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The Register is reporting that the PSP might be pushed back yet again in the UK, despite missing its original launch in March. There’s no official word from Sony on the matter, but El Reg triangulates an August date based on information from various sources, including retailer Dixons. Sony PSP UK release slips to August?…
Brando is offering a hard cover for the PSP which includes a joystick atop the d-pad. It looks rather severe but will certainly succeed at keeping your wayward drool from washing into the PSP during Zone races of Wipeout Pure. Available for $12 through Brando, plus shipping. Console point sells similar screens from their very…
I4U has a review on the Mvisto DivX Player. Very similar indeed to the Wigobyte Mvolt-100 Media Flash we mentioned last week, it lacks the Mvolt’s soft, supple curves but includes a 40GB hard drive. (It may very well be an OEM derivative of the Wigobyte device, actually.) The Mvisto excels in playing back DivX…
ExtremeTech dorks out with the LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D, a geek-friendly motherboard with 4 SATA-II sockets, dual PCI Express graphics slots and plastic parts that glow under a blacklight. There are a few odd design decisions, including the addition of 4x PCI Express slots which are rarely, if ever, used. A Hard Core Gaming Motherboard—DFI…
Product Highlights • DVForge pulls JamPod from production [Playlist] • What is Microsoft s StartSomethingPC? [GigaOm] Business • Philips hit by flat-screen fall [BBC] Reviews • Trust SP-6300P 5.1 Speaker Set, Audio On A Budget [BIOS] • Sony Vaio U-71 [DavesIpaq] Culture • TOUGHEST DRONE, DEFENDED [DefenseTech] This is what happens when scientists don’t get…
So this is really old news, but I thought it was double-cool. Not only do I like the idea of mice shape “wine-tasting sessions” to determine the best shape, but isn’t it amusing how close the first Macintosh and Lisa computers came to having two-button mice? Think of the world we’d live in if Macs…
Clad in sexy aluminum, G-Tech’s G-RAID Pro is a RAID-3 enclosure that can hold up to 5 drives for up to 2 terabytes of sweet, sweet data storage. The G-RAID Pro runs on FireWire 800 and is specially suited for porn auteurs take note – video editing. This beast will start at about $1,499 for…
Are these Nike Ovolo the next big thing in shoes or the next great way to jam a rock into your heel? Nike doesn’t care, as long as you buy them. (Thanks, hey!) NIKE Ovolo [FreshnessGuide]
A Senegalese inventor is getting quite a bit of press for his automatic condom fitting device that is being shown at the International Exhibition of Inventions. The device is designed to help men slip on prophylactics in one smooth motion—so fast that “with a bit of practice the man’s partner probably won’t even notice that…
SmartDisk has announced their FlashTrax XT—an update to their older FlashTrax photo storage device. The XT features a 3.6″ LCD screen (but can also output to a TV or projector), an FM-tuner and audio playback. It’s USB 2.0 Mass Storage compatible, so you can use it as an external drive, and it can read and…
Leave it to the Swedes to suck the fun out of synth-pop. Elektron creates extremely expensive synthesizers and markets them in a decidedly surly manner. As the sample sounds on the Elektron website can attest, they do sound cool, but $2072 for a sampler with 12 MB of memory—”No endless sample library to stop creativity,”…
You re in luck—you won t have to bend over and think about the Mets anymore. Through a marriage of computer imaging, CT scanning, and other highly sensitive and non-invasive systems, the traditional method for checking things out up there might be on its way out. Colonoscopies, which are vital in cancer detection, usually require…
To celebrate the sales of one million Treos, starting at Noon, PST EDT, PalmOne is giving away a Treo 650 every five minutes. To enter you have to take an “interactive tour,” but I suppose that might be worth it to win. If you figure out how to skip all the schlock, though, let me…
Myriad hacks are emerging for the PSP as eager tweakers have their way with the black box. Add to the list the ability to control your home automation system (and TiVo) wirelessly. Liquidice explains: I now have the ability to turn my lights on and off. [I] have full control (Play, Stop, Pause, Menu) of…
When I saw the Tetris shelves on Kotaku yesterday I called Brave Space design to see how much they wanted for them. They told me they weren’t selling those pine models, as they were just a prototype, but had just completed their first production model, which as you can see from this exclusive picture, is…
Remember when Flickr said they’d reward the people who had bought pro accounts after they were bought by Yahoo? I got an email last night with details: 1. Double what you paid for! Your original 1 year pro account has been doubled to 2 years, and your new expiry date is Nov 22, 2006. 2.…
EA Sports is showing off screenshots of ‘Madden: Next Gen,’ the working name for the version of Madden for a “next generation” console. We have it on good word (and really, it’s sort of obvious, timing-wise) that it’s a live render of a shot on the Xbox 360. ESPN will be running a 30 second…
It looks like the long, storied journey of the Motorola MPx is sputtering to a halt. Moto officially cancelled any future launches of the device today, despite an initial toe in the water in Malaysia. It was a great idea, but its implementation was funky—too big, awkward to use, and underpowered. Sorry, Tycho! We were…
This might be the saddest tombstone I’ve ever seen. If this isn’t the inventor of the cellphone—something I’m not sure I’d want looming over me in the afterlife, anyway—then I’d really like to dig him up and steal all the moldering gadgets with which he was inevitably buried. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this in…
First of all, thanks to everyone who sent in submissions over the last couple of weeks for the position. You all definitely proved me wrong with some quality submissions—we should have been looking through the readership for help in the first place. It’s very likely I’ll be contacting some of you in the near future…