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Meizu will finally release the iPhone-wannabe M8 in August, according to a cryptic message board post by CEO Jack Wong. The first version will have 128MB RAM and an unspecified amount of storage, and a second version should ship in October with 256MB RAM and 8GB on-board flash. The funniest part? The M8 will cost…
“Why does this work in Wal-mart” Marc Whitten asked, rhetorically. He’s the General Manager for Xbox LIVE and the guy in charge of the new Xbox 360 dashboard system known as The New Xbox Experience. “Visual is a better way of exploring…you’re actually good at discerning things visually.” And if such is the case, it…
ATI fanboys, your time may have come with the R700-based Radeon HD 4870 X2. It’s a $500 multi-GPU card that basically straps together a pair of Radeon HD 4870s with 2GB of onboard memory to create ATI’s fastest single card ever. (It’s not your imagination, they’re really stepping with the Nvidia-killing, which is sweet.) Benchwise,…
In a non-exclusive round table with various outlets like us, Kotaku and Engadget this morning, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s CEO Jack Tretton gave us some great looks behind the public curtain of the PlayStation brand. In short, they know what’s wrong with the way they made the PS3, and they know how to fix it.…
Samsung’s new TL34HD point-and-shoot is being billed as the “most advanced point‑and-shoot digital camera in Samsung’s history” with a robust 14.7-megapixels, a 3-inch touchscreen LCD, and a Schneider lens with a 28mm wide-angle focal length and 3.6x optical zoom. It is also capable of shooting video in 720p high-definition resolution at 30fps ( with movie…
In case you hadn’t heard, Ferrari will have a hybrid car by 2015. Yes, this announcement is kind of inevitable and/or vague, but this is Ferrari we’re talking about. And when Ferrari starts to go green, you know you have a widespread automotive trend on your hands. [Jalopnik] https://jalopnik.com/ferrari-announces-hybrid-development-world-officially-397975
Sony’s latest Blu-ray Live-ready (firmware 1.1 upgradeable to 2.0) deck, which we first saw in February, is now shipping. New facts coming out are that it’s 55 percent smaller and sucks down 21 percent less power than its predecessor the BDP-S300, and boots in “approximately a few seconds.” You can pick it up for $400,…
You know that the iPhone is powerful enough to render 3D games like Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, as well as various other ones we covered in the marathon review session, but just how powerful is it? How does it compare to actual gaming handhelds like the Nintendo DS and PSP? An EA developer put…
Congrats on being a lawbreaker! Why? Because it will earn you a $20 discount on a new Jawbone Bluetooth headset thanks to a new promotion Aliph is running on their product website. Not a fan of the Jawbone? No worries-Headsets.com is giving away a free Plantronics Discovery 925 (a $149.95) headset to the first 734…
It looks like not everyone in AT&T land loves the iPhone. When reader Dennis’ mom went to the AT&T stand in the Moorestown Mall in New Jersey to ask about iPhone insurance, they laughed in her face. They then handed her a bunch of articles written arguing for the BlackBerry over the iPhone, printed from…
A normal game demo features a kiosk, maybe a couch, and it’s all a pretty ho hum experience save for the fact that you’re usually playing a game that won’t be released for anywhere from a several months to a few years. But when testing out Rock Band 2, it’s set up on a stage…
Playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band might make the average Joe feel more like a rock star-but the fact that you are playing on a tiny plastic guitar kind of ruins the fantasy. That’s where the StarPex comes in. It is the first full-sized wooden guitar for the PS2/PS3 and it features a 10-button design…
We have seen a lot of UAV news come down the pipeline in recent years, mostly because the military realizes that they can be a safe, effective and cost efficient way to kill, spy, and kill some more. But is the US military ready to shell out around $2 million for a flying knife that…
While you might think you have a pretty sizable subwoofer, when it’s compared to this crazy Italian man’s subwoofer, it’s downright pathetic. That’s because he essentially converted his entire basement into one ridiculously large subwoofer.Update: OK, so this is a few years old (circa 2000), but I’d never seen it and it seems like many…
Apparently, Woz is a Price is Right fan. Unfortunately, he was just sitting in the front row and was never called down to play Plinko or spin the big wheel, because I bet that he really knows the prices of household products and could use a new Lincoln Towncar or whatever it was they gave…
Just a reminder, that Dell Latitude XT multi-touch firmware update is available right now. Click here to grab the ~15MB update for Vista 32 bit, 64 bit or Windows XP. Then you can use multi-touch for browsers, Office, Google Earth and more. Hurray. [Direct2Dell] https://gizmodo.com/dell-latitude-xt-tablet-to-get-multi-touch-tomorrow-5025063
In order to offer more HD channels, satellite providers need more satellites. So happy day for Dish Network subscribers, their EchoStar XI satellite was successfully launched this morning after a satellite propelled into space last March didn’t reach the right orbit. This’ll let Dish add 17 new HD channels shortly, bringing them up to 100.…
Took a little longer than I expected, but Nvidia has come around to denying that basically every GeForce 8400-8700 graphics card powered by the G84 and G86 chipset is a flawed, ticking timebomb, waiting to die from overheating issues. They say that the problem affects “only a very small percentage of the notebook chips that…
So here is how it goes: crazy guy puts real jet ski in a hot tub, gets in, rides it, and most water goes out. And that’s it. Really, it looks more exciting than it sounds. OK, it’s just sad. [Random Good Stuff]
More details on Apple’s long-coming obliteration of Mac cloners Psystar: Not only have they hit them with eight claims of copyright infringement, breach of contract, trademark and trade infringement, and unfair competition, they’re asking that every Psystar Mac clone sold be recalled. That would obviously bankrupt them, and then Apple wants whatever’s left, asking for…
