Homemade Water-Cooled Xbox 360
Some guys mod their cars with rims and spoilers and others mod their computers and game consoles so as to stand out, look cool, or just be an ostentatious know-it-all. A gentleman by the name of Dano2k0 set out to water-cool his Xbox 360 in addition to adding some extra lights just for kicks. As…
Carcassonne: My New Favorite Game
We were in Boston last weekend visiting friends when we stopped into Eureka Puzzles. I’m not big on board games, so most of the stuff was lost on me, but Carcassonne caught my eye, probably because of the box. It’s a complex—but highly playable—tile-based game that involved building a cities, cloisters, and farms and taking…
AVN IMterview: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD
AVN IMterview: Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD You ask and we provide. Today we talked to Kathee Brewer, former technology editor for the Adult Video News about the adult industry and the format wars. Read on for her take on this sticky situation. Gizmodo: Ok. Well, tell us about your beat at AVN. Gizmodo: And do you…
Third-Party Guitar Hero Controller Sucks Like a Hurricane
Our ugly yet do-able distant relations over at Kotaku have a hands-on with the Shredder, a third-party Guitar Hero controller. While they originally championed the device, a disheartened reader told them that it was actually a hunk of garbage. They do not need to be pushed down as hard as the original, making hammer-ons and…
ABC Uses iTunes To Debut Pilot
Apple must be doing something right, since yet another major network has decided to put more of its content on Apple’s iTunes Music Store. The latest is ABC, which is debuting Kyle XY on the iTMS on June 20, a show about “a mysterious teenage savant who is devoid of such human instinctive behavior as…
Blu-Ray Titles On Their Way
Ready, guys? Here comes some Blu-Ray. June 20 is the official launch date for the BD-P1000 along with eight sexy movies including The Fifth Element and Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction is coming in July. What about great, classic comedies, you ask? How about a Blu-Ray version of A Knight’s Tale. I wish i knew…
Grundig PSW 500 Wireless Speaker
Wires are so out right now. Grundig knows this, and that’s why they’ve come up with the PSW 5000 wireless speaker system. Simply plug in the transmitter to a line-out source (such as an iPod) and watch as your music is wirelessly transmitted to the speaker, indoors or out. The speaker isn’t exactly a slouch,…