Archive for August 2nd, 2008
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
George Lucas and co. has confirmed that they plan to 3-Dize the 6 Star Wars movies. Nuff said. Apparently costs between $50k and $100k per minute to convert. Dang.
Fans are divided - some say spend the money on new projects. Others say bring it on. I say, hell yeah, I’ll go see at least 4 of those movies again in 3-D. Actually, I may not have liked the 1st 2 prequels much, but the CGI scenes were pretty stunning.
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 4:22PM Surely you feel like buying an all new TuneCast Auto just months after picking up the original, right? Trust us, we can hear the groans from here. For the scads of iphone 3G owners who are downright perturbed by the inability to charge the thing with some older accessories, you’ll be none too pleased when handing over $79.99 for this. But unless you flex your DIY muscle and come up with some other solution (please share, will you?), buying an iPhone 3G-friendly alternative looks to be the only solution. This FM transmitter boasts ClearScan technology in order to hunt down and lock into the best FM frequency (good luck with that), but as we’ve already pointed out, the biggest boon is the iPhone 3G charging ability. (Read the full post about ‘Belkin adds iPhone 3G compatibility to latest TuneCast Auto’…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 3:20PMDon’t rule out the possibility that this is a complete and utterly disgusting fib, but a recent writeup in The China Post about HTC’s financial situation very clearly states when the hotly-anticipated Touch Diamond is coming to Sprint: this month. If you’re looking for the play-by-play, the article proclaims that the “company released its Diamond phone in Asia in June and will begin selling the handset through Sprint Nextel Corp. in August.” Look, we’ve seen a CDMA version of this thing donning Sprint garb, we’ve watched it fall into the capable hands of the FCC and we know it has to arrive sometime. If all of this doesn’t add up to Sprint getting the Touch Diamond in August, well, we’ll let (Read the full post about ‘HTC report says Touch Diamond is coming to Sprint this month’…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Nothing could be worse than finding out your bike was nicked when you’re on your way home, or you’re in a hurry to ger some place. Luckily, there’s Immobitag to help you out. It can’t exactly prevent bike thefts from happening, so don’t expect Immobitag to come with a couple of men dressed in black to stand guard over your precious bike. Nevertheless, if anyone ever grabbed your bike, you’d want to get them caught, or at least get your bike back, right? ImmobiTag is a radio frequency identification device. Basically, when your bike gets stolen, it’ll show up on the National Stolen Property Database and Second Hand Trade Stolen Property Register. (Read the full post about ‘Had a Bike Nicked Recently? Immobitag to the Rescue’…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 10:28AM We already had a glance at NVIDIA’s newest low-ender, the GeForce 9500 GT, but the outfit clearly wasn’t done. In case the previously mentioned card was just a tad too weak for your needs, you can also check out the GeForce 9800 GT and / or 9800 GTX+, which feature 112 / 128 stream processors and support for HybridPower and PhysX. Both cards can be found just about everywhere right now for $149.99 and $199.99, respectively, with 512MB of RAM on board. (Read the full post about ‘NVIDIA gets official with GeForce 9800 GT / 9800 GTX+ GPUs’…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
by Joshua Fruhlinger, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 1:29PM If you’ve been waiting for Gateway’s P-7811 FX gaming laptop, the wait is almost over: it will begin shipping August 14, that is, if an open-lipped Best Buy is to be believed. As for specifications, you’re looking at an Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 (2.26GHz, 3MB L2 cache with 1066MHz FSB), PM45 Express chipset, 15-inch WUXGA display at 1920 x 1200, Nvidia GeForce 9800M-GTS with 512MB GDDR3, 200GB 7200RPM spinner, 8x DVD burner, HDMI 1.2, eSATA, a 5-in-1 media card reader, 1.3MP camera, and a 9-cell Li-ion battery. The $1,499 machine weighs in at 9.2-lbs and will be ready for your Crysis, Spore, etc. (Read the full post about ‘Gateway P-7811 FX gaming laptop coming August 14 for $1499′…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
Aside from the recently announced and fashionably stylish EX310 laptop, MSI has also unveiled the ultra-lightweight PR201 laptop PC. And when we say lightweight, we mean 3.97-pounds including battery with its clean and sleek-looking magnesium alloy casing. But of course, aside from beauty, this portable powerhouse also carries with it several features and specs to compete with the rest of the current Core 2 Duo-powered laptops available in the market today. The MSI PR201 boasts of features such as a fingerprint reader for data security, HDMI capability for high-quality video output, Al Array Microphone and a built-in 2.0 megapixel webcam. (Read the full post about ‘MSI profiles the ultra-lightweight PR201 laptop’…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
by Ryan Block, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 7:10AM We can appreciate the fact that BeRobot is supposedly going to be the smallest functional commercially available humanoid robot when it’s released this September. Really, we can, even despite the fact that each successive machine brings us one step closer to to the day the robots have mastered humanity, and our lowly race of meatbags lives on only as the amusing anachronisms kept alive to opulently feed them oil-covered grapes at laser-gunpoint. But BeRobot’s creator GeStream — and the rest of Japan, for that matter — really have to really put the pedal to the metal if we’re going to miniaturize these suckers small enough for gray goo in this lifetime. (Read the full post about ‘Teeny, tiny BeRobot promised for release, still not quite gray goo’…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
by Ryan Block, posted Aug 2nd 2008 at 5:22AM Tired of the fuzz body-checking you right off your bike during Critical Mass rides? Well lucky you, New York Police Commish Ray Kelly is responding by flipping the switch on user-generated crime reports, enabling ordinary citizens to submit photos and video as evidence of criminal activity. Granted, we think it’s always been the case that people could dial-a-detective if they’ve got a hot lead on a crime, but here Kelly specifically referred to the “fact of life” that nowadays “everybody has a camera in their telephones. (Read the full post about ‘NYPD implores citizens to submit photo and video evidence’…)
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Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
It is rather surprising to see that nobody has covered this piece of news yet, but LG’s latest Blu-ray player, the BD300 is able to support Netflix streaming through the TV, where customers will be able to access the Netflix instant Queue as it appears on the TV. Of course, this opens up a whole new world of possibilities where entertainment is concerned, but how many of the movies on Netflix are recent enough to keep people interested? Granted, there are over 12,000 movies available in its back catalogue, but we don’t really need to watch the entire Star Wars trilogy (the original one before George Lucas put money before ideas) one more time just to experience the “wonder” of movie streaming, right? (Read the full post about ‘LG BD300 Blu-ray player offers Netflix streaming’…)
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