by Nilay Patel, posted Jul 10th 2008 at 10:19AM Belkin’s not letting a little thing like the launch of the iphone 3G slow it down this morning — in addition to all that wireless gear, it’s even got the stones to throw down an ipod accessory, which is a little funny. The GoStudio recorder is a full-featured recording dock for the iPod 5G, classic, and 2G and 3G nanos, which allows you to record 16-bit 44.1kHz audio directly from two built-in stereo mics or quarter-inch, XLR, and minijack inputs, and dump it all into iTunes when you’re done. The $119 box isn’t the sexiest thing we’ve ever seen, but if you’re a dedicated podcaster or just suffer from delusions of being the next Martin Hannett, it’s probably worth a look.Read PermalinkEmail this28 Comm (Read the full post about ‘Belkin unveils the GoStudio iPod recording dock’…)
by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Jul 10th 2008 at 9:38AM We’ve all dreamed of wire clutter-free home theaters for years (admit it), and Belkin is about to make things a lot easier with the FlyWire. The new wireless transmitter and receiver can send 1080p video over a 5GHz band. Belkin promises little to no interference and no latency even for you gamers. As for connections, we’re looking at three HDMI ins, two component ins, one composite, and one HDMI out. Remote control is done via IR, which should be welcome news to those of you with universal remotes. FlyWire will come in two packages: The FlyWire AV69003 at $999.99 is meant for a whole-home solution with an IR backchannel for multi-room control, while the FlyWire R1 AV69000 at $699.99 is meant for a single room without the IR backchannel. (Read the full post about ‘Belkin’s FlyWire does 1080P without wires’…)
Kodak has announced their new point-and-shoot EasyShare Z1015 IS digital camera. Geared for the aspiring photographer who prefers to have both automatic and manual control, this camera boasts of a 10-megapixel resolution, a Schneider-Kreuznach lens with 15x optical zoom, 28mm wide-angle lens, 3-inch LCD screen and high ISO mode from 60 to 3200. In addition, the Kodak Z1015 IS captures still images in high-definition quality at 16:9 aspect ratio and 720p videos at 30fps. Other features of this digital camera include optical image stabilization, face detection, perfect touch technology, text and sound tagging, and multimedia slideshow feature the runs on your camera’s LCD. (Read the full post about ‘Kodak intro’s the 15x zoom, 10MP EasyShare Z1015 IS camera’…)
Next time you make a mobile call there’s a group of individuals you should thank. They are the people who have to climb communication and mobile phone towers to complete installs or do maintenance. As a RCR Wireless News article reports, tower climbing is the deadliest job in the U.S., according to the head of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Edwin Foulke Jr.
Foulke states that many fatalities occur during a tower’s erection, retrofitting or dismantling, and tend to be due to climbers not being tied to a safe anchorage point or faulty personal protection equipment.
Get this for your other half, but make sure your heart does not float away to any person other than the one in the photo. Featuring a new anti-gravity design, this heart levitates in the middle of the air as if by pixie magic, but it actually boils down to (rocket) science. The heart will be able to rotate on the spot slowly for some added effect, and would make for the perfect present anytime, never mind Valentine’s Day. The Floating Heart Photo Frame can be yours for $40. Tags: tests, toys, equipment, pvr (Read the full post about ‘Floating Heart Photo Frame’…)
Microsoft’s latest Patch Tuesday has just been and gone, but its left a sour taste in the mouths of ZoneAlarm users. That’s because one of the 4 updates released confused ZoneAlarm’s firewall meaning anyone running it and installing the patch no longer had Internet access.
The specific patch that caused the problem is MS08-037, which fixed vulnerabilities in the Windows Domain Name System (DNS) that allowed spoofing to occur. For some reason the update meant that ZoneAlarm no longer recognised Windows accessing the Internet as a safe thing to do, so blocked it.
There are 3 workarounds ZoneAlarm has detailed that include setting the firewall to medium security, uninstalling the patch, or adding your DNS servers to the trusted zone of the application.
Fans of 2D shooters, or Shmups as they are commonly known, should mark July 23 and July 24 on their calendars. That’s the days Capcom has announced the new 1942: Joint Strike game will be released on Xbox Live and the playstation Network.
Developed by Backbone Entertainment, also responsible for the forthcoming Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix, the game takes the classic 2D Shmup and updates the graphics to 3D and HD.
GM has chosen its factory in northeastern Spain to be a suitable location for rooftop solar panel installation. The predicted 10-megawatt solar station will be used to supply the plant with most of its power needs, thereby taking the title as the largest rooftop solar station in the world. To get an idea of the scale of this thing, imagine being able to power 4,600 households each year with a constant source of electricity. Now that must be big. How big you ask? GM plans to blanket about 2,000,000 square feet with about 85,000 panels by the end of September. Though, this is nothing for GM. They currently own the two largest solar panel installations in the United States and don’t plan on stopping anytime soon. (Read the full post about ‘GM to build world’s largest rooftop solar station in Spain’…)
by Thomas Ricker, posted Jul 10th 2008 at 5:50AM var There it is, the new freebie from Apple which turns your iphone or ipod touch into a remote control. It works with Apple TV and iTunes over the WiFi network to play, pause, skip and shuffle your songs stored in your iTunes library. You get access to playlists, album art (displayed in the Remote app), control over AirTunes speakers, and the ablity to search your entire library. (Read the full post about ‘Apple’s Remote: turns your iPhone into a WiFi remote control’…)
