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This is so stupid. Apple has added a product rating to their online store, letting users submit reviews of products and give them a one- to five-star rating—unless those products happen to be Apple branded. If it’s an Apple-made product, like an iPod Dock, for instance, it automatically gets a ‘five Apple’ rating, “because we…
Product Highlights • ATI’s SLI brand to be called Multi Rendering [TheInquirer] • Blu-Ray optical disks to be made from corn [TheInquirer] • Napster goes mobile with AT&T Wireless [InfoSyncWorld] • ADS Streams DVB-T TV to your PC [EverythingUSB] • My Netflix MCE 2005 Plug-In [eHomeUpgrade] • Opera browser on Pocket PC [GigaOm] Business •…
I didn’t realize that enough people had a hard time with the pull-tabs on cans that it warranted a device to assist in opening them, but apparently snapping them off without opening the top is more common than I thought. Boa has a little lever called the ‘canpull’ which is designed for getting the tops…
I had sort of ignored the Laserpod, a modern-day equivalent of the lava lamp or plasma ball, partially because it was designed by a ‘UK Light Artist’—I prefer all of my art really, really heavy, like Black Metal played backwards while submerged in mercury. But I4U did a ‘review,’ if such a thing is possible,…
This is great: when French luggage maker Goyard commissioned Toland Grinell to product an “Entertainment Center,” I wonder if a huge trunk stuffed with skateboards, a mini-bike, an iPod and speakers, and a built-in grill is what they had in mind. That’s not all, of course—there’s a ton more little additions that make the fun…
Overpriced audio peripherals vendor Monster has announced a new iPod-to-car solution called the iCruze, designed to make it simple to connect Apple’s player to any car stereo and control it via the car’s integrated audio controls. It’s sort of hard to tell how effective something like this will be without a proper review, unfortunately, as…
Following iTunes Music Store’s push into Europe, Microsoft is expanding its MSN Music Store to eight new countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland. That’s good news if you’re into the MSN Music Store, I guess, although between you and me, the Windows Media stuff that I find really exciting is…
Buffalo is selling four Disney Flash Memory drives starting in late November—at least in Japan. They aren’t really shaped like the characters, but are instead strangely-attractive bean-shaped drives with little Disney charms attached. The first four feature Mickey Mouse (perfect for storing copyrighted data in perpetuity), Winnie the Pooh, Tinker Bell, and Marie (one of…
Some have said that e-Book forms of science fiction won’t ever take off, despite a burgeoning scene spearheaded by BoingBoing editor, EFF figurehead, and successful sci-fi author Cory Doctorow, who has been one of the first to advocate electronic distribution of fiction works in general. Now a group of fans have gotten together to publish…
Palm Info Center has chatted up a PalmOne spokesthing, who pooh-poohs the rumor that PalmOne is considering using Windows Mobile operating systems in upcoming Treo products. Of course, they don’t quite deny the possibility that they might be researching the option for the future, either. In fact, we’re sort of back where we started, with…
OMG there is hot all over my heels! I believe that is the humorous idiom! Hotel Chatter has posted the darker half of their Best/Worst Wi-Fi hotels piece. “Best” was yesterday, but this is really the one I was interested in. It wasn’t quite as full of anecdotes of evil as I had hoped, but…
Is that an Apple iSight mounted to the inside of the new Love Bug? It sort of looks like one, but that dark grey bit on the end makes me unsure. Maybe it’s just a mic? (Thanks, Scott!) Full Size Image [Gizmodo] Update: Reader Jesse Johnson brings up a good point, and one I totally…
Playlist has a review of the Bose SoundDock, the desktop speaker system for the iPod that Bose has lately been promoting the holy hell out of. The long and the short is that it sounds great—better than any other iPod-specific speaker system—but for $300 is lacking in many features even cheaper setups have, like the…
PDA Buyer’s Guide has reviewed the Logitech Bluetooth Mobile Freedom Headset and come away suitably impressed with both its looks and performance. The Mobile Freedom headset has a new ‘WindStop’ microphone cover—a lot like those used in professional recording or corded headsets—that cuts down on some of the background hiss that wind and traffic noise…
HP’s Bluetooth Stereo Headphones are showing up on HPShopping.com for $100 (although they are listing as out of stock). While they clearly will work with the iPaqs listen on their site, it would be nice to know if they’re going to work with any other Bluetooth devices. They’re pretty much the first Bluetooth headphones that…
Samsung has developed a new CRT monitor that’s only 35cm deep, addressing one of the major complaints that CRT detractors have: their ridiculous size compared to LCDs. While 35cm is still fairly thick by modern flat-panel standards, it’s a lot better than older technologies (I have some ancient 21″ Trinitons that I use every day…
Toyota has built a concept car that’s focuses more on dropping medium- to jumbo-sized beats at the drop of a backwards- to over-sized hat than being, you know, cool looking. Called the Hiace (Hiyashi?), the van can fold out a set of turntables, speakers, and even a pop-up video display. And if the DJs come…
I have a feeling that these jackets with integrated displays from NYX are a lot more likely to be seen on the backs of paid adverti-droids, but they’re still pretty sporty. Just hook them up to a Palm and change the message as you choose—surely the hit of any party the first, oh, five dozen…
There’s little hope that this Sony Net MD Soundgate shelf system will ever see the light of our glorious American sun, but I thought it looked pretty slick—slick enough to talk about, for sure. The LAM-Z05 will be available in silver, black, and white and capable of being connected to a PC to use the…
Lots of audiophiles claim that tubes provide a “richer” audio experience than their solid state counterparts, but I don’t think this is what they had in mind. These earbuds from Korea feature an interesting design in which a plastic protrusion (the tube) sits in the ear canal, supposedly creating a richer sound through some scientific…