Network Cable Tester
Granted, this $40 network cable tester isn’t as flashy as, say, a flaming iBook, but when your cables need a-testin’, look no further. As you might imagine, it tests the integrity of various networking wires, including 10BASE-T and 100BASE-T. It’ll find and identify problems like shorts, open wires and crossed pairs. No one ever said…
Audio-Technica ATH-EQ330 Headphones
Audio-Technica is releasing its ATH-EQ330 clip-on headphones in Japan this November. While they might not look as attractive as some of the company’s previous headphones, these do have a number of features that might interest those who wish to replace their dreadful Apple earbuds, but not for an arm and a leg. https://gizmodo.com/funky-audio-technica-headphones-171344 What does…
Microsoft Enslaves Transmeta Engineers, Building Portable XBox
According to Dean Takahashi, author of The XBox 360 Uncloaked, half of the 360 hardware team is now working on a portable XBox along and that Transmeta has dedicated 30 engineers to do Redmond’s bidding. No “real” information yet, but with all the fake mock-ups and Origami hype, we’re not holding our breath. One interesting…
Wii Not Wii (??)
Our stump-brained cousins over at Kotaku finally pulled one over on us. They had a very small piece about Nintendo thinking about maybe possibly not naming their new console after pee-pee. According to an apocryphal marketing guy named Mike, they’ve gotten over “200,000 e-mails with complaints about the Wii” and that they may or may…
CD-ROMs Last Two Years
Time to back up the porn collection, folks. According to IBM engineer Kurt Gerecke says that data burned to homemade CD-ROMs lasts two years on average, and that’s only if you keep it in a climate-controlled vault under Mount Ranier. Maybe IBM is just trying to sell backup services or CD-ROM polishing cloths—God knows they’re…