ABC Uses iTunes To Debut Pilot
Apple must be doing something right, since yet another major network has decided to put more of its content on Apple’s iTunes Music Store. The latest is ABC, which is debuting Kyle XY on the iTMS on June 20, a show about “a mysterious teenage savant who is devoid of such human instinctive behavior as…
Blu-Ray Titles On Their Way
Ready, guys? Here comes some Blu-Ray. June 20 is the official launch date for the BD-P1000 along with eight sexy movies including The Fifth Element and Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction is coming in July. What about great, classic comedies, you ask? How about a Blu-Ray version of A Knight’s Tale. I wish i knew…
Chinese Supplier Blabs About New iPod
Wait! Put down that white box! There will probably almost most likely possibly be a new iPod coming out in the next few months, possibly, so don’t buy that 60GB just yet. Terry Gou, chairman of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. and a major Apple contractor has been talking about some sort of touchscreen iPod…
xvista Portable Iris Scanner
The UK is already chock full of surveillance cameras—for your protection—and now that iris scanning technology is beginning to catch on, it may only be a matter of time before it’s a widely practiced method of identification. Xvista has been hard at work improving iris scanning technology, having just developed the UK’s first portable iris…
Eating Edible Plastic
Tired of passing rock-hard nodules of compressed petroleum by-products? Try noshing on edible plastic instead. Plantic, a plant-based plastic, tastes like state bread yet is wonderful with some fava beans, a nice salad, and a bottle… wait, what do you drink with plastic? Red? White? Edible Plastic: The Wonder from Down Under [CrypticMoth via TreeHugger]
Grundig PSW 500 Wireless Speaker
Wires are so out right now. Grundig knows this, and that’s why they’ve come up with the PSW 5000 wireless speaker system. Simply plug in the transmitter to a line-out source (such as an iPod) and watch as your music is wirelessly transmitted to the speaker, indoors or out. The speaker isn’t exactly a slouch,…
No iPods While Driving Says Some Random Canadians
What’s next? No putting on make-up while driving? No spilling a big beef taco on your lap while driving? This sort of thing may fly up on Canadee-i-o, but here in America we have laws, and those laws say we can twirl our scroll wheels until we crash into a ditch and flip our SUV.…
No PSP2, But Sony is Jonesing
A Kotaku reader—we’re sure there are at least two of them—attended a Sony focus group to discuss the PSP Fix, which he assumed was some sort of injected PSP designed to block certain neuroreceptors and incite euphoria in the user. No such luck. It is, in fact, Jampack for PSP which includes shitty versions of…
LaCie Terabyte Raid Drive With SATA II PCI-Express Card
LaCie’s Two Big RAID system consists of two fat SATA II RAID drives as well as a SATA II PCI-Express card so you can milk every second out of you graphics workstation. Designed to work with both PCIe PCs and Mac G5s, the drives can hold up to 1TB of data and have a throughput…