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In an attempt to get back at her husband for walking out on their marriage, a Chinese wife gathered up the entire stock of cellphones from the retail store they once shared, and proceeded to burn the entire lot before leaving the house. After the smoke cleared, the total damage was estimated to be 400…
If the Sony exec saying there’ve been talks with Microsoft about making a Blu-ray Xbox 360 add-on wasn’t enough to make you believe that a drive is coming, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer just said “Toshiba has moved on. We’ve moved on, and we’ll support Blu-ray in ways that make sense.” [Games Industry] https://gizmodo.com/sony-microsoft-discussing-blu-ray-for-the-xbox-360-364933
Panasonic’s just become the first manufacturer to make a DivX-certified stand-alone Blu-ray player, the BD30K, which will be available in Europe and Russia starting this month. It’s not the first machine to have both DivX and Blu-ray (the PlayStation 3 did that a few months ago), but it does signal the continuation of a trend…
Click to view Pioneer’s Kuro plasma sets are the best TVs on the market, right now, bar none. So it was a little disconcerting to hear that they’re officially quitting plasma panel production and outsourcing it. We just talked with Russ Johnston, Pioneer’s Executive VP of Marketing and Product Planning for Home Entertainment about the…
Good news, fans of overpriced ionic massage chairs that refresh your feet, atmosphere and mind simultaneously, Sharper Image is accepting gift cards again! But you have to buy something worth twice as much as the card, and you have to use it all at once. They’re not screwing around here. Our advice? Dispose of your…
The enthusiastic high-fives of future iPhone instant messaging users yesterday might be quite a bit less enthusiastic today when they find out that Apple is not going to allow user-made SDK applications to run in the background. This means every application, from IM to VoIP to GPS mapping, will have to terminate entirely when the…
Click to viewI had the fortune of being able to visit both Microsoft’s Redmond Campus and Apple’s Cupertino’s offices within the same week. So, I thought I’d do a little comparison as to how a visitor perceives and experiences the respective headquarters. Both campuses have those generic looking tech worker buildings with large mirrored glass…
What do hardware engineers talk about when they’re drunk? Merging two distinct gadgets into one gadget, as evidenced by this Asus MS71 mouse/storage device. It’s a wireless laser mouse, but at the same time it’s a USB thumb drive. The marriage of the two may sound good on paper—if you don’t think about it for…
CeBIT ended yesterday, and I can’t say I miss it. [Ed note: It’s still going on, I just didn’t notice, sorry.] Most importantly, the product lines were thin. Secondly, there was a transport strike on the fair’s first day. And, there is, apparently, a shortage of prostitutes in Hannover, a definite problem for the whore-mongering…
The big shebang on Sony’s latest entry-level DSLRs, the a300 and a350, is their two-way tilt-y live view. Pogueman takes a peek today and really digs it: “Live View on existing cameras is slow, noisy and deeply confusing” but on the a300 it’s “a completely different experience.” https://gizmodo.com/sony-a300-and-a350-dslrs-have-two-way-tilting-live-view-350692 Thanks to the dedicated second image sensor,…
Trusted Reviews says they’ve got a “rock solid source” who claims Microsoft will dump the standard 20GB hard drive that’s now included in the Xbox 360 Premium (which they’ve since just dubbed Xbox 360) for 60GB drive as early as Q2 of this year. This rumor makes sense if Microsoft’s planning on hitting drive-heavy applications…
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You finally brought that man/woman of your dreams back to your space den, and you’re trying to seal the deal. May I suggest using this $15 Spaceship Fragrance Oil Warmer, the geekiest love aid we’ve ever seen. Imported from far off galaxies and recommended by captains by the name of Kirk, Gordon, Solo and Zapp…
While ogling Sony’s Xperia X1 at CeBIT, the dudes at PhoneMag noticed a definite, conspicuous splash of AT&T flair. There’s been no official word it’s been cleared to board the Death Star, but it runs on all the right bands. And well, honkin’ AT&T Xperience window on a demo unit at a tradeshow all the…
Samsung’s no stranger to dual touchscreen phones—their Soul is a slider with one big one and one small one—but this G400 seems like a clever use of dual touchscreens. The two, one on the outside and one on the inside, are both 2.2-inch TFT LCDs, and allow people to control the phone without flipping it…
My satellite dish. My apartment full of cats. I’m king of the nerds! [Product Page via CrunchGear]
The makers of the cheesy snack Doritos launched a new competition today, asking the UK public to design a new advert for a unique audience: ETs. The winner’s 30-second video clip will actually be beamed from the high frequency radar telescope in Svalbard, Norway, in June, directed toward a likely looking star in Ursa Major.…
On Tuesday, California energy company PG&E started generating energy from a rather unusual source: cow manure. Yes, cow poop emits methane as it decomposes. And while usually that’s a bad thing, with methane being a potent greenhouse gas and all, it can be captured and turned into a renewable source of energy. So that’s just…
Amazon is offering some last-gen MacBook Pros on the cheap. After discounts and rebates, you can score a 15″ MBP with 256MB video card and 2GB of RAM for just $1,744.00—that’s over $150 cheaper than Apple’s clearance store was selling it for a few days ago. The 17″ model with similar specs will run you…
LONDON, United Kingdom (Agencies). Following a successful pilot program in the London Apple Store, and perhaps too many caipirinhas at the Infinite Loop party which followed yesterday’s iPhone SDK presentation, a visibly tipsy Steve Jobs announced the introduction of a new Peepshow feature in all Apple Stores worldwide: https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-sdk-roundup-everything-you-need-to-know-364799 “Heck yeah!” Apple CEO shouted at…