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As mentioned the other day on sister site Kotaku, it seems that making portable versions of yesterday’s favorite video game consoles is the newest fad to sweep the Internet. http://kotaku.com/gaming/nintendo/nes-mated-with-apple-173994.php What we have here is just the latest in a long line of such mods. Dubbed the nPod (watch out for Apple’s lawyers), it’s a…
Nokia announced the newest addition to their Eseries of business phones today, the Nokia E50. Eight reasons it should be on your list: It’s small, and we don’t just mean “small for a business phone”—it measures in at 113mm x 43.5 mm x 15.5 mm, for a total of 70 cc, and weighs just 104g…
Something’s a bit fishy about this, so we’ll put it in the “rumors and conjecture” category, but we heard about Samsung showing off a 16GB solid-state drive a year ago, but haven’t heard of any for sale yet. Until now. We got a tip about website DV Nation offering the flash memory-based hard drive for…
Anergé is Eternal Delight By Brendan I. Koerner Scant brainpower is required to realize that there’s a strong correlation between a product’s price and the number of middlemen involved in getting it to market. The more hands a doohickey passes through, the more expensive it tends to be—a major reason, I figure, as to why…
D-Link has introduced a wireless router that features the ability to share a 3G Internet connection, simultaneously burning a hole in your pocket and upsetting 3G providers worldwide. For those not in the know, 3G is a method of transferring data to and from cellphones that’s all the rage in Japan where users are downloading…
Apple sneaked through a firmware update on Tuesday for MacBook Pro notebooks, failing to mention that it was intended to fix overheating issues in the laptops. The firmware update dealt with the system management controller, the part of the MacBook Pro that controls power and thermal conditions. Users of Apple’s support forums weren’t happy with…
This seems like a bit too much trouble for some free skyping, but what do I know. IPdrum has created a product that transmits Skype audio back and forth to a cellphone which then calls you on your cellphone. I know—wha? You basically need two cellphones on the same network, preferably with free in-network calling.…
A pox on thee, MacBook. Can you beat a 12-inch AMD Turion notebook with ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M graphics and DVD burner? No, you can’t. This will be one of the first laptops running the Turion chip. No more specs, but it looks like a monster and only weighs about 4 pounds. MEGABOOK MS-1058 with…
Amidst all the chatter—”Jesus wasn’t divine and slept with the ladies,” “Tom Hanks has bad hair”—very few people were brave enough to bring up the real issues in Dan Brown’s smash best seller, The Screenplay for the Da Vinci Code Movie. Brown, it seems, doesn’t know anything about technology, biology, or art. His most egregious…
Strange stuff, this is. Apparently someone has built a single lens reflex camera out of cardboard and toothpicks. The coolest thing about this is that it uses a pencil to advance the film and even has a real rangefinder. We’ll try to contact the creator to discuss how he/she made this bugger. Picture Pages [Ueba…
ElephantDrive is a website that offers unlimited online storage for any of your data. The company touts military-grade encryption, and lets you access your files from anywhere, letting you designate some as private and giving your friends access to the rest. The best part of this is that while it’s in beta testing, it’s absolutely…
The PS3 won’t have vibrating controllers because the plastic they’re made of is cheap and flimsy, says Immersion, maker of vibrating controllers. These sound like harsh words until you consider that they guy who said them, Immersion CEO Victor Viegas, has successfully sued Sony for infringing on their vibrating controller patent and now stands to…
Blaming the price of crude oil and silver, Fuji Photo Film is raising their film prices by up to 20 percent. Considering that Fuji and Kodak are the only folks still making commercial film, this is definitely not a surprise. Kodak has already raised their prices and considering that only my Crazy Aunt Debra uses…
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We’d heard the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue (a.k.a. Steve Jobs’ Glass Cube) was going to have its big unveiling this Friday, as it opened to the public, but lo and behold the wraps came off last night in time for a press tour. We completely understand how our friends at Gothamist had to hit…
If you haven’t jumped on the incredibly safe DVD-player-in-the-car bandwagon just yet, Kenwood may have something in the woodworks to change your mind. Their VDR-55 plays standard DVDs and DVD-Rs, as well as CDs loaded with your quality collection of MP3 and WMA files. They’re even hawking a special cable to connect your iPod directly…
Macworld published its first benchmarks of the 13-inch MacBook, taking two of the newest Intel-based laptops out for a spin. Running the benches on 1.83GHz and 2GHz Intel Core Duo 13″ Macbooks, Macworld reports they “held their own” against their MacBook Pro brethren. Looking at the numbers, the new MacBooks were a bit slower than…
Reader Dv sent us a little tid-bit about Sony and their manueverings with the Alpha DSLR we talked about a while back. https://gizmodo.com/sony-alpha-dslr-unveiled-sort-of-173377 It seems Sony has purchased Japanese lens company Tamron and will be coming out with the Alpha DSLR with 20 Tamron lenses between June 12 and June 15. The Sony Alpha will…
If you’re looking for car stoked with technology, the Lexus LS 460 has more techno-goodness inside than any other vehicle offered for sale in North America, says the Telematics Research Group (TRG). https://jalopnik.com/lexus-uncovers-ls-460l-flagships-elfin-ass-147264 What’s the big deal? There’s a 30GB hard drive for both music and navigation, and enough cameras to produce a TV talk…
Sony Ericsson rolled out at the Z550, aimed at the midrange of the clamshell handset market. It’s a tri-band GPRS phone with a 1.3-megapixel camera with 4x digital zoom and an MP3 player. A pretty basic phone with a 200×176 pixel display, it has Bluetooth capability and video recording and playback. Not a bad looking…