Archive for August 24th, 2008
Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Vudu seems to be doing a fairly decent job of keeping their name out in the news lately, it was not that long ago that they announced their ”99 for 99” and we cannot forget the recent move into additional Best Buy retail locations. Now they have come back promising a total of 1,000 HD quality movies to choose from, as well as a lifetime content warranty. Of course they were not able to give a specific availability date for these new titles, stating that “in a very short time we’ll have 1,000 HD titles.” They also seemingly proudly pointed out that they will have “more than Blu-ray” and that they also “have some huge deals.” I guess it pays to be proud of what you are offering, however it almost seems like the proud parent bragging about how good their son or daughter is. (Read the full post about ‘Vudu promises 1,000 HD movies, plus lifetime content warranty’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Add some spice into your kid’s bedroom with the Glowpets Nightlights from Prezzybox. After all, they’ll definitely bring some comfort to little ones who are afraid of the dark. Glowpets night lights are soft, luminous animal night-lights that reassure young children with their comforting glow. These soft animals slowly change colour through pinks and greens, oranges and reds! Glowing gently they take the black out of the night and make a rainbow of the evening. They are made specifically for young children in mind with low-consuming LED’s so the Glowpets don’t get hot. Your little treasures can carry Glowpet with them wherever they choose. (Read the full post about ‘Glowpets Nightlights’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 3:09PM We’re not even going to front — we had all but forgotten about Erector’s Spykee. Granted, it didn’t do itself any favors by showing off at CES and then doing nothing for the next seven months, but we digress. If a pre-order page on Amazon is to be believed, the Spykee Spy Robot should be released on October 15th. It’s sporting a hefty $299.99 price tag and a recommended age of 8-years and up, but we’ll need to see some actual shipment notifications later this fall before we really get our hopes up. (Read the full post about ‘Erector’s $300 Spykee gets a ship date: October 15th’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 7:07PM In the never-ending quest to make even the smallest devices on Earth a touch smaller, a talented team of MIT engineers have developed a method for creating and installing microbatteries, which could eventually power a plethora of diminutive devices including “labs-on-a-chip and implantable medical sensors.” It’s bruited that this is the first time in which “microcontact printing has been used to fabricate and position microbattery electrodes and the first use of virus-based assembly in such a process,” and while you’d likely have to be a colleague to even digest that, the take away is that these gurus are one step closer to generating battery-powered Scrubbing Bubbles. (Read the full post about ‘MIT working up microbatteries to power implantable medical sensors’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 11:09AMWe’ve stated it before, but this time you really have ran out of excuses to run. Thanks to Yamaha’s BODiBEAT, you can expect your tunes to automatically sync with your steps, giving you new reason to get out of the house and get to steppin’. Granted, the $299.99 price tag is pretty steep for just 512MB of space and 12-hours of battery life (marathon, what?), but we’re sure there are a few of you out there willing to pay the premium to keep your head nodding perfectly in line with your pace. Oh, and if you completely skipped over the headline, it’s shipping now. Right now.[Via Coolest gadgets]Read PermalinkEmail this10 CommentsFiled under: Portable Audi (Read the full post about ‘Yamaha starts shipping BODiBEAT, workouts and music magically align’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 1:04PM Not like Lenovo has been keeping this duo on the DL or anything, but the potent W500 and W700 are now available to order. Hailed as the company’s “most powerful notebooks ever,” the 15.4-inch W500 gets going from $1,629 with a 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9400 CPU, Vista Home Premium, a WSXGA+ display, 1GB of DDR3 RAM, ATI’s 512MB Mobility FireGL V5700, a 100GB HDD, DVD combo drive, WiFi and a 6-cell battery. Overshadowing that is the 17-inch W700, which starts at $2,978 and features a WXGA+ display, T9400 CPU, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, NVIDIA’s 512MB Quadro FX-2700 and a 160GB hard drive. The W500 should ship within 1 to 2 weeks, while the W700 isn’t expected to head your way for a solid month. (Read the full post about ‘Lenovo’s ThinkPad W500 and W700 now on sale’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
by Darren Murph, posted Aug 24th 2008 at 11:09AMWe’ve stated it before, but this time you really have ran out of excuses to run. Thanks to Yamaha’s BODiBEAT, you can expect your tunes to automatically sync with your steps, giving you new reason to get out of the house and get to steppin’. Granted, the $299.99 price tag is pretty steep for just 512MB of space and 12-hours of battery life (marathon, what?), but we’re sure there are a few of you out there willing to pay the premium to keep your head nodding perfectly in line with your pace. Oh, and if you completely skipped over the headline, it’s shipping now. Right now.[Via Coolest gadgets]Read PermalinkEmail this10 CommentsFiled under: Portable Audio (Read the full post about ‘Yamaha starts shipping BODiBEAT, workouts and music magically align’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Some further information about the rumored upcoming Amazon Kindle student edition is now claiming that Amazon has confirmed the device is in the works. According to a recent report from the Seattle PI, Amazon has confirmed that “they are planning to target colleges and universities with a new version of the Kindle.” Based on the information available to date, the student edition Kindle will offer a larger screen, which I think makes sense when reading textbooks. Of course, we can only hope that text book pricing will be relatively inexpensive for the digital versions, because this could essentially kill, or seriously slow the used book market, which means no more quick cash at the end of the semester. (Read the full post about ‘Amazon confirms new Kindle student edition’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Next in the series of new notebooks that Asus has recently announced is the B50 notebook which is geared for the business professionals. According to Asustek, it is the ultimate notebook computer for the business environment. Featuring the latest Express Gate technology, the Asus B50 boasts of an 8-second boot-up time for fast access to various desktop applications and online connection. This powerhouse machine also boasts of Asustek’s exclusive Power4 Gear Extreme for efficient power management which extends usage beyond 5 hours. Another notable feature of the Asus B50 is its spill resistant keyboard which can pretty much assure the users that their notebooks will not be damaged even if some liquid gets spilled into it. (Read the full post about ‘Asus offers up the business-oriented B50A notebook’…)
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Sunday, August 24th, 2008
Think your government is technologically inept? If you happen to live in England, you’d probably be more correct than the rest of us. Sometime last week it seems the British government has lost a flash drive containing data on all 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales and “30,000 people with six or more criminal convictions in the past year.” Theoretically this wouldn’t be such a horrible thing, you’d think a government would have several layers of security on a flash drive in just such a case. Apparently, this flash drive had none, it was completely unencrypted. (Read the full post about ‘British government loses sensitive data’…)
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