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There’s kind of a terrible dichotomy going on here: Creative is hurting financially but they’re making excellent products. I won’t bore you with all the numbers, but they’re hurting to the tune of $38 million, which is bad, but then they’re planning the Zen Micro Photo in September. So we’re torn. Hopefully the PMP revolution…
Yes! The much-awaited Nokia N90 is finally shipping! The camcorder-like 2-megapixel camera phone is the first of Nokia’s N-series to ship, and it’s about time. Nokia says the delay was due to some additional quality-assurance work but finally managed to ship ’em out in late July. Expect to pay top dollar for it though, since…
The world may never know if there are or aren’t cell-phone bomb jammers out there, but DefenseTech has stumbled on a patent that may shed light on the subject: The device includes a transmitter that mimics a cell phone base station and a metal horn to concentrate the signal from a 10 milliwatt power source…
Wow, Siemens is dropping all kinds of news today. And here I was thinking it was dead. MobileBurn reports that Siemens released the CC75 yesterday, which is a super-slim stripped-down phone — that means no camera, no email, not even Bluetooth. Apparently there’s still a market out there for phones that are basically just… phones.…
Candles, a bottle of red, some massage oils, and an OSX Intel torrent. It might not be like the first time, but it won’t be the last, baby. Come on over here and sit next to me on the bearskin rug. We’ll listen to a little Barry White, install a crack, and make our Vaio…
There’s nothing like the healthy, just-fried glow of a young man or woman who has just crisped themselves under old Mother Sun. The creeping redness. The burning. The slow and inevitable onset of skin cancer. Youth, you know, is wasted on the young. The do-good-nicks at Tan-Timer, however, want to take away your fun. The…
I’m a sucker for a nice, tricked-out car PC. This one is particularly interesting in that it isn’t quite a built-in system nor is it just someone’s laptop on the passenger seat. This Mini, hidden inside a glove compartment, has a 6 port USB/Firewire hub, a cute LCD touchscreen, and—I’m sure this is just an…
Okay, I’m confused. I thought Siemens was gone the way of the Dodo. But apparently it’s still breathing, or there wouldn’t be this new Siemens CF110 phone. This slider phone looks pretty sleek, plus it has some notable features; like a 65k TFT color screen, a 2 megapixel camera, and 1.5 MB of memory. No…
Fight back at the Man for making you listen to Hilary Duff’s Wake Up over and over again. Watch as your friends, and even former jock enemies, raise boomboxes high above their heads in support as the FCC takes you away in a grey van. The WVRS-P is here. This is a radio station in…
After our previous Goatse-tastic encounter attempts to install OS X on an Intel we decided to leave the hax0ring to the pros and eagerly await a confirmed functional install. https://gizmodo.com/macindell-part-quatre-the-ruby-goldmine-107940 The good news is that there is a confirmed hack of the Intel authentication scheme that is used in the new Mac OS X for…
Logitech, has finally gotten on the ball and released a keyboard tailored to the computer gamer. The new Logitech G15 has some nice features that actually tailor to gamers. The most acknowledged feature is probably the LCD screen on the keyboard. Keyboard macros can be setup on the physical keyboard while in game. Also while…
Jalopnik – Natty Vehicle, Brah: The Commercial Extreme Truck Lifehacker – Subway Maps For Your iPod Photo Kotaku – Voice and Video Email Coming to PSP? Screenhead – Ads? On the internet?! http://www.jalopnik.com/cars/news/natty-vehicle-brah-the-commercial-extreme-truck-116936.php
I love hearing the hidden genealogy of some of our favorite products (HTC is making the Treo 670, Lenovo and IBM, etc.). The Mac Mini is no exception. PC Pro has dissected the motherboard and figured out that it was probably manufactured by Foxconn and that the Mini probably cost about $300 to build, not…
A new model of the Sonic Blaster device used around the Green Zones of both Iraq and the Republican National Convention is out and can pound out sound waves and, purportedly, undistorted human speech, for over one mile. The original model is sort of a psychological weapon, distracting the enemy into oblivion. This version, however,…
I know, I know. Our earlier round up consisted of a bunch of articles that basically said “the Zen Vision exists.” Here is a full review including some nice criticism of some of the unmet features including higher resolution playback and some minor screen issues. Nothing drastic. My favorite point is that this is no…
Well, not exactly clown bikes, but Specialized is creating quite a few brand new “revolutionary” bikes. Check out the link to see all eight of these monsters. Supposedly they revolutionize the aerodynamics while biking, but I m sure that can be done just as easily without making the bikes look like the Toxic Avenger’s mutated…
I really like this little vinyl-playing VW van. I’m sure it will scratch all your records to hell, but I think the fact that someone, somewhere, suddenly sat up in bed and said “Why didn’t I think of it before! A van that plays records by driving around them in a circle! This will make…
Here we go. Let the cavalcade of Q leaks begin. BengalBoy is the first with his collection of Q photos sans his normal displays of horrible, filthy vulgarity involving his Kittens. What kind of man wants to watch scantily clad women writhing around a handheld? I blame Grand Theft Auto. Anyway, close up shots, nothing…
Ah! Things we miss! We miss you so! CNET gives us a top ten of tech that we currently miss including vinyl records and the Apple Newton. These stories are kind of like sugar-free nostalgia candy, offering the sickly sweet taste of treacly “Let’s Look Back, Shall We” as well as the memory obliterating effects…
Canon has some of the most unique styling in the camera world. Their bodies are as spare and elegant as an Leica or old-time Nikon so it’s kind of hard to tell the different models apart unless you’re a rabid digicam fan. Therefore, we bring you the new boss, same as the old boss: The…