Pinball Goes High Tech With HDTV Makeover
Nothing ruins the day quite like finding an OUT OF ORDER sign tacked to the front of our favorite pinball machine. Here to put OUT OF ORDER signs out of business forever is the Ultra Pin (Global VR). Where old-school bumpers, ramps and bonus whirly things would normally be, the Ultra Pin has a 32-inch…
Dealzmodo: 20.1″ Benq Widescreen LCD Monitor
Newegg.com is selling this 20.1″ bad motha’ shut yo mouth, for $214 shipped. It has a 1680×1050 resoulution, 600: Contrast Ratio, & DVI. All you have to do is type in the coupon code BENQFP202W9403 at checkout to take your price down to $200 + $14 shipping and she’s all yours. Hurry though, there’s no…
Concrete TV Causes Retailers To Rethink Delivery Policy
Ladies and gentlemen, today is a sad day for the television theft protection industry. The good people at Innovation Lab have removed our need for their services. Say goodbye to locking wall mounts, cable tethers and bolted rails, because in the world of tomorrow all our televisions will be made…of concrete! How will they make…
ALIPR Helps People Decide: Hot Or Not?
An amazing innovation in the software world today: ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures) is a program that takes a look at digital images, applies some fancy math and then spits out a list of appropriate tags for the picture. It isn’t perfect, but the designers claim it has a 98 percent accuracy rate. They’ve…
WiDock Syncs Your iPod Anywhere in the House
Silex’s new WiDock connects to your wireless network to sync up your iPod sans cables. Why this hasn’t been built into Apple’s iPod dock already I can only guess, but thank God somebody is on the ball. It even supports security standards like WEP & WPA. The dock, which can also be connected via Ethernet,…
Nabaztag/tag, The World’s Smartest Rabbit
A lesson in product naming conventions: your first generation should be something with no easily discernable relationship to the item, like Nabaztag, the ambient Wi-fi rabbit gizmo. Subsequent generations should further complicate the already mysterious name, like Nabaztag/tag, the older and wiser version of said rabbit. You may remember our coverage a few weeks ago…
Microsoft Zune: Paying off the Industry One Label at a Time
It appears Microsoft has struck a deal with Universal Music giving them a portion of the sales from every Zune they sell. This undermines the traditional strategy created by Apple where music labels received money from song downloads, and not player sales. Microsoft has also said that similar offers are on the table for other…