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Click to viewOne of the topics discussed at our roundtable with Sony at E3 (besides their dislike for paying for features and their 20/20 hindsight as to what went wrong with the PS3’s development) was piracy. Piracy was half the reason SCEA’s Jack Tretton gave to why the PSP is not living up to its…
Well, commenters, here we are again. After we had our little talk a month ago it seems like what we went over hasn’t really taken hold. The number of off-topic conversations hasn’t really decreased and complaints from your fellow commenters are piling up. Instead of running wild with the banhammer, we figured we owed it…
Today is August 8, 2008: 8/8/8. A special day in history because of many reasons, starting with today’s opening of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, China. I’ve been watching the ceremony live all morning here in Sweden, and it has been truly amazing at moments, like when the whole city lighted up with…
Ummm…Sony…when we asked for a PSP phone, this isn’t what we had in mind. Actually, forget what we just said. Because in this mod, the phone itself just takes the place of the UMD drive, which is totally fine with us. [CNGBA via Just Another…]
This may be a leaked shot of the new Nikon D90, but after what happened last time, even the photography blogs are too nervous to confirm or deny its authenticity in even the slightest way. So here is the upcoming D90, maybe. But isn’t it absurd that these cameras look so similar to one another…
Ruth Whiting is apparently an even bigger cable nerd than we are. But she’s an artist, so paints them in surreal situations, like power plugs wrapped around a classical dude in a toga, grassy undergrowth made up of coax and USB cables (just like our desk), or VGA cables as flowers. Pretty much every kind…
The Blu-ray version of Iron Man has been available for preorder on Amazon for quite a while now, but no one knew exactly what they were buying (other than, you know, the movie itself). Now we know that the Ultimate Edition will be released September 30 and contain two discs packed with all sorts of…
Designer Matt Clark has come up with Innervision: a prototype polypropelene bike designed to be fully recyclable. And, incidentally, to look rather cool indeed. The frame is in two parts, which are welded together: an inner frame with strong triangular truss-structure and an outer frame for a better look. Both split into two, so the…
It’s the Olympics! It’s the weekend! It’s time to thank the sponsors! Thanks Autotrader, Bose, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Coors Light, Crackle.com, Eve Online, Gamestop, Leatherman, Microsoft Windows, Novint, Puma, Samsung, Sharp Aquos, Sprint, Starwood Aloft Hotels, Stolichnaya, T-Mobile, Unscrew America and Verizon! Sponsors go the distance with us. And by “distance” I mean they sponsor…
If you’re reading this, odds are against your attendance at the Beijing Olympic Games, but we wanted to make sure that you knew about the Freedom Stick just in case—a USB dongle preloaded with all of the traffic routing software you’ll need to browse the internet unencumbered (specifically, The Onion Router). It’s available now until…
An “informed source” at Apple has told Daring Fireball’s John Gruber that the mysterious iPhone app blacklist striking fear in the hearts of iPhone-toting privacy nerds everywhere actually isn’t for remotely disabling apps. Nope, it’s actually a CoreLocation blacklist—in other words, a list of apps not allowed to access CoreLocation (which would be why it…
We had some doubts about the authenticity of the clown who bought the $999 I’m Rich iPhone app, but Armin Heinrich-the German author of the application-has confirmed that not only one moron, but eight dumbasses actually bought the application. According to him, there are more waiting to get it: https://gizmodo.com/guy-buys-999-im-rich-app-discovers-hes-just-dumb-5034122 I am sure a lot…
Samsung’s new SCH-R450 cellphone is all very nice I’m sure: with a horizontal-slider QWERTY keyboard, 1.3-megapixel cam, 2.1-inch TFT, advanced voice recognition, Bluetooth, MP3 player, microSD slot… it’s got the standard lot. But where Samsung has really succeeded here is in its name: “messager” doesn’t exist. Yes, there are messengers who deliver messages, and even…
Japanese researchers have developed a new material capable of stretching to roughly twice its natural shape while conducting electricity—before snapping back with no damage to the circuit. It’s essentially a rubber polymer filled with carbon nanotubes, and it could be used to create anything from a curved eye-replacement camera (which is currently in development) to…
If the trailer and the documentaries about the construction of a real Watchmen world weren’t enough to get you excited about this project, check out this short on the coolest gadget in the movie: the Owlship or Archie, like Nite Owl calls his flamethrowing, screeching, smog-producing, almost invisible and completely submergible ship. The producers have…
This is one of those press releases that makes you go “Sorry… what?” in disbelief: System of Proof is a service that lets you covertly record a conversation on any phone. It sounds very CIA: dial a special number from the phone, and a distant computer then records the conversation and emails you the final…
It’s an obvious idea that we’d never thought of before. Put your camera on a tripod and set it for a slow exposure. Now pull out a laser pointer and spell out your deepest inner feelings (“I
From September, T-Mobile customers will be able to get hold of Sony Ericsson’s TM506 cellphone: which is also T-Mobile’s first HSDPA handset. The two-megabyte flip-phone is a pretty standard tri-band GSM, with dual-band UMTS/HSDPA for 3G connectivity, Bluetooth 2.0 and a 2-megapixel camera. Doesn’t look like you can do video calling, but video messaging is…
David Gallagher at the New York Times had to do some rumor control when a reader wrote accusing Microsoft of prohibiting the word “Tibet” in Hotmail addresses to appease the Chinese government. No “[email protected]”, no “[email protected]”, no “[email protected].” Is this another Chinese-Microsoft evil conspiracy? While there are some of those going on between China and…
The Discovery Power Welder’s sales pitch is fantastic, and worrying: “discover the power to make and create with the tool that safely welds plastic to plastic.” And sure, the kit comes with specially-crafted parts that’ll let your little-ones knock together a plastic dinosaur, plane or car. But what happens then? Do they start tackling their…