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After basking in adulation from music lovers and RIAA haters for being enlightened poster children of the new way of doing business in the music industry, Radiohead has pulled an about-face that feels like a betrayal and a dirty cop-out: They’re releasing In Rainbows on CD in January through one of the Big Four (all…
Warner Home Video announced today that Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix will be the first DVD to come bundled with multiple video formats on a single disk. In addition to the regular DVD format, the disk will include versions for both home computer viewing and playback on portable media players. There has…
Furniture designer Yodo Kurosawa’s “lightning lamp” or “reflector lamp” is a unique fixture that uses a film to reflect light from a halogen lamp to create a trippy effect on the ceiling above. It’s certainly an interesting lamp, but it makes for an even better backdrop for the USS Enterprise model I know you have…
Like the TiVo CEO said a few days ago, the TiVo on Comcast rollout has finally hit. The New England market is the first to get it, and will gradually pass over to the rest of the “fortunate” people all over the country on Comcast. We checked, and it’s not live yet on ours (we’re…
Boy Genius claims that those four spy shots of the Motorolas we showed you yesterday are probably fakes, based on their source inside Motorola. Since Boy Genius has a pretty good track record of knowledge on pre-release phones, we’re willing to believe him. Plus, did you really think Motorola, king of dropping trou and dumping…
After getting FCC’d in July, a 3G’d up version of the Samsung T639 is now on sale at “select” NYC T-Mobile stores. The catch is that T-Mob’s 3G network isn’t quite up and running—they bought some licenses in 2006 and have been working on it, but it ain’t ready yet. Of course, the T639’s launch…
Dell’s announcing a new thin client-server model that retains most of the processing locally, only pushing storage to the server. Sounds reasonable for applications more intense than the basic spreadsheet wrangling and hey, Dell gets to sell a lot more client hardware than if graphics and computational tasks were handled server side, too. [PC Mag]
In a not-so-surprising turn, standalone HD DVD players have regained their lead on Blu-ray sales in September, giving the overall year-to-date figures (in which HD DVD has always been ahead) as 53% HD DVD, 44% Blu-ray, and 3% dual-format. Although this may give you the impression that HD DVD is in the lead, the numbers…
My feet feel so good But damn, these ugly sandals Hurt my dignity. [Product Page via Nerd Approved]
Click to viewWe have tested iPhone Sim Free claims and they work. It still not a process for the faint of heart, as it requires using command line-voodoo for the jailbreak and activation, but it works perfectly. Plus, as we proved here, this new IPSF update can unbrick iPhones bricked as a result of anySIM/iUnlock…
Look out, horrible teenage drivers: there’s a new device out there that your justifiably concerned parents can purchase to not only track where you are while you’re driving, but to actually see you. Yeah, now your parents can bust you smoking pot or pleasuring yourself in the car without happening to drive up next to…
The rumored Xbox 360 Arcade system looks to be inches away from becoming a reality, according to this fuzzy image snapped at an unnamed retail store. The details, as we have them, are thus: a hard-drive-free Xbox 360 that comes packaged with a 256MB memory card (to satisfy developers like Rockstar, who want to require…
Straight from the translated Korean manual, we finally have some specs on Samsung’s latest mighty morphin’ UMPC, the SPH-9200. Not mind-blowing, but pretty solid. Besides a touchy screen and WiMax, inside of its flippy-foldy body is a Via C7-M CPU, 512MB RAM, 30GB HD, 20Whr or 40Whr battery (good for 2-2.5 or 5 hours, respectively),…
The Apple iPhone Webapps directory is live right now, with over 200 apps like Bank of America Banking App, Digg App, and a few other “apps” you could run through Safari’s real web browser already, but it’s useful to find them all in one place. What’s weird is that there are no IM clients, like…
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s potential Australian plasma ban, comes news of the U.S. possibly banning many popular hard drives due to a patent dispute. The issue involves a patent for “dissipative ceramic bonding tips,” also known as wire bonding tips, which Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba, HP, and Dell either use in their own…
This is a semi-good deal if you’ve already purchased a lifetime subscription on your old Series 2 units and want to upgrade to a TiVo HD. For the medium, medium price of $199, you can transfer your old sub to the new unit if and only if you purchase an HD unit between October 11…
Yamaha is taking its pimp sound projector skills to the boardroom with this teleconferencing contraption. Set one $3,000 Projectphone at the business end of your conference table (connected to a TV), and another identical one at a table in a room far far away. Three cameras shoot you and your two prettiest associates, and as…
The Moto U9 is the PEBL successor, even if the PEBL moniker is nowhere in sight. Primarily, it’s a music phone, with WM Player 11 syncing over USB, stereo Bluetooth streaming, MP3/AAC/AAC+ support, and a microSD slot capable of up to 4GB of storage on top of the internal 25MB of room. Other interesting features…
With this patent and the one filed last week, Apple’s got more force sensitivity than Luke and Darth combined. The latest one, titled “Force and Location Sensitive Display,” detects both where your finger is and how hard you’re pressing down on a display. Skipping over the technical details of how this is done, the end…
It’s no gold-plated diapers, but the RAZR2 V8 Luxury Edition does have 18k and 24k gold plated accents, a fancy analog/digital clock, and all the rest of the standard Moto RAZR2 features. All the non-gold parts are “black slate” and “vacuum metal”, along with some snakeskin effects on the back. If you’re at all interested…