Haroon Malik

Asus Supposedly Infringes Linux License Terms

Asus has apparently altered the underlying Linux kernel in their new and popular eeePC. As per the Linux General Public License, they are required to provide the necessary source code for any such modifications. Guess what? They forgot to distribute the code. The controversy surrounds the asus_acpi module, which is used to manage the hardware…

Bright Blind Gives Windows to the Windowless

Windows are great, you can see things out of them, they shed light and they bring the cool breeze to you. Makoto Hirhara’s Bright Blind tries to bring some of these comforts to barren, windowless walls. The Bright Blind hangs on your wall and is constructed from electroluminescent sheets. The light dispersed gives the impression…

Geek Couture: PS2 Inspired Bling Edition

Even the jewelers at Tiffany’s would be impressed by the mix of precious stones and metals thrown into this PS2 controller neck pendant. The ridiculously geeky piece is constructed from 18k white gold, with 68.34ct of black diamonds lining the controller’s surface. We were not so sure you could get 68.34ct of diamonds all in…

Sarcos’s Exoskeleton is More Amazing Than We Thought

We have had our eyes on Sarcos for quite a while, as they are the wonder kids that have been promising us super powered exoskeletons. Well, true to their word, they have just released a video of a prototype exoskeleton in action; the result is simply amazing. The device will primarily be made available for…

Rocker Kart Lets You Rock All the Way to the Shops

The Rocker Kart is a bicycle alternative, retailing at £149.99 ($309), the three-wheeled kart lacks any form of visible steering, but that is where the Rocker gets interesting. Apparently, by leaning left or right a patented control mechanism comes into play, altering your course to follow the direction of your weight shift. That sounds like…

Fan Case Mod Keeps CPU, Half the World Cool

Sixty-six fans is a lot, but if you are planning to mod a standard PC case with fans allover, you shall be requiring that amount of cooling power. We very much doubt the mod retains the PC’s original energy star rating, but if you have a problem keeping cool and you continually have your CPU…

Panasonic CF-W7 Gets Subaru Impreza Styling

Super car inspired laptops are ten a penny, and despite their styling they rarely have anything special to offer. Panasonic’s CF-W7 continues with the pointless aesthetic makeovers, but this time Subaru are getting in on the action. The CF-W7 will be limited to a production of 500 pieces, so if you are hot for Subaru…

CarPhone Solves Wireless Calling in Car Without the Need for Bluetooth

So, you love your phone and your car so much you want to create a hybrid, but you are not going to embark on your ultimate mod before seeing some proof that it is possible. Thanks to some fellow, who deemed it fit to create a car/phone hybrid some 25 years ago, your curiosities can…

MBL Speakers Look Steampunkish, Cost More Than a Black Market Left Kidney

MBL’s new X-treme Speakers may look mighty impressive, but that has nothing to do with their ability to deliver “acoustically brilliant” sound, their ridiculously huge 6ft tall deep bass towers containing four 12″ subwoofers, or the immense one month assembly/delivery time. No, the reason for their brilliance lies in the implementation of two vibrating element…

One-Step DVD/CD Duplicator Rips Without a PC

TEAC’s One-Step DVD/CD Duplicator will rip your CDs, or DVDs, without the need for a connection to a PC. That is enough information for us to decide we like it; it is simple and it can copyright infringe in around 6 minutes flat, thanks to the 48x CD drive read speed / 16x DVD read…

Jump Up Internet Rescue School Provides Rehabilitation for the Internet Addicted

South Korea’s Jump Up Internet Rescue School is the first of its kind, providing rehabilitation to those who cannot escape from the confines of the great interweb. Fittingly, South Korea is the world’s foremost internet connected nation, with over 90% of homes having access to cheap, high speed broadband. Worryingly, this has been the reason…

IGN Reviews AG’s RiffMaster Guitar Hero Controller

Our buddies at IGN have just run a comprehensive review of AG’s RiffMaster Guitar Hero controller. The controller is the best looking we have seen, and does a lot to push our rock star credibility that little bit further. Hit the video to check out the full review: The device has real guitar tuning screws…

BookSnap Rips Your Book Collection With a Little Help From Your Fingers

Atiz has developed a device called the BookSnap, which allow you to accurately rip your books to PDF format. The product is aimed at the individual consumer, which is interesting given its $1595 price tag. Nevertheless, the method of its operation is rather clever, but the BookSnap does have one tiny flaw: Essentially, the device…

Vonage Ordered to Pay Verizon $120 Million

A recent lawsuit involving Verizon and Vonage has been settled, and Vonage has been ordered to pay Verizon $120 million due to patent infringements. The fine imposed on Vonage means they are edging closer to bankruptcy, with debts mounting to the sum of some $250 million prior to the court’s decision, it looks like Vonage…

Zune 8GB Gets Stripped, Starts Hearts Racing

Those great guys at Rapid Repair have done the dirty and stripped the 8GB of all its sexy clothing. There does not seem an awful lot to take note of, except Microsoft has done a good job, tightly packing in all the Zuney innards. The Rapid Repair peeps were less than thrilled at the implementation…

Tec Toy Puts a Sega Genesis in Your Pocket, Cheer in Your Soul

The Sega Genesis may well be the greatest gaming platform, ever. Who cares about online gaming, does anything beat a session of Sonic 2? Tec Toy knows the Genesis console rocked, so they are shrinking it and making it kinda pocket-sized. The device, packed with retro gaming orgasmic material, will retail for around $100, but…

World’s Most Expensive Gift Card Buys a $5 Million Jet Ride

Girls and boys, Christmas-is-a-coming and you need gift ideas pronto. Socks, hand knitted jumpers and CDs just don’t cut it, but how about a gift voucher? May we suggest, a gift voucher that entitles the recipient to private jet travel, which costs only $5 million! If daddy is feeling in a particularly giving mood this…

What You Missed Last Weekend

We had a riot across the weekend, there was booze, sex and rock ‘n’ roll. Sorry you missed it? Well that’s what happens when you skip Giz. Here’s your chance to catch up: • We freshened up with Ubuntu cola. • Sony’s new Cybershot ad made us strike a pose. • NBC Direct went live.…

New Mac Ads; Same Gags, Still Funny

Apple has just dropped three new commercials in the Get a Mac series. The adverts have the same old Mac Vs. PC theme, but they are still funny. Plus, no one has shouted us down for being fanboys for at least four posts straight. That, quite frankly, is unacceptable. So, here we are showing some…

Conceited Software has just dropped its GUI jailbreak for the new 1.1.2 firmware. Unfortunately, it is a bit buggy and you have to go via firmware 1.1.1. For the complete d-low hit the link. [TUAW]