Archive for March 21st, 2008

Cellink T/M: a swiveling USB stick, card reader, and mobile charger thingamajig

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Oh great Korean gods of peculiar gadgetry what have you done? That's the Cellink T/M from Human C&C. The device functions as a mass storage device or microSD card reader when standing in a straight-up, USB stick mode. Give it a flip, swing and slide and you've ...

Averatec pushes out 2575 12.1-inch AMD-powered laptop

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Filed under: LaptopsPushing pixels is great and all, but sometimes we've just got a hankering to see how far those dollars can stretch, and Averatec's 2575 laptop mostly satisfies those urges. For $1100 you get Vista Home Premium running on an AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual Core chip, with 2GB ...

Custom-built Xbox 360 joystick gets lit with LEDs

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals Oh yeah, we've seen homegrown Xbox 360 joysticks that we would love to wrap our digits around, but ShaolinDrunkard's latest creation is almost too pretty to touch -- almost. The Xbox 360 Classic Led joystick sports the prototypical stick / button layout, but also includes that iconic ...

Gibson fires Guitar Hero lawsuit at Wal-Mart, other retailers

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming Last we checked we actually weren't in the Twilight Zone, but quite frankly, the bigwigs at Gibson just might be. Seemingly out of nowhere, the famed guitar manufacturer sparked up a lawsuit against Activision claiming that Guitar Hero titles violate one of its patents. Now the company appears ...

AT&T forking over a $1.3 billion down payment for auction wins

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Filed under: Wireless No surprises here, but boy is that going to be a difficult expense to justify on the ol' corporate card. AT&T says it'll pay a $1.3 billion down payment to the FCC within the next 10 days to get a lock on that spectrum it just won, $500 ...

OLPC security chief resigns, cites ethical concerns as final straw

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Filed under: Laptops Nary a fortnight after Nicholas Negroponte affirmed that his role wouldn't be changing all that much once a new CEO was strapped in, along comes word that the nonprofit's highly regarded Director of Security Architecture, Ivan Krstić, has moved on to greener pastures as of three weeks ago. ...