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Well, we’ve heard the rumors and the retail leaks, and now it’s official: there’s a 40GB Playstation 3 coming on October 10th. It’s only official for Europe as of now, with a €399 pricetag, but it’s pretty safe to assume we’ll be getting the same thing soon enough. The catch? No memory card reader, only…
Motion blur is a problem in LCDs, and until now, the best solution was 120Hz processing: double the frames, and the blur tends to subside. JVC looked at the situation and said, if doubling works okay, then how ’bout we triple it? This week, at CEATEC, the result was on display. Little is known about…
Good news! The iPhone 1.1.1 file system has been broken open as a result of two iPhone hackers inserting symbolic links into the file system of a 1.0.2 iPhone before updating. And with file system access, it means we’re one step closer to activating, then jailbreaking, and then enabling third-party applications. Erica at TUAW is…
Both the Samsung YP-P2 and YP-T10 MP3 players have been given pricing and release info. The P2 is Samsung’s stab at the iPod Touch, with a big ol’ touchscreen and a home-esque button. The 4GB version will run $199 and the 8GB version $249. The T10 is a more modest affair, more reminiscent of the…
Aiming to go beyond just sensing the location of your finger on its touchpads and touchscreens, Apple has applied for a patent for a “Force Imaging Input and Device System,” which amounts to a spring-like device underneath the touchscreen or touchpad. The pressure-sensitive “force detector” layer would create a separate set of data, or image,…
In a change of policy that’s actually customer friendly for once, as of this Sunday, Verizon will allow you to change your contract without tacking on another 2 years of being shackled to their service. Until now, if you wanted to drop down or increase your monthly minutes, Verizon would force you to resign a…
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Danny Williams’s iPod nano gave him the hot pants, shooting flames out of his pocket and up to chest height. Lucky for him, there was a thick piece of paper in his pocket that shielded him enough to keep him from getting singed balls. Good thing it didn’t burst into flames at some inopportune moment,…
Although 200GB storage discs for Blu-ray have been out and about for a while, no player can actually read them. However, Hitachi’s just raised the bar of practicality (as opposed to the bar of numbers on a spec sheet) to 100GB. These discs will work in existing players without the need to update your firmware.…
In a huge promotional event, online gambling site Gnuf has helicopter-dropped a pair of giant dice down a mountain in Nuuk, Greenland. Standing about 7 feet tall and weighing in at around 1,200 pounds a pop, each die was constructed like a tank, with its steel frame enclosed by steel sheets, all protecting its surely…
Just look at these monster speaker stacks from Evolution Acoustics, dubbed MMthree, standing 74″ tall and weighing in at a floor-challenging 525 pounds. Powered by a self-contained 1000-watt amp, each of the two speakers in the set consists of a couple of 15-inch woofers, two 7-inch midrange drivers and a 5-inch aluminum ribbon tweeter. The…
Remember that “e-ink” phone we showed you yesterday? We just got the details and better pics. It’s a DoCoMo prototype hard-keypad phone that actually uses e-paper from SiPix, not e-ink, to change the meaning of the keys. https://gizmodo.com/unique-cellphone-techno-demoed-at-ceatec-2007-306718 E-paper works slightly differently than Sony Reader’s e-ink, which has black and white balls of opposite charges,…
The Wi-Fi Detector shirt does everything you’d dream it could do: detect Wi-Fi signals and share them, via your chest, with the entire world. Spotting both 802.11b and 802.11g networks, signal strength is displayed in real time (big animated gif post-jump). After you are done broadcasting your (super ability?) to the world, just slip the…
Get 5 free Blu-ray movies (choose Full Metal Jacket!) with the purchase of a player. Offer includes the PS3. [bluraysavings]
At first we were wondering if the Art.Lebedev Studio was kidding with this design concept for a remote control. Named Pultius, this 20-inch-long clicker solves a problem of designing “a remote control with as many buttons as there are channels on TV.” We weren’t aware that was an actual problem, but if such a solution…
Ah, Brando. The soft “ping” in my inbox that heralds yet another slice of pedestrian weirdness from everyone’s favorite purveyor of odds ‘n’ sods. And today’s offering was no different: a pair of watches from toolmaker Stanley. One sports a 16-position compass, but it’s the other one that got me all excited—a calculator watch with…
Glass Toilets are the remix natural evolution of your run of the mill porcelain tank. Ironically constructed from acrylic, the transparent nature of the tank allows you to add theme to your throne in just minutes. Maybe the dolphin has always been your favorite animal, or maybe you just crave a few moments of meditation…
Now you can bang the drum all day to your heart’s content without waking up the neighbors with this Ion Digital Drum Station. There’s a grid of eight springy drum pads on this drum machine, and you can program a realistic-sounding drum noise into each one, choosing among 233 sounds. There are also 50 presets…
Pioneer just debuted these gorgeous aluminum SE-CLX9 in-ear earphones at CEATEC. Not only are they high-performance ‘buds capable of a drum-shaking 105dB, but they come with different nozzles that physically alter the equalization, from “high tune” to “standard” to “bass tune.” Best of all, every option is nestled in the OCD-organized utility pack, so there…
The Faltima 010 (we refuse to the the all caps brand name for this article) is not just another record player that can digitize your old LPs. It’s a record player that can digitize your old LPs to MP3s and put them on anything. Users can save music to CD, USB devices (the company claims…