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Lightning Review: Sony Vaio LT All-In-One (Powerful, But Expensive)

The Gadget: The Sony VAIO LT is an attractive all-in-one that has a 22-inch, 1680×1050 widescreen display, BD-RW drive, integrated webcam, wireless keyboard and mouse, an external cable card tuner and Vista Media Center, powered by a 2.5 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB RAM. The Price: $3300 as tested. The Verdict: The Vaio…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 11

Ballmer Predicts Death of Printed Media

Little known fact (that we just made up): Steve Ballmer once had a newspaper thrown through his front window. After eating the newspaper delivery boy and his entire family , Ballmer sat down with to chat about the future with The Washington Post. And among other things, he pegged a date for the death of…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 6

Sony Hosts XBR8 LED LCD vs. Plasma Shootout (You’ll Never Guess Who Wins)

Sony celebrated the launch of its XBR8 tricolor-LED-backlit LCD TV lineup with a Pioneer-style darkened-room shoot-out. The 55″ XBR8 was pitted against an unnamed popular plasma set. What you see above is the LCD on the left, and the plasma on the right. But wait, we thought plasmas always had the upper hand when it…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 5

Two Bravia TV Modules That Make Sense: Wireless HDMI and Slot-Loading DVD Player

Sure the Bravia Internet Video Link is a dubious use of $300 (even with YouTube), but there are at least two Bravia add-on modules in Sony’s oven that are tasty and smart: A wireless HDMI module-neato factor is self-explanatory, especially since the transmitter takes up to four HDMI connections-and a slot loading DVD player. It…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 5

Sony HT-IS100 Tiny Hi-Def Speakers Look Delicious

The HT-IS100 is the latest little speaker set from Sony, a 5.1 channel surround system that looks small enough to smuggle in your underpants—sans subwoofer of course. Each speaker in the 450 watt system is about the size of a golf ball (or a 4-H award winning strawberry from the looks of it). UPDATE: Added…

Tech News Benny Goldman Jun 5

Sony Bravia Internet Link Gets YouTube, Panda Sneeze Still Lame in HD

YouTube, Wired.com and Crackle have all added their content to Sony’s Bravia Internet Video Link, the pricey $300 add-on that streams video to Bravia TVs. This is a major upgrade, as the content previously available through BIVL was thin to say the least. Now you can use that beautiful 1080p set to sift through the…

Tech News Benny Goldman Jun 5

Sony’s Big Bravia XBR6, XBR7, XBR8 LCDs (And the XBR8 Has LEDs!)

Sony is having a block party with its top-end Bravia LCD line today—two entirely new series, XBR7 and XBR8, and updates to XBR6. At CES, we asked, “Where are the big Sony TVs?” Here they are. XBR8 brings features from its obscenely ridiculous $33,000 70-inch XBR3 down to more accessible 46 and 55 inch sets—namely…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jun 5

eDimensional’s Ben Heck 1-Hand New Access Controller Now Available

Ben Heck of modding fame follows up his 5.1 headset for eDimensional with a one-handed PS3/PS2/PC controller. Although it’s made for disabled gamers to play games they otherwise couldn’t on a standard DualShock gamepad because of the swappable control modules, it’s also very useful for regular gamers who need something they can handle with one…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 5

Sony Ericsson xPeria X1 Reviewed, Now Dubbed SEX1

That dirty dirty BengalBoy has got his dirty dirty paws all over the Sony Ericsson xPeria X1, putting it through his usual battery of tests: girls in bikini holding it, girls in bikini licking it, girls in bikini fondling it, and girls in bikini trying to find it inside their bikinis because they just lost…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 5

The PlayStation 3 Works Well Enough With Tablets

It’s one of those things that makes sense, but we’d never tried before. One tablet-happy artist decided to plug in his Wacom tablet into his PS3. The result? It was essentially plug ‘n play. While a combination of the PS3’s firmware and third party game design mean that it could never be used play 90%…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 4

PlayStation-Branded PS3 Bluetooth Headset Comes Free With SOCOM

The upcoming SOCOM Confrontation game for the PS3 will come with a free Bluetooth headset, much like the similar deal last year with Warhawk. This headset, however, looks very PlayStation-branded and neutral (unlike the Warhawk one, which just looked ugly), leading us to believe that it could serve as the “official” PlayStation 3 headset if…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 3

PS3 Sucks Up Five Times as Much Energy as a Fridge, Ten Times as Much as a Wii

Compared to basically every other appliance you have plugged in at home, the Playstation 3 sucks up more juice. That’s according to a new study by Australian consumer agency Choice, which found that when a PS3 is running, it sucks up five times more energy than a refrigerator. If you leave it on all the…

Tech News Adam Frucci Jun 3

Over Half of HDTV Owners Still Don’t Know What Blu-ray Is

NPD’s latest survey of consumer awareness about Blu-ray tries to cheerlead, with the headline, “Consumer Awareness and Potential for Blu-ray Disc Devices Rising.” But then you read the results-45 percent of HDTV owners are now “familiar with Blu-ray,” up from 35 percent the same time last year. That means over half of HDTV owners-not regular…

Gadgets Matt Buchanan Jun 3

PlayStation Home Arriving This Year…With One Caveat

The good news: those of us still looking forward to Sony’s virtual world platform called PlayStation Home will be happy to know that it’s arriving in 2008. The potentially bad news: it’s arriving in “open, working beta” form. You know, like Google Everything. (To their defense, Sony actually fessed up to this obvious comparison, describing…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 3

Toshiba Making Upconverting DVD Players Because HD DVD Loss Still Stings

Poor Toshiba’s still not quite over the HD DVD defeat earlier this year, as evidenced by its president saying that they will “not market DVD players that are compatible with Blu-ray,” instead opting for upconverting DVD players to bide their time before Blu-ray becomes so prevalent that the company has no choice. However, if you’re…

Tech News Jason Chen Jun 2

Is Sony Cloning the Wiimote Next?

We’ve already heard pretty substantial rumors about an Xbox 360 “Wiimote” called “Newton,” but now some are talking about the possibility of a PS3 motion control peripheral as well. Well, actually just one. A small site named PlayStation Lifestyle claims to have the scoop on Sony’s latest from an interview with a focus tester. So…

Tech News Mark Wilson Jun 2

Sony to Join Low-End UMPC Party, Quanta Claims

According to Quanta Computer—who will be the manufacturer—Sony will join the low-end ultra-mobile PC bandwagon with a notebook based on the VIA OpenBook reference design. As shown in the image, Sony’s machine will use a 1.6GHz C7-M VIA processor, and while at this point it looks quite generic, it will be interesting to see if…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 2

PSP Plays Better With DualShock

The PSP controls are not horrible—though that analog nub leaves something to be desired—but the DualShock is a far more comfortable controller. Now the fine citizens at AcidMods have hacked the PSP hardware to work with the DualShock. Requiring no changes to the firmware, all functions but the brightness and volume are mapped to the…

Gadgets Mark Wilson May 30

Next PlayStation Firmware Update Bringing In-Game XMB?

There’s some pretty heavy rumorage that Sony’s next PS3 firmware update, 2.4, will bring long-awaited in-game XMB. (That just means players will be able to load the menu system without closing their game.) In addition, we’re supposed to see trophies (ala Xbox Achievements) supported as well. There’s a lot of buzz around the rumor with…

Gadgets Mark Wilson May 30

SanDisk Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo Caught Speeding at 30MBps

SanDisk has unchained their new Extreme III PRO-HG Duo cards and they are tearing ass all over the place with superfast 30MBps read and write transfer speeds. For those of you keeping track, SanDisk’s non-HG Extreme III’s can only muster 18MBps speeds. Naturally, the PRO-HG will be aimed squarely at users with high end cameras…

Tech News Sean Fallon May 29

Lightning Review: Sony Vaio LT All-In-One (Powerful, But Expensive)

Ballmer Predicts Death of Printed Media

Sony Hosts XBR8 LED LCD vs. Plasma Shootout (You’ll Never Guess Who Wins)

Two Bravia TV Modules That Make Sense: Wireless HDMI and Slot-Loading DVD Player

Sony HT-IS100 Tiny Hi-Def Speakers Look Delicious

Sony Bravia Internet Link Gets YouTube, Panda Sneeze Still Lame in HD

Sony’s Big Bravia XBR6, XBR7, XBR8 LCDs (And the XBR8 Has LEDs!)

eDimensional’s Ben Heck 1-Hand New Access Controller Now Available

Sony Ericsson xPeria X1 Reviewed, Now Dubbed SEX1

The PlayStation 3 Works Well Enough With Tablets

PlayStation-Branded PS3 Bluetooth Headset Comes Free With SOCOM

PS3 Sucks Up Five Times as Much Energy as a Fridge, Ten Times as Much as a Wii

Over Half of HDTV Owners Still Don’t Know What Blu-ray Is

PlayStation Home Arriving This Year…With One Caveat

Toshiba Making Upconverting DVD Players Because HD DVD Loss Still Stings

Is Sony Cloning the Wiimote Next?

Sony to Join Low-End UMPC Party, Quanta Claims

PSP Plays Better With DualShock

Next PlayStation Firmware Update Bringing In-Game XMB?

SanDisk Extreme III Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo Caught Speeding at 30MBps

The ‘Mass Effect’ Show is Getting Rewritten to Get Greenlit

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