Isn’t it great that computer peripherals are becoming so darn slim? Some of these new gadgets, if looked at from a side angle, could even be easily missed. Computers use to take up whole rooms! And were talking as recently as 15-20 years ago. The great thing about these computer parts slimming down is that they are so much easier to integrate in to the home. In fact, furniture these days is being made so that the computer barely needs to be integrated at all, but just fits right inside of the furniture itself. The ClassicX-Variheight from i-Desk embeds two of the essential peripherals into its own design, with an embedded back panel for housing the TFT flat-screen display, and a keyboard which embeds right into the desk’s surface. (Read the full post about ‘ClassicX-Variheight Embeds A Computer Into Your Desk’…)
Give the Canadian Parliament credit for at least attempting to drag its copyright laws into the 21st century. But one gets the feeling that a digital hornets’ nest has been stirred up by new legislation introduced by Industry Minister Jim Prentice. Canada’s government tried to find the right balance between personal freedom and protection of artists’ rights with its amendments to the Copyright Act. Yet judging from the coverage, critics will no doubt point to similarities to the U.S.’s Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which digital rights advocates accuse of favoring Big Media, Inc. (Read the full post about ‘Canada copyright bill allows personal music copies’…)
Popular rock band Pearl Jam and Verizon Wireless under its V Cast service have reached an agreement that will allow Verizon to sell selected tracks from the band’s long-running live bootleg program. Pearl Jam made the deal in line with its current promotional gig for their summer tour which will kicked off in West Palm Beach, Florida. Moving forward, three tracks from each of Pearl Jam’s shows will be distributed by Verizon via its V Cast service. Likewise, Pearl Jam fans can also either purchase or download those tracks by visiting PearlJamConcerts.com. Those Pearl Jam tracks will be offered in a “dual downloads” scheme, meaning each track will be sent to fans’ mobile phone and at the same time to their computers. (Read the full post about ‘Pearl Jam seals disitribution deal for live bootlegs with Verizon’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jun 12th 2008 at 6:35PM Add one more to the WiFi projector heap, as Acer has just blasted out a new one. The P5260i features 802.11b/g WiFi and can theoretically support HD streaming of MPEG1/2/4, WMV, AVI, DivX, XviD, ASF and VOD files. Of course, the native 1,024 x 768 resolution puts a damper on all of that, but other specs you may be interested in includes the 2,700 ANSI lumens, 2,000:1 contrast ratio and VGA / DVI / HDMI inputs. (Read the full post about ‘Acer’s P5260i WiFi projector beams imagery sans wires’…)
by Donald Melanson, posted Jun 12th 2008 at 5:19PM LEDs may be snagging the majority of light bulb headlines these days, but Panasonic’s apparently found some room for improvement with compact fluorescents, with it now proclaiming that its new Pa-Look Ball Premium Q bulbs boast the world first “hybrid lighting method.” That apparent innovation consists of a “Quick Lamp” at the center of the bulb, which helps the bulb reach 60% brightness in half the time a conventional compact flourescent takes, and then shuts off automatically once the bulb has reached full brightness. You’ll apparently have to make do with 54 watts of brightness to take advantage of all that, however, not to mention live in Japan. (Read the full post about ‘Panasonic debuts “hybrid lighting” Pa-Look compact fluorescent bulbs’…)
After picking up a copy of Metal Gear Solid 4 last night at Gamestop’s midnight release (where I was treated to some very entertaining PS3 versus 360 debates from the other people in line) I was really excited to get home with the game. MGS is a series I’ve played and watched evolve for two decades… in short, I came home with a copy desperately wanting to love it.
After getting home and dusting off my barely-used launch model PS3, I was treated to a humorous installation screen of Snake furiously hotboxing cigarette after cigarette while the install meter ticked upward for eight minutes.
(Read the full post about ‘First Impressions: Metal Gear Solid 4 for PS3′…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jun 12th 2008 at 12:32PM
Heads up, affluent sect. The immensely pricey Professional 105 line is expanding, as two new members slip in to tempt your stuffed wallet. Mobiado’s Professional 105 EM is available in Cocobolo and Ebony, and the frame is even constructed from anodized aluminum; you’ll also notice sapphire crystal buttons and a black finish. As for the Professional 105 GCB, it’s layered with a 5-micron thick 24-karat gold plating and jazzed up with a fancy logo ’round back. (Read the full post about ‘Mobiado Professional 105 EM / GCB handsets: too luxurious for our fingers’…)
I’ve written before about both my love of good (preferably large) watches and my nostalgia for cassette tapes, and here’s a design that brings them both together with a dash of style.
It’s available for £35.00 (around $69) from Asos, who for some strange reason have it in the men’s section of their website… Hey Asos, girls can be geeks too, y’know!
[Via Shiny Shiny].
Tags: video, toys, gizmos, tests
We couldn’t help but be amused by the timing of Nokia’s release of its latest addition to the lineup, the 1508. Just when other phone manufacturers are outclassing each other with the release of new advanced features, here comes Nokia introducing a lowly, plain-jane-looking, basic handset. In fact, the 1508 is so simple that it took only a few sentences for Nokia to come up with an official press release. Or maybe it was just that we are so used to Nokia’s lengthy press releases.
Anyway, what should we expect from the Nokia 1508, a mobile phone as simple as this certainly doesn’t have that much to offer.
Palm’s Hail Mary pass, the Centro, has finally found its way onto Verizon’s network. The phone has been kicking around for some time (first on Sprint and then on AT&T) and despite a solid design and a great price point it is just reaching Verizon customers today.
Geek.com looked at the phone back in October and we had a lot of good things to say about it. As far as easy-to-use budget smartphones goes Palm did a nice job of keeping the phone affordable while giving people features they want.
(Read the full post about ‘Palm Centro hits Verizon at $99′…)
