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Video: HTC Advantage Unboxed

It was once called the Athena (and, briefly, the Ameo). Now it is the Advantage, and it has arrived in Europe. And lest you think this is just one of those never-gonna-get-here tease videos, HTC now says it will launch the Advantage in the US this summer. It’s quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE plus HSDPA/UMTS 850/1900/2100, but my…

Gadgets Wilson Rothman Apr 23

Dream Home Theater Takes Cues from Skywalker Ranch

Click to viewIf you’re looking for a model of the quintessential home theater, Star Wars creator George Lucas’s theater he calls “The Stag,” located at his Skywalker Ranch in California, would probably be a good place to start. That’s what home theater installer Johann Peters did, spending $100,000 to build a 16-seat demo theater with…

Tech News Charlie White Apr 23

NAB’s XM/Sirius Satellite Radio Merger Poo-Pooing Debunked

According to a new study by Arbitron and Edison Media Research, the National Association of Broadcasters’ fears of a merged satellite radio company unfairly competing with terrestrial broadcasters are mostly unfounded, since digital radio listeners actually listen to more traditional radio than everyone else. The NY Times writes that “The data suggest that, generally speaking,…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 23

Samsung’s First Hybrid Notebook Makes its Debut

Hyrbid laptops have officially arrived, and Samsung’s R55 is the company’s first to feature both an 80GB 5,400rpm drive alongside an additional 256MB flash drive. Samsung claims the hybrid hard drive consumes 32% less power, offers a 26% increase in data reading and boosts data-writing speed by 71%. That kinda talk makes the 15.4-inch notebook…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Apr 23

First Review: Lexar ExpressCard SSD

Lexar’s ExpressCard solid state drive is an interesting proposition: 4 to 16 gigabytes of non-volatile memory in a slot form factor. That’s not only more storage than typical USB flash drives can offer, but more than most based on microdrives can, too. For those with lappies with ExpressCard slots, it would seem like a sweet…

Tech News Brian Lam Apr 23

Multimedia Handbag: Now Bad Taste has a Receptacle

This is Bubble Gear’s multimedia handbag, which consists of a “Scrag” (that’s what I call a bag-screen hybrid) with built-in MP3 and DVD player. This bag is described as an “attention magnet”—thief magnet, more like—that will have people crowding round you as you sit in the mall watching the Teletubbies DVD bought by your latest…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Apr 23

Mystery Video of Sony Ericsson Cellphone: Answers on a Postcard, Please

Nope. Nada. Zilch. No idea. Beats us, kiddoes. All we know is that this tantalizing clip—five seconds, at most—of a new Sony Ericsson was put up over the weekend. And nothing on the SE website in Japan seems to correspond to it. Curioser and curioser, said Alice. Video of mystery Sony Ericsson phone [Mobile Mentalism]

Tech News Ad Dugdale Apr 23

Sony HDD NAC-HD1: CD and 250GB HDD Music Server

This is the NAC-HD1 250GB HDD digital music server, Sony’s new sound system component. The included CD player will rip your albums onto its hard drive, with space for up to 125,000 tunes. The system can also stream content to other hardware compatible with the DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) standard. And although it looks…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Apr 23

Gardner Baby Grand Piano Master: Classical DJing

Some DJs bust out the old school and some DJs bust out the really old school. The Baby Grand Master is for the really, really old school. Packing some serious hardware—Dual Pioneer DVJ-X1 DVD Players, Edirol V-4 Video Mixer, 3 Marshal LCD Monitors, 5 subwoofers, 3 tweeters, 1100 Watt Power Amplifier and an Allen and…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 23

Guide to Replacing Your MacBook Pro’s Hard Drive

Aside from the obvious storage bump, there are plenty of reasons why you’d wanna upgrade your MacBook Pro‘s hard drive. The guys at ExtremeTech have come up with a hand-holding guide for replacing your MBP’s 5,400rpm HDD for a new 7,200rpm drive, which will give you a noticeably faster MBP. There’s a lot of unscrewing…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Apr 23

Kohjinsha SA1F00V: 7″ tablet UMPC Adds Touchscreen, Still as Slow as Before

Kohjinsha has added touch capabilities to the 7″ 800 x 480 screen on its Japan-only SA1F00 UMPC tablet computer, letting you massage your way through Windows XP Home even when it’s running as slow as Keanu Reeves putting frozen Heinz Ketchup on a bullet-time burger. That’s because rather than jumping on the Ultra Mobile 2007…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Apr 23

Animal Food Abandoned (The Anaconda Standard, 1914)

The Anaconda Standard in Anaconda, Montana ran a piece on January 11, 1914 titled, “How Things Will Be in the Twenty-First Century.” The story states the fairly common belief that the world would move away from meat consumption. Cooking, perhaps, will not be done at all on any large scale at home…..and cooking will be…

Tech News Matt Novak Apr 23

Robocup: For Eggs, Not Robot Testicles

The $12 Robocup is guaranteed to “take eating a boiled egg to another dimension.” Please hold on a sec. With a pitch like that I need to buy the Robocup ASAP. Done. FACT: Hard-boiled eggs are boring. They don’t taste that great either, but that’s a far smaller problem. And the Robocup is the perfect…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Apr 22

VOCE: Premium Wireless Service

VOCE is a company offering what they have dubbed the world’s first “premium wireless service.” Here’s the pitch: Signing up costs you $500. You get an unlocked phone (like the Treo 680). Then, you pay $200/month for unlimited calls and GPRS data. The hard sell? You get a 24/7 personal assistant that is guaranteed to…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Apr 22

Rumor: Dell Tablet Coming?

Hot off the news of Dell’s smartphone, jkOnTheRun (good site, horrible name in print) is reporting a tip that Dell will release a Tablet PC in Fall 2007. https://gizmodo.com/dell-getting-into-smartphone-business-252881 And if rumors are your thing, they have plenty of details. – Based on the Latitude D420 notebook – Convertible tablet w/active digitizer – Compatible with…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Apr 22

Adwatch: New Windows Vista Ad Has It All Wrong

Is it just me or do Microsoft ads lack a certain pop? Where’s the snark? Apple’s campaign boasting the grating Justin Long glibly goading John Hodgman into manic depression over his boring 9-to-5 life as a PC might be wearing thin, but generally speaking they put out ads that seek to entertain or, at the…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Apr 22

Cushion Control: Channel Changing Via Rump

The Cushion Control is a design by Didier Nicholas, urging man to ditch the efficiency of handheld control for panty pillow fights. And who can argue with logic like that? The control is necessarily basic, with each cushion assigned one function (such as volume, power and channel). Details like how the remotes will actually work…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Apr 22

Choc-U-lator: Sadly, Not What You’re Thinking

Contrary to Popgadget’s headline, the Choc-U-Lator does not make math delicious. It is, however, the most sadistic stocking stuffer ever. Imagine a child unwrapping what looks to be a chocolate bar only to find a calculator that looks like chocolate. They’d be scarred for life, which is totally hilarious. The Choc-U-Lator does have the “sweet…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 22

Behold: The Secret of the Magic 8-Ball’s Powers

Unlike the spherical chewy core of a Tootsie pop, the center of the magic eight ball is just a tube filled with water, blue dye, and a 20-sided die. My entire grounding in reality has been destroyed. I would turn to the 8-ball for guidance in these dark times, but now I know I would…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Apr 22

Earth Day Roundup: Not Lame, We Promise

Hooray for Earth Day! People gather to recycle cans before turning around in their SUV to go home. This above photo was a message from the World Wildlife Foundation to China. It reads, “Drive one day less and look how much carbon dioxide you’ll keep out of the air we breathe.” We think it looks…

Gadgets Mark Wilson Apr 22

Video: HTC Advantage Unboxed

Dream Home Theater Takes Cues from Skywalker Ranch

NAB’s XM/Sirius Satellite Radio Merger Poo-Pooing Debunked

Samsung’s First Hybrid Notebook Makes its Debut

First Review: Lexar ExpressCard SSD

Multimedia Handbag: Now Bad Taste has a Receptacle

Mystery Video of Sony Ericsson Cellphone: Answers on a Postcard, Please

Sony HDD NAC-HD1: CD and 250GB HDD Music Server

Gardner Baby Grand Piano Master: Classical DJing

Guide to Replacing Your MacBook Pro’s Hard Drive

Kohjinsha SA1F00V: 7″ tablet UMPC Adds Touchscreen, Still as Slow as Before

Animal Food Abandoned (The Anaconda Standard, 1914)

Robocup: For Eggs, Not Robot Testicles

VOCE: Premium Wireless Service

Rumor: Dell Tablet Coming?

Adwatch: New Windows Vista Ad Has It All Wrong

Cushion Control: Channel Changing Via Rump

Choc-U-lator: Sadly, Not What You’re Thinking

Behold: The Secret of the Magic 8-Ball’s Powers

Earth Day Roundup: Not Lame, We Promise

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