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Google is offering free hosting of video clips and will even allow you to set up a price for downloads. This could be major, or not. Maybe you should read Matt’s write up since it’s too late for me to be less dumb. You need west coast wisdom. Google Video (Beta) Upload Program launches [PVRBlog]
Ars Technica has posted another in-depth round-up of USB Flash Drives, this time focussing on the new crop of USB 2.0 compatible drives. I’m going to buck convention and link you to the very end of the article where you can get their scores and prices, since for some reason Ars’s janky CMS doesn’t let…
IT shops have been kicking and screaming since last August, avoiding Windows Service Pack 2 at all costs. Those days are over—you can no longer refuse to drink the Kool-Aid (although, in my experience, it’s been a pretty secure, stable Kool-Aid). INFOWORLD – Shortly after the August, 2004, release of Windows XP SP2, Microsoft posted…
The SkipJam iMedia mothership, announced last June, has finally landed. Designed to work with up to 10 analog inputs (DVD players, cable boxes, closed-circuit wine cellar cams), the iMedia can store and stream audio and video to any PC or SkipJam-enabled device over Ethernet or WiFi. SkipJam also offers audio and video players which are…
UStec has released their take on a Mac mini-based home media server solution by offering their proprietary ethernet and wiring system with a custom, mini-friendly holster. The UStec systems effectively establish a wired infrastructure throughout your house for sharing media and phone connections and include a UStec router along with commercial grade wiring and wallplates.…
Danny Sohayda’s wife had baked nearly the perfect cake, but at the last moment realized she didn’t have enough icing to draw a screen. Update: Wow, she makes a lot of cakes! Cake Central [.Mac] More Cake: Sony PSP Cake [Gizmodo] Playstation, A Sacred Institution [Gizmodo] iPod mini Wedding Cake [Gizmodo] More iPod Wedding Cake…
We ve talked about White Box Robotics before, but now they re releasing an advanced robot that is not just a PC case with wheels. The company is teaming up with Frontline Robotics in order to add advanced navigation and sound/video recognition functionality to their barebones PC-BOT. The 9-series can hold Mini-ITX motherboard, laptop hard…
ZMP has finally released their “nuvo” robot to the public. In red, blue, white and yellow color variations, the nuvo is available for the “reasonable” price of 588,000 yen. As far as features are concerned, the nuvo actually has quite a few: it can be controlled by voice, remote, 802.11b, and even cellular phone. In…
Buffalo is one of Japan’s largest peripheral companies (if not the largest), and this becomes apparent when we go from a Hi-MD player to the “PC-MV7DX/PCI” TV capture card in one day. TV capture cards get technical in nature, but this one has a feature that can be explained easily: it can convert video to…
NEC has a new model in their VALUESTAR W line of desktop PCs with an integrated 26″ display, called the “VW900/CD.” Its 26″ display has a resolution of 1360 x 768 (which is actually crappy when you think about it), but there’s another thing that has my palms all sweaty. The VW900/CD features a hardware…
Speaking of Hi-MD, it looks like Sony has whored technology out to Buffalo. For 27,270 yen, Buffalo’s “MD-HUSB” drive provides the same data storage functionality as the “PIT-IN” we just got through talking about, but will also act as a portable audio player. It supports MP3, WAV, ATRAC3, ATRAC3plus, and perhaps best of all, doesn’t…
I really don’t think Sony named it the “PIT-IN” on purpose, but the company does have an interesting adaptation of their new Hi-MD technology on the horizon. The PIT-IN is an external drive for using Hi-MD and conventional MD as a data storage medium. Since it connects under the USB Storage class, storing data on…
The V10K is a fancy watch without the ostentatious crust of jewels. V10K is short for 10,000 Vickers—Vickers being a measure of hardness and 10,000 being the 11 of hard things. Essentially, the watch face is made of commercial-grade synthetic diamond. Rado has been known for creating scratchproof watches and has now taken things to…
The Norpro Egg Rite Egg Timer is nothing new, but a recent piece on Apartment Therapy brought it to light and I couldn’t resist it’s simple style and singular function. Drop the Egg Rite into your pot of eggs and watch as the color of the egg changes—right before your very eyes, no less—to obscure…
Safety Dynamics is creating a system to separate the gentle susurration of the waves from the sound of an invading amphibian army. Designed to pick out unnatural noises glass breaking, chain link rattling, the odd, inopportune cough SENTRI can tell the difference between natural, repetitive sounds and unnatural breaking and entry. Planned chemical sensors will…
The Washington Post is running a story about the Sharper Image’s ‘Ionic Breeze’ air fresheners, passing on information from Consumer Reports that details a dangerously high level of incidental ozone generation when using the device. It’s not just the Ionic Breeze that has the problem (some other similar ‘ionizers’ also dump excess ozone) but with…
GPX is launching this new over-the-shoulder SportX headset MP3 player which uses TransFlash memory cards for storage. The downside of that decision is that the SportX HW6805DT will be somewhat limited in the size of TransFlash cards, which currently only go up to around 512MB. The upside is that TransFlash is small, making the headset…
Mike writes: I was skimming the stores in search of a good mp3 player deal [I lost all my friends trying to get one for free] and I stumbled upon something called a Zen Nano Plus. It’s a 1 GB player, and it comes in the usual array of candy colors we’ve come to expect…
Cameraphone pictures of juicy-rumped model Vida Guerra have shown up online, including pictures of a slightly-worse-than-Maxim but not-as-good-as-Hustler nature (that means “ass and beaver,” as the ever-demure Noah Shachtman encouraged me to warn). It’s strange stuff, to see these pictures continually leaked to the web—it’s almost like it’s free publicity or something. NSFW Pics [NowThatsFuckedUp]…
The Korean promotional site for the Sony PSP is online, which is only of interest to you if you like arty pictures of models holding PSPs or hope to glean more information about Sony’s launch and multimedia plans (which, fair warning, are slim; you’d be better off checking out the NESPOT details). The theme is…