by Ryan Block, posted May 31st 2008 at 12:17AM We’ve got your summer crapcamcorders right ‘ere — three new RCA Small Wonder cams to make your Flips flop. (Read the full post about ‘RCA intros three new Small Wonder budget camcorders’…)
I don’t know about you, but glowing USB gadgets seem to be all the rage these days. Well, why not join in the fray with the USB Moody Star Hub? This features a quartet of USB 2.0 ports in different direction, ensuring none of those ports will go to waste. It will rotate through all seven colors, and since it draws power from your USB port, there is no need to lug around a heavy and ugly power adapter. The USB Moody Star Hub measures 75mm x 75mm x 18mm and weighs a pocket-friendly 45 grams. It will retail for $12 a pop. (Read the full post about ‘USB Moody Star Hub’…)
by Darren Murph, posted May 30th 2008 at 5:46PM If you’re anything like our boy Ryan, you’ve been wearing that Wii Fit out ever since you took delivery. Unfortunately, you’ve probably been doing a bit of unintentional jogging when logging miles back and forth to the local mini-mart for batteries. If you can’t seem to keep your Wii Balance Board charged, Nyko has introduced a novel solution: the Energy Pack for Wii Fit. Our pals over at Nintendo Wii Fanboy were able to get ahold of this very unit and put it through its paces, and generally speaking, they were quite impressed with the $20 peripheral-for-a-peripheral. Head on over for the full writeup and a smattering of pics.Read PermalinkEmail this7 CommentsFiled (Read the full post about ‘Nyko’s Energy Pack keeps your Wii balance board juiced’…)
Two things immediately sprang to mind when I saw this new invention: “Why didn’t I think of that?” and “Where was this when I was in high school?” From what I know, these Wordlocks are the first combination locks that allow you to set your combination using words rather than numbers. If you’re like me, and can’t remember a number sequence, these are for you. With a variety of products from padlocks (great for lockers, toolboxes, etc.), bike locks and TSA recognized luggage locks, you’ll never need to remember a number combination again. (Read the full post about ‘Wordlock combination locks - easy to set, never forget.’…)
Apparently the legal department of RIM got to CrackBerry before we could and had them pull the pictures down, but at least we still have the pamphlet shots. The blackberry KickStart, RIM’s first entry into the flip-phone market, got a hands-on experience from CrackBerry and it seems as if they are pretty darn happy with it. The basics include opening the flip to answer the phone, closing to end it, seeing the caller ID on the outside LCD screen, and external music controls (as expected), but here’s where RIM comes in. On regular candybar BlackBerry’s if the phone is holstered, the message will automatically appear once you pull it out of the holster. (Read the full post about ‘CrackBerry gets a BlackBerry Kickstart hands on’…)
Blockbuster is about to launch a pilot test of its in-store kiosks for downloading movies into portable media devices. Sounds cool? Even cooler is the fact that downloading one movie would only take a customer two minutes. And we’re not talking here of short half an hour movies but movies for rent in all their full-length glory. No less than Blockbuster’s Chairman and CEO James Keyes will be the one to demo the pilot kiosk during Blockbuster’s shareholder meeting. But don’t get too excited about this uber cool service yet folks, because the in-store kiosks only contain a few titles of movies, as Blockbuster is still negotiating with major studios regarding the possibility of including their movie titles into Blockbuster’s in-store kiosks database. (Read the full post about ‘Blockbuster preps up 30 seconds in-store movie download kiosk’…)
