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Ricoh is making it a bit easier for us porn junkies with media management problems. I am sure everyone agrees with me when I say the hardest thing about life is actually putting a DVD in the drive to determine how much room is left on it. That disc eject button can be such a…
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is about to begin work on a $200 million dollar project to increase surveillance and security on the subways. They are using similar surveillance systems in Chicago and Corpus Christi as a guide and the plan will incorporate approximately 1,000 new cameras and 3,000 electronic sensors throughout the subway. Now it…
Seemingly confident in the future of Tablet PCs, Fujitsu released two new Tablet PC models today; the Lifebook T4020 and the Stylistic ST5032. The Lifebook is a convertible tablet, whereas the Stylistic is a slate-style tablet. Both will feature a 12.1″ XGA display with 160 degree viewing angle, optional Bluetooth, fingerprint sensor, and a choice…
So, the PSP 2.0 Firmware is indeed live. However, there may still be questions as to whether it’s worth it to upgrade. Yes there are cool features like the web browser, video viewing updates, network improvements, and so forth. But according to Philip Torrone over at the MAKE blog, the upgrade will also cripple your…
Sandisk has introduced their new Cruzer Freedom (Cruz@r Fr33d0m y0!11) to the burgeoning, and lucrative, student market. The device is a 256MB drive with a snazzy LED light and keychain that “lets students carry secure and legal Internet downloads of textbooks, novels, study aids, learning tools and other copyrighted content.” Yes, copyrighted content includes porn,…
Sorry. Just woke up. Google has what now? A Jabber server? Yep, that’s right. Someone deep with in Google Headquarters high on Mount Kilimanjaro is planning world domination by cornering the IM and VoIP market, stealing that potentially lucrative corner of the Internet away from, oh, I don’t know… Skype? Microsoft? So let’s see here:…
HP launched this camera last week while we weren’t looking, and it looks like we didn’t miss much. The Photosmart E317 is HP’s latest attempt at the entry-level digicam market, with 5 megapixels, a 1.5″ LCD, five subject modes, 4x digital zoom, QVGA movies, SD card storage, and… not much else. The really good feature…
Alright, ladies and gentlemen, start your engines: EBGames has started taking pre-orders for the XBox 360 over here in the States. But before you go clicking on that link, take note that EBGames is apparently only selling the XBox 360 in “bundle” packs; there’s the Core Bundle, and then there’s the Ultimate Bundle. The Core…
What? No Ron? This very credible p910i leak comes to us from Slashphone and ubergizmo. How do we know it’s credible? Ubergizmo got a C&D for their troubles. The Sony Ericsson Hermione, or P910i will be a 3G UTMS phone with a 2 megapixel camera. We shall see if this is not another photoshop picture.…
I love babies and their moist, delicious heads, but this is a bit too much. Little sparky should learn not to fall the hard way. I assure you that for every baby that is in any way damaged during the “learning how to walk” process there are about 5 billion children who bounce off of…
While Sensitive Object sounds like a gift shop for ladies who love kitties and angels, it is, in fact, a French company that creates interface systems based on temporal reversal. Apparently if you tap on an object at any point waves propagate through the object in different ways depending on the position of the tap.…
I’m sorry. If you can’t wear sunglasses because you’re missing your nose or something, then that’s fine, but these Sunblades, which cost about $50, are just funky looking. They’re some sort of sun shade, sans lens designed to keep bright lights out of your eyes. Why not just wear an accountant’s shade? Or one of…
After so much gloss black and faux-brushed aluminum, it’s nice to see a device that looks like something I’d drag out of my dad’s garage and just marvel at. The Crosley Traveler Turntable weighs 18 pounds and can hold up to six records of any size on its amazing Stack-O-Matic. I know this is circa…
AMD ran a full page ad asking Intel to bring it and throw down its dual-core speed benchmarks. The result? Intel said “No way. You’re dumb” and went home. This kind of posturing, while common among monkeys and cheerleading squads, is wonderful to see among the high and mighty in the chip world. Quite clearly…
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Is it there or ain’t it there? PSP fanatics have been whirling themselves into a frenzy today as the v2.0 firmware appears and then disappears like a magical wood fairy. The result? Everyone hates Sony. From what we can tell, CNET and Engadget have found and then lost the firmware multiple times today. Breaking: PSP…
Our headlines for today: Archos officially shows off two of their latest DAPs: the AV500 series and the Gmini-402cc (camcorder edition). Ministry of Sound keeps pumping out anonymous, sometimes disturbingly weird MP3 players. We’ve encountered a rather huge headset + detachable DAP, for instance. We’ve checked out Sony’s PSP and focused mainly on its multimedia…
The original iTrip was far from broken to begin with, but Griffin Technology decided to fix it anyway. The only thing plaguing the original iTrip was the lack of easy frequency changing. The new iTrip has a small LCD that allows for easy changing with the assistance of a knob/button on the end of the…
Because you don’t already have enough ways to get the music from your iPod onto your home stereo, Logitech announced its Wireless Music System for iPod today. Here’s how it works: You take a dongle that looks like the iTrip FM Transmitter, only it’s bigger, and plug it into an iPod. Then you jack the…
Tchibo, a German coffee chain, has, for some god-awful reason, decided to create a Roomba-like vacuum that doesn’t really vacuum anything. While it has settings for Large, Medium, and Small rooms, this thing seems to just run around and push dirt into corners, kind of like a Shi Tzu. Overall, this $100 vacuum sucks. But…