Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Portable Video
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/PS3_1_80_firmware_is_out_and_streaming_your_media’; The PS3 1.8 firmware is out and making its way global in Sony’s typical rolling release cycle: APAC, Europe, then the Americas. We’ll be testing it ourselves later but we thought you’d like to peep the first screen shots […]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/Meizus_M6se_nano_thin_with_video_and_FM_tuner_for_100_less’; If you’re a fan of Meizu’s audio gear then you’ll be stoked at this, the skinny Meizu M6se. At just 7-mm (0.28-inches) thin, it extracts the bulk from the original M6 while remaining true (for good or for bad) to the original […]

Filed under: Home Entertainment
Yeah, that satellite is freaky small and just a part of Sony’s micro DAV-IS10 home theater system. Their 5.1 channel home-theater-in-a-box features 5 of the tiny speakers matched with a sub offering 450 watts of total system power (satellite speakers 50W x 5, plus 2-way subwoofer 100W x 2). The system features […]

Filed under: Displays
Has it really been 10 years since the first Ambilight television? Does anyone care? After all, the press release was issued back in January at CES and missed by nearly everyone, including us. Well, Philips certainly cares and aims to celebrate by dishing out a triplet of Ambilight LCDs ranging size from 42-, […]

Filed under: Displays var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/hardware/Samsung_doubts_Sony_s_ability_to_deliver_world_s_first_OLED_TV’; You know that 1,000,000:1 contrast kickin’ 11-inch OLED TV Sony says they’ll be selling before the year is out? Yeah, the world’s first. Well S.Korea’s consumer electronics giant Samsung, just threw down the gauntlet on Japan’s CE giant by publicly doubting Sony’s ability to […]

Filed under: Portable Audio
Twinbird’s no stranger to the land of waterproof gizmos, and the company’s latest device to shed water with grace is the SD ZABADY. This digital audio player comes in black or silver color schemes, houses 128MB of internal storage capacity, handles SD cards up to 2GB in size, and plays nice with […]

Filed under: Wireless
Keeping track of your personal pet using any means necessary is one thing, but embedding RFID chips into some 20 aquarium fishes is taking things to a whole ‘nother level. Sure, we’ve seen RoboFish unleashed in a public aquarium and the means to care for your guppy remotely, but officials at the Underwater […]

Filed under: Desktops, Laptops digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/linux_unix/Dell_s_Ubuntu_Linux_machines_launching_today’; There’s still no press release but those three Dell’s running Ubuntu are just minutes away from donning their direct-sales wings according to Dell’s official Direct2Dell site. Just like we heard, the three rigs available for the Linux pre-load include the E520 Dimension desktop, Inspiron E1505 consumer laptop, […]

Filed under: GPS, Wireless
Wacky defense contractor QinetiQ (which also make 3D shoe sizers) continues to angle for a piece of that sweet military-industrial pie with the release of the Ocellus S100, a super sensitive GPS tracker. Unlike normal GPS units, which max out around -160dBW of signal sensitivity, the S100 gets all the way to […]

Filed under: Displays, Storage
NEC’s relatively low-key system-on-glass technology is getting a substantial upgrade today, as the company announced that it has “developed an LCD module that incorporates all chips, including the LSI, with memory on the glass substrate.” Current LCD modules have the pixel-driving chips right on the glass with LSI / memory embedded on […]