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Naw, we’re just joshing. Eagle-eyed reader Andrew sent us this super-secret photo of the real Xbox 360 – a pair of G5s churning away inside a steel cube. Therefore, it is abundantly clear that MS hasn’t ramped up their production of final units by any stretch. Could this mean a dearth of 360s come Christmas?…
The fights for available N-Gage kiosks were neither fast nor furious, simply because there were none. Actually, on my second pass through, there were quite a few people playing the N-Gage’s, but they were trying their very hardest not to look interested. [C.C.]
The Robot Age is upon us. Please read the last line of this quote very carefully: …now he can lie down and get back up onto his feet, distinguish between different colours and sounds, grip and pick up an object as heavy as a beer can, and throw lighter objects around ten feet… So this…
Good on Washington Post reporter Brian Krebs for digging deep into Paris Hilton’s hack, uncovering how a group of kid hackers slowly worked the T-Mobile system, exploiting both security weaknesses in their web site and common sense weaknesses in T-Mo employees. It seems the kids had the ability to pwn any Sidekick to which they…
This is a weird beast. It’s some sort of Qualia-quality home receiver with a number of exciting features but we can’t read it. Can anyone out there make out them Japanese squiggles? We’ve seen most of the Qualia gear, so this looks pretty aged, but we haven’t gotten any specs on it, specifically. (Thanks, Esmaeil)…
Why wait for homebrew Revolution games when you can just make your own handheld Famicom/PSP monster hybrid out of an old Pachinko screen and some ghetto fabulous switches. Built by some Japanese kids with lots of time on their hands, they used a cracked up Famicom and controller to create a portable cartridge-eating beast. Quite…
Another nail in the HD DVD coffin? TDK is reporting that they’ve created a four-layer recordable Blu-ray disk as well as a speedier 50GB version. Meanwhile, the HD DVD has announced that Blu-ray disks kill kittens and prevent pregnancy in adult females. So who should we believe? As we said before, the first fellow to…
A very cool design idea: this backpack consists of a soft inner bag and an outer shell. If you need to take off your backpack—now here’s where it gets a little fuzzy—you can leave it anywhere by closing the shell and chaining it to an immovable object. This approach seems a bit byzantine for my…
These are pretty old, but I’ve got a tankless water heater in my house and just love it. These point-of-use heaters are even cooler because you don’t need a massive room in your basement for a fat heater and tank combo and the water heats instantly and is never ending, in theory. Tankless heaters haven’t…
The biggest pain in the arse for most sysadmins is keeping track of what hardware sits where. This issue, which was originally championed by IBM, if I recall, is now being taken over by Intel with a new chipset that allows for remote on-the-fly access to PC inventory and health information called Intel Active Management…
This bluetooth and USB compatible R2D2 droid thing is actually a research project designed to create a companion robot that people will not flee from. The folks at the University of Pisa—the one in Italy, not the one near Scranton—built this thing to replicate the jolly look and feel of everyone’s favorite midget inside a…
People are apparently getting excited about a little blip in the Nintendo Revolution press release that is also being interpreted as a sign that Nintendo will allow homebrew games to be uploaded and played to the upcoming console. Here’s the bit: Freedom of design: A dynamic development architecture equally accommodates both big-budget, high-profile game “masterpieces”…
When Popular Science told me last week they’d be doing a podcast from E3, I was fairly sure they’d made the typical first mistake made by those who jump on the podcast bandwagon: doing a podcast at all. But I’m listening to May 18th’s episode now while I do my laundry in the hotel ‘Rape/Murder…
Crack open a fresh DVD-R, burn a copy of SWIII, and start playing with Darth Tater Head. You won’t have to leave the house for weeks! This toy, which is shaped like a potato—the future is upon us!—includes a Darth Tater helmet, a laser sword—where do they get this stuff?—and is tinged with a Santorum-like…
While it would be much cooler if this thing could float in the air like some kind of interrogation droid, this is a step in the right direction. It’s a periscope/video camera designed to be buried and concealed outside of a target for 24/7 surveillance. During the day, MUGI has a range of some 3,000…
No specs on this yet, but it seems some Wal-Mart customers are getting emails stating that they can now get Netflix accounts for the same price as the Wal-Mart DVD rental service. Wal-Mart has teamed up with Netflix, the largest and most popular online DVD rental service. As a current Wal-Mart DVD Rentals member, you…
Wait, what? So these things are actually MP3 players, not cellphones. I know. I was confused too. Let’s all sit down for a minute and figure this out. So it’s called the WizPac, which sounds like a catheter brand, has an OLED, a maximum of 1GB flash memory, and supports WMA-DRM. Then it’s got that…
This DivX compatible PMP includes a 4″ inch display, FM radio, OGG support, and seems to be arriving on shelves at the end of the summer. No MSRP, but with a maximum of 30GB hard drive, it seems that this might be a little less than some of the newer 40-60GB models hitting the streets.…
Double-necked guitars we can understand, but what does this thing sound like? I suspect the dual pickups whang out some odd sounds and that Glenn Branca, art rocker for the ages, plays this with barre chords because you’re probably not going to get much out of it otherwise. Branca has also created something called Symphony…
We do not wish to condone piracy or the associated mental and physical perversions associated with the pirate lifestyle—I’m absolutely sure that the babylon of Massachusetts will soon allow pirate marriage, which would be a blow to our Republic—but Star Wars III is apparently available on the Internets. What does this mean? It means that…