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Broadcom VideoCore III multimedia processor could bring 720p HDTV to cellphones, mobile devices [TG Daily]
While it seems like many sensible companies have realized that DRM doesn’t curb piracy and just pisses off their customers, it appears that Viacom didn’t get the memo. Today, CEO Philippe Dauman whined to the US Chamber of Commerce that it’s too easy to copy media and that companies should be using stronger, more widespread…
Fake Steve Jobs says there might be an iPhone SDK being released the week of Oct. 15. Is he just making crap up or does Dan Lyons actually know something? Likely not, but who knows what his Fake Steve persona has access to. Also, Lam and Diaz are desperate for any word on an SDK.…
These Lobies are probably the worst idea we’ve heard in a while. They’re made for people who don’t like having earbuds inside their ears, but still want to use earbuds for headphones. It wraps around hte earbuds and over your ear, essentially turning your earbuds into over-the-ear earphones that you can buy right now. The…
Recording 18 hours of 1080p on a single disc is pretty serious stuff, and Panasonic Blu-ray recorders launched at CEATEC Japan do this. They do this via a digital TV tuner, MPEG 4 compression and support for 50GB dual layer discs you’d see on a PC recorder, but never before on a home theater box.…
Maybe it’s because it’s around lunchtime, but this Baguette Computer Wrist Rest is looking pretty good right about now. Made of cell foam that looks good enough to eat, all its makers need to do is infuse that unmistakable smell of baking bread and the illusion will be complete. Its $19.95 price is not much…
Lending a little more credence to all the Zune launch rumors we heard yesterday, the FCC just leaked out some sketches and specs for the flash Zune. It’s not even a mystery Toshiba like last time—these 4GB and 8GB mini-Zunes even have the Zune symbol on board. It looks exactly like the display model we…
Unlike the lousy plastic Wii tennis add-ons we’ve seen before, this Prince Wii Tennis add-on smells of authenticity. This is partly because Prince is a well known name in the Tennis industry, but it’s also partly because they used actual strings to construct the face of the racket. We’re not saying this is great or…
At first glance this USB Whack-a-Mole–like game stirred up all kinds of great Chuck E. Cheese like emotions. Then we realized that Whack It doesn’t have two things, one being moles and the other being fun. Everyone knows that the fun part of Whack-a-Mole is when you get to take out all your pent-up aggression…
Yet again I’ve stupidly called down the fire of Giz readers’ Photoshopping, uh, abilities, this time asking you to Photoshop Bill Gates throughout history. A lot of you seemed to miss the whole history part of it, and while a few less-than-historical images slipped through, I tried to only choose ones that followed the rules.…
The FlipStart UMPC we got our hands on back in March just got its price slashed by $500. But it’s still $1499, which may be too much for most people. [Flipstart via Pocketables] https://gizmodo.com/vulcan-flipstart-hands-on-gallery-see-what-makes-this-242158
Sure, these Yamaha down-firing subs that will be released tomorrow don’t quite qualify as the mother of all subwoofers like the JL Audio Gotham mutha we showed you yesterday, but these are reasonably priced, with the 130-watt YST-FSW150BL costing $249.95, and the 100-watt YST-FSW050BL costing $179.95. Both have 6.5-inch drivers, pointing straight down so those…
Evidence for the imminent launch of a sweet-spot $399 40GB PS3 model continues to mount, the latest piece of proofage coming in the form of a Best Buy listing, which (if true) also confirms the Spider-Man 3 Blu-ray pack-in, so you can relive Peter Parkers’s emo phase in HD for free. While the slip is…
An Indian entrepreneur has come up with the ultimate low-cost airline: one that doesn’t fly anywhere. Bahadur Chand Gupta, a retired Indian Airlines engineer, bought an old Airbus 300 from an insurance company in 2003, rebuilt it, and it now sits in a Delhi suburb where people pay $4 per “trip” so they can experience…
We did this HTML code capture of Apple’s Feedback page a few minutes ago. It shows an option for the “iPhone Extreme,” which following Apple product naming convention for Airport, it could mean a faster iPhone or a new iPhone with a latex case. Or maybe, just some joke by some bored HTML programmer. What…
This week at TreeHugger: Dealing with (and eliminating) “mystery machines” might be the best way to make IT greener. Take a closer look at this ultra-thin, protein-based, anime-inspired computer memory chip; that’s right — inspired by anime. We got some hot shots of the new Suissa computer, called Enlighten, a beautiful, endlessly upgradable machine designed…
It’s hard to tell from this pic of the $400 Marantz PMD620 Professional Handheld Field Recorder, but this relatively small solid-state device is slightly larger than a deck of cards. Despite its diminutive stature, it’s packing pro-level features that podcasters will like, recording MP3 or WAV files in 16- or 24-bit rez. Its display screen…
The pink and blue wireless Xbox controllers you may have seen around the ‘net are now on sale, for $49.99, complementing the “chill” and black controllers, not to mention all of the crazy special-edition ones. Something tells me pink ain’t gonna satisfy a true Halo 3 chick like her, though. [Xbox] https://gizmodo.com/master-chief-is-really-a-lesbian-marries-samus-nsfw-303412
Treehugger has collected photos of some pretty strange lawnmower/bike hybrids. If you’re too cheap to buy a riding lawnmower but are too lazy to push one, these are for you. Our favorite four are below, but be sure to click through and see the rest at the source. [Treehugger]
Until late last week, if you wanted to use the potentially cable-TV-replacing video streaming service Joost, you had to have friends. But now anybody can watch Joost online from dusk until the dawn and beyond, because Beta 1.0 of the P2P (peer-to-peer) video service just hit the streets. The good news? The company’s just about…