Archive for September, 2008
Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Filed under: Displays
Enticed by Dell's new, slightly less hard-edged 22-, 23-, and 24-inch LCDs but looking for something a little easier on the wallet (and your desk)? Well, it looks like you're in luck, as the company has just let loose some matching 17- and 19-inch models that each come ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Filed under: Gaming
We still don't really believe it, but the Pandora pre-order page is now live and accepting orders for the open-source gaming handheld. Only 3,000 units are being delivered this time around, so you'd better act fast -- $329 is all it takes to be a part of history, ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones
Japan is drenched in arcades with female-only purikura (photo booth for you gaijin) corners in which aflutter girls take pictures, bless them with sparkly decorations, and print them to book cover friendly stickers for all to see, for better or worse, to the horror of their moms, to ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsWhile in the throes of customizing your dream machine over at Dell, weighing CPU cost vs. memory cost, would you click on a $19 option called "Iron Man movie with bonus content?" We sure wouldn't, but now you can, part of what the Director of Dell's Global ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Filed under: NetworkingNetgear, we're here to tell you it's been far, far too long since you threw any new 802.11n gear our way, so we're pretty stoked to see a few new pieces roll out today. The outfit is formally introducing the WNR2000 Wireless-N router and DGN2000 Wireless-N router with ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Filed under: Digital Cameras
We're still waiting for geotagging to go mainstream on consumer-level still cams, but Geotate isn't waiting around in its quest for location-aware domination -- it's teamed up with DXG to develop the first geotagging video camera we've seen. The camera itself isn't anything special -- it's just ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Filed under: Peripherals
Up until now, the words "Zink" and "Polaroid" were all but married together, but a breakup fit for The Hills is about to go down courtesy of the all-too-promiscuous Dell. Over in the deep waters of the FCC, we're seeing a new Dell printer that utilizes the ink-free ...
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Monday, September 29th, 2008
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, Media PCs
It was under two years ago when we initially caught wind of Alienware's Hangar 18, and while the outfit seemed pretty bullish about the thing just 12 months ago at CEDIA, things have apparently went south. As of right now, the Hangar 18 website ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsWell, it looks like the good times that are the Ubuntu alpha testing process hit a bit of a snag recently, as one of the latest kernels apparently had the nasty side effect of irreparably damaging some users' hardware -- specifically, certain Intel network cards. So far, ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Filed under: Cellphones, Portable AudioWe must say, we didn't really expect Samsung's P270 to get official in this manner, but we'll take what we can get. Nanoradio has today unveiled that its "Always On WiFi" solution has been "commercially launched inside the world's first 3G UMA phone." The tech was ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Filed under: CellphonesEach week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about technology, multimedia, and digital entertainment.
In the 1999 geek classic, "Pirates of Silicon Valley", an Apple employee watching the famous "1984" commercial with Steve Jobs points to the Big Brother character -- intended to represent IBM -- and then ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
By adding a signal chain to the classic electric axe, the Internal Combustion Guitar takes the tone generated by a small amp and sends it on back to the guitar, where something called a "coupling mechanism" feeds the sound back to your strings -- much the same ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Filed under: Gaming, PeripheralsWe won't even begin to suggest that NVIDIA is the only company out there with, shall we say, less than crystal clear naming schemes, but we're really hoping the latest whispers (which we've heard once before) about the outfit are true. TG Daily has it that undisclosed ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Filed under: CellphonesNot even two full months after Sagem fell into the obviously capable hands of Sofinnova, out pops the company's return to the red carpet. Picking right up (numerically speaking, at least) where the P'9521 left off is the well-endowed P'9522, which was reportedly built with a little help ...
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Friday, September 26th, 2008
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Thanks, MIT. Why don't you just make the rest of the world feel a little more useless. Every week or so, we're forced to stare at yet another amazing invention coming from your doors; to be frank, it's just downright unfair. All childish angst aside, the latest ...
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