Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
We’re not exactly sure if this problem is widespread, but for those currently dealing with malfunctioning frets on the new Guitar Hero III Les Paul, you should certainly give this a once over. An incredibly industrious gamer went out of his way to show us all what a few rubber bands and [...]
Filed under: Cellphones, GPS, Handhelds
We’ve been hearing about the Q9h coming out on AT&T in months’ worth of leaked memos, but now we can finally put it to bed. On sale tomorrow November 2nd for a surprisingly low (and temporary) price of $200; you get the following.
Windows Mobile 6 (duh)
HSDPA (not sure yet if it’s [...]
Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
It was touch and go for a minute there, with Eizo laying claim to the “ugliest HDTVs ever made” on these very pages. Lucky for eyeballs the world over, Eizo been hard at work in the design department, and this latest FORIS HD line is — dare we say it [...]
Filed under: Wearables
Make no mistake about it, if Geordi La Forge ever needed a wireless EEG system, this would be atop his list. Developed by IMEC, the same folks who brought us the wireless ECG patch, this wearable contraption enables brain wave monitoring sans the use of batteries. Rather, it relies on body heat dissipated [...]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Wireless
The proposed Siruis / XMmerger has always ruffled a few feathers at the NAB (and the NAB has certainly ruffledback), but it’s another thing entirely when a national political figure like Jesse Jackson comes out opposed to the deal. Jackson, who spoke at the FCC hearings on the merger yesterday, said [...]
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Say what you will about Wal-Mart (you hippie, you) but they’ve really been coming through with the broken street dates of late. This time it’s Microsoft’s new and improved Zune “2″ lineup making an appearance, almost two whole weeks before the supposed November 13th ship date. These were spotted in [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
It’s just not fair. While we’re lucky to bear witness to a single hot handset release per month, our Japanese brethren just received a batch of 10 new handsets to swoon over courtesy of NTT DoCoMo. The very best of the best from the new FOMA 905i series includes the Panasonic Viera P905iTV [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
First it was radios, now lights. The Freeplay Foundation has undertaken a new project — dubbed LifeLight — which aims to provide just a few hours of lighting each night to the 500 million or so sub-Saharan Africans without appropriate access to electricity. The idea is to place a wind-up (or foot-pump [...]
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Music lovin’ pirates rejoice, and fill your sails with sound. This 2.1 channel speaker design from FILS features sails made from a next generation thin film, transparent speaker which can be printed or painted with any image. Next up, a Psycho playing shower curtain? Sure, why not.
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Filed under: Laptops
The rumors were rampant about the pending upgrade; now the deal is done. The Apple MacBook has finally moved to the Santa Rosa architecture with a healthy GMA X3100 video bump from the lethargic GMA 950 of yore. Available now starting at $1,099 for the 13-inch, 80GB, 2GHz white model on up to [...]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Still waiting to jump into the high def disc game? Or just wanted another weaker, cheaper player for the last-gen TV you phased out to your rumpus room? Well, whatever your reasons, some (not all!) Wal-Mart locations will be selling Toshiba HD-A2s for $100 — down from $200 — this Friday. [...]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Transportation
Simply swiping one’s credit / debit card at the pump is probably sufficient for the bulk of us, but for certain Shell customers in Chicago, paying for gasoline is getting even quicker. Ten stations in the Windy City are trialing biometric payment systems — crafted by California-based Pay By Touch, which [...]
Filed under: Gaming, Networking
Finally getting the street cred that its creators have so long desired, the multi-platform, distributed computing network known as Folding@Home is to be recognized by Guinness World Records. According to the group, the network is now the most powerful distributed computing cluster in the world. The system, which utilizes the power of [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
Counting down the hours until the Voyager makes an appearance on Verizon? If so, here’s something sure to tide you over. Apparently, the handset’s datasheet has made its way onto the intarweb, and it’s got just about every detail you could ever want — save for a price and pinpointed release date, of [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
The Gphone rumors have been heating up lately, and things seems like they’re about to come to a boil. The Wall Street Journal, not generally known for wild rumor-mongering, is reporting that Google is in “advanced talks” with Verizon and Sprint and has made “significant progress” with T-Mobile, with an announcement of some [...]
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