Median MX-400M: Digital Audio Player + VoIP Phone Calls
Take a portable media player, throw in some VoIP goodness and what do you get? Right now, you get the Median MX-400M, a Korean-made gadget that combines a 1GB/2GB digital audio player with free Internet phone calls in the form of VoIP. Judging from the pictures, it looks like the MX-400M only works with Miraphone…
Poll: Who Does Ballmer Look Like?
The New York Times reported this morning on Microsoft “unveiling” Vista, making it available to bulk business customers starting today. Blah blah blah. The most interesting part of the article was the photo of the always-entertaining Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ringing the opening bell at the Nasdaq with one of his trademark goofy looks on…
High-End Audio Equipment Holiday Wish List
‘Tis the season for gift guides and while our gift guide is the best, there’s nothing wrong with getting second opinions. CrunchGear recently looked at high-end consumer audio equipment for several different categories, doing a fine job in its own right. The “winners,” so-to-speak are: •Wireless Audio: The Sonos ZonePlayer ZP80 and the Olive Opus.…
Play VC Games On the Wii With the Original Controllers
The Wii Classic Controller is nice and all, but it’s still not exactly the same as the original NES and SNES controllers you grew up covering with prepubescent palmsweat. If you want to play those somewhat-overpriced Virtual Console games with the same controllers you played the original games with, snag these adapters that plug into…
How-To Dump Blu-ray Movies On Your PS3
We know how much you love reading about the PlayStation 3 and potentially illegal things, so let’s combine the two, shall we? It looks like enterprising hackers have figured out a way to dump Blu-ray movies using nothing more than a PS3 and Linux. Now, there’s a whole lot of Linux jargon to comb through,…