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Not so long ago, the FCC leaked the Helio Ocean 2. But those pictures were black and white technical drafts, not featuring nearly enough colors and blinky lights to captivate our stimuli-needing attention spans. But a new FCC filing includes real shots of the new Helio Ocean. And from what we can tell, it’s got…
High voltage electrics plus risk of sparky, smoky death plus humorous engineer equals excellent warning sign. I’d keep well away, after reading that. Though I do remember an old girlfriend’s dad once pinned a freakishly similar note (substituting the odd “I will” into the text) to his daughter’s bedroom door, and pointedly drew my attention…
Over at Ecost you can grab a 500GB external Vox V1 USB/eSATA drive for $55 ($95 – $40 rebate). Yeah I know, rebates are the easiest thing to forget, but here’s the PDF printout to help you remember. Not a bad deal at all. [Ecost via CNET]
The last F-117 stealth fighter was retired a few months ago. Most of the fleet is now stationed in a special retirement village all its own at the Tonopah Test Range in Nevada, where they await their fate. This fate. Hopefully, for humanitarian reasons, the first Nighthawk to the slaughter seen here was done privately,…
Following our sneak peek at one of Sony’s neat new iPod/iPhone docks last week, the company’s now officially released three other sets to tickle our fancy. Pictured above is the boom box model (ZS-S4iP) with Mega Bass sound, for some old school on-the-go music blaring—the dock secures and charges your music player and it comes…
Bad news, dudes and ladies who hope to someday be impregnated by said dudes! According to some researches from the Cleveland Clinic, cellphones wreck your sperms up, making them too stupid to knock ladies up. Basically, because we keep phones in our pockets within a few inches of our hanging brains, there’s a decent chance…
I’m a big fan of Amazon’s themed Gold Box days (I find them kind of fun, seriously), and today that theme is the Nintendo Wii all day long. They’ve started early, offering Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 for $20 this morning, but keep a lookout as Amazon usually slips at least a bit of hardware into…
Backup, schmbackup. The modchip-free Wii Backup Loader-a tool designed to allow to make a copy of any game and run it without modifying your Nintendo Wii-is now roaming freely through the usual channels in the internet. It requires a legal Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess to install the Homebrew Channel and run the loader, but…
We’ve been talking about Sprint’s Xohm Wimax service for ages—tracking its on again, off again status. And now it looks like it’s been slightly delayed again, from September to October 6th. A tipster at DSLreports is saying news on coverage, and the all-important pricing scheme will hit September 26th, on Sprint’s site. But, according to…
A new report by the US Government Accountability Office is claiming that the majority of US E-Waste recycling services should reconsider dumping our 20 million plus pounds of waste on Asia, where it’s cheaper but also less effective. Many of the major electronics manufacturers (Samsung, Sony, Best Buy, more) have been proudly rolling out recycling…
A reliable contributor to the Cheap Ass Gamer forums (someone who supplied early leaks of the Xbox 360 Elite) revealed this document mentioning “Xbox Pure” as a proposed final product name needing approval. There’s also some allusion to metal plating. Since I’m about 90% certain that Microsoft purposefully leaked the Elite early to build publicity…
Trism, a popular Bejeweled replacement available in the iPhone’s App Store, has reportedly made the developer $250,000 in the two month since its release. While that’s not crazy-mad profit for a team of programmers to make on even a casual game, one must remember that Trism was coded by just one guy. Sales will probably…
Over at Symbianfreaks there’re a bunch of photos and this video which seem to be leaked data on two upcoming Nokia cellphones: the E72 and E75. Both have QWERTY keypads, with the E72 seeming to combine the S60 platform with a side-sliding keypad and the E75 looking pretty business-like in a BlackBerry-esque with its large…
Do a quick trawl through Microsoft advertising history and you find something interesting: as weird as the Gates/Seinfeld comedy duo Microsoft ads are—weird enough to get them set aside for the “I’m a PC” campaign—they’re just following in the footsteps of earlier ads. Check out this one, dubbed “Soar,” for Windows XP: what does it…
Devices to digitize your old photo collections aren’t new, but Ion Audio’s new Slides2PC makes it about as simple and cheap as you might imagine. It takes a sled full of 35mm film negatives or slides, and turns them into 5-megapixel image files at the push of a button, with auto exposure control and color…
Samsung is the latest to join the UMPC/netbook party with the NC10, though it’s wrapping its tiny notebook with PR spin that it’s “a stylish alternative to existing products in the space.” There’s a 10.2-inch/1024 x 600-pixel screen, Atom processor, 8-hour battery life, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, memory card reader, and 80GB or 160GB HDD. Its “normal”…
Thanko’s Sounds Live magnetic earphones aren’t quite in-the ear, and they don’t have a head-strap: instead these odd gizmos clip onto your earlobe and have a speaker that points roughly into your ear canal. I guess it’s kinda like the the bone-conducting type headphones in that you can hear your surroundings, and if you’re listening…
If the chances of having your iPhone stolen by incredibly stupid thieves are pretty high, we recommend you download Private-I. The $1 application shows up as an icon screaming “PRIVATE” in big red letters, which will allegedly lure your phone burglar into launching it. The app then loads up a fake screen that says “Accessing…
In case you’ve ever wanted to dabble in telepathy, NeuroSky Inc. has prototyped a new sensor that lets you control your cellphone with brainwaves. Based on similar medical technology, the system can roughly measure brain relaxation and concentration to pass on appropriate commands to a cellphone. Though the system is made up of several parts…
Looks like somebody over at Amazon made a big oopsies and accidentally put up details of Adobe InDesign CS4 on its website long enough for Apple Insider to get a bunch of screenshots. Features for the software, which is due for a public unveiling on Tuesday, include Live Preflight, conditional text, SWF file export and…
