home entertainment
I know, you're still hurt and weepy from a week without an
Xbox 360—and yet you didn't succumb to the schemers selling the consoles on eBay. Well check out
Notify360.com. This service, which tracks online retailers for Xbox 360 boxes, will alert you when they come back on sale. The catch? There are three levels of service: Silver is free and you'll get an email within 30 minutes to one email address; Gold is $30 and you'll get that email in up to three places in just 15 minutes with an additional $10 Amazon.com gift certificate; and Platinum is $60, giving you instant notification at up to 5 email addresses, also with the $10 gift certificate. Oh, and by the way, there are only 2,000 spots available in the Platinum level. The notification will be an actual link to the product page of the store that is selling it and if it's sold out by the time you get there, well at least you will keep getting inbox alerts. Now doesn't that make you feel a whole lot better?
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Gizmodo
We absolutely love it when cyberspace and meatspace intersect, which is why we're enthused over this Online Notification Picture Frame. It's a DIY project that connects via some interface (the guy doesn't say) to a computer, which feeds online status information back to the display. If a person's online, the LED next to his photo lights up. We'd prefer it if this were a more digital solution like an actual photo frame that dynamically displayed the pictures of people who were online, but this is a good start. [Volunteer Lab Rat via Hacked Gadgets]
