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pentaxdisc. Pentax has announced the “Student Photography Program” to help budding photographers get the right equipment at a discounted rate. All you need to do to cash in on the savings is:. Purchase the PENTAX equipment from an ...
gran turismo 5 prologue 20080404035926291. This is something that’s bothered me from the first time I played GT2, and three titles later it’s finally coming. IGN interviewed Kazunori Yamauchi, creator of Gran Turismo, and he finally ...
bloggingkills. A little meta for my tastes, but today’s Old Gray Lady has an article explaining how blogging will slowly kill all us bloggers. While I’m sure some of you would say, “Where’s the problem?” I thought it was neat to see the ...
Who’s ready for even more high-tech ads? Short on cash, the metro in DC will install a type of interactive ad, apparently already present in other public transportation hubs around the US The ads only appear once you walk by. ...
351423384 45b006f78a T-Mobile in Germany is clearing the way for the 3G iPhone by dropping the price of the 8GB model to €99. The offer begins April 7 through June 30 with a 2-year contract dubbed Complete XL. Other plans offer tiered ...
150appsmbp. So this guy insists he’s not lying. It’sa screen shot of his MacBook Pro (2.2 GHz and 4GB RAM) with 150 programs running simultaneously, smoothly even. He’s activated Exposé so that we can see all of ‘em. ...
pspdecrypted Flickr’d. Seems some clever coders (or hackers, whatever you want to call ‘em) have figured out a way to decrypt PSP games bought from the PlayStation Network Store. The code can only be applied to PSP games that work on ...
scaled.Mir. So-yeon Lee will be the first Korean to fly into space and accompanying her will be two digital cameras from Samsung. The NV24HD will be the first digital point-and-shoot to be used in space. A GX-20 (DSLR), ...
2394262960 0d089e22a0 o While Baltimore, Washington, DC and Chicago are currently basking in WiMAX service, the rest of the country will have to wait even longer due to a delay by Sprint. Don’t jump the gun, folks. ...
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2393535789 bacb9a92fe o Rockstar Games announced on Friday the acquisition of Mad Doc Software resulting in the formation of Rockstar New England. The Andover, MA-based software company specializes in AI and networking and worked on ...
beatsdecrypted. That PSP game decrypter I mentioned earlier today? Well, PlayStation Network Store-exclusive games (like Fl0w and Beats) are now appearing on BitTorrent trackers, fully decrypted and ready to play. I think that took, ...
gbls2. There are no technical specs in the press release issued by LG regarding the third addition to the BLS, but we do know that it has a 5-megapixel camera and maybe a carbon fiber backplate. More details to come on April 24th. ...
Forget little green men, Vulcans or super-sexy Number Six's slinking about the 'verse in little red cocktail dresses—some scientists say our first encounter with ET will likely involve a simple robot. For proof, says Seth Shostak, ...
This Digital Office Assistant, a concept by Michael Kritzer, actually looks rather useful, and is designed with open plan offices in mind. The device sits on four wheels, houses a collapsible workspace, seating area, notebook slot, ...
The chaps at Macenstein were looking through their old-school Playboy collection when they found the February 1985 issue. Inside was a feature on a 29-year-old computer nerd, billed on the magazine's cover as, "Interview: 29-year-old ...
Holy butt-clencher, Batman! Quake 3 Arena has somehow found itself ported to the iPhone. Details are thinner than my scalp is on hair, but the video clearly shows a networked game going on in full swing. You may be thinking this sounds ...
Thanks to billing problems and the FCC's intervention, the Navajo Nation will be sans Internet on Monday. An FCC audit uncovered the fact that satellite service provider OnSat Networks had double-billed the tribe in 2007. ...
Convicted murderer and future American Idol contestant Charles Manson has used the liberal Creative Commons license to release a new 16-track album from prison. The album, called, ironically, One Mind, is free to download at LimeWire. ...
Every aspiring Banksy has run into the same problem at some point in time—he or she has defaced public property beautifully, but no one wandering the area at night can see it. With the power of design brand Suck UK's glow in the dark ...
The last time we caught Sony Ericsson's Paris on the tubes it looked a little chunkier, but now the aesthetics have been immensely improved. For the proof check out the image above. USEB has run a complete run down of the expected ...
Ever wondered what Mac Dock and Exposé look like with 150 apps running? Well, wonder no more, friend. Wonder no more. Rest assured, however, everything gets ludicrously tiny. Now, we're not too sure who'd be using 150 apps ...
With vital measurements of 1.6-inches cubed and 65 grams in weight, Toshiba's IK-HD1 waltzes in to easily steal the "Smallest HDTV Camera, Ever" title. Packed to the miniature eyeballs with three CCD chips, the 1K-HD1 can capture video ...
We know you can find an occasional bargain on Craigslist, but this takes the biscuit: documents actually detailing a merger between Apple and Nintendo. We knew Nintendo and Apple were up to something—has no one else noticed all the ...
A guy in the US has just flogged the Pizza.com domain name for a cool £1.3m, which he purchased back in 1994 and has been maintaining each year for just £10. Chris Clark, from Baltimore in the US, thought buying the domain name would ...
Anyone who likes their, um, oranges, um, freshly-squeezed by hand in the morning should, perhaps, think about buying 2Juicy, a manual juicer from SuckUK. Anyone who doesn't should stick with their Braun automatic one—then at least ...
Poor the Apple. No sooner has the Cupertino conquistador de computadoras taken steps to protect its trademark against GreeNYC than another eponymous company pops up. This one's in Korea and it sells toilets and bidets which do all those ...
Just when we thought we were going to get a sensory overload thanks to Tony, Bruce, Hulk, and Indy, here comes Watchmen to kick our eyeballs again. Like JJ Abrams' Star Trek, director Zack Snyder is actually building massive sets ...
We've brought you Rube Goldberg-style clocks and toys, but none of them are a match for the 156-step device that's just won the annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. This year's challenge was to assemble a burger with vegetables, ...
When you're ill, sneezing all about the place and with enough mucus in your esophagus to grow a bacterial colony big enough to take over the world, the last thing you need is the Talking Tissue Box. Why? Well, all it does is either ...
Just last year, we showed you the concept i-Snake medical robot, and now a different team actually has a similar device for real: the CardioArm. This little robo-tentacle is being developed partly at Carnegie Mellon University, ...
The Triforce Touchscreen Pointer is a marketing ploy destined for swag-bag oblivion, but it could also be a rare case where functionality and tchotchke coalesce into something genuinely useful. First, the lanyard-pointer from ...
The PWN 2OWN contest, as we all know, saw the Mac OS X weed crumble first, with Vista following soon after. Ubuntu was the only OS that was impenetrable to attack, but news is surfacing that Vista should have had a longer lifeline, ...
Your friends still aren't worth the cost of admission to your place for a game with Nintendo's Wii Wheel, but they're getting closer now that a Nintendo Power contest rules page lists the peripheral at US$9.99. [GoNintendo]
It's Sunday, and it just wouldn't be right if a group of destructive loons were not prepared to put their faulty, plausibly repairable Xbox 360 into a microwave. Naturally, the mob breathed in the ensuing toxic fumes happily, ...
Ever looked around your office and thought "surely there's a better way than this soulless cubicle hell?" Well, there probably isn't. Unless you happen to work for Google in their Swiss HQ, that is. Because, frankly, their new office is ...
Seekway has put together this spectacular 3D LED display, which is capable of displaying images in full 3D (duh) at an amazing, 30 fps. The prototype consists of a 16 x 16 x 16 grid of interconnected colour LEDs and if our mathematics ...
There are roadwarriors with their ultraportables and then there's master modder Dennis Ilyin, who took computing on the go literally with this ambitious motorcycle casemod. While the two-wheeled computing wonder lacks an engine, ...
Okay, it's more like a Brunch Wrap, but it is Monday, the gremlins were in the CMS and I was underwhelmed by the Red Bull Flugtag yesterday. Now, on with the wrap... Phone Retailer Talks About Giving Away Free Laptops With Mobile ...
Those marketing guys at Swarovski are quite the gadget whores - they'll happily stick their crystals on anything and everything for a bit of promotion. But it isn't always a bad thing, especially when you get products like their ...
Good news everyone. The second of those feature-length, straight-to-DVD Futurama releases has been given a US release date. The Beast With A Billion Backs, the sequel to Bender's Big Score will be available in the US from June 24th ...
We've seen awesome Tesla coil art many times before, and the latest addition to the catalog is no exception. With Christmas decorations, a vehicle anti-theft device and allied soldiers all getting the Tesla treatment, ...
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video. We just got a special surprise on our doorstep this afternoon in the form of an E100 from iriver. You've already seen the review, so we won't bore you with a full rehash, but suffice it to ...
Filed under: Storage. Though it's not the first box we've seen built to take your local backups elsewhere, the Datto Backup NAS drive could certainly fill a gaping security hole at many small / medium-sized businesses that are currently ...
Filed under: Storage. We see so much insane USB crap around here that we were pretty apprehensive of a link entitled "Accordion USB drive," but color us magenta if the damn thing doesn't actually look incredibly useful -- instead of an ...
Filed under: 筆記型電腦. 在2008年，製造更加小巧輕便的筆記型電腦電腦已經不是什麼特別的事情了，而Rock推出Pegasus 210，就是這個方向的又一個作品，採用的是英特爾UMPC的內核，擁有800MHz A110 處理器，支援802.11n WiFi，藍牙，以及HSDPA。 ...
Filed under: 隨身音樂, 隨身影像. 根據NPD 市場調查發出的最新全美音樂銷售狀況，iTunes 在上週正式超越Wal-Mart，成為全美第一大音樂銷售通路。 等等！話說NPD 的算法，實在有點怪，除了iTunes 本身可以透過蘋果提供的數據，來較詳實的計算實際售出的 ...
Filed under: 特色玩意. 看到AT&T，可別以為微軟把30吋多點觸摸的Surface都做成手機了。只是借AT&T的名號首發並宣傳Surface而已。 不久，就可以在紐約、亞特蘭大、聖安東尼奧、舊金山的手機專賣店中看到Surface了。只要把手機（上圖為Samsung BlackJack ...
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video. Future generations will most likely divide the timeline of history at this point: when Quake 3 achieved motion-sensing, wireless network play on two iPod touches. Just think, less than a year ...
Filed under: PDA手持裝置, 無線相關. 很顯然，諾基亞和眾多的產商告訴我們，WiMAX將是一個不可忽視的無線應用。在現場接觸到了Nokia N810 WiMAX Edition ，很顯然在外觀上幾乎秉承了N810的所有特性，採用的黑色外觀和鍵盤看過去有幾分紳士的感覺；當然最 ...
Filed under: 特色玩意. 嘿，那些頑固分子，有時候我們得承認你們的執著，我們見過PS3的烤架， 如果你是PS3迷，那麼你一定不會錯過這麼酷的水龍頭。上面有那醒目的4個按鈕，這是來自於Jean Nouvel的設計，絕對是那些粉絲的家居專配。 ...
Filed under: 特色玩意. 只知道沉迷網咖或是駭客入侵的電腦高級知識份子，請留意下面的這個小故事，一名11歲的小男孩Jon自從去年學校的網路系統管理員突然離職後，為了幫助擔任學校圖書館員的母親，挺身而出接下這份職務，負責掌管全校60台電腦的生死。 ...
Filed under: 產業新聞, 網際網路. 真的，微軟說要用446 億美元買Yahoo! 絕對是認真的！1月31日那天就已經說得明明白白的，而且也讓Yahoo!股價比原本價格多62%，這不就代表我們出價是相當大方的嗎！ 現在如果Yahoo! 還對這張公開信視而不見的話，微軟將會 ...
Filed under: 手機. 是真的嗎？那小編我不就囧了？（這東東可以靠軟體升級嗎？） 牢騷發完，進入新聞的部份。Walt Mossberg 在Beet.TV 舉辦的總裁高峰會當中，除了痛批美國某家電信公司（不是那個跟我們鬧了幾天的T 公司XD）之外，還不小心說溜嘴，表示 ...
四月一日有著什麼樣的意涵，相信許多人從小到大或多或小都有體驗過。以筆者來說，印象最深刻的體驗就是換班級了。當時是高中的時候，我們跟女生班整個換教室。在第一節上課的時候，只見老師進來瞪大了眼睛，還懷疑走錯了教室，會到門外再確認一次。 ...
Filed under: 網際網路, 電腦周邊, 機器人. 第三十六屆日內瓦國際發明展，由工研院機器人組研發出的「IM BOT 互動式即時通玩具機器人」得到金牌獎，這隻綠色小精靈會根據MSN傳來的喜怒哀樂表情，作出相同的表情，當然這只是初步的應用，這隻機器人有芳香 ...
Filed under: 隨身音樂. 根據聯合新聞網指出，政治大學一簡姓同學在騎車的路上掉了一台iPod nano，在停紅綠燈時告知隨身聽掉了，不過該同學再回去找已經不見。沒想到一個禮拜後這位同學在自家的信箱中看到一個裝iPod 的信封，裡面正是雖有刮痕但功能完整 ...
Filed under: 智慧型手機, 蘋果Apple. 世界各地已有超過四百萬支iPhone在流通，但是身處亞洲的我們想買一支的話除了得有門路找人從美國買之外，還得要找到能幫你unlock的好朋友，否則就只能上網找拍賣買現成改好的。癮科技的同事人手一支的情況已經好幾 ...
Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video. It's a little sad when a "unique" entry in the PMP market means knocking off Nokia design (here we have a sterling example of the 5130) instead of Apple. That said, the M-700 from KNC seems ...
Filed under: 特色玩意. 喔！或許有些人最近有聽說，蘋果跟紐約市正在醞釀一場商標大戰，不過目前基本上還沒有到誰告誰的地步，只是一方對於該商標案有意見而已。上圖左方就是最近紐約市向專利商標局提出申請的紐約市logo（據了解主要是用在一些跟環保、 ...
Filed under: Cellphones. It looks like Samsung's Instinct won't just be kinda-sorta doing some iPhone stuff -- it will be doing actual iPhone stuff. Sprint announced that it has licensed Klausner's Visual Voicemail (yes, ...
flytunesadds. FlyTunes, the service that brings Internet radio to cellphones, has increased the number of channels it offers to 160. When it debuted last January, it had about 50 channels, so more than a 200 percent increase. ...
From the “I told you so” Dept.: Study shows violent games relax players CrunchArcade: Yeti3D for real (and really cool) 3D games in the iPhone H2O2 + Terror Tang = Orange-flavor Alert Guiyu, e-waste capital of China ...
xblddd. In trying to log into Xbox Live last night, I kept getting error messages left and right. Naturally, I assumed it was just Time Warner behaving as expected (read: awfully), but it turns out there was a legitimate problem last ...
T-Mobile Wing owners should expect a nice package in the mail soon:. T-Mobile and HTC are providing a replacement for the T-Mobile Wing battery made by Dynapack at not charge to you due to rare occurrences of the battery overheating. ...
mandiesgold Gold digger. Credit crunch got you down? Looking for gold in all the wrong places, like, say, the innards of your computer? Don’t! Unless you want to die! A Tulsa man died last week (news travels fast… ...
gta4playeddd. So some jerk has not only played Grand Theft Auto IV—apparently RockStar hates us, even though we’re in NYC… I can’t blame them, really—but he’s already beaten it. The knave writes for Xbox World 360 magazine, ...
Dude, seriously: don’t you wish browser wars were this cool? Daring Fireball wrote a nice comparison between FF3 and S3, finding Safari to be the better contender. He makes a few good points (I like FF3 better than Safari, ...
Just after discovering Yeti3D I’m pleased to find that Quake 3 is now ported to the iPhone, completing the karmic circle that all handheld devices must follow. In the first incarnation, they must play Doom. Then they must play NES. ...
I’ll be in Pittsburgh until Wednesday of next week for RoboBusiness and a visit to the alma mater and then I’ll be Columbus, Ohio until the weekend. I’d love to meet CG readers in both locations. Drop me a line at john @ crunchgear dot ...
notgoodenoughgd Not good enough~! How do you feel about online apps aka “cloud computing”? You know, Google Docs, Photoshop Express, Meebo, etc. Love them? Hate them? Couldn’t give a toss? Well one angry journalist, Paul Boutin, ...
Richard Garriot AKA Lord British is taking a custom, space-proof Seiko Spring Drive watch into space when he heads for the International Space Station next year. The watch is air tight and weighs 92.5 grams. It has oversized buttons to ...
manwantsiporn. Some dude—it has to be a dude—wants Americans to embrace mobile pornography, specifically on the iPhone. The Europeans do it, the Asian do it, so why can’t we? Clearly this man is tackling the tough issues for us. ...
The Wolf King keyboard designed for FPS or RPG gamers. I’ma console boy myself so if you, in comments, can convince me you deserve to review this based on your PC gaming credentials, I will send the board to one lucky citizen reviewer. ...
Mossberg says that there will be a 3G iPhone in 60 days. So it’s coming. In 60 days. I guess we can all sell our old 2G phones on Craigslist now before the rest of the world hears the news. [via Giz]
voltcar. I don’t know about you, but on a nice Spring day in 2008, I don’t have time to read 1500 words about damn near anything, least of all “why” Detroit (and, kinda, Japan) hasn’t yet developed cars that can do 50 mpg. ...
msfthostileto. I love how other, unnamed blogs characterize Microsoft’s threat to pursue a hostile takeover of Yahoo! as “mean” or “oh man, they’re playing hardball now, watch out!” Like, if a company’s shareholders want a takeover to ...
gridinternet. And to think Hickey was impressed with that new Comcast package. Big yawn right there. Cern, where Web creator Tim Burners-Lee worked, has been working on an Internet replacement called The Grid that’s 10000 times faster ...
At first glance, interactive textiles that memorize the motions of a perfect shot in basketball seem like they'd be amazingly beneficial. I mean, hey, if I could wear some fancy shirt that would force my arm to always shoot well, ...
Take this rumor with a grain of salt the size of your fist, but this is what some people are claiming is the back of the upcoming next-gen iPhone. It could very easily be a fake, but then again, you never know. What do you guys think? ...
During our brief hands on with the Skyfire mobile browser at CTIA, it actually lived up to most of its claims, and we walked away fairly impressed. We saw it on two different devices, though most of our time was on a Sprint HTC Mogul. ...
The FLX USB drive prototype, designed by Jacek Ryn, while convenient, is not actually flexible. It's got an accordion-like sheath covering it that pushes back to reveal the plug when you shove it into the USB port, and snaps back when ...
Listen up runners, Nike has just added the latest toy to its range of exercise devices, the Nike+ SportBand. The SportBand wristwatch promises to provide runners with ‘real-time performance feedback during a run, while linking them to ...
The biggest gaming product on offer in recent weeks hits the US today and it’s the long-awaited, DualShock 3 controller for the PS3. What’s the big deal, you might ask? Well, it returns the rumble to the PS3 controller, something the ...
Not something that you frak your lady of the night on top of, nor anything to do with William Shatner, Adrian Zmed and Heather Locklear, the Hookah Table is a customized table that you can get high on, as well as under. ...
The Asus R50 UMPC is already being updated—even though Mark 1 has yet to be released. Digitimes reports that the handheld with GPS and 3.5G connectivity, due out in June, will be sporting a keyboard come November of this year. ...
Just 100 of Seiko's Spring Drive Spacewalk watches, space-proof wristwatches being developed with a little help from the Russian Federal Space Agency, are expected to be made. Designed for Richard Garriott, the video-game ...
A 43-year-old man from Maryland has sold the domain name pizza.com for almost 10000 times the price he paid for it. Chris Clark registered the name pizza.com in 1994 for just $20, and continued to pay the annual registration fee until ...
In an effort to clean up Africa's dirty and diesel-reliant mobile network, Swedish start up Flexenclosure has designed a green version of a cellular base station. Called the E-site, it runs primarily on wind and solar power and utilizes ...
Filed under: Wireless. If it wasn't clear going into the auction, it's pretty much obvious now that the dust has settled: Google wasn't in the 700MHz Block C auction to win it -- though it was certainly ready to pony up the cash in the ...
Filed under: 特色玩意, 儲存裝置. 用綠色能源是一種環保的方式，但拿廢熱來廢物利用又何嘗不是？一個由IBM 為GIB-Services AG 打造，設立在瑞士Uitikon 的資料中心，將電腦產生的廢熱透過熱交換器送到隔壁的社區游泳池，而小鎮則只要負擔一部份建置 ...
Filed under: 家電. 之前有提到關於DYSON吸塵器的文章： 一、DYSON十五日在台記者會：什麼樣的吸塵器要兩萬多元？ 二、3C好好玩：Dyson手持式吸塵器使用感想 三、非關科技：口香糖評測？ 筆者在凌晨時，正在寫Dyson吸塵器簡單的心得，沒想到廠商剛好寄了 ...
Filed under: 特色玩意, 隨身音樂, 隨身影像, 蘋果Apple. 不久前足球金童貝克漢（David Beckham）完成了他代表英國國家隊的第一百次出賽，賽後他那群有情有義的國家隊隊員們，送給了他一台鍍金的iPod touch（上圖），容量當然是很慷慨的給了32GB；上面不 ...
Filed under: 手機, 顯示螢幕. Panasonic 目前正積極開發新的電漿顯示技術，目標是能夠以1.5 伏特的低電壓來技壓OLED 顯示螢幕，不論是在亮度、厚度、對比度等方面，都更勝OLED 一籌。 另外在生產上，同時也能保有跟OLED 相較的低成本；目前他們計畫要將 ...
Filed under: 穿載相關. Nike+ SportBand 日前終於是以小跑步之姿，正式的跟大家見面，另外還有Nike+ Coach 這套能為個人量身訂做運動菜單的網路服務。 腕帶的部份，還能夠顯示使用者跑過的距離、步伐的快慢、運動的時間等，還能計算消耗掉的熱量，最後也 ...
Filed under: 遊戲相關. 這是個令人振奮的消息，不過諾基亞把這個消息處理得很低調，只是在他們的N-Gage裡部落格告訴大家這個消息：「我們將於下週一（4月7日）發表正式聲明。但我們希望讓你們，N-Gage的忠實用戶提前知道，這項遊戲服務已經投入運行。」 ...
Filed under: 家庭娛樂. 在本系列文章第三篇時，個人有提到，在會場中Sony有所謂情境式的演出，就個人來看，這個仿主播檯上的演出，還滿值得一看的。因此就特別花時間錄下，給不能去的讀者參考一下。 雖然不知所請的人是誰（影片中有提到名字，但實在猜 ...
Filed under: 家庭娛樂. 這篇是本系列最後一篇了，要談到這次的參觀，什麼東西最令筆者印象深刻，那就是音樂廊。雖然在會場中，音樂廊是佔了一個區塊，不過由於會場廣闊，可能有些人不會特別進去看一看。再加上外部佈置簡潔，除非是對音樂很有興趣，會想 ...
Filed under: 遊戲相關. 微軟為最近正在紛紛揚揚的XBOX 360配置藍光光碟機傳言再度潑冷水，這已經不是第一次了，顯然，即使有再多的理由說明這是個趨勢，或者是明智之選，但微軟可不這麼認為。微軟否認建興正在為自己設計和製造藍光碟機：「不，建興現在 ...
Filed under: 儲存裝置. 這款產品在LaCie 的官方網站上並沒有提及，不過我們獲得確切的消息，這款產品的確存在，而且不久就可以上市了，LaCie新型的外接式行動硬碟不但擁有USB2.0埠，同時還支援FireWire 400 和eSATA，這兩個埠設計在背後，外觀和普通的 ...
Filed under: 電腦周邊, 無線相關. 平平都是藍牙adapter，要就要強一點、持久一點的，上面這款Logitec BlueTooth adapter，應該可以滿足使用者在在方面的需求。 採用BT 2.1 + EDR 外掛Class 1 認證，也就是說不但傳輸的最大距離可達300 英呎（91.44 公尺. ...
Filed under: 桌上型電腦, 筆記型電腦. 昨天微軟說道願意為eeePC 將Windows XP 延長壽命至2010 六月或者是Windows 7 推出之時。如果微軟真的計畫在2010 年推出Windows 7，我們可以這樣推測--Windows 7 愈早推出代表愈快結束Windows XP 的壽命。 ...
Filed under: 智慧型手機, 軟體應用, 蘋果Apple. 讀者Kenneth 和我們分享，他在拿到iPhone 2.0 beta 版軔體後改成中文版的樣貌，重點包括上圖所示可選擇語言已經包含繁體中文，另一個重要的功能是可將SIM 卡的聯絡人完全匯入，這真是iPhone 軔體的一小 ...
Accordian-style USB drive actually solves a problem Filed under: Storage. We see so much insane USB crap around here that we were pretty apprehensive of a link entitled "Accordion USB drive," but color us magenta if the damn thing ...
Filed under: 交通, 穿載相關. 判斷為韓國的設計師Yong-Rok Kim，思考到一般腳傷患者在使用拐杖走路的時候，走久會感覺到累，因此設計出新型拐杖，走累了就可把兩支單腳的拐杖組合成一個靠墊，讓患者可以靠在牆上休憩一下。我一邊看著這款「用創意設計 ...
Filed under: 電腦周邊. SSD無疑是2008年數位產品當中一個相當重要的角色，這個產品是小巧輕薄的又一個代表，尤其是在筆記型電腦領域的發揮；我們已經聽了太多關於因特爾要加入這個陣營的消息了，現在終於有了眉目。這個進展很讓人欣慰，至少可以說明SSD ...
Filed under: Cellphones. While talking up web as a video delivery medium at a Beet.TV executive summit, Walt Mossberg casually yet confidently mentioned that the iPhone will be going 3G in 60 days. Of course, it doesn't take an ...
Filed under: 儲存裝置. WD的My Book系列外接式硬碟家族人丁興旺，近期又有新成員My Book Studio Edition II前來報到。與之前的2TB My Book系列類似，內部實際上是2塊硬碟組建的RAID 0磁碟陣列，外部則提供了4種不同的輸出埠，唯一的區別就是採用了My ...
marylandag. Those cellphone insurance policies you buy? You may have the Maryland Attorney General’s ignorance to thank if something happens to make them more “consumer-friendly.” So be sure to give Douglas Gansler an orange for ...
Blast Knuckles self-defense accessory delivers 1.9 million volts (!?) Mr. Robotato Head at Disneyland’s newest high-tech ride Apple says NYC’s new apple logo infringes on its trademark Swiss pool being warmed by nearby IBM datacenter ...
Canadians on strike! Pandas sneezing! Butt stuff! South Park, America’ favorite show most of us claim to watch but barely watch anymore, made fun of the writers strike, Internet celebrity, and Canada all in the same episode. ...
Have a box of old photographs of people in places no one can remember? Viewfinder is a new project designed to “place” photos in the geographical location they were taken in less than a minute. While this might seem really nice to ...
Clearly the MSM is working hard to find ways to build up Martin Downey Junior’s turn as Iron Man in the upcoming film of the same name. This usually means the movie will suck but in a cool yet ironic historical exegesis the Boston ...
gundamm. In order to form a more perfect union and get kids interested in robots and robotics (but not cockfights), some Japanese guy, Takayuki Furuta, created blueprints to build a 60-foot-tall Gundamn. The total cost of such a robot ...
I’m doing an interview with Griffin next week about their ClearBoost case, discussing the merits of putting a piece of metal near your phone to boost the signal. I’m looking for a certified and impartial electrical engineer to sit in on ...
playboyphoneaintgood. In the interest of human dignity, I will spare you any “funny” jokes about this Playboy cellphone. The only thing that makes it a Playboy phone is the logo on the front. That’s it. ...
The Wolf King keyboard designed for FPS or RPG gamers. I’ma console boy myself so if you, in comments, can convince me you deserve to review this based on your PC gaming credentials, I will send the board to one lucky citizen reviewer. ...
greasethief. Why can’t anyone take a dignified mugshot anymore? This man, David Richardson, was arrested for trying to steal used cooking grease from a Burger King. He was to use the grease for his biofuel Wacky Races car. ...
water Photos like these (check out the accompanying multimedia presentation) make me rethink my entire career as tech journalist. This is a mess. In Guiyu, China, the electronics recycling industry has destroyed the ground water and ...
Back when I was a kid, we had a carphone, and it was awesome. Great sound, great signal, and it was big as hell, with a long curly wire. Looks like Motorola has been rummaging through my childhood memories, and has come up with a new ...
couplesuesgoogle. How pompous. A Pittsburgh couple has sued Google because photos of their house are now on Google Maps Street View. They allege that ever since the photos have appeared on Street View, the value of their property has ...
You know how these days at the airport you can only take a clear plastic bag with 3oz bottles of liquids or gels? Remember the panic that precipitated that? Well, the trial is underway and they’re revealing their dastardly methods. ...
Epic and Intel have announced a contest for the more talent modders among us. They’ve put up $1 million in the “Make Something Unreal Contest,” which invites modders to use the Unreal Tournament 3 (PC version_ engine to create something ...
If you doubted the power of the iPhone’s wee processor, I dare you to download Yeti3D or 3DPacman for the iPhone. I tried them out last night and the graphics are incredibly smooth and acceptably detailed. ...
I take issue with the classification of World of Warcraft as a “violent game” in this study, but I suppose it’s more violent than Animal Crossing. The study, done at Middlesex University in the UK, had just under 300 people of all ages ...
The Register is reporting that Creative has reinstated programmer Daniel_K’s Creative Vista driver on the official Creative sight and that, well, actually I’m not sure what they’re saying here:. We have read the strong feedback about ...
On a very popular, very exclusive, cat-themed video game BitTorrent tracker, Final Fantasy Crisis Core is the number one downloaded game. I bring this up for several reasons. One, BitTorrent downloads are a decent method to determine a ...
I thought Darkon was going to be cool, but this looks even more interesting. It’sa documentary film about the ways, positive and negative, in which MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, Everquest and others have affected people’s lives. ...
A possible Vista successor: Now blurry and boring. Billy boy let slip that Windows 7 AKA Windows Vista# will launch “next year” and explained that XP will be phased out for everything except low-cost PCs in some markets. ...
talktalk Flickr’d. In order to force people to buy plastic discs with music encoded on them, the British Phonographic Industry (more or less the UK’s RIAA) has started sending mean and nasty letters to ISPs there. ...
scaled.IMGP6933. Just returned from a meeting with Velocity Mobile. The 103 and 111 are impressive devices in their own right, but what VM wants to do with Windows Mobile is even more impressive. They don’t want to put a top layer over ...
scaled.IMGP6945. At CES we had the Blounge™ , which was nice and spacious. It also provided us the luxury of not having to deal with other media or lack of Internet connectivity. Microsoft provided a much fancier Blounge™ at Macworld, ...
Just grabbed a floater copy of the iPhone SDK and I just wrote my first application. It does nothing, but I’m so proud of myself. It’s almost as if I’m entering a brave new world where I never failed CS 101 and had to end up in ...
optical disk. While we maintain that Blu-ray represents the end of the optical disk for media storage, there are signs that we might be wrong. Professor Min Gu of Swinburne University of Technology has a group of scienticians working on ...
Mother of god. I’m supportive of the handheld ban while driving, but while walking? Well, if Representative Kenneth Duncan of Illinois gets his way, you’ll have to hang up at every crosswalk. How unbelievably idiotic is that? ...
20080403iphoneback The iPod Observer scored a photo of what is purported to be the 3G version of the iPhone, or the iPhone 2, or the one I’ve been waiting for. It’s only the back, and I’m not 100% convinced it’s real, but I like the ...
Untitled 3. We’ve been waiting for OLED to invade the marketplace, but it hasn’t yet. It will, sure, but Panasonic, with AT&T, have another idea, plasma. Right now you can get a flat-panel HDTV in LCD or plasma, and they each have their ...
T-Mobile in Germany has made just about the most dramatic iPhone-related decision since the product launched, by slashing the cost of the device to €99 (£78), down from €399. This is either a stroke of genius or, a sign of desperation ...
Rather like the kazoo, the Stylophone is what you might term a "musical" "instrument." The farty-bontempi sound was a feature of school playgrounds up and down the land—and even David Bowie used one on Space Oddity. ...
Laptops could be the next thing to be given away for free, according to the boss of UK phone giant Carphone Warehouse. Andrew Harrison, the firm's chief executive, reckons that mobile internet providers will be chucking portables at ...
Ever broken a leg? Know how much hassle it is to stumble around in crutches? Designer Yong-Rok Kim's Crutch Chair is intended to be a partial solution to the problem of knackering yourself out when walking like this. ...
Hot on the heels of Amazon MP3, social networking site MySpace has announced plans to launch a music download service to rival iTunes. Called MySpace Music, the service has the backing of Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal which will ...
At last it's Friday. And not any Friday. Today is the Friday, the worldwide release of Martin Scorsese's Shine a Light. And like Keith said: you've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones. ...
How secure are your passwords? Probably not very. The guys over at Popsci have a neat partial solution to that problem: a DIY alphanumeric random password generator. Made with an Olimex AVR development board and some custom software, ...
At least some of you are reading this article because of the word "Playboy" in the headline, but unfortunately, the product isn't all that provocative. By Alcatel, the Playboy-branded OT-V770A features a 1.3MP camera, 10MB of on-board ...
Moov is probably one of the most amazing toys you will see this year: a do-it-yourself 4-in-1 vehicle kit for kids aged between 5 and 12. Now it's a racer, now it's a carver, now it's a tricycle, now it's a scooter. ...
For times when you don't want a standard 2D display, students at the University of Augsburg developed the Senisphere. A hemispherical display, the Senisphere is like a round take of the Microsoft Surface, with a bit less functionality ...
Police in Polk County, Florida, have busted a drug gang—leaded by some assclown called Otis "Cowboy" Carden, who was also selling methamphetamine to his mother and brother— that terrified neighbours and customers using the firepower of ...
What do you do if you have a focus ion beam microscope normally used to make nano-devices, a scanning electron microscope and some spare time? Well, you etch your university logo onto a human hair, of course! ...
David from Ironic Sans came up with this Bulbdial clock, a marriage of lamps and sundials that makes an incredible amount of sense to us. It's not real in the sense that your mortgage is real, but it is a nice design that takes the best ...
At first glance, interactive textiles that memorise the motions of a perfect shot in basketball seem like they'd be amazingly beneficial. I mean, hey, if I could wear some fancy shirt that would force my arm to always shoot well, ...
Take this rumour with a grain of salt the size of your fist, but this is what some people are claiming is the back of the upcoming next-gen iPhone. It could very easily be a fake, but then again, you never know. What do you guys think? ...
Battlestar Galactica! Starbuck! Fracking Battlestar Galactica! Today! Starbuck! Fraksters! Did you forget something about it? Shame on you! But don't worry: get up to speed with this 8-minute summary video of the whole series, ...
A strange quote from Bill Gates today as he claims the next version of Windows, code-named Windows 7, is going to be released "sometime in the next year or so." That's way ahead of the previous estimates, which claimed Windows 7 was not ...
Remember that camera modded to shock anyone who used it? Some genius thought it would be absolutely hilarious to use it at school. (Okay, it would be.) Anyway! The mischievous little bastard didn't even get the chance to zap the ...
A Boston judge has just followed up on the previous NY judge ruling that just making files available isn't enough to constitute copyright infringement. According to the EFF, it's the most "extensive analysis yet of the recording ...
Oh… oh my. This is a running-powered bicycle (although technically, it's a tricycle, which gives it even less dignity). There are no pedals; instead, you run with the seat jammed up in your crotch and hop on the foot holds when you get ...
Since the 1980s, cities like Guiyu, China, have been taking in electronic waste from other countries for dismantlement and processing. It's great for other countries, but takes a huge toll on the people managing the effort because of ...
Sure, you could wear a raincoat if you don't feel like carrying an umbrella, but does it really keep you dry? I didn't think so. And are raincoats "the wings for your arms"? No. UFO Cap does all of that and more, like keep away pesky ...
Dear Sprint and Intel, I'm sorry to hear about your recent WiMax delays and struggles, I really am. The Xohm service was originally scheduled to launch this month, but all you've given us are a few prototypes and half-baked demos in ...
The story of Daniel_K vs. Creative reaches a temporary conclusion as Creative reinstates the deleted forum posts by Daniel that helped other users get their sound cards work under Vista. The company did this as a result of angry forum ...
We've shown you NASA's neat ATHLETE robots before and it looks like the little hexapod machines have been getting more sophisticated. This vid of two ATHLETEs collaborating to lift a heavy habitat load onto the ground sent faint ...
Don't try this if you can't pull it off. [Thanks Randy!]
iHome just devised a genius iPod dock—a category that's already full up with five times too many models than it really needs—that's not only an iPod dock, but also a lamp. It's an iPod dock lamp, and it's available in three models, ...
So, one of the big sniggles about Photoshop Express, Adobe's free online photo tweaker and sorta-kinda Flickr clone, is that using the service basically gave full control of your photos to Adobe. No more! They just emailed us that as of ...
If you're in Boston and really like looking at mobile phones, a guy called Rob Pettit collected 5000 of them and created an art show. Hit the link to see where and when it is, and be thankful that Rob's collecting them instead of ...
As a guy with pretty horrible teeth, I can only wish that this computerised toothbrush was invented decades ago when I was a kid. When children brush using the system, the toothbrush's LEDs get mapped via webcam onto a representation of ...
Filed under: 顯示螢幕. 對數位相框來說，把相片顯示地漂漂亮亮的是最基本的事。所以Pandigital 新推出的PanTouch 系列產品便不拿畫質來說嘴，而改主打「觸碰式操控」功能。 這台內建有Wifi、藍牙、512MB記憶體的數位相框，具有播放相片、MP3、影片的 ...
Filed under: 隨身音樂. SONY Rolly音樂播放器，現在將時尚進行到底，直接推出了多顏色版本，新的價格是400美金，新台幣約12000元，即使它很會跳舞，我們還是覺得貴了點。 [經由Impress]. [撰文：icebin]. [原文連結] ...
Filed under: Laptops. Intel's just gotten official about its new Netbook platform (aka Classmate 2), and CTL has now followed suit with official word on the first Netbook that'll actually be available: the 2go PC. ...
Filed under: 高畫質電視. Sony發表了4款"似曾相識"的液晶電視，32/40/46/52"的W4000系列。作為BRAVIA家族的新成員，有著1080p解析度，可當巨大化的數位相框使用的Picture Frame Mode，提升影像水準的第2代BRAVIA Engine，影音同步BRAVIA Sync，XMB界面， ...
Filed under: 隨身音樂, 隨身影像. 雖然是隔了相對比較長的一段時間, Samsung PMP 的Blue Wave 韌體第三版, 也在這幾天開放(限韓國?) 下載了! 這一版的韌體, 在P2 身上, 主要是增加了四個全新的操作介面佈景主題, 以及全螢幕模式, 計算機, 字典等. ...
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops. We puzzled over Microsoft's cryptic statements at CeBIT that the Eee's "other requirements" would lead to an adjustment of the Windows 7 timeline, and it looks like our first guess was spot-on: Microsoft ...
Filed under: 軟體應用. Adobe的Photoshop Express日前才發佈，引起了相當程度地注目，但這次癮軟體並不是要對「佛脫夏普衣可濕噗累酥」作錦上添花地讚嘆，而是要介紹另一個同是線上版的影像處理服務－Splashup。 先來小小前戲一下，畢竟脫了褲子直接上太 ...
Filed under: 家庭娛樂. 誰說Sony Fair是宅男的盛會？如果能夠的話，本次假日除了因清明祭祖關係而可能沒辦法去的朋友之外（話說筆者也要回鄉拜一下，對我來說，清明比過年還來得重要），有能力去看看的朋友，帶另一半、帶家庭親子去都好。 ...
Filed under: 家庭娛樂. 當然啦，像這類活動，要開始時，總是要有個儀式。就像店面開張，總也要有個剪綵。當上圖的儀式完成之後，活動就正式開始了。 在上篇當中，有提到，正式開始之前，現場是擠滿了媒體。不過，在還沒開始與開始之間，也有些好玩的事情 ...
Filed under: PDA手持裝置. 日前在IDF 上頭，Intel 拿出了Moorestown 這片可能是將來市場上（軍用的、外星人用是怎樣的狀況，實在是很難窺探出一個究竟...）最小的主機板；在這個方寸之地上面，將來會有包括CPU、相關晶片組，WiFi、GPS、3G 網路模組， ...
新情報のたびにUMPCだったりMIDだったりするAsus R50 / R50Aの登場時期が明らかになりました。R50は5.6インチ1024 x 600タッチスクリーンと3G/3.5G通信、GPSを搭載する「フルポテンシャル」 UMPC(またはMID)。リンク先DigiTimesに引用されているAsus ...
Filed under: KUSO搞怪. 請問各位讀者, 您們花了多少時間找出這迷宮的正確路徑? 有人是一眼就看出來的嗎? 那他防盜的功用何在? 等等~! 這東西不是用來防盜的, 是裝在門內側的安全鎖! 由Art Lebedev 端出的要煩死你門鎖, 是否真能增加生活中的情趣呢? ...
Screen grabs: Matt Saracen has iPhone trouble, is still really cute Filed under: Cellphones Screen grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab! ...
Griffin's ugly-ass ClearBoost iPhone antenna booster hits the scene Filed under: Cellphones. Griffin's antenna-stub sporting ClearBoost case for the iPhone just hit the streets, and opinions are already pouring in. ...
Filed under: 顯示螢幕. 看到這個標題，也許讀者會覺得奇怪。LCD自從消費化之後，本來就是低價為主的潮流，這好像沒什麼疑義。更何況，不止是LCD，基本上絕大多數的產品，也都是入門款能賣的量較多。 的確，LCD低價市場本來就是比較龐大，不算什麼特殊 ...
プレスリリースによると、ワイヤレス充電技術のSplashpowerが資金繰りに失敗して倒産、管財人のもとで資産の売却に移るとのこと。 充電台SplashPadの上に載せるだけで携帯電話や音楽プレーヤを充電できるというSplashpowerはケーブルも機器ごとに増えるAC ...
Filed under: 桌上型電腦, 筆記型電腦. 如果說EeePC（和其他簡易筆電）有什麼真正令人拍手稱快的地方，大概就是它逼得微軟認真地將Linux 看成一個（至少在特定市場）有能力撼動它PC 作業系統霸主地位的對手，同時我們也不得不佩服華碩有這個勇氣在微軟 ...
プリイントスール版Windows XPの販売期間がまた延長されました。マイクロソフトの新たな発表によれば、Asus Eee PCやインテルClassmate PCのような「ウルトラローコストPC」向けにはWindows XP Homeを2010年6月まで、あるいはWindows 7のリリースから一年 ...
LaCieの"Design by Neil Poulton" 外付けHDDにマルチインターフェース版が登場します。USB 2.0のほか追加されるのはeSATA x1 およびFireWire 400 x 2ポート。つるつる＆つやつやでシンプルなデザイン、下向きで直接見えない青色LEDストライプといった外見 ...
Filed under: 家庭娛樂. 好啦，別再說沒SG照片，這篇的SG是比較多一些，不過在有意無意的壓抑之下，並沒有全拍。至於封面照片為何放她，是因為有一個遺憾以及一個緣分。 先說一個遺憾，就是在PSP區時，要找一些關於PSP問題與她聊聊的，來段兩分鐘影片。 ...
Filed under: 家庭娛樂. 其實Sony Fair中可以讓人體驗的產品實在是太多了，真的要詳細一個個寫，大概這篇會長到爆。不過個人考量到攝影或是電視一類，平常在我們網站中的曝光已經夠多的了。所以體驗的部分，就以遊戲來說明一下。 ...