HEAT: May 12th to 18th May 12, 2008

GADGETS: Blackberry BOLD

Not since the iPhone have I seen this much buzz on the techblog scene about a smartphone. Engadget, Gizmodo, Slashdot, and Wired can’t all be wrong now can they?

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MUSIC: M.I.A - Paper Planes

This song, the theme for the upcoming comedy/crime flick Pineapple Express, is being played quite a bit around here, and with good reason. (’I got more records than the KGB, so no funny business’ one of my favourite lines from a song in a while.) And remember kids, pirating is bad.

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GADGETS: DataStorm v1.0

This thing, and the associated video have keep me and my pals chuckling all day. Just think of what 2.8 mbps of data transfer could do for your office, helmets are, however, advised.

GADGETS: DataStorm v1.0 May 12, 2008

Slashdot has found this little gem: a fully automatic 3.5″ floppy disk cannon. Video after the jump.

GADGETS: Blackberry 9000 (BOLD) Now Official May 11, 2008

Gizmodo reports that RIM has officially listed it’s new model of the popular line of smartphones on it’s website.

Gizmodo originally predicted that it would be made official May 12th and be called ‘the Bold‘, good call boys. [RIM via Boy Genius]

By the way, for those keeping score, Engadget was about 40 minutes slower on this breaking news piece.

GADGETS: Zune Growing… Slowly May 11, 2008

Engadget is reporting that Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player recently broke the 2 million units sold mark (having hit 1 million in May 2007). That brings the Zune’s estimated market share to roughly 3-4%.  Seems most of that market share was taken from Creative Labs’ line of MP3 players, as they dropped from 4% to 2%, but it still leaves Microsoft far behind #2 SanDisk (at 11%) and the reigning king, Apple (with some god-awfully high percentage of the market).