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Apparently, playing music on Vista, or even having music paused, will cause your network speed to slow by 5-10% for some reason. That means that while you download pirated music you’ll be hurting your speeds if you listen to other music. Nice. [Slashdot]
Hackers from the iPhone Dev Team are claiming that they have fully unlocked the iPhone using a complicated hardware method—it requires “complicated soldering, with a high probability of a bricked phone.” Not really very exciting, as you can already get full service with any carrier using a Turbo SIM with no risk of breaking your…
Everything USB got their feet into the USB heating slippers and found that it’s actually quite toasty. After inserting their feet and hooking up the 4-foot USB cable to a USB port, they found that the heating elements got up to 101 degrees F. Yea, that’s only slightly warmer than your body, but it should…
If you’re too cheap to buy your kid action figures and walkie-talkies, these Spider-Man III walkie-talkies will allow you to feel like you’re still a decent parent. Shaped like Spider-Man and Venom, they’ll allow Junior to pretend he’s part of the movie, if the characters in the movie caused horrible feedback squawks whenever they got…
Following up on our story from last week about further Netflix price cuts, again reducing rates for its 3-disc at-a-time plan to $15.99, we’ve gotten a confirmation from Netflix Director of Corporate Communications Steve Swasey (pictured in the graphic here) about the nature of that $1-lower price. He says it’s part of a “price test”:…
If the clip on the iPod Shuffle isn’t secure enough to keep the player on your person when you engage in the spastic movements you call jogging, take a look at this iPod Shuffle Wristband. It comes in blue, black, green, frost white, pink and purple, and secures the iPod Shuffle to your wrist in…
This is probably one of the weirder weird combos of the day we’ve posted. How the hell does a Transformers beach ball fit in with a Clueless: Whatever! Edition DVD? [Walmart – Thanks Jack!]
You know that you really should be wearing a helmet when you go biking. The problem is, when you get to wherever it is you biked to, you’ve now got a big, bulky helmet to carry around. How annoying. That wouldn’t be the case if you had a Stashkit, a helmet that folds up for…
Proving that even the Japanese can’t tell between what’s real and what they see on TV, some company there is planning to build a 13,123-foot- tall building called the X-Seed 4000 to house 1 million people. We use the word “building” loosely, because this is seven times taller than the current tallest building, and actually…
Google offers full refunds to customers of defunct Google Video Store DRM-infested clips [ars technica]
Just as we mentioned last month, the DeLorean sports car is indeed going back into production, and you won’t even have to go back in time to get one of those vehicles so memorably featured in the science fiction movie Back to the Future. Our beloved blood brothers at Jalopnik spoke to one of the…
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A poster on the phonenews forum seems to have come up with the Sprint lineup for the next several months, all the way into early 2008. To start, they have the Motorola V9M on 9/4, the USB EV-DO Novatel U727 modem on 9/30, Palm Gryphon (code name for Palm Centro) and Sanyo S1 2500 on…
Somebody went to a lot of trouble to handmake these Farty Pants, and the story behind this sewing mastery is a mystery. However, we’d much rather look at a visual representation of said emissions than actually experience them in an aural or olfactory sense. Anyway, this unusual garment might make a splendid Halloween costume. [Neatorama]
Sony just goosed up the “high zoom” range of its CyberShot line with the DSC-H3, bringing that old DSC-H2 rolled out in February ’06 up a notch with more megapixelidge, a 2.5-inch viewscreen up from 2 inches, and a lower price. This one’s a little slimmer, too, looking a lot less like a lens with…
The two latest point and shoots from Sony, The T200 and T70, both have an 8-megapixel sensor and a similar body, but differ on a couple other features. The T200 has a 3.5-inch LCD, 5x optical zoom Carl Zeiss lens and comes in silver, black and red, whereas the the T70 has a 3.0-inch LCD,…
This week at TreeHugger: A series of roads built out of solar panels could supply all of our country’s energy needs, several times over, according to Scott Brusaw, the founder of Solar Roadways. Dig in to “precycling,” a hot new fad where you buy a gadget, take it home, strip it for parts, and sell…
Morning. We got sharp-shooting snipers, and Samsung’s new sliders. A war between Blu-ray and HD DVD. You can pick a hack on either a battery or the iPhone, check out the sexy new Canon and find out how Matt Buchanan is finding life in Japan. • Lessons in how not to wave a gun about…
The NYT confirms the earlier rumor that the HD DVD camp paid $150 million in “Promotional consideration” to have Paramount and Dreamworks Animation go strictly HD DVD. [NYT – Thanks Dom!] https://gizmodo.com/hd-dvd-paid-150-million-to-studios-for-promotional-co-291491
After being teased with that supposedly upcoming Nikon D3 flagship DSLR yesterday, now we’re hearing rumors of a second camera body about to be introduced at the same time, perhaps as soon as Thursday (August 23). Take a look at that admittedly fake picture above, and you’ll see an artist’s conception of the Nikon D300.…
