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Whether it was the cause of or the reaction to their $1 billion lawsuit against Google, Viacom will be launching TheDailyShow.com with the entire back catalog of Stewart clips available for viewing (we’re assuming for free). It’s a progressive move by Viacom, and hopefully the clips aren’t so chock full of ads that we can’t…
Sony’s Rolly will be officially revealed in Tokyo on Monday 10th September. [Macworld]. https://gizmodo.com/sony-trying-to-tease-us-with-upcoming-egg-shaped-rolly-296084
Windows Media Center is starting to gain momentum and jumping onto the bandwagon is Moneual Lab with their media centric, I*magine PC. The cylindrical, stupidly named, ridiculously shaped, WMC PC sports an Intel Core2Duo processor, Vista Premium, HDMI port, 802.11 a/b/g, Bluetooth, 7″ touchscreen and the option to include Moneual’s very own multimedia interface. Set…
We shouldn’t know about the cars of the future yet, and let me be the first to say, I’m sorry they don’t fly. But the Opel E-Flex is a European concept of the Chevy Volt unleaded/electric hybrid. Other than its propensity to drink more wine and go “on holiday,” the Opel will use a 1.3lt…
Since its launch on November 9th, 2004, Firefox’s downloads have continued doubling on a yearly basis. And now, they’ve reached the blessed, fabled, Holy Grailish 400 million mark. OK, maybe there’s nothing special about 400 million in particular, but it seems like an impressive amount. And congrats to the Mozilla on their free product. Because…
Microsoft and Siemens are set to collaborate to bring in-car entertainment and navigation products to a vehicle near you. They hope to develop a set of products that will allow for a better integration between mobile phones, music players and other ubiquitous gadgets. An announcement, last Friday, set 2009 as the expected year for the…
Astute Flickr community member, David Watanabe, spied several possible error messages from within the “Report A Problem” list in iTunes, all indicating movie rental capabilities. One such message reads; “MZCancellationReason.DidNotReceive-RentalMovie.” A plethora of other messages also make reference to some form of a movie rental service. The list of messages can be seen above. As…
iTunes 7.4.1 is out. No idea if it musses up your iPhone haxx that you just finished reinstalling after yesterday’s 7.4 update. Happy Friday night, I’m still stuck in Denver. This is why I’m blogging about iTunes 0.1 updates. UPDATE: Ringtones are fine, as setup by SendSong.
The IsraGood blog points us to yet another company promising that ever-elusive flying car of the future. Urban Aeronautics claims that they will be producing the “X-Hawk” by early 2009. It seems like an intelligent business plan to first introduce the vehicle for urban rescue and medical evacuation purposes but, even if it flies, the…
Aqua Photo, a Korean based company, did the most logical thing to an aquarium, they mounted it on the wall and made it look like a TV. With specs that sound more like a TV rather than a fish tank, this aquarium has a 1460 x 640 cm measurement, 100 watt back light, and a…
A wheel chair being developed by Ambient will allow users to control its movement with just their thoughts — a breakthrough device that could be a huge help for the paralyzed. Called the Audeo, the chair works by intercepting brain signals sent to your larynx and decoding them to match previously recorded words, such as…
If there’s one thing better than a new iPod and/or iPhone it’s the new iPod and/or iPhone caged, networked and ready to do your bidding. The iPort in-wall dock is essentially a pretty box that you can hang on a wall that will allow you to fully control your iPod or iPhone from anywhere in…
Looks like the secret phone being unveiled at Palm’s European event next week is the Windows Mobile-based Gandolf, which should be a Vodaphone exclusive. [Boy Genius Report] https://gizmodo.com/palm-teaser-page-says-something-this-way-cometh-295881
In the dick contest that is CEDIA, the little screens sometimes get overlooked. But we didn’t miss the LC-19D44U, a 19-incher AQUOS from Sharp that shows that size doesn’t always matter. Destined for kitchens and equipped with one of the sharpest screens we saw, it was the only brand new TV set introduced by the…
Do you know what time it is? It’s ass kicking time, and this Batman Collapsible Desk Clock is just the thing for criminals to know that Batman’s working 24 hours a day. $45 gets you the clock, which is also collapsible, and probably means you can easily stick it into your pocket and throw it…
Growing up I loved making shadow puppets, but regardless of how awesome I thought they were, no one could decipher my genius. Enter Shadow Monsters. This game (is it really considered a game?) takes your shadowy creations and digitally alters them onto a projection screen. It can even tell that you are trying to open…
Word on the street is that the video out function on the new line of iPods is locked if used in conjunction with old video cables and docks from third parties. Apparently, the new iPods will only work with cables featuring Apple’s authentication chip (read: official first party products and a handful of third party),…
We kid about Professional TV watchers, because if there were such things they would use this rack-mounted two-tuner HD monster. We laid our hands on this baby, liking most of it and loathing some. It has twice the capacity of the TiVo-less HR20, bringing 100 hours of HD and 400 hours of SD video to…
Looks like a fine oil painting. But when I give the remote a click, a motor scrolls up the art to reveal a TV. You can customize the art and frames over at [Vutec.com]
What would a CEDIA floor walk be without stopping by Crestron, that company that will let you control everything in your house with sophisticated control devices, commanding a hefty price along the way. The company’s newest addition to its vast system of control processing equipment is the MLX-2, a $750 remote control that has two-way…
