Saturday, June 09, 2007

Interesting Stuff

6/11/2007 8:00:00 AM
Less than 5 seconds to publish. That's how fast our new liveblogging system is. We'll be able to deliver the words from El Jobso's mouth to your LCD faster than any other blog by minutes. With nice...
6/8/2007 7:21:56 PM
Logitech's apparently planning a run into the air mouse market with its MX platform. It looks to sport both gyration-based movement and a standard laser, though they're supposedly holding off on...
6/8/2007 7:12:31 PM
It's been nearly a year since Leopard, the 5th incarnation of OS X, was announced. If you can't recall all the public features, here's a refresher you can glance through before the big show on...
6/8/2007 6:40:24 PM
Got iPhone fever? While the only prescription is an actual iPhone, this Slide 2 Unlock app for Windows Mobile should hold you over until the 29th. It's a Windows Mobile startscreen app that makes it...
6/8/2007 6:10:00 PM
A new Mickey shaped music product is in the works, and unlike this crazy speaker set, Disney actually appears to be involved, along with iRiver. Molded after Mickey's bulbous likeness (and Minnie's,...
6/8/2007 5:40:13 PM
You're all familiar with the features announced for Leopard at last year's WWDC: Time Machine, Spaces, and new iChat/Mail apps. But there's definitely going to be more. Wired has a piece on core...
6/8/2007 5:10:08 PM
It seems like only yesterday Toshiba was showing off their first HD DVD equipped notebook, and now they've decided to make HD DVD standard in all of their notebooks by next year. While this may not...
6/8/2007 4:20:00 PM
A Teddy Bear MP3 player is not exactly a new idea, but Baby Bidou's sleek junior version, in pink and blue, will allow France's tech-savviest toddlers to drool to 128MB of MP3s and OGG Vorbis files,...
6/8/2007 4:00:45 PM
I have an old lousy mousepad made in China that has a lousy calculator on it that I thought was pretty ridiculous. I was wrong. This; this here is ridiculous. No, it's ricockulous. Not only does...
6/8/2007 3:59:33 PM
It's the weekend again, and I know what I'm going to be doing: kicking Crecente's ass at Shadowrun. And by "kicking," I mean bombarding him with friendly fire when he's not looking. That, and naming...
6/8/2007 3:45:37 PM
So we know that Apple embeds your user data in those DRM-free iTunes Plus songs. Some people have gotten up in arms about it, saying it constitutes a form of DRM, while others say you don't have...
6/8/2007 3:20:44 PM
Steve Ballmer said he wasn't worried about the iPhone and maybe the reason is this mysterious iPhone knockoff Sharp smartphone. It will be released in Japan on Willcom's PHS network, just like the...
6/8/2007 2:50:42 PM
There's similar designs, and then there's Amigo's Wireless Router. The R622AG looks exactly like Microsoft's Xbox 360 no matter how you look at it. However, if you're really a fan of the design, then...
6/8/2007 2:45:26 PM
Sharp's WillCOM W-Zero 3, which we likened to an iPod for dirty old businessman when we showed it to you last November, just got itself an upgrade, and now it's called the W-Zero 3 Advance. What we...
6/8/2007 2:05:00 PM
If this Nerd Energy Drink could actually increase memory retention and "brain focus" as its makers claim, it would probably sell for $100 a can. But heck, if it makes you think you feel sharper,...
6/8/2007 1:50:21 PM
Ash over at Kotaku has the scoop on a tarted-up PSP supposedly headed our way sometime soon. According to his sources, the new PSP isw PSP isn't PSP2, but a slimmer, faster version of the original. The PSP...
6/8/2007 1:37:31 PM
For those of you with short memories, Sony and Nintendo were working together in the mid '90s on a CD-based Nintendo console when negotiations fell apart and both Japanese companies went their...
6/8/2007 1:12:07 PM
What better way to celebrate Father's Day (Sunday, June 17th) than a good old lightsaber fight? Here's the next best thing, a Hasbro Star Wars Father's Day card with figurines of Darth Vader and...
6/8/2007 1:00:47 PM
This week at iLounge: We did a little celebrating at iLounge this week, as our release of The Free iPod Book 3.0 led to more than 300,000 downloads of the guide to all things iPod, iTunes and more...
6/8/2007 12:33:40 PM
Now those eggheads at MIT have done something truly magic, figuring out a way to send power seven feet away, and look ma, no wires. Their trick uses resonant coupling, turning electricity into...
6/8/2007 12:15:22 PM
Remember that Astute-class nuclear submarine that looked like a whale? Well, scrap that, because it really looks like a Calamari Cruiser or a Zentraedi mothership. At least, that's what people must...
6/8/2007 12:00:00 PM
Kids who don't want to go to bed when it gets dark now have an alternative: swinging on glowing slabs in unlighted parks. The Swing Lamp is a concept by BCXSY, a joint endeavor by designers Boaz...
6/8/2007 11:14:40 AM
Park this Auto LED flashlight by Coast in your car's cigarette lighter, and it stands at the ready whenever you need to shine some light on the subject. It sucks power from that accessory outlet,...
6/8/2007 10:46:41 AM
Apple's annual WWDC is just around the corner, and you guys all know where to come for up-to-the-second coverage of all that's going to be unveiled there. The Keynote? That's 10:00 a.m. to 11:30...
6/8/2007 10:45:00 AM
You been hurtin' for a DS browser for soooo long. Well, guess what? It's finally here. That's not to say it's going to change your life or anything. Super-early reviews were not so psyched. Still, a...
6/8/2007 10:30:00 AM
For mothers who simply aren't going fast enough when cartien carting around their pint-sized overlords, a German company offers the Mama Board. Apparently, it latches to the rear axle of any stroller, after...
6/8/2007 10:20:31 AM
The UK city of Liverpool is playing host to a rather kooky piece of artwork for the next 18 months. Called Turning The Place Over (I do hope that's not a reference to Scousers being nifty burglars)...
6/8/2007 10:15:00 AM
JVC's monster 110-inch hybrid-tech HDTV is now available for sale. Yep, get your credit card ready and sit the kids down, as they're not getting help paying for college anymore. This $53,000 behemoth...
6/8/2007 10:00:45 AM
Internet devices are popping up all over the place nowadays, and the latest comes from the folks at EB. It reminds us of the Amtek a little bit...and the OQO2 a lot...but this one will pack Mobile...
6/8/2007 10:00:37 AM
Big ups to our sponsors this week who consistently keep us clothed, fed, and inebriated throughout the weekend. We raise a glass to Amazon Unbox, AT&T, Audi, Cazadores Tequila, Canon, Casio, Don...
6/8/2007 9:45:00 AM
A total rethinking of the traditional fold-up table and chair with, it appears, whole new ways to pinch your fingers in the process. Note: Failure to operate with black turtleneck and air of...
6/8/2007 9:30:09 AM
Of all the things that you need to keep locked up and secure, how far down the list is your console gaming controller? Is it even on the list? Yeah, it's not on mine either. But hey, apparently some...
6/8/2007 9:20:43 AM
So you got your Darth Vader phone, your Star Wars lightsaber, and if you're lucky, maybe you got one of these figures. Now you can pair all of that with the ultimate Star Wars accessory, a Darth...
6/8/2007 9:15:48 AM
Looking for some DirectX 10 action on the cheap? The guys at ExtremeTech are claiming Nvidia will release a sub-$100 GeForce 8400 card on the 19th of June. It'll come in 256MB ($79) and 128MB ($50)...
6/8/2007 9:00:00 AM
Admit it, you've always been jealous of console gamers getting all the chicks, living the high life, while you, you're stuck in line at the post office, utterly dominating Bejeweled, yet nobody...
6/8/2007 8:45:17 AM
Once a year in Tokyo, Sony invites some lucky people to check out the super-secret stuff their Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) have been cooking up. What's the CSL? It's the R&D division that...
6/8/2007 8:30:06 AM
Good old NASA is giving their Mars Rover a hardcore makeover. The next-gen Rover (the Mars Science Laboratory) is gonna weigh in at 1,800 pounds and pack rock-crushing lasers. As a matter of fact,...
6/8/2007 7:03:56 AM
I don't know if I like these wood-made peripherals by Marubeni Infotec or not. I mean, take this beautiful keyboard: I love the clean lines, the nice texture and the great clickity-clack sound it...
6/7/2007 10:00:37 PM
Typically, the most shoddy work journalists put out is the ubiquitous trendspotting piece. And today's NY Times article, "To Appeal to Women, Too, Gadgets Go Beyond 'Cute' and 'Pink,' " excels at...
6/7/2007 9:17:02 PM
You following this Monster Cable debate we've been having? They showed us some tested differences between their cables and the cheap stuff. One issue I have with the test is that they used...

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