Apple Responds to Poor Factory Condtions Accusations
Apple is playing spin control this week, trying to defuse a story that first appeared in a UK newspaper on Sunday, accusing the computer maker of building its popular iPod under near “slave labor” conditions in China. Reportedly, most of the workers at the factory—which is not owned by Apple—are female, work 15-hour shifts and…
Polish Twig Crayons
With the dollar being what it is right now, it’s no wonder that each of these Polish crayons costs $2.50. That’s American, not Canadian. I remember when you used to be able to go to Poland and buy a Soviet-made Trabant for $4.50 and an Archie comic in Spanish. Those days are gone. Ultimately, however,…
The Truth Behind HD Disc Extras
We’re slowly wrapping our heads around Blu-ray vs. HD DVD and one thing we really want to see are all these exciting extras they’re promising. Thus far we’ve seen a few BR and HD DVD titles and have been interwhelmed. However, Bryan Singer is offering up his vision for the Superman Returns release which will…
3 Archos Players 4 the Summer
This is all in France-talk—it’s out there in English, I’m sure, but who has time to use Google anymore? Anyway, Archos is launching the 404, 504, and 604, all with 30 to 40GB of hard drive space. The design is a huge departure from the standard Archos look and feel, and they’ll play back video…
Norelco Bodygroom Hands-On
Friends, I took the plunge. I received a Norelco Bodygroom and was eyeing it suspiciously for a bit. I went for a run today and during my post-run ablutions, I decided to try her out. https://gizmodo.com/phillips-norelco-bg2020-mens-bodygroom-reviewed-verdic-173823 The kit comes with three different combs for setting the length of the hair in question. I originally thought…
LensPlay: All About Lenses
Lenses are one thing that most budding photographers don’t understand. Megapixels and all that are fine, but put a 50mm in front of them and start talking about F-stops and all that and you’ve lost most of them, including me. LensPlay is a database of mostly Canon EOS lenses and there are a few basic…
Lexicon MC-12 HD Media Controller
Lexicon, a company known for its forays into digital media, is now entering the “HD era” with its MC-12 HD Media Controller. An audio/video processor for high rollers, the MC-12 HD features including an impressive six HDMI inputs (who even has six HDMI devices to output?) in addition to four component inputs, three S-Video inputs…
World’s Smallest LED Flashlight
Presenting quite possibly the world’s smallest LED flashlight, the intuitively named LXCL-PWT1 from Luxeon. This little guy, which is only 0.07 x 0.06 x 0.02 inches, emits 26 lumens of light at 350mA. Thanks to the LED, it has a 2,000 hour life span and instantly turns on–no annoying warm up time here! As an…