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We normally avoid posting things coated in Swarovski crystals like Asians avoid SARS, but this particular crystalized Wii looks spectacular. The console has the Twilight Princess Link/Wolf engraved on one side, the TriForce logo engraved on the other and the actual TriForce (with Kanji labels) on the front. We’re not sure how much it costs,…
As we told you last Wednesday, the iPhone Dev Team have opened up the source to AnySIM, the free SIM unlock software for the iPhone that lets you use your phone on pretty much any GSM network in the world. The source being open, on the other hand, makes it a lot easier for Apple…
On a snowy day in North Jersey, LG decided the time was right to introduce most of the LCD and plasma TVs it would be showcasing at CES. The hotshot model was the LG70 LCD featuring a 20,000:1 contrast ratio, four HDMI 1.3 jacks, USB 2.0 for pictures and MP3s, and Wi-Fi (in its LG71…
As if a pogo stick wasn’t already an accident waiting to happen, now here comes the Flybar, catapulting you four feet (and maybe even six if you push it) off the ground with its heavy-duty rubber bands. To give you an idea of how dangerous this is, notice all of the users are wearing helmets.…
One of the biggest complaints about Blu-ray is that not everyone supports the same “BD Profile,” which means not every player has the same capabilities. Don Eklund, EVP of Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, promised an update for the PS3, which is the most popular Blu-ray player by far, that will allow the player to support…
I got a sneek peak at GE’s upcoming phone line, including the slick Photo Phone that will be introduced at CES2008. The phone combines a traditional cordless phone with a 7-inch digital photo frame, and includes picture caller ID. The feature, which is commonly found on cellphones, allows you to assign a picture to a…
Sega’s put a stop to the Dreamcast 2 rumors quickly, reiterating that they’re going to stay a software company and not re-enter the console business. They told GameDaily this: https://gizmodo.com/is-sega-working-on-dreamcast-ii-please-let-this-be-tru-331008 We’re very happy being a platform agnostic company and have moved up the ranks the past three years from #11, to #9, and now stand…
Following up on the Windows Mobile 6.1 details and pictures, Boy Genius has a video walk-through of the latest Microsoft Mobile OS. If you can hear the guy’s voice over the music (we had a hard time), he says it’s AT&T branded, so it’ll definitely hit AT&T some time early next year. (You may want…
We’ve seen some tough notebooks before, but this Augmentix XTG, which is actually a ruggedized Dell Latitude ATG630e, wins the prize for ruggetude. Noah Shachtman from Danger Room took this monster out into the field—in Iraq of all places—for some real-world battle testing, and calls its hefty “Armored Protection System” overkill even for that harsh…
Following up on the rumor that Warner Bros. was going exclusively Blu-ray from October, BusinessWeek has their own speculation that Warner Bros. will be swapping to the Sony side. The rumor stems from a quote from Lionsgate vice-chairman Michael Burns (who may or may not know what he thinks he knows) who says “The rumor…
We just met with a high-ranking source inside LG, who tells us that their second-generation Blu-ray/HD DVD combo player is shipping now for the MSRP of $999. Think that’s too much when you can get separate Blu-ray and HD DVD players for the grand total of less than that? Well, just wait until after Christmas,…
At first I thought this Stormglass weather predicting instrument was a joke, reminding me of that old weather device that featured a picture of a donkey whose tail was made of yarn. Its deadpan instructions told us “if tail is wagging, the weather is windy; if tail is frozen, weather is cold; if tail is…
Besides not shutting your pirated version of Vista down when you fail to activate, Service Pack 1 will also bring a huge performance boost when you transfer both small and big files over your network. As you can see from the chart, throughput to and from Windows Home Server will jump to 3x, and throughput…
One of the problems we can see with the Tesla Roadster is that you still have to suck up pollution-causing power to run the thing, even though it doesn’t directly pollute the air with noxious internal combustion engine fumes. Now Solar City has teamed up with Tesla to provide solar panels that you install on…
Click to viewNow that EMI and Universal have seen the light and started offering music in DRM-free MP3 format—and according to well-founded rumors, Sony and Warner are also exploring a DRM-free launch in 2008—online music stores finally have the means to get iPod-friendly and take on iTunes. As you know, iTunes only offers AAC files,…
Here’s a relatively easy and cheap way to turn ordinary headphones into 5.1 surround sound phones for your PC. Just make sure you have a 5.1 surround sound card, and then you can turn a pair of full-sized headphones into a conduit for mucho surround sound goodness. The full-sized headphones provide the center channel and…
The guys at Wired and BoingBoing stirred up a hornet’s nest this morning by alleging that Western Digital’s 1TB MyBook World Edition external hard drives “won’t share media files over network connections.” That got us worried, since we just acquired one of the 1TB three-way (eSATA, FireWire and USB) Home Edition drives to plug into…
Doting uncles with more nieces and nephews than fingers on one hand will still have a problem than this, but Apple’s quietly raised the iPhone purchase limit from three to five. Our tipster says the Apple store employees aren’t supposed to say anything and they’re supposed to keep all the signs the same, but you…
While the HTC Shift was supposed to be released in November, the world is still waiting anxiously for this quasi-UMPC device to show up in stores. Now the company has announced a January 11th launch date in Britain, and there’s a good chance we won’t see it until then. And by good chance we mean…
Here is our best advice on how to score a “car of the future.” Head to eBay and bid on this “Fastlane” car manufactured for a Universal Pictures project by famous film/GM concept car maker Trans FX. Buy it now for $14,999.99—an absolute steal to drive a car that no one will possibly own for…