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If you purchased an iPhone between June 29 and yesterday, Steve Jobs and Apple have just announced that they’re going to give you a $100 store credit rebate for being an early adopter. No details yet on how you’ll get your rebate, but it will be posted by next week. Full text of Jobs’ open…
Videographer Richard Blakeley just hit up the Soho Apple store and found both the new iPod nanos and iPod classics up for sale already, both with fancy new packaging. Hit the video above to see him getting his sweaty mitts all over them.
You’ve seen the pics, you’ve read the specs, now it’s time to put a stopwatch on this second-generation combo player from LG. Expected to sell for around $1000 when it hits the streets in mid-October, it’s able to play just about any disc format, including good ol’ CDs. But we wanted to know, how long…
It’s not quite the Pearl 2, but T-Mobile is going to get a couple pearls in different colors soon. No word on when that is, but Boy Genius says it’s any day now. [ via Boy Genius]
Pioneer rolled out its Elite SC-09TX Direct Energy amp and AV receiver combination, a mutha of an AV system if we’ve ever seen one. Set to ship in January, the setup consists of a 10-channel amplifier stacked on top of a precision pre-amp receiver unit, giving you 200 watts x 10 of sweet, clean power.…
After a long series of technical problems with one of their two Boeing 757s, Nepal Airlines decided to sacrifice two goats in front of the plane in order to fix it. And guess what? It worked. It happened at Kathmandu airport, Nepal. The plane was refusing to start its engines before a flight to Hong…
A few weeks ago, I asked you to send in your old and useless gadgets for us to destroy. We now have a pile of gadgets on death row, and we’re gonna start going to town on them next week. All we need now from you lovely people is some help brainstorming some creative ways…
Actually, it’s really a TV stand. But the up-and-down ogling goes on non-stop. Okay, okay, the TV lift system this filly is riding is the DL-39 by a company called Nexus 21. [Nexus 21]
TiVo’s just announced that their TiVo Series 3 DVR is getting a Crestron touch panel, which allows it to integrate into a Crestron plug-and-play systems solution to control all your electronics from one place. [TiVo, Crestron]
The Apple Store page for the component AV cables—which up until now only supported the iPod classic—lists both the iPod touch and the iPhone as supported devices. What’s up with that? The iPhone doesn’t support TV out. Well, seeing as the iPod touch is also there, and since the touch and the iPhone are almost…
What is it with uber-premium turntables? Is there really a demand for $50,000+ record players? Basis Audio certainly seems to think so; they make the “Work of Art” turntable. And at $150,000, the Work of Art is definitely one of the most expensive consumer audio devices out there. It boasts features such as Resonance Annihilation,…
Webguide was bought by Microsoft and made a free upgrade to all Media Center users. It basically streams all video, music, photos and TV across the net. It even re-encodes HD streams to lesser pixel counts. There’s compatibility with WM6 and Windows, but it seems like many browsers should be able to hit your photos…
Looks like Nokia is twisting the screw just a little more into the sides of iPhone early adopters. [Search Engine Land via Techmeme via Textually]
We got a close-up look at the Epson Powerlite Home Cinema 1080 UB projector we scooped for you the other day, the cheapest 1080p projector in the world at an unofficial $2699 (but that might not be the exact number, according to Epson). Epson added a new chipset that raised its native (not dynamic) contrast…
Belkin’s followed up Apple’s announcements yesterday with a few accessory announcements today. Among them are the Sport Armband Plus for the iPod classic, nano and touch ($29), and the Sport Armband for iPod classic, nano ($19) and touch ($29). The Plus has a hook fastener and a cable capsule for earphone storage as well as…
Got some eyes-on time with the upcoming refreshed Media Center Extender v.2 boxes. Here are the features that weren’t in the press release that will hopefully keep it from being DOA like the older MCE 2005 extenders and differentiate it from current-gen Xbox 360. • It is lame, but the Xbox 360 is not slated…
Check out this Sponsored Google Link ad you get when you search for “iphone price drop.” Thanks, Apple. Thanks. [Google]
Toshiba’s been shipping its Cinema Series Regza LCD 1080p displays for a while now, but we just wanted to show you the newest member of that club, with the thinnest bezel we’ve seen yet. Check out this 46-incher, with a .9-inch border around the outside that Toshiba is calling SNB, or Super Narrow Bezel. Looks…
After weighing all of the GB options and touchscreens versus scroll wheels, we’re still not completely sure which iPod or iPhone to get yet, but those profile-happy kids over at Facebook seem to know. With a commanding 31% of the votes the iPod touch is the victor this time around. Although that doesn’t tell you…
This is the MWMIK or Mobility Weapon Mounted Installation Kit. The troops in Afghanistan call it “Wimiks.” We call it “Mad Max Jeepy BMF”, a new 4×4 attack rover that can kick some serious baddy’s butt thanks to its three soldiers/three major guns combo. It can mount different weapon configurations, including .50 caliber machine guns…