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CompUSA may be going out of business soon. According to BGR, they have no shipments scheduled after February, and their holiday revenue this year is half of last year’s. [BGR]
Our friends over at Kotaku did an interesting whiteness comparison between the Wii, 360 and the newest PS3. Reminding us of one of those teeth-whitening before and afters you see around midnight on every channel, the PS3 dominates the (competition?) with absolutely stunning, pearly whiteness. The Wii holds its own with a solid, “standard” white.…
Modern supercomputers are still at least 100 times faster than the crappy laptop you bought a week ago, and electrons are to blame. Today, IBM introduced a way to speed up the action on regular silicon chips by replacing the wiring with pulses of light, a technology called—what else?—silicon photonics. This method works for longer…
We’ve already heard about Dell making their way to Wal-Mart and Staples retails stores, but now they will be selling computers at Best Buy, too. https://gizmodo.com/dell-products-headed-for-staples-retail-stores-313766 At 900 stores nationwide, Dell will offer a limited selection of their mid to low end desktops and laptops. Dell’s massive exodus to retail stores is an interesting one,…
It’s the Christmas season, so you know what that means: completely insane, over-the-top lighting displays. Yes, they get crazier every year as front-yard hobbyists figure out how to put more and more tech into their shows to make them even more impressive. One of my personal favorites is “Alek’s Controllable Christmas Lights for Celiac Disease,”…
CNET France is pointing to “various rumors” that the iPhone will be getting a 1.1.3 update by the end of this week. And the two updates will both be welcome: voice recording, which is pretty self explanatory, and disk mode storage capabilities. Similarly to an iPod, the iPhone will prohibit the drag and drop sharing…
The rumored new old Enterprise is not the real McCoy (good, because that will keep the surprise). It’s the work of CG artist Gabriel Köerner, who is the author of the video above and the gallery after the jump. However, they may not be far from the truth, according to the new Star Trek’s co-writer…
You already read the headline. So you already know that the Nextlink Invisio G5 is the world’s smallest Bluetooth headset. So I’m wasting your time. We’re retreading old ground. You want to know one thing—just how small is this headset? 3.3cm long and 1.6cm wide, or 1.2in long and .6in wide for the less metrically…
Click to viewZetix is a fabric so strong it will resist multiple car bomb blasts without breaking. It absorbs and disperses the energy from explosions thanks to an inner structure so adamantiumtastic it can be used in body armor, window covering, military tents and hurricane defenses—it might even be able to fend off my ex-wife.…
According to DigiTimes, Mitsubishi is on track to demonstrate their laser TVs at CES, even if only to select, private groups. This updated rear-projection, DLP technology promises to produce beautiful images while being less expensive than its peers (with one manufacturer claiming the bill of materials to be as low as $50 to $200 per…
Click to viewIn what computer analysts and physicists all over the world have classified as “a clear and present danger to the survivability of the Human Race and the Universe as we know it,” LA area-man and Gizmodo reader Kevin Barbee reports that his Windows Vista Problem Reporting has reported that it has stopped reporting.…
Google and TomTom have joined forces to make their products compatible. Thanks to the “Send to GPS” button that Google has added to Google Maps, you can send routes from Google Maps direct to your navigation device via TomTom Home. See how it works in the video below. [TomTom via NaviGadget]
Reader Bill Pendry has discovered that you can easily get your PlayStation 3 Rock Band’s drums to work perfectly with GarageBand, the music composition software that comes with every Mac. The “hack” just requires GamePad Companion, a $15 shareware program that will map the input from the drums into keystrokes. Since GarageBand can use the…
I know it wasn’t the Oscars, but couldn’t His Royal Steveness have made just a teensy bit more effort at California’s Hall of Fame last night? Sporting a Ronald McDonald costume made entirely from tofuburgers black poloneck and jeans, the co-founder of Apple eschewed the red carpet and snuck in through a side door at…
LG launched its romantically named Rhapsody In Music mobile phone in Korea today. So far, so Richard Clayderman. Apart from a clickwheel—sorry, “Wheel Key”—that makes one nostalgic for Cupertino, what else has the LB3300, as it is also known, got? Multimedia player 1GB memory MicroSD slot Bluetooth DMB 2 Megapixel camera All this is a…
If it weren’t for my obnobvious headline, you’d all be wondering what the hell this is. Just 15 of these Champagne tower chillers, with room for a dozen magnums in individual, lit drawers, have been designed for Veuve Cliquot by Porsche Design. Want to see what it looks like open? Almost six-and-a-half feet in height,…
Japanese audio company Teac is letting you have it up against the wall next week, with the release of the MC-DX32i iPod dock, AM/FM tuner and CD/CD-R/RW player. Expected to cost around 30,000 , ($270) the flat-panel system comes with all the gear you need to wall-mount it. Specs are below. 5W x 2 channel…
Sometimes, it’s hard to be a woman. Especially when you see things like the Barbie B2 touchscreen MP3 player, aimed at the female market in Korea. I don’t think the player includes the pube-clad doll, but perhaps it would be better for mankind if it did. [Aving USA]
Moviebeam, the overpriced, low quality video on demand box is ceasing service on December 15th. Hope you didn’t buy one.
Starting next year, the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts will have something that’s long overdue for an otaku-rich country: a two-year graduate degree in anime production—the first for a non-private institution in Japan. Courses will be taught by full-time professionals from the anime world including Koji Yamamura, and students will leave with two or…
