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#design
Field of Light: Nikolai Tesla Meets Lenny Kravitz
When I see images of Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation, whatever glumness I might have felt during the day disappears, and that Beatle-esque Lenny Kravitz song of a similar name starts playing in my head. If I had the chance to check out Munro's light installation, coming to Project Eden in Cornwall, England on November 1, I would totally wander through the fields—slowly, slowly through the fields, in fact—touching the acrylic globes that float at the ends of 6,000 fiberoptically united tubes. More » -
#tivopc
Ars Technica Plays with LiquidTV/TiVo PC, Thinks It's Pretty Good
Ars got their hands on Nero's freshly-announced LiquidTV/TiVo PC team-up, and thought the TiVo software and Hauppauge TV Tuner hardware was a good experience for $200 ($100 for software only). They looked not only at how the UI functioned in the PC environment, but also at export options, content exchange, and hardware performance. Here's what they liked and didn't like. More » -
#bluray
Sony Cuts Price on Fancy S550 Blu-ray Player (Still No Dealzmodo)
Yesterday Sony dropped the $400 BDP-S350 Blu-ray player to $300, a fair line to cross. Today Sony made the next logical step, dropping its $500 BDP-S550 to $400. It's a sizeable price decrease, and it comes well before Thanksgiving, indicating that there could easily be another sweet drop. I'm still more of a fan of the S350, though, now that both are BD-Live capable. That extra $100 for the S550 only gets you a 1GB Memory Vault ($12.99 on Amazon), a 7.1-analog output, DTS-Master Audio decoding and a light-up remote. Oh, and the product itself won't ship until the end of October when, who knows, another price cut may hit. [SonyStyle] -
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#webradio
Pandora and Other Webcasters Saved by Act of Congress
Today the otherwise preoccupied Senate quickly passed the Webcaster Settlement Act many of you petitioned for, granting Pandora and other net radio services the right to negotiate royalties with the record industry's SoundExchange coalition for the years 2006 to 2015. OK, that's a mouthful—what it means is, they will likely not be driven to bankruptcy due to unreasonable royalty rates. More » -
#gps
Get Your Directions From an Old, Washed Up Character from a Terrible Show
While I understand why people would want their GPS navigators to give them directions in the voice of KITT or Mr. T, I have no idea who in their right mind would want Kim Cattrall (the old one) from Sex in the City telling them where to go whenever they drive. Not only will her voice remind you of that horrible show every time you need to make a turn, but it'll throw in annoying non sequiturs like "This is the city, darling. Anything goes" or "Don't touch my Manolos" at random times for added irritation. Why, oh god can anyone tell me why? Hit the jump for the full release, if you must. More » -
#lightningreview
Oncore 6-Bay MacBook and iBook Charger Lightning Review
The Gadget: Oncore's 6-Bay MacBook or iBook battery charger that really only charges three batteries at one time because it's a cluster of charging bays and not six individual chargers. Once the first battery in a single charging bay is full it will switch charging to the other battery which allows for six batteries to be fully charged over time. More »
