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Hey social networking fans, Facebook 2.0 for the iPhone has been released and is now up for download at the iTunes app store. With the newest version, you can get notifications, friend requests, full news feeds, news feed comments, your entire inbox, and photo capabilities. Now you can check up on how all your Finance…
Tapulous—the creators of that Perfect Drug of an app, Tap Tap Revenge—is partnering up with Nine Inch Nails to put over a dozen of the band’s songs in the game. The alliance will be one of the first to bring licensed content to iPhone apps and, depending on how successful it is, could mark a…
Apparently a fan of Jetsons-like living spaces, Panasonic is showing off a living room/kitchen area at CEATEC that puts all home gadgets and appliances on an interconnected network. Though we’ve seen numerous integrated home living concepts before, Panasonic’s added a “Family Wellness Solution” that’s kind of like a really advanced version of Wii Fit. Each…
The impending PS4, which we last heard was coming in 2010, might be based on the same Cell processor that currently powers the PS3. Japanese tech site PC Watch said that Sony will forgo designing a completely new processor in a cost-saving attempt, and try to squeeze out some moderate technical advancement on its existing…
Sound the alarm for hard disks—it looks like solid state drive prices have plunged enough to finally jump out of early adopter territory. California-based flash memory maker Super Talent is now offering a 128GB SSD for $300 retail. That’s $150 cheaper than a comparable offer from Dell and about $4.95 cheaper per GB than Intel’s…
We first saw the Force Unleashed iPhone game back at E3, and since then not a whole lot has changed. You still control Darth Vader’s apprentice by drawing shapes on the screen to correspond with force powers or actions, which is quite suitable for the iPhone, but not as satisfying as it would be to…
As you can see in the video above, Nissan’s Biomimetric Car Robot Drive, or BR23C, was designed to avoid collisions by steering clear of oncoming objects, even if, as in this case, the object is a slender, particularly leggy Japanese woman. The science involved in this brand of collision avoidance was derived from bees, which…
Samsung released a video in which members of their staff threw an SSD off a three story building and then plugged it into a laptop, where it was operational. Though the computer screen at the end of the video gets washed out, you can barely make out the Windows XP desktop. Naysayers and skeptics should…
Congratulations to Tanguy de Courson, which is either a fake name or a really cool one, for winning our NBC Chuck contest. Go out and buy something good! Like a customized license plate with your name on it, because you’re never going to find one pre-made at the carnival.
Is it still called a Halloween costume if you wear it all year long? Regardless, this anglerfish mask utilizes an LED to entertain friends, distracting them before it opens wide and engulfs their head a la mutant symbiote. OK, we might have presented that explanation without complete factual accuracy. There are actually a number of…
Slowly but surely we’re seeing Wireless-N Wi-Fi become more established in the marketplace, and it’s a good sign to see Netgear refreshing their line. Their new WNR2000 ($89) is a standard N router and the DGN2000 ($119) is the same router with a built-in DSL modem. Both systems feature Netgear’s password-less Push ‘N’ Connect service…
Tomorrow will mark an important day in the history of office jobs. With the help of our readers, we’ve assembled an elite guidebook to illustrate the dangerous world of the corporate cubicle world—to warn you of the troubles that lie ahead and teach you, should the situation be the most dire, how to fight back.…
The term “third wheel” used to identify something extraneous, but in the case of Brudeli’s Leanster motorbike-three-wheeler off-road hybrid, it means 50% more fun. If the Leanster looks familiar, you may be thinking of Piaggio’s scooter-platform MP3 leaning machine. The Piaggio is nice on paved roads; the Brudeli is built for getting dirty all over.…
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Owning a honking rear projection TV is an ever-increasing WASP social stigma, that is, unless it’s so freaking huge that neighbors admire it with the same jealous-of-waste gleam in their eye as your original Hummer. One modder takes us step by step through how he removed the screen of his “big screen” TV and swapped…
Designer guru Art Lebedev—creator of cool keyboards, clocks and fridge magnets—says that this umbrella is saying “Fuck the Rain”, but we know that his message is addressed to the New Evil Galactic Empire. [Art Lebedev]
“The New MacBook Pro. 3 hours on battery, or 15 minutes on breast milk.” [Macenstein]
On Friday, Mahoney and I went to Panasonic HQ to check out one of the first prototypes of their ludicrous 150-inch plasma TV. This thing puts the 103-incher that I checked out last year to shame, weighing a whopping 1700 pounds before the stand is attached and sucking up 7kW of power while it runs.…
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When the T-Mobile G1 was shown off in NYC last week, it didn’t have the gusto of a Stevenote. There was no “boom!”—no “one more thing!” And as a result, many (including us) felt a bit underwhelmed, and were quick to interpret the device’s inconsistent GUI as an indicator that the lack of attention to…
