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Want a free copy of Windows Vista Ultimate direct from Microsoft, no piracy required? Don’t care about your privacy? Have I got a deal for you! Microsoft is offering up free copies of Vista Ultimate, Office Ultimate, Money Plus Premium, Student with Encarta Premium and Streets and Trips, all for free. All you’ve gotta do…
Starting today in beta, Vudu owners can pay $1.99 a piece for episodes of 24, Family Guy, Firefly and other Fox-produced shows in standard-def video. Today also marks the availability of the Bourne Ultimatum for purchase in high-def. Though the $399 Vudu’s signature attribute is immediate viewing of movies, we’re told HD downloads won’t be…
For those who prefer “non-aspirin pain reliever” to Tylenol, this $109 Optimus Touch is the perfect Apple remedy. Strikingly similar to Apple’s iPod Touch, the 4GB Optimus Touch sports similar menus and lots of enhancements, including a 1.3MP camera, FM tuner, miniSD slot, and support of your DivX and XviD movies. Of course, there are…
Too long since your last shot of format-war speculation? BusinessWeek uses three indicators to call Blu-ray (and Sony) the current leading contender: 1. Blu-ray has sold more than twice as many discs as HD DVD this year. 2. While HD DVD has a larger number of dedicated players in the market, 2.3 million PS3s offer…
We’ve been following USB missile launcher development for some time now. And what we have witnessed today, ladies and gentleman, may be the greatest watershed moment in USB armament history. The USB MSN Missile Launcher features a webcam that, when coupled with MSN messaging service, allows your friends to shoot you from anywhere in the…
Click to viewThis has to be one of the coolest, most useful ghetto hacks ever: a modder called the2jakes built a mechanism to control the analog joystick of a PlayStation 2 gamepad with his head. Using just an ingenious rig, a baseball cap and a USB cable extender, his homemade head-mounted display controls the game…
Japanese cellphone company Willcom has shown the new Android phone OS up and running on phone hardware (although a reference board and not an actual phone), demonstrating multitasking functionality such as answering a call while browsing Google Maps. Can you feel the excitement?! Android isn’t going to be all that exciting until user-made apps come…
Click to viewHere’s a killer application that fully realizes the possibilities of touch surfaces as specialized control interfaces: ProRemote converts the iPhone or the iPod touch in a wireless control for Pro Tools LE with realtime feedback. While this may seem limited to the audio world, it shows that having this kind of power in…
Though you can no longer buy episodes of “The Office,” “Heroes” or “30 Rock” on iTunes, you will be able to purchase them in January from SanDisk’s Fanfare service. Of course, if you recall, you can’t download the shows to your computer. You will have to watch them on the $100 to $150 SanDisk Sansa…
Normally, a heavy backpack is the cause of shoulder and back aches and pains, but not the Rotoflexion Massaging Backpack. No, it’s got “strong mechanical hands” on the straps that give you a workover while you tote your laptop around. I’d expect a massaging backpack to just vibrate, which would be enough in itself, but…
The Motorola concept video 2000 A.D. was produced in 1990 and focuses on the fantastic wireless future. Part one appears below. See also:Pacific Bell Concept Video (1991)Connections: AT&T’s Vision of the Future (1993)Flowers by Alice (1992)Apple’s Knowledge Navigator (1987)Apple’s Grey Flannel Navigator (1988)Vision (Clip 1, 1993)Vision (Clip 2, 1993)Vision (Clip 3, 1993)Starfire (1994)GTE’s Classroom of…
This week at TreeHugger: Across the pond, the Brits are planning to build 7,000 new wind turbines off Britain’s coast by 2020, effectively producing enough electricity — 33 gigawatts — to power all of the country’s homes. Want a real hydrogen fuel cell car? GM will be giving some Equinox Fuel Cell crossovers away for…
The AquaMaker AM10 is not your standard office water cooler. Pulling up to 36 liters of water from the air every 38 hours, its independence from water deliveries will make it perfect for some sequel of Office Space set in a rainforest. But for the rest of us, its purported $15/day operating price is just…
Click to viewWhen scientists in some bunker in the year 2525 are trying to determine when humanity handed over the keys to the robot overlords, December 11, 2007, may be a good date, for on this day, Honda announced it had given its ASIMO servant robots three key abilities. Here we break them down, and…
Back away from the toy, children. Because its eight “tingling tentacles” aren’t meant for alliteration alone. Fully waterproof and ready for the tub, the Screaming O Screaming Octopus Clitoral Vibrator seems like an odd choice to us for one’s clitoral vibration needs, but then again, we’re not its target sex. If you’re interested, it’ll run…
Dell’s Latitude XT 12.1-inch convertible Tablet PC is finally official, and it’s being paraded as the world’s “only sub-four-pound 12.1-inch convertible tablet” with capacitive touch capability—meaning it’ll sense your finger (sorry, only one) without any pressure at all. Also on the touchy-feely side, it’s got palm rejection, a no-battery pen eraser and Dell says its…
Has anyone else seen the episode of this season’s Curb Your Enthusiasm when Larry David accosts a woman for not being able to make up her mind as she samples various flavors of ice cream? That how this Toshiba Dynabook T31 makes me feel. As the first laptop to ship with a copy of both…
If you’re going to wage war on your fellow cubicle jockeys, then there are worse ways to do it than using the Deluxe Laser Challenge Pro Set—take it from me, stapling my boss’s ear to the office notice board didn’t win me any influential new friends when I worked the phones at the Acme Sex…
Chilling out in the garden simply does not cut it without a 42″ plasma screen to compliment your leafy surroundings. Thanks to Cal Flame’s U8000 BBQ accessory, you can now enjoy the luxuries of big screen viewing right from your hammock. When closed, the device functions as a bench, but hidden inside is a 42″…
Get your snowboard out. Or if you are as bodily uncoordinated as me, your sled. It’s snow time and the Frequency Audex Motorola Bluetooth, a $300 Bluetooth-equipped helmet with built-in controls developed by Burton and Motorola, is just what the doctor ordered to listen to your fav tunes speeding down those pearly-white slopes. Then, the…
