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For when fruits, veggies, exercise, plenty of sleep and the occasional colonic won’t do, Gamer Grub promises to be the first “performance snack formulated especially for gamers.” In flavors like Action Pizza, Racing Wasabi, Strategy Chocolate and Sports PB&J, the snacks are not only fortified with vitamins and minerals, but are specially engineered to be…
Just so we’re all clear on this, there is no way that purchasing a computer or gadget of any kind, regardless of price, brand or size, will get girls like this to talk to you. I’m sorry, but it’s the truth. Spend that money on some new clothes, a haircut and a gym membership. You…
Well, things aren’t looking too great economy-wise. We might just be headed for a depression, which means you’ll need to start changing your lifestyle. While you may start out by changing your lifestyle in subtle ways, you need to be mentally prepared for the fact that more, well, drastic measures may be necessary in the…
The latest on RIM’s blocky clamshell monstrosity, the BlackBerry Pearl Flip, is that it’ll be out by the end of this month at the latest, and maybe as early as Oct. 15. Apparently, RIM will not be making a steroid-supercharged play for the masses as previously rumored. No, on T-Mobile, it’ll be $150 with a…
Ohmigod, it’s a MacBook Mini! Oh, wait, no it’s not. It’s a cheap MSI Wind clone with a fake Mac backing on it, put together with dremel, six white LEDs, tape and aluminum foil. Impressive, but not quite what people have been waiting for. But hey, nice work nonetheless! I’m sure it works to fool…
Google, who in aggregate, effectively knows everything, unsurprisingly has a solution for our energy problems. The plan, called Clean Energy 2030 will cost $4.4 trillion over its 22-year span, if we start on it right now. Google says it’ll give us back a net of $1 trillion, like half of which will be savings on…
Most of the time, riding a motorcycle makes you look awesome. The exception to this rule? Riding around on the CAT 1 Über-bike, a motorcycle designed by Lee J. Rowland that has you riding around on the back of a gigantic fiberglass jaguar. I’m sure it’s an amazing bike, what with its 1200cc Buell 97…
It seems like the stars are aligning for that rumored MacBook intro event on October 14. Nvidia, which was supposed to launch their MCP7A chipset on September 30, has announced the chipset will actually be available right after the alleged Apple event. Apparently, the new chipset-which is rumored to be part of the new MacBooks-bests…
In case you’ve had your eye out for a cheap, quality projector, this Planar PD 7130 over on Woot is a pretty nice deal. It features 900 lumens of brightness and an impressive 4500:1 contrast ratio through TI DarkChip tech. Hi def inputs include two component and one DVI, and its internal lamp is rated…
The 5800 XpressMusic (aka Tube) is the first touchscreen Symbian S60 phone from Nokia—a surprising fact considering how prominent touchscreens have quickly become over the last few years. And instead of rolling out the new touch-specific S60 Fifth Edition on a flagship N-series phone, Nokia has decided to position the 5800 as a music phone…
Here at the Ninendo Media Summit in San Francisco, NOA President Reginald Fils-Aime stated that the Nintendo DSi would not make an appearance in the US until “well into calendar year 2009.” He cited the popularity of the current DS Lite as the primary reason for the prolonged release of the new system. For those…
Conspiracy theorist or not, any time I’m typing information into a computer at any time of the day, I know that it can be lost at a moment’s notice, by the simple glitch of a program or power supply. There’s simply no permanence to digital information, which makes the potential alteration of such data both…
Vudu’s new HDX 1080p movies—promised to be “Blu-ray quality”—go live today. David Pogue has the first look, and while HDX movies are not literally Blu-ray quality (which would be an impossible with our crappy broadband), they are indeed “insanely sharp” and compared to other movie downloads, it’s like “seeing a movie on VHS videotape and…
PlayOn, a program we checked out a couple months ago that streams Hulu, ESPN, YouTube and CBS streaming from a Windows PC to a PS3, Xbox 360 or HP MediaSmart TV, just released its promised update that’ll let you stream Netflix to your PS3 or 360 (though the latter will soon be pointless). It’s still…
This week at Uncrate: We crack open a cold one with the Blomus Bottle Opener, let the sunshine in with the Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Roadster 722 S, and hit the sidewalks Brooklyn-style in the Bed Stu Fort Boot. We also jam out like it’s 1935 with the Nomad Portable Speaker, go undercover with EyeClops Night…
The Presidential Polygraph is a USB lie detector that will let you quickly and easily determine whether or not someone is telling the truth. For a mere $50, it comes with all the stuff you’ll need to determine whether or not your brother-in-law really loves your sister: a pulse oximeter finger clip, skin galvanization finger…
After a hiker found some of Fossett’s ID documents in eastern California while on a trail in the Sierra Nevadas, a search team has found what looks to be the wreckage of the record-breaking pilot’s single-engine Bellanca plane. Fossett, who became the first person to fly solo around the world in a balloon among other…
Bad news, folks. We totally missed it in the wake of poor battery life specs, but Nintendo’s new DSi will completely ditch support for GBA titles. That not only means no more playing GBA backups (they only loaded from the now extinct GBA slot), but even if you were to load some sort of GBA…
This is the most hardass mouse I’ve ever seen. It’s a mouse stuffed inside of an actual grenade shell (that’s sadly plastic, I was a little overexcited after watching Rambo the other night). Sure, it’s a crappy Targus mouse lurking underneath its rippled casing. And you know it’s goddamn uncomfortable. But that’s part of the…
Today the US Copyright Royalty Board is going to decide if they agree to increase music royalty payments as requested by the National Music Publishers Association, and for some reason the British are panicking over the idea that the Apple iTunes Music Store will shut down because of this. The reason for their hysteria is…
