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If there’s one eerie light to avoid this Halloween night, it’s the RRoD pumpkin. Its eyes will glow bright yet you’ll discover with a fright, it’s the RRoD pumpkin. You can try as you might but Halo won’t play, right? It’s the RRoD pumpkin. [flickr via DVICE]
Google and their Open Handset Alliance friends just popped the cork on their big bottle of Android source code-now anyone can grab the guts of the platform at source.android.com a day before T-Mobile’s G1 is officially out in the wild. This, obviously, is a most important step toward the thriving open app and device ecosystem…
Are you at work? Really? Didn’t you know today was a holiday? Yep, in Redmond at least, it’s Global Anti-Piracy Day. To celebrate, there will be simultaneous “legal actions, education efforts and customer reactions announced across 49 countries.” Microsoft has actually picked a pretty great way to fight pirates: If there’s one thing they hate…
I’ll admit this is a teeny bit tenuous, since the Hacha PF02 is only an MP3 player whilr the Vertu Signature is a fully-fledged and bejeweled cellphone…but you have to admit the lookalike-ness is pretty amusing. And the fact that a $15 naff screenless MP3 player with 2GB of storage, USB 2 connectivity and MP3,…
Boxee, the free media center software that you can easily install on your Apple TV via a USB patch stick (as well as any other recent OS X machine), now supports Hulu streaming, as well as CBS and Comedy Central (for South Park and Daily Show/Colbert). It’s an alpha release, so you’ll need an invitation…
Giz Pick of the Week: From Russia With Love Along with a new Collector’s Edition of Casino Royale by Sony, MGM has released a slew of classic Bond films in standalone singles or value packs. Dr. No included one of the dullest documentary featurettes we’ve ever seen, but taking a quick tour through From Russia…
This week, VUDU got 33 more HDX releases (yes, that is the dreaded Blacula that you see there) along with 153 HD movies (including Space Balls). Read on for the full list.HDX (33): Beverly Hills Cop Beverly Hills Cop 3 The Love Guru Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow Love Story Hero Wanted Hitch Kung Fu…
When we originally spotted the X-ray bulb lamp, we imagined an awesome Halloween party scattered with black light and some amazing bulb that showed our skeletons. Alas, the X-ray lamp only shows its own guts, in a sense, displaying the X-ray of an incandescent or CFL bulb. Intended for exhibition at the moment, we hope…
Sure, the PSP-3000 has new, brighter-than-the-sun screen that gets rid of a lot of the older PSP’s ghosting, but that kind of blazing glory apparently comes at a cost: PSP owners are reporting at the official PlayStation forums that it suffers from horrible interlacing defects during video playback and gaming, with terribly visible jagged edges…
Satellite phones are still struggling to make it into this decade, design wise, but Iridium’s new 9555 is a solid leap forward, with its internalized antenna, speakerphone, improved SMS and email and 30% volume reduction in comparison to its predecessor, the 9505a. It’s still a piece Gordon Gekko would feel at home with, but I…
The Pomera DM10 will not go on the internet or send you emails. It can’t grab RSS from a Wi-Fi connection or even display in color. But the Pomera Digital Memo does take notes, and it takes them hard. Booting in just two seconds off two AA batteries, the Digital Memo features a fold-out keyboard…
In the pursuit of a great idea, inventors can sometimes lose sight of the big picture. I don’t doubt that the Calamente Noodle fork is fantastic at spinning up a nice, big fork full of pasta, but I also don’t doubt that before the end of a meal with this medieval war museum display piece…
So I can totally see the point of the new Mirror Rubiks cube, since it’s a harder, weirder, even more tactile version of the classic…but this LED Magic Cube 2.0 version just leaves me scratching my head. Why make a physical digital pushbutton version of an absolute classic puzzle?Part of the joy of the original…
HP’s rumored touchscreen handset has showed up in the for of the iPaq Data Communicator, a pop-out QWERTY Windows Mobile handset, with a solid but predictable spec sheet. You’ll find a full range of 3G capabilities, Wi-Fi, a-GPS, a 3.1MP camera with autofocus and flash all behind a 2.8in, 320 x 240 screen, controlled with…
At first glance, the iMe (sorry!) iKit handtop computer sounds pretty fandabbydozy: it’s a tiny, folding, 2.8-inch screen, QWERTY keyboard, Wi-Fi-enabled, webcam and Bluetooth-packing, multimedia-playing computer. But then you learn that it’s got just a 3-hour battery life in operation, doesn’t have 3G connectivity and if you even want to connect a mobile broadband dongle…
Microsoft Research is set to present a paper this week outlining an entirely new set of notification tools for cell phones, including communicative tapping and rubbing mechanisms, complementing the blunt, simple, and often not-so-silent ‘vibrate’ function with a set of truly quiet ‘rub’ and ‘tap’ notifiers. They argue that user notification is a communications bottleneck…
A skull ring with 2GB of RAM squeezed inside. Scary. What else is there to say? It’ll go nicely with your skull-and-bones motif keyboard and mouse… but probably won’t cheer you up on a dreary winter’s morn. Particularly when you find out one will set you back $145. [GeekStuff4U via Akihabaranews]
After the DIY options, and initial hints, official word is out that there’ll be a touchscreen Eee PC next year. And that’s from none other than the CEO, Jerry Shen, himself. The guys over at Laptopmag got the low-down from Shen, who confirmed the machine will exist by “early 2009,” and will actually be running…
A market research firm called MultiMedia Intelligence—who I admittedly had never heard of—offers up some astounding numbers on porn swapping P2P traffic: 33.6% of North American net activity is P2P, almost all of it illegal. Huge, right? But worldwide, the number is even higher, at 44%. So almost half of the world’s net activity is…
Samsung also included this puntastic entry into its offerings at London’s Smartphone Show. The INNOV8, Samsung’s first 8MP camera phone, comes with a 2.8-inch 16 million color LCD, 8GB or 16GB of flash memory (with an eternal SD card slot), an optical mouse, HSDPA and WiFi connectivity and a GPS navigation and geo-tagging service. The…