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According to Pali Research analyst Richard Greenfield, Apple’s just made some concessions to movie studios that will result in higher prices for iTunes movies. Each flick will supposedly go up to $15 (compared with an $18 DVD), and is part of the tactic to lure studios like 20th Century Fox to the movie store. Another…
• God-Cleaner foot bath claims to draw toxins out of your body through your feet. Cleanliness may be next to Godliness, but in this case it’s pretty darn close to Rip-off-iness. [BBG] • Internet Explorer has fewer security vulnerabilities than Firefox, according to security analyst Jeffery Jones. In other news, Mr. Jones probably knows your…
On Black Friday, some of you walked home with your first HDTV. Or second. Discount voodoo is understandably hard to resist. But unless you’ve got HD content, you’ve got nothin’ but a pretty frame. Since it’s the holidays, you probably don’t wanna screw around in customer service hell. If you’ve narrowed your choice down to…
We’ve been playing too much Mass Effect, but these Sputnik Subwoofers look like mounted turrets that shoot lasers at you. Instead of lasers, these ceiling-dangling units shoot sound; deep, deep sound. Inside is a 12-inch passive subwoofer that can handle 1000 watts of continuous power directly at your face, provided your face is in its…
The Windows Mobile successor we told you about last week seems to have gotten a tentative name (Windows Mobile 6.1), and Boy Genius has an illustrated guide to some of the new features you can find. Among them are a sideways scrolling home screen that gets rid of the cluttered Today page you have now,…
Remember that misprinted Linksys tech-support number that led callers to a phone-sex hotline? Well, Cisco-Linksys has flexed its muscles, scooping up the number and reprogramming it with good old-fashioned helpful info. No more sexy time for you, unless of course you listen to our previously recorded version of the message. Linksys customers who want to…
Motorola’s personnel issues continue. We just got word a company-wide email went out announcing that Padmasree Warrior—Moto’s chief technology officer—is out the door “to pursue other opportunities.” Could this be because stepping into ousted CEO Ed Zander‘s shoes is a Moto insider—president Greg Brown—rather than fresh blood? Given their woes, a clean break from the…
If you by some miracle find yourself in the great outdoors this winter, what better accoutrement for your wrist than his Timberland HT2 outdoor performance watch? It has dials on top of dials, of course showing the time in both analog and digital form for keeping track of four time zones in all, but also…
The Cowon Q5W could be one of the most feature-rich PMPs we’ve seen yet, even beating out Archos’s big boys in terms of how much stuff you can cram into a music and video player. Oh, and it’s not nearly as un-carriable as the Archos devices either, which is fantastic. It’s got Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a…
Here’s a practical design: the Hydro Physio Lifestyle Water Resistance Treadmill (believe it or not, that’s the short version of the name). It combines the water resistance of swimming with the monotony of running to create a really strange form of exercise. The water level can be adjusted so it focuses on different areas during…
Joining the cacophony of OS X apps that only do one thing (but one thing really well), here’s the Syphone. It’s freeware, which is nice, and serves to back up your SMS messages so you can read them later. It even allows you to—if we’re reading this right—import messages to your phone, which means you…
If you’re the kind of driver that enjoys passing cars and subsequently giving them the bird, this Plate Flipper will save you time and energy by doing your flipping for you. It’s essentially a version of the plate-flipping gadget that KITT had on Knight Rider, but instead of flipping open to reveal another plate, it…
Boy Genius just got his hands on a new Moto Q9 that features Wi-Fi, AT&T branding and a slight color change. In addition to the hardware upgrade, the new Q9 is shipping with Windows Mobile 6.1, complete with a new user interface. Boy Genius notes the speediness of browsing online with the Q9 and seems…
I like the idea of Biodiesel because it means cheap, clean-burning fuel. Or in the case of FuelPod2, free, clean-burning fuel. The FuelPod2 takes any used cooking oil you may have, and converts it into usable Biodiesel, which runs in any standard diesel engine. The FuelPod can convert up to 50 litres (just over 13…
If the Zune can wirelessly sync over your home network, why can’t your iPhone? A developer’s made an automatic GUI syncing tool that essentially rsync’s a folder on your computer to a folder on your iPhone/iTouch. That by itself is pretty lame and quite limited—especially compared with a full sync you get when you dock…
The mStation mophie juice pack for the iPhone is an extended battery that fits around the outside of the device, adding some awkward bulk to it but also a generous extra 250 hours of standby time, 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback, and 24 hours of…
I need one of these, pronto. I can take either the 12-inch 1,280 x 800-pixel Wacom Cintiq 12WX or the 20-inch Wacom Cintiq 20WSX, with it’s glorious 1,680 x 1,050 pixels. Sure big is always better, as Russ Meyer would have agreed, but even the smaller model will allow me to speed up my cheapo…
On this week’s Coolness Roundup netcast, Gizmodo’s Charlie White gleefully slam-dunks the laughable $169 Torpedo projector, and the Gurus of Cool reveal secrets about Harmony remote controls and HDMI cables. The duo also rifle through another Rapid Fire Roundup of Cool Products, and cite their latest assortment of cool and not-so-cool items of the week.…
Everybody is getting into the cellphone industry’s new spirit of openness. Google pushes for open networks for the 700MHz wireless network to be, Verizon answers the call with a pledge to make its network available to all technology, and now Verizon’s longtime companion, Qualcomm, has unveiled a chip that will be the heart of one…
This may or may not be real, but The Reg is appalled at Microsoft’s dirty Santa IM bot after it started talking about oral sex and dirty bastards. The transcript is above, but even IM transcripts are pretty easy to fake. We remembered the hours we spent chatting up SmarterChild in lieu of having any…