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The PC Game Market is Not Dead
You remember that old saying “Follow the money?” whenever you wanted to find the answer to something? It still applies… For years now PC Gaming has “been dying” and giving way to consoles; the more locked down, publiser/advertiser friendly, vendor lock-in-encouraging devices that have meant to replace the 20 billion PC gamers on the planet. Yea after [...]
Continue reading...Computer Mouse to be Extinct in 5 Years… Again
20. July 2008
Remember 10 years ago when voice-recognition and Dragon Naturally Typing was going to replace the keyboard? Yea that didn’t quite pan out how we all thought… I think at some point we were going to replace the mouse with eye-tracking lasers on the monitor and then some sort of brain-tie-in that would tell when you “clicked” [...]
Continue reading...WordPress 2.6 Released - New Feature Summary
15. July 2008
Publishers rejoice, WordPress 2.6 has been released and while I initially anticipated it to be a bug-fix release to follow 2.5.1, it looks like the WordPress team has snuck in quite a few sexy features. We’ll take a look at each below piece-by-piece which are reviewed in the WordPress 2.6 feature movie here. Outline Gears - Turbo [...]
Continue reading...New BlackBerry Touchscreen - The Thunder
14. July 2008
Well it looks like BlackBerry was working on a touch-screen smart phone after all! Pictured above is the new BlackBerry Thunder (9500-series); details are sparse right now, but I imagine will be coming out at a breakneck speed over the next few months. Reports are saying that RIM is trying to nail the typing experience with [...]
Continue reading...iPhone: Cheap International Calling with Truphone
11. July 2008
Hot on the heels of the iPhone 2.0 firmware release that includes support for the new application SDK, Truphone has released their cheap, WiFi-based, VoIP international dialing software for the iPhone - it can be installed directly from the Apple Software Store. Rates for Truphone look to be reasonable, with world-wide calling at around $0.06-$0.30/min for [...]
Continue reading...Apple 3G iPhone Unboxed Photos
9. July 2008
Well the lucky bastards over at The Boy Genius Report got their hands on an 3G iPhone and posted their unboxing shots of it. For anyone interested… it pretty much looks like an iPhone. It does look a bit curvier though. Anyway, dig in! Thanks BGR!
Continue reading...Google Finishes Home Before Sony Does with Lively
8. July 2008
If you are a Sony PS3 owner, you have possibly been waiting for the introduction of Home for about a year now. You were waiting for it in 2007 or Early 2008 when it was suppose to first come out, and now you are waiting for it again later this year; assuming it makes that [...]
Continue reading...Apple Hands Out Account Login Because Someone Asked
8. July 2008
They say that the chain is only as strong as the weakest link… unfortunately for you, if that weakest link is a retarded Customer Service Rep at Apple and he’s reading an email that says: am forget my password of mac,did you give me password on new email marko.[redacted]@yahoo.com And decides “Heck, I should probably email this [...]
Continue reading...HUD from Contact Lenses with Embedded LEDs
7. July 2008
Pictured above is a prototype contact lens developed by Electrical Engineering Assistant Professor (Assistant?! More like… crazy-awesome) Babak Parviz out of the University of Washington. While I don’t believe the prototype can currently project a full-view HUD ontop of what you are looking at, Parviz is focusing on embedding LEDs into the lens to get the [...]
Continue reading...Installing Android OS on the Nokia N810
5. July 2008
The badasses over at Unwired View have figured out how to install the Android OS dev image on the Nokia N810 running the Diablo (latest) firmware; effectively replacing the operating system with Android and allowing you to play around with it long before real Android phones and devices will hit the street. The best part, it’s [...]
Continue reading...War Against Internet Users, P2P Traffic and Piracy Begins
3. July 2008
Was browsing through Slashdot today and saw two interesting articles. It looks like nations, naturally under the guidence of the RIAA/MPAA and similar groups, are beginning to move ‘anti-piracy’ legislation forward. The first part of the problem is to give ISPs complete amnesty from pirated material, which will protect them from litigation and give them an [...]
Continue reading...AT&T Announces 3G iPhone Pricing Plans
1. July 2008
Get ready to take it up the yoo-hoo… AT&T has finally released pricing for the 3G iPhone. The Basics (Prices for 8GB and 16GB) For Plan Renewal: $199 or $299 For Early Upgraders: $399 or $499 For No Plan: $599 and $699 (Launched Later) For full plan in formation, check out the following tables: Individual plans Price Voice Data Night and weekend Additional minutes $69.99 450 Unlimited 5000 $0.45 $89.99 900 Unlimited Unlimited $0.40 $109.99 1350 Unlimited Unlimited $0.35 $129.99 Unlimited Unlimited Unlimited N/A Family plans Price Voice Data Night [...]
Continue reading...Uniross Announces Rechargable Product Line
1. July 2008
We normally don’t cover a lot of product announcements here but from time to time there will be something interesting that pops across our desks that we want to share. Uniross, rechargable technology company, issued a press release for a few new products 1 of which is a solar-powered battery recharger… how cool is that? So [...]
Continue reading...Antro Solo Human-Solar-Gas-Electric-Hybrid Does 150mpg
1. July 2008
The Antro Solo, pictured above, is a Solar-Gas-Electric and “Human” powered hybrid vehicles that came out of design shops in Hungary. The car is designed to go 150mpg and is planned to enter the market in 2012 at a $20,000 price point. The entire car, chasis made out of carbon fiber, weighs less than 600lbs but [...]
Continue reading...PS3 Firmware 2.4 to be released Wednesday, July 2nd
30. June 2008
PS3 users rejoice! VE3d is reporting that PS3 firmware 2.4 (trophies/in game XMB) will be released this Wednesday. Additionally, the Playstation Blog has two video demonstrations - In Game XMB and The Trophy System. The first game to support trophies will be Super Stardust HD. Other first party games that will be patched to support trophies are: BUZZ! Quiz [...]
Continue reading...Streaming Playback of 720p Media to PS3 Stutters or is Jerky
26. June 2008
If you are like me, you probably use your PS3 to stream media from a NAS at home or something; either from the NAS directly or via a computer using TVersity. If you have begun to dabble with streaming HD content, either 720p or 1080p, you may have noticed that the PS3’s playback of that media [...]
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