by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 1:51PM If you’ll recall, the evolution of homebrew on the Wii started out quite similar to this. First comes the Hello World proof of concept, then comes Pong. It would just be wrong to unfold otherwise, right? Dragula96, the same guru who whipped up the original homebrew hack, has now introduced 2 Player Pong 1.0 — the first notable game to take advantage. (Read the full post about ‘PS3 homebrew capabilities inevitably leads to Pong’…)
Fashionably Geek has brought a new take on what evolution is about - at least from the Lego perspective. This t-shirt shows how a piece of Lego “goo” matures into a full fledged Lego man, complete with the famous yellow face and pincer-like hands that we’ve all come to know and love. It will retail for $19.95 each, and makes a statement to everyone that you’re in love with Lego bricks. (Read the full post about ‘Evolution of a Legoman’…)
With today’s technology there are a lot of ways to make sure your pet is well taken care of and safe. Well this Plexidor is basically an updated version of the classic doggy door. It works as a garage door would, only instead of hitting a button this has an RFID chip that clips to your pet’s collar. Then whenever they get close to the door it will slide open. Which thankfully means that you won’t be stuck up at 7am on a Saturday when they suddenly feel the need to go outside. Also an extra bonus is that this little door won’t go flying open over a bit of windy weather. (Read the full post about ‘The Plexidor Electronic Pet Door’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 11:31AMLittle known tidbit for those not keenly watching the happenings at Infineon: the firm was forced to write down the value of its Qimonda stake by €1 billion ($1.57 billion) in April. Not surprisingly, Infineon’s head honcho is about ready to rid the company of the flagging unit, making quite a few direct statements in a Germany daily saying as much. (Read the full post about ‘Infineon CEO wants to sell flagging Qimonda unit… badly’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 5:41AM Not that Samsung is actually looking to pump this out into beauty salons worldwide, but there stands at least a mild chance that sophisticated females shopping for new compacts would also spring for some storage. Joongoo Lee’s Costume is a sleek, deliberately styled 2.5-inch external hard drive that looks entirely at home mixed in with various makeup components. Additionally, the bundled dock is equally sexy, though we can only hope there’s a USB 2.0 port somewhere on this thing. Though this is just a concept, we wouldn’t put it past Samsung to turn into a reality — after all, it did just produce pink and blue BlackJack IIs. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung Costume hard drive concept appeals to the ladies’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 12:46AM It’s easy enough to drool over the press shots of Nikon’s luscious D700. Seeing someone unbox this full-frame beast on video is another experience entirely (bordering on spiritual, really). (Read the full post about ‘Nikon D700 full-frame DSLR gets unboxed on video’…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 27th 2008 at 12:46AM It’s easy enough to drool over the press shots of Nikon’s luscious D700. Seeing someone unbox this full-frame beast on video is another experience entirely (bordering on spiritual, really). (Read the full post about ‘Nikon D700 full-frame DSLR gets unboxed on video’…)
Samsung have announced two new large plasma HDTVs onto the market in the form of the Samsung 7 Series Plasma range. Both have a full HD 1080p plasma screen, and boast very impressive features and specifications. The 7 series plasma’s have an impressive and attractive looking frame based on their “crystal” design theme. For thoes of you who prefer Plasma over LCD screen and want something else on offer over Pioneer’s offerings the 50-inch Samsung PS-50A750, or very large 63-inch Samsung PS-63A750 should do you very well. These great looking modern screens has the highest 1920×1080p resolution along with all the modern HD features such as 24p (24Hz) support, 100Hz high frame rate support for reducing motion blur and image judder. (Read the full post about ‘Samsung PS-50A750, PS-63A750′…)
by Darren Murph, posted Jul 26th 2008 at 9:36PM We’ve been seeing in the wild shots of E-Lead’s Noahpad for months on end, but on some fateful trunk lid likely to be halfway across the planet, this undeniably peculiar UMPC has finally arrived to an end user. Oddly enough, said user couldn’t even wait to get the thing inside, and as you can clearly above, this unboxing took place entirely on the trunk of a car. (Read the full post about ‘E-Lead’s Noahpad UMPC gets trunk lid unboxing’…)
Windows XP coming to the OLPC XO Laptop certainly comes as little surprise, its been hinted at, and even shown off in the past, but what does come as news is that it should be available by this September. Microsoft has recently released a version of Windows XP to manufacturing and according to James Utzschneider, the General Manager of Marketing and Communications, Unlimited Potential Group “it is on track for availability in these types of national educational PC deals in September.” As I am sure you can imagine, the version of Windows XP that will be running is going to be highly tweaked and customized, but sadly it will not be made available for current XO owners. (Read the full post about ‘Windows XP based OLPC readying for its September launch’…)
