Filed under: Laptops
If you’re the type to watch the late stock tickers, you might have noticed that NVIDIA’s stock just took a pretty big hit, down 24 percent to $13.56 — that’s because the company just informed investors that “significant quantities” of previous-generation graphics chips have been failing at “higher than normal rates,” and that [...]
Filed under: Robots
Asahi Beer has experimented with robot bartenders in the past, but it looks to have really outdone itself with its new Mr. Asahi bot, which just made its public debut at Selfridges in the UK. Apparently, the robot was built in about 200 hours and spent a full six months fine-tuning its bartending [...]
Filed under: Storage
Before you start having a complete panic attack, let us inform you that this whole fiasco actually took place last year, but as these things have a way of going, it’s just now coming to light. Reportedly, a 33-year-old captain in the Ground Self-Defense Force ganked a USB flash drive (along with ¥2,000 [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
When Samsung Electronics named Yoon-Woo Lee as vice chairman and CEO a few months back, we were hoping that all that rioting and poster burning would subside. Although we haven’t heard of any more breakouts of late, things are apparently still rocky on the inside. Lee Soo-Bin, chairman of Samsung Life Insurance [...]
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Roku’s Netflix Player got off to a hot start after launching just over a month ago, and apparently its creator has big plans for the plainly designed $99 box. According to a recent report over on Forbes, Tim Twerdahl, Roku’s vice president of consumer products, has affirmed that a routine software update [...]
Filed under: Wireless, Networking
Linksys, er, sorry, that’s Linksys by Cisco, is announcing the WRT610N this morning, a new simultaneous dual-N band router that enables it to use 802.11n WiFi on both 5 and 2.4GHz at the same time. This means, of course, that your higher throughput, shorter-distance devices can get the highest-speed 802.11n access at [...]
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Hope you’re not too sleepy, you hacker you, ’cause we’ve got a juicy one coming your way. No sooner did we find that the Netflix Player would be streaming content from other players in the industry later this year than Roku opens up the source code vault. You heard right — the [...]
Filed under: Laptops
If you’re tired of waiting for ASUS to offer a touchscreen option for the Eee PC 900 (or you’re the proud owner of an existing unit), jkkmobile is happy to show you their shortcut to touchy-feely nirvana. As we’ve seen on all those other Eees, installing the touch panel into the 900 doesn’t [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment
The last Switched On discussed the innovative approach that Livescribe has taken in its core note-taking function while touching on some of the company’s grander plans to create a wide array of applications and content, taking it far [...]
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Oh, that’s right — the Wiimote! For the second time in as many months we’ve got ourselves a bona fide Wiimote wannabe, except for the PC. GoLive2’s Stix collection (200 / 400) are wireless motion-sensing controllers designed to play PC and internet-based games, with Games for Windows titles and “thounsands of free [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
Right, so it’s not like we didn’t know a CDMA version of HTC’s hotly anticipated Touch Diamond was headed to Sprint, but who can honestly argue with in the wild photos proving that said assumption is true? What we have here is a bona fide Diamond in Sprint garb, although eagle-eyed readers will [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
It looks like the potential lovefest that might have been the Blockbuster and Circuit City mashup has drifted away as quickly as it appeared. “Based on market conditions and the completion of our initial due diligence process, we have determined that it is not in the best interest of Blockbuster’s shareholders to [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Finally, a use for electrocution besides your own, twisted interests. A company in Arizona has created a bandaging system which uses electrically activated wound-dressings to heal injuries. Dubbed the CMB Antimicrobial Wound Dressing with PROSIT (or CMBAWDWP as we like to call it), the bandage works by utilizing a single-layer polyester fabric [...]
Filed under: Transportation
Look, protecting the world from the terror of Jihadists is serious business — which is why we’re not sure that rolling up on a Segway is the best way to get the Axis of Evil to drop its weapon / bomb / fanatic mindset… still, Jackie Chan will be psyched. Our suggestion? the [...]
Filed under: Gaming
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/playstation/PS3_firmware_2_40_is_live’; Yeah, that’s right — you can get it right now. In game XMB, trophies… the whole nine. Why are you still reading this?
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