New iPod touch faster than iPhone 3G

Apple appears to have upped the processing speed of the iPod touch in order to help it go after the portable-game market.

Touch Arcade reports that the applications processor inside the second-generation iPod touch unveiled in September is actually running faster than the processor inside the iPhone 3G, which runs at the same speed that the original iPhone and iPod touch used. The new iPod touch's ARM-based processor is running at 532MHz, while the iPhone 3G's processor runs at 412MHz.

A game developer interviewed by Touch Arcade noticed a huge difference in 3D-rendering speed as a result of the speed bump. As we remember fondly from our "megahertz madness" days of the Intel-AMD competition in the PC, processor speed is not the only measure of performance, but it is an important one.

With the arrival of the App Store, Apple has been marketing the latest iPod touch as a gaming device in its latest round of commercials, almost completely ignoring the fact that it's a music and video player as well.

It seems that Apple has room to boost the clock speed of the processor to 620MHz, according to ARM's specifications, but that requires striking a balance between performance and battery life.

Via Apple at CNET News

Secret iPod cigarette case

Old iMacs modified to become aquariums are not uncommon. There are even instructions on the Web to teach you how to do so. Here's another mod for the Apple faithful, but it's for a purpose less therapeutic than watching fish swim around in a tank--hiding cigarettes.

Instead of just leaving her broken iPod in a drawer, 22-year-old Tara ripped out the innards, and made it into a case for seven cigarettes. According to her blogpost, she doesn't smoke much and, at her age, doesn't need to hide her smokes from teachers even if she did, so making it was purely for the cool factor. We think if someone can improve on this and make fire come out of the headphone jack on the top, it might even outstrip the iMac fish tank in popularity.

Via Boing Boing Gadgets

Creative Moo a surefire way to insult girlfriend

It's called the Creative Zen Moo, folks, and it's for real. The cow-shaped line of MP3 players was unveiled this week at a technology conference showcasing a handful of Creative's upcoming products.

The Zen Moo is essentially a bovine rehash of Creative's Zen Stone MP3 player, offered in two configurations (Moo and Moo Plus), each with four color variations (white, pink, red, and yellow). Like the Zen Stone Plus, the Moo Plus (seen across the top) includes an OLED screen, integrated speaker, FM radio, and voice recorder. A tamagotchi-like game is also included on the Plus model and navigation is controlled via the cow's plastic horns.
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Leaf-shaped speaker on a keychain

More gimmicky kitsch from Japan, this one from Bird Electron spotted in the store. If you're not too fussy about the sound reproduction, the leaf-shaped speaker keychain is actually a nifty way to carry around a mono speaker, in case you need that little bit of sonic oomph while playing back a music or video file to share. Though at 2,600 yen (US$27.30), it's not cheap by our reckoning.

Via Akihabara News

Guitar Hero comes to your bike... Wha??!!

With enough passion, skill, and time on your hands you can do anything. IMO though, the most important of these three attributes is "time on your hands". This is made evident by the coolest Guitar Hero video that I've yet to see. Bike Hero is just what its name implies, Guitar Hero recreated on a bike.

Now before you start prepping your Bike Band (you know, Rock Band on a bike) video, it should be noted that according to Creativity Online, this video was created by ad agency, Droga5, and not just a couple of suburban teenagers with too much time on their hands.

Still, someone had to actually do it, so it's still impressive



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