30 Jun, 2008
The 149 iSP series of LCD displays from Mitsubishi now comes with a 16-speaker sound bar that will definitely appeal to folks who have absolutely no idea on how to set up a home theater system. Boasting an integrated Sound Projector, it simulates surround sound by sending sound around walls, but I would say that it won’t be as good as the real thing (as everything simulated normally isn’t). Interestingly enough, you will be able to alter the way it sounds depending on the room size as well as TV placement thanks to a flexible yet simple menu option. The 46″ and 52″ displays will retail for $3,300 and $3,700, respectively. (Read the full post about ‘Mitsubishi 149 iSP series LCD’…)
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30 Jun, 2008
After announcing plans to open up the Internet past the 21 current top-level domains, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has suffered an embarrassing hack.
The hack also affected the Internet Assigned Names Authority (IANA) and was carried out by the Turkish group NetDevilz. Those visiting either site while the hack was active were redirected to an atspace.com hosted site. The message put there by the NetDevilz group read as follows:
# NeTDevilz #
You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong.
(Read the full post about ‘ICANN suffers embarrassing NetDevilz hack’…)
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30 Jun, 2008
So asks the headline at website Asylum. So far the poll shows 77% of respondents consider a little robot-love to be guilt free, something I’d agree with – after all, an all-singing, all-dancing (and all-sucking) robot doll is just a better featured vibrator, right? The Lady, whom I always consult in matters sexual and sartorial, agrees. “Do you think using a vibrator is having sex?” she asked me, “I do. It’s having sex, but it’s not getting laid.” But what about the partner left at home? Because these dolls are so human, waving goodbye to your man as he heads off to the cyber-brothel might not be so easy. The erotic part of sex, after all, occurs in the mind, and the only reason to use a full sized fake woman is to pretend you are with a real woman. (Read the full post about ‘Is Sex With a Robot Hooker Cheating?’…)
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30 Jun, 2008
That’s not much, but it’s a reminder to those who are waiting for the Dell E Series that it is coming soon. A search on Dell.com will yield the following result: “Coming Soon: Laitude E-Family Laptops!”. Yes, that Latitude with a typo… If you don’t know what the Dell E Series is about, go check our previous post on the subject.
Tags: cellphone, hdtv, Ogg Vorbis, hdtv
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30 Jun, 2008
That’s not much, but it’s a reminder to those who are waiting for the Dell E Series that it is coming soon. A search on Dell.com will yield the following result: “Coming Soon: Laitude E-Family Laptops!”. Yes, that Latitude with a typo… If you don’t know what the Dell E Series is about, go check our previous post on the subject.
Tags: gadgets, cellphone, gprs, amps
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30 Jun, 2008
These homemade specs could be straight out of Cory Doctow’s latest (and possibly greatest) new novel, Little Brother . The simple hack consists of mounting two infrared LEDs into the frames of a pair of sunglasses and running the cables to the earpieces, where they hook up with a couple of button batteries. Putting on the glasses presses the wires against the batteries and the lights glow protectively, unseen by the human eye, but bright enough to obliterate your image from security cameras. It’s a variation on the CCTV-busting infrared headset we featured a while back, only a little more slick. Aside from helping San Francisco’s teenagers bring down the DHS, we’d guess that – if these were built into Armani sunglasses – the paparazzi plague would go away overnight. (Read the full post about ‘Infra Red Shades Protect You From the Man’…)
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30 Jun, 2008
by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 30th 2008 at 4:16AMThe price isn’t the only thing swelling on ASUS’ Eee PC. According to DigiTimes’ proven ASUS sources, bigger Eee PC 904 and 905 models are cueing up for release. In a return to the Eee PC salad days of the big bezel, the new models will slot the same 8.9-inch display found in the 901 into a larger, Eee PC 1000-esque chassis with proportionally larger keyboard. (Read the full post about ‘ASUS’ bigger, badder Eee PC 904 and 905 in the chute?’…)
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30 Jun, 2008
by Thomas Ricker, posted Jun 30th 2008 at 3:37AM It’s here kids, in-game XMB demonstrated on a firmware 2.40 PS3 for the first time. Yup, that’s the clock and date displayed upper-right with a quick hit of the playstation button. Sony also reveals that the 2.40 firmware update will deliver the Google search bar (like the PSP update last week) and the ability to play and control your own music stored on the hard drive in-game. See that and more in the video after the break. (Read the full post about ‘Video: In-game XMB demonstrated on PS3 v2.40′…)
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30 Jun, 2008
Those who have been waiting eagerly for Opera Mobile 9.5 won’t have to be patient much longer, as the browser is currently going through final testing before the first beta version is released this coming July 15th. The apparent delay is due to Mobile 9.5 being based on the 9.5 version for the desktop, allowing one to surf the web using a mobile browser without losing out on support for the most updated standards on the Web. It seems as though early versions of the 9.5 are already shipping on the HTC Touch Diamond, as Opera did mention that it was easier to ensure the browser works on one specific handset before it is released upon the rest. Tags: lcd, consumer electronics, wi-fi, buyers guides (Read the full post about ‘Opera Mobile 9.5 Coming Soon’…)
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30 Jun, 2008
Good news and bad news from Canada, in the form of Rogers’ iphone 3G tariffs. Actually, there is no good news, so we’ll get straight into it. The cheapest monthly rate from the telco we love to hate will be $60 per month ($CAN and $US are so close we’ll skip the conversions) and you’ll get 150 minutes. The crunch comes with the data plans, arguably the most important part of an iPhone tariff. At the basic rate, you’ll “enjoy” a whole 400MB per month. And Rogers makes it clear that a Megabyte means 1024 KB, so you’ll get closer to 390MB of the kind you’re used to. Worse still, the top-flight plan, for $115, gives you just 2GB, which is far from the unlimited we might have hoped for. (Read the full post about ‘Rogers Reveals IPhone Tariffs, Canada Groans’…)
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