Posted Mar 30th 2008 6:14PM by Ryan BlockFiled under: Desktops, Gaming Looks like the first NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX cards have made their way out in the world — officially announced or not — and TweakTown’s got the benches. Performance gains seem marginal in triple-SLI over dual, but hey, those drivers probably aren’t finished and these cards aren’t official, so we recommend withholding judgment until it’s all legit.Tags: pvr, gadgets, sat-nav, wi-fi (Read the full post about ‘NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX triple-SLI rig benched’…)
SkinScan announced today the completion of its “Almost Invisible” line of urban chic clothing. With the motto “My Color is My Sensuality,” Jerold Kritchman, founder of SkinScan, speaks to his belief that there are exotic colors inherent in women’s skin that are glamorous. Using new digital micro-chip image sensors, new coloring chemistry and printer design, aided by computers and propriety software, it is now possible to record a person’s skin-tone and reproduce it on fabric. This creates an illusion that there is no fabric there. Mixing Computer Graphics Technology with Specific Coloring Technology allows for the production of clothing that looks invisible when worn and opens whole new worlds for clothing designers to work within. (Read the full post about ‘“Almost Invisible” Line of Urban Chic Clothing’…)
Shoe Fund Money Box
The Shoe Fund Money Box gives the boot to bad savers! Fact: Women would rather live on cereal for a week than go without a nice new pair of shoes. Fact: With the Shoe Fund Money Box, you can have your cake and eat it! (Or umm, have your nice pair of shoes and still save money!) Hot pink, high-heeled and highly-sassy, the Shoe Fund Money Box lets you slot your coins in and save up for a splurge! The ping of coins entering the Shoe Fund Money Box is enough to spur any woman onto saving!
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Posted Mar 30th 2008 8:43PM by Ryan BlockFiled under: Gaming, Home EntertainmentWe were kind of wondering when it was finally going to happen: Microsoft’s inked a deal with a production company to do original content for the Xbox 360. The licensed back catalog of stuff is good and all, but this would fill that niche in between Xbox 360’s digital downloads and long-promised IPTV. No word yet on when it’s coming, just that we can expect the usual compliment of Hollywood pap.Tags: Gadget, lcd, robots, Hi-fi (Read the full post about ‘Original content coming to Xbox 360′…)
Dot Matrix Watch It's not often that you'll find the words 'fashion' and 'technology' in the same sentence, but when it comes to Dot Matrix Watches it's unavoidable. You can have this for ?69.95 Tags: hdtv, gaming, speaker, pvp (Read the full post about ‘Dot Matrix Watch’…)
Posted Mar 30th 2008 5:31PM by Ryan BlockFiled under: cellphones Looks like Apple’s been passing around a new working version of the iPhone 2.0 beta firmware — not too many changes since the last release we saw, though. So far, from what we can tell the build is now officially 2.0 (before it was registered as 1.2), the Cisco VPN settings got some tweaks, and the root-level mail / ActiveSync settings have been reshuffled a bit. (Read the full post about ‘Apple seeds updated iPhone 2.0 beta, not many changes’…)
To get the most out of podcasting, I needed to replace the over-sensitive, low-quality mic built-in to my computer. I asked some friends, conducted a little research, knocked up a list of acceptable models, then hit town. It took a while find somewhere which sold anything good: Guitar Center, in Robinson, a suburb of Pittsburgh. When I walked in, it was nice to finally see some options, unlike the garbage at Best Buy and Circuit City. But it was not nice to be bamboozled by the staffer there, who told me three fibs. 1. That all the mics on my list were dynamic microphones, not condenser models. This was the opening gambit, but I was sure my list included condenser mics. (Read the full post about ‘3 Lies Guitar Center Told Me Today About Microphones’…)
The Dsus DS-400GB rear view camera is truly a thing of wonder - it looks like a standard rear view camera, but offers way much more functionality compared to the standard rear view mirror you get in your vehicle. Hailing all the way from the East (China), don’t be misled by the Dsus DS-400GB name given to the device. It is not an offshoot of Asus, and neither does it feature 400GB worth of storage space. The Dsus DS-400GB itself comes with a video input that allows you to hook up a rear-mounted camera. This camera will kick in the moment the vehicle is put into reverse, switching from whatever current GPS information display to a live view of whatever’s located right behind your car. (Read the full post about ‘Dsus DS-400GB rear view camera’…)
Adobe’s highly buzzed launch of Photoshop Express has been well-received, for the most part. However, some users have been appalled by a discovered clause in Adobe’s full terms of service for Photoshop Express, which reads: “8. Use of Your Content. Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.” The paragraph practically grants Adobe full rights to do whatever they wish with your photos (including monetary gain), which I admit, is quite ridiculous. (Read the full post about ‘Adobe’s Photoshop Express ‘terms of service’ sparks complaints’…)
Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho of Hawaii seem to have been smoking too much stuff lately. I’m saying this because on March 21, they filed a lawsuit in a district court in Honolulu, Hawaii against the European Center for Nuclear Research or CERN. This lawsuit seeks to place a temporary restraining order on CERN’s latest and greatest project ever: the Large Hadron Collider. And what is it that the L. H. C. does, you ask? Oh, nothing. It just recreates the Big Bang. You know, that awesome explosion that started the Universe? (Read the full post about ‘Two “concerned citizens” hamper recreation of Big Bang’…)
