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Rep. Berman: College Students Are Criminals

Rep. Howard Berman (D-CA) hates college students. He knows that colleges and universities are hotbeds of illegal downloading, and he is looking to get some legislation rolling that will remove some of the privacy protection that students enjoy right now. “Indeed, the statistics demonstrate that students engage in rampant piracy, and while Congress has given…

Privacy & Security Adam Frucci Mar 9

Seagrand Gene Sound TAS-100 Plays Everything

I usually don’t get my knickers in a bunch over vinyl players because honestly, it is a very outdated technology, but this one from Gene Sound is a bit different. The TAS-100 plays damn near every media format. It has the vinyl player, of course, and it also has an SD slot, USB port, CD…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 9

PMA 07: Canon Selphy ES1 Lets You Take a Printer With You

Amidst the dozens of cameras and camcorders Canon was flaunting at PMA 07, this little Selphy ES1 photo printer caught our attention. It’s a diminutive portable printer that’s made to take to events such as weddings and family gatherings, letting you shoot lots of pictures and then make color prints (4×8″ maximum) and hand them…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 9

Harman Kardon HS500: Theater Sound for Around a Grand

Harman Kardon may not a name to say quickly or people will think you are talking about having sex in your car, but it is a name associated with high-end AV products for the home. These home theater systems, the HS300 and HS500 should be available to ship any day now. Both have a 5.1-channel…

Tech News Ad Dugdale Mar 9

Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Development Ramping Down After ’07

At the end of the GDC blogger’s breakfast yesterday morning, Chris Satchell dropped this bomb that not many people seem to have picked up on. He said, regarding Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility: At some point we’re going to focus less on it. When you get to the end of this year there will be a…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 8

LG Cranks Out World’s Thinnest CRT

Up close, you might mistake LG’s 21FU1R for a flat-panel TV. Afterall, it has the same stylish design as most of the TVs in their line up. But take a look behind and you’ll see this boob tube has some junk in its trunk, though with a deflection angle of 120 degrees, LG is claiming…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 8

Upcoming Mii Channel Silently Announced

During the Nintendo Keynote, Nintendo’s Miyamoto quietly slipped in a tidbit about an upcoming Wii channel. He said this new channel—as yet unnamed—is going to be a popularity channel where you can compare your Miis to other users and hold popularity contests and vote on the best Mii. https://gizmodo.com/nintendo-kiinote-the-liveblog-242668 No release date, but this does…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 8

RIAA Boycott: eMusic’s Top 10 Albums

Hey guys. How’s the boycott going? Are you holding out all right? I want to make sure we’re still in it together! If you’re having a hard time not buying any music, don’t worry. There’s plenty of great stuff out there that you can buy without any of your money going to the RIAA! Take…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 8

Widescreen Bamboo LCD TV

Just in case you have yet to find a TV to match all of the other bamboo crap in your house, this LCD may finally fill the bamboo-less void in your home theatre. Other than the koala-friendly finish, this is a very average LCD TV. It measures in at 19 inches wide and has a…

Television Travis Hudson Mar 8

TN Games’ Force-feedback Vest Beats the Crap Outta Gamers

We’ve seen some pretty interesting gaming peripherals in our time, but this one might steal the show. It’s a force-feedback vest that gives players a virtual beating, responding to everything from punches to car crashes with 10 pounds of pressure sent throughout your torso. The vest is intended to give gaming an extra level of…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 7

Totally Unbiased National Association of Broadcasters Ad Slams SiriusXM

The National Association of Broadcasters is such a great consumer organization. They’re totally looking out for consumers by warning us about this impending Sirius/XM satellite radio monopoly. I mean, it’s not like the National Association of Broadcasters has any interest at all in the upcoming merger, so what reason do they have to be opposed…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Mar 7

JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7 Hard Drive Camcorder with 3 CCDs Due Next Month

We are just in lust around here over the JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7, a 3-CCD camcorder that was introduced at CES in January and is aimed at consumers but has lots of pro-level features. For starters, the GZ-HD7 uses a clever pixel shifting technique to deliver the full HD raster, 1920 by 1080i—that’s not 1080p,…

Gadgets Charlie White Mar 7

PlayStation Home: The Video

You already saw read and saw what the PlayStation Home feature was like. Now see it in action. The sexy British accent really makes the video. GDC07 PS3 Home [Kotaku] http://kotaku.com/gaming/clips/gdc07-clip-the-ps3s-home-242341.php

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 7

PlayStation Home Combines the Best of Nintendo’s Miis, a few Xbox 360 Achievements, Second Life, and the Sims

Click to viewTurns out the rumor was spot on. Sony’s officially announcing the Home—or PlayStation Home as it’s less confusingly known—feature for the PS3. We got a demo of it last night from Sony, and we can definitely say we were impressed. Very impressed. https://gizmodo.com/rumor-sonys-playstation-home-to-be-achievements-miis-240824 Sony’s taken the best of various community aspects and blended…

Tech News Jason Chen Mar 7

Dealzmodo: Up to 50% Off Select Blu-Ray Movies

Pardon my anti-Blu-ray whoredom, but could this be a sign of the future? Amazon is clearing out a lot of their Blu-ray titles with discounts up to 50-percent off. Surprisingly, the movies aren’t crappy either. There are some good flicks in the list. Product Page [Via Bargainist]

Commerce Travis Hudson Mar 7

Cheap LCDs to Blame for CompUSA Store Closing?

Manufacturers of cheap flat-panel TVs, like Vizio and Olevia, could be partially blamed over the recent closing of 128 CompUSA stores and 70 Circuit City stores. Obviously, the low prices of the off-brand LCD flat panels have put a lot of pressure on the “premium” flat-panel manufacturers like Sony and Panasonic to drop prices to…

Tech News Travis Hudson Mar 7

Amazon Unbox Goes Live on TiVo

TiVo fans your time has come. Amazon’s Unbox video download service is officially open to all TiVo Series 2 and Series 3 owners. So now you’ll be able to shop for Amazon vids on your Web browser and have them downloaded straight to your TiVo. Doesn’t get easier than that. TiVo’s even offering $15-worth of…

Tech News Louis Ramirez Mar 7

AT&T Lets You Control Your DVR with Your Mobile

Looks like AT&T is trying to beat Sony Ericsson to the punch. They’re giving their Homezone subscribers the option of using their Web-enabled cell phones as remote controls for their Homezone DVRs. Homezone is AT&T’s satellite TV meets IPTV service. It lets you get sat TV programming from Dish while offering Internet-based services from folks…

Gadgets Louis Ramirez Mar 6

Trekkie Recreates Awesome Set of Star Trek: Voyager in a Studio Apartment

You’d never guess by looking at that mild-mannered apartment building pictured above that inside would be a convincing replica of the set of Star Trek: Voyager. But that’s just what Trekkie Tony Alleyne has done to his studio apartment north of London, creating a bachelor pad where he’ll probably never, ever get laid. Not only…

Tech News Charlie White Mar 6

Rumor Smashed: No Apple TV Games

So you know how someone found “evidence” of game compatibility with Apple TV in the latest iTunes update? Looks like it’s more of an example of some lazy copying and pasting by developers than one of future features. MacUser did some research and discovered that the code is exactly the same as the code for…

Tech News Adam Frucci Mar 6

Rep. Berman: College Students Are Criminals

Seagrand Gene Sound TAS-100 Plays Everything

PMA 07: Canon Selphy ES1 Lets You Take a Printer With You

Harman Kardon HS500: Theater Sound for Around a Grand

Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Development Ramping Down After ’07

LG Cranks Out World’s Thinnest CRT

Upcoming Mii Channel Silently Announced

RIAA Boycott: eMusic’s Top 10 Albums

Widescreen Bamboo LCD TV

TN Games’ Force-feedback Vest Beats the Crap Outta Gamers

Totally Unbiased National Association of Broadcasters Ad Slams SiriusXM

JVC HD Everio GZ-HD7 Hard Drive Camcorder with 3 CCDs Due Next Month

PlayStation Home: The Video

PlayStation Home Combines the Best of Nintendo’s Miis, a few Xbox 360 Achievements, Second Life, and the Sims

Dealzmodo: Up to 50% Off Select Blu-Ray Movies

Cheap LCDs to Blame for CompUSA Store Closing?

Amazon Unbox Goes Live on TiVo

AT&T Lets You Control Your DVR with Your Mobile

Trekkie Recreates Awesome Set of Star Trek: Voyager in a Studio Apartment

Rumor Smashed: No Apple TV Games

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Popular Musician Loses Life Savings Through Malicious Crypto Wallet in Apple’s App Store

Peter Capaldi’s Biggest ‘Doctor Who’ Regret Was That He Couldn’t Be a Little Bit Miserable

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Anker’s EufyMake E1 Finally Brings Printers Out of the Dark Ages

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