MacBook Air proves its mettle

Despite its ridiculously slim profile, the Apple MacBook Air is apparently tougher than tough. According to a report by blogsite Macenstein, a survivor of the Turkish Airways crash in February this year, Sefer Baris, closed his Apple laptop and put it in a slipcase moments before the plane hit the tarmac.

Surprisingly, the notebook's chassis was merely bent, not broken (refer to image). Though the LCD panel was damaged, the MacBook Air still managed to boot up and allowed access to the precious data within. If you thought the reason it survived was because the laptop happened to be far away from the damaged sections, the owner suffered a fractured neck and required a series of surgeries before he could walk again.

While we can't say the unibody MacBook Air is as hardy as a ToughBook or ThinkPad just from this isolated incident, it's good to know that its premium design isn't as frail as it looks.

Via Macenstein

Acer's Mac-like 13-inch Aspire 3935 arrives

A mere week after we saw a truckload of new Acer and Gateway laptops at the company's New York showcase (well, it was technically in New Jersey), the first of Acer's new offerings has arrived in our US Labs.

It's a good one to start out with--the Aspire 3935 is a 13-inch laptop with a brushed metal chassis that's a little less than one inch thick and has a 16:9 widescreen LED display. The system, like many of the upcoming Acer and Gateway laptops we've previewed, adds MacBook-like multitouch gestures to its touchpad.
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HDMI on your Mac: Monoprice's Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor tested

Apple doesn't sell a Mini DisplayPort to HDMI adaptor for hooking your Mac up to an HDTV. But Monoprice.com does, and we've had one sent in to test it out.
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Finally, a real use for head-tracking technology

Dating can be a stressful game. You may bring a girl out to dinner, spend a few hundred bucks and never even get past first base with the lady. Who needs all this pressure when you can let technology do the dirty work?

The Japanese game, Tech48, may seem like another erotic title to most, but it has an interesting tech twist. By using the Webcam to detect the position of your head, the view will shift according to where your skull is to the position of the screen. Want a peek down the blouse? Tip toe and look down. Do the reverse if upskirts are more your thing.

Granted this game is not exactly suitable for mainstream distribution, but hopefully this concept will spill over to first-person shooter games and other more interactive titles.

Via Gizmodo

TechCrunch shows off prototype CrunchPad tablet

It's far from being on store shelves, but some additional details and photos of the CrunchPad, a mobile computing device as envisioned by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, have been released. The project's goal was to design and build a thin, light touch-screen PC without a physical keyboard or onboard hard drive. Instead, the system and its custom operating system would be entirely focused on Web browsing and using Web-based apps.
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