CNET Australia reviews the Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 and writes, “We’ve been talking iPhone killers for the last 18 months, crossing less impressive phones off our lists as each came and went without making a dent on the Australian mobile landscape. Sony Ericsson’s Xperia X1 stands a chance to change all of that; forget a dent on the landscape, the X1 looks set to leave a meteoric crater. If the X1 can live up to the hype we’ll be asking if the next generation of iphone is the X1 killer.”
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Tags: hdtv, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, technology
As much fun as constant sneezing and itchy eyes can be, most of us who suffer from hay fever dream of spending an entire summer symptom-free. British company Health Innovations claims they can now make that dream a reality, thanks to a new gadget called Medinose. Medinose works by using to photo therapy to inhibit the release of histamine. Insert the prongs of the device into your nose for 4-5 minutes, two or three times a day, and you could apparently see a reduction or even elimination of your symptoms. This has to be worth a try: it’s drug-free, simple, and at £79.95 ($158) is a lot less expensive than weekly prescriptions… Via Shiny Shiny. (Read the full post about ‘Hayfever? Try at-home photo therapy thanks to Health Innovations’…)
We’ve seen how one can cycle around the world virtually using a hacked bicycle connected to a computer, and some genius has apparently taken the same idea and applied it to a Wii Balance Board. This group of German students who obviously have some experience with Nintendo’s latest success managed to use the Wii Balance Board to navigate Google Earth. The turning sensation pretty much resembles FPS strafing, but this is still a cool hack nonetheless.
Tags: sat-nav, lcd, amps, video
$12 Moleskines not expensive enough for you? How about adding some custom, laser-etched artwork? One picture alone will bring the price up to a satisfyingly elitist $40. Add extra text to both the front cover and spine and you could spend $50, probably more than Hemingway spent on Daiquiris in a week. How on Earth can a custom etching company drill you for half a c-note for a notebook? Especially when a one man outfit can offer exactly the same thing for just $5 on the price of the book. We don’t know, but we guess it might have something to do with the spendthrift reputation of the floppy haired, frilly shirted dandies who entrust their sensitive, innermost thoughts to the “heir of the legendary notebook used for the past two centuries by great artists and thinkers”. (Read the full post about ‘Laser Etched Moleskine Are Reassuringly Expensive’…)
Funcom has released the sales figures for the long-awaited and well-received Age of Conan MMO, showing 400,000 copies sold since its release on May 20. Of those 400,000 copies sold, the North American market accounts for half of those figures.
The developer is claiming this release to be the highest amount of pre-orders ever for an original PC game. This combined with 2.2 million hits on the game’s website over the last week confirms what we already knew: people are excited for some Conan-themed MMO action.
Read more at next-gen.biz
Kenneth’s Opinion
With the kind of stranglehold that Blizzard had (and continues to have) on the MMO genre with so many subscribers and becoming such an embedded cultural presence that extends beyond gaming, it is somewhat surprising to see these numbers.
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The landing of the Phoenix spacecraft on the polar region of Mars using rockets to slow down its descent was a great success. In fact, the folks at NASA were able to take a picture of the spacecraft as it fell through the Mars atmosphere with parachute in tow. In the past, such a picture would have been absolutely impossible but that was before NASA had the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped the first picture of its kind. It was the first time one spacecraft had taken a photo of another spacecraft as it descended onto a planet. The photo shows a bright spacecraft with parachute deployed. There is enough detail so that you can actually make out the chords which attach the Phoenix Lander to the shoot. (Read the full post about ‘Phoenix Lander says cheese while landing on Mars’…)
Filed in archive Photoshop by jim on May 28, 2008 Adobe's Photoshop line of graphics programs are about as extensive as anyone could wish for, but let's be honest, they do have a very steep learning curve. As if that's not enough, there are thousands of plugins and actions that can be used with these programs, which is great, if you know how to use them. I found a website with links to about 20 helpful free Adobe Photoshop tutorials that should help you, and me, get the most from these programs. Source:www.adobe.com Tags: wi-fi, games, digital, gadgets (Read the full post about ‘Free Adobe Photoshop Tutorials’…)
I believe most of the website owners are aware of the fact how important is it to make a right decision while choosing a web host. However, choosing a web host is not the only thing to be taken care of.
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Today marks the end of Geek.com’s HP HDX Dragon Giveaway, so the survey is closed down and no more applicants will be accepted. That means today a winner will be chosen at random and contacted. That person will have 72 hours to respond, after which we’ll arrange for shipping and make sure all the loose ends are tied. This post will be updated with any news.
The giveaway ended up being a smashing success and we’ll definitely be spending a lot of time going over the survey results. In addition to the survey numbers about a third of the entrants left comments, so each of those will be read and given due consideration as well.
While the giveaway is over at Geek there are still seven great chances to win.
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The Japanese Prime Minister, Yasuo Fukuda, has this week approved a new initiative to warn parents across Japan about the dangers of allowing their children to use mobile phones for long periods of time.
The initiative was thought up as a response to the growing number of children thought to be addicted to mobile phone use. Their use is going on for several hours a day and stopping children from getting involved in other activities away from the phones.
Masahura Kuba, the government official in charge of the initiative, commented:
Japanese parents are giving cell phones to their children without giving it enough thought … In Japan, cell phones have become an expensive toy.
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