now, but if it does, we’ll be first in line — a folding multitouch display with an always-on net connection and gyroscopic interface elements that can also be used folded flat sounds pretty amazing to us. We want to believe. Read - Sphere site Read - Sphere patent [Via Pocket-lint ] Filed under: Handhelds Moixa Sphere multitouch orb bends minds, credulity originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

Samsung’s officially announcing the Instinct S30 for Sprint as we speak, but why wait for all that jazz? We spied a dummy unit in the flesh out and about in Samsung’s mobile charging center here at CTIA , and while we would’ve preferred it not be behind a thick plate of glare-tastic glass, we’ll take what we can get. Notice that little “Exclusively at Sprint” tagline at the bottom there? Coincidentally, the same phone is being shown alongside its Samsung-branded full touch siblings — the Memoir , Impression , and Verizon Omnia — on a big ol’ banner outside the show floor, so it really doesn’t take rocket science to gather what Sammy’s theme is going to be here at the show. Filed under: Cellphones Samsung Instinct S30 in the wild originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .

Good news for those who happened to live in Portland — and elsewhere in the years to come. Clearwire’s announced that the CradlePoint-manufactured portable WiMAX-equipped WiFi router we saw back in January will be hitting stores in early April as the Clear Spot Personal Hotspot. Up to eight 802.11 b/g-compatible devices will be able to share the 4Mbps bandwidth. Price is $139 for the unit, but of course you’ll have to pay The Man beyond that to actually use the service. The company promises more devices like this in the coming months. Filed under: Wireless , Networking Clearwire’s Clear Spot portable WiMAX / WiFi router now official, coming early April originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:32:00 EST.

Samsung’s Mondi is a WiMax and Wi-Fi MID that uses Samsung’s TouchWiz UI on the Windows Mobile 6.1 platform. The device has 4.3-inch screen and slide-out QWERTY keyboard, and comes with Opera 9.5. Looks OQO-ey ! The Mondi has 4-gigabytes of internal storage, GPS, Push email, a 3-megapixel camera (w/ video support), Bluetooth 2.1 and HDMI out. It supports various video and audio codecs, plus an assortment of instant messaging platforms. Despite having a microphone, voice is not supported on the device, so VoIP or cellular calls are out of the question. However, MMS is available