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Right this minute, the milfy Brooke Burke is signing autographs and posing for pics at Dell’s New York City holiday store (Times Square Studios, 44th & Broadway). Actually, she wraps at 4 p.m., so you probably won’t make it. Tomorrow, Vivica Fox will be manning the store from 12:30 to 4 p.m., while Ice T…
The 32-inch, 1080p AQUOS (LC-32GP3U) LCD TVs from Sharp are optimized for gaming by allowing gamers “quick access to the side terminal inputs,” as well as activating “Vyper Drive.” It’s a dorky name for a feature, but it’s supposes to cut lag time between console input and TV display so you won’t have to miss…
Big holes in the iPhone’s SMS/MMS functionality have been filled with two apps, SMSD and MMS. SMSD allows you to forward old SMS messages to new recipients, as well as sending new messages to multiple people. MMS, on the other hand, lets you send MMS messages (but not receive them yet) from pictures on your…
According to CNBC’s Jim Goldman, Apple will be dropping a 3G iPhone on us by June of next year at the latest, probably in late May. It’s not unreasonable, with a new model coming out about a year after the first. Combine 3G speeds with larger flash drives, and the iPhone will be a lot…
It may not be the biggest and best deal that has come out during the holiday shopping season, but $298 for a Toshiba HD-A3 HD DVD player with 12 free movies isn’t half-bad. The secret sale starts at Wal-Mart tomorrow. A sale so secret, it is posted on their website. [Wal-Mart via Electronic House]
I can hardly believe my eyes, but the WSJ and Reuters are reporting that JetBlue is offering Wi-Fi on it’s flights December 11th, 2007. But wait a minute. The service will be able to “support the entire plane” but don’t expect YouTube out yet. The biggest catch is that only Yahoo Mail and IM on…
The Rubbot may be on the periphery of gadgetdom, but at the same time it stands for everything we believe technology can do. Yes, it’s a male sex toy that allows you to rub yourself silly without using your hands—hence, rubbot. The creators are in the beta stage (beta testers wanted!) and made this video…
We’ve gotten some good entries on the PlayStation 3 Blu-ray contest, but a few of you didn’t quite get the point when we said you need to send in a picture of yourself blue and in public. That wasn’t just a suggestion. Send in a picture of yourself blued up and in public, or else…
You know MacWorld is here when Apple rumors start to hit CNBC: According to a report by Jim Goldman, Apple will launch a ultra-portable sub-notebook in San Francisco this January. Citing sources “close to manufacturing, “Goldman says it will be 0.5-inch thick—half a current MacBook Pro— and use a flash-based solid state drive instead of…
We’ve known that the Xbox 360 DVD player was asstastic for a while, but surely this latest fall update would have improved things at least a little. No such luck, as the player still only got a 40 out of 130 on the HQV DVD test—which is a non-improvement from before the update. Are things…
LaCie’s no stranger to getting designers to fashion up external hard drive designs, what with Sam Hecht, Ora-Ito, Karim Rashid, GmbH and the LEGO guy (actually also Ora-Ito) lending their name to designs. This latest one by Neil Poulton looks like the 2001 monolith sans naked monkeys, but with an eerie blue ambient light on…
This week at Uncrate: We satisfy our thirst for drunken gaming with The Gamerator, update our holiday decor with the Modern Gingerbread House, and dig our way out with the Snowmaster Snow Scoop. We also crank it up to eleven and turn on some Heavy Metal, choose a new cologne using the Sephora Scent Sampler…
The Sidekick Slide was pulled off the T-Mo product line last month due to faulty battery contacts, which forced the phone to power off by itself when opened one too many times. The DIY fix was to stick some business cards or loose paper into the battery compartment to make sure the contacts never de-contact,…
Here’s a fun little project that’s sure to drive you completely insane if you have a website that is in any way popular. It’s a little bell that, when connected to your computer via USB, rings every time a visitor comes to your website. That might be all well and good for someone who gets…
Remember Connect360, the app that let you stream music and video from your Mac to your Xbox 360? It’s just been updated to support XviD and DivX functionality to match the fall upgrade you installed earlier this week. It still costs $20 if you haven’t purchased it before, but you can try it for free…
Where Blu-ray is a freight train of unrivaled weight and marketing might, backed by 13 of the world’s most well known electronics and computer makers, HD DVD is a Little Engine That Could, the product of a much smaller group of collaborators that has gotten over each obstacle by simply thinking it can. Judging from…
There aren’t many Tablet PC fans around, but Dell’s upcoming Latitude XT Tablet PC may just bring some more people into the club. We got a tip from reader William that the tablet is going to be launching December 11, a fact he got from some covert ops and a half hour of flirting. The…
Ditching the whole crazy people in a motel motif that dominated Sony Europe’s first year of PS3 marketing, SCEE’s gone and made a commercial that shows off what the PS3 can do and entertains at the same time. It wasn’t easy, but we think firing off the employees that were shooting up during work hours…
It may not be the biggest like we suggested—Chicago’s Michigan Ave still beats it by a few square feet—but the first three-story Apple Store has a lot going on that others do not: • Apple’s first three-story glass staircase (we were wrong about the elevator) • 46-foot Genius Bar capable of serving 100 tech-support seekers…
The Pitch As part of its sprawling “Star Power” holiday campaign, Dell enlists MMA legend Chuck “The Iceman” Liddell for a tongue-in-cheek shill session. Diction isn’t Liddell’s forte, alas, so it’s a bit tough to understand his entire spiel—especially his use of a money vs. happiness line chart toward the commercial’s end. But the basic…
