Filed under: Misc. GadgetsStill consumed in a bitter fight for its very survival, embattled VoIP provider Vonage — recently granted an eleventh-hour pardon from that permanent injunction — has announced that it will attempt to leverage Monday’s landmark Supreme Court decision in seeking a completely new trial. In what is widely seen as both a […]
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gaming_news/Christmas_comes_early_to_360_Elite_owners_free_HDD_Transfer_Kits_for_all’; It looks like Microsoft has decided to return some of its record-breaking profits back to the consumer in the form of a free Xbox 360 Hard Drive Transfer Kit for Elite owners — although some will look at this gesture as less of a gift (being that it […]
Filed under: Laptops
HP has already (indirectly) let out word of Santa Rosa upgrades to a couple of its business laptops, but it doesn’t look to be stopping there, with details on a number of new Santa Rosa-based consumer laptops now also leaking out. Those getting the upgrade in this batch include the HP Pavilion DV2500, […]
Filed under: Cellphones, HandheldsIf this wasn’t actually on O2’s website, we’d think it was just a late (really late) April Fool’s joke; alas, it now seems that the HTC Panda is the real deal in all its throwback glory. Looking pretty much like an HTC Himalaya or Alpine, the Panda reminds us of everything that […]
Filed under: Desktops, Gaming
Really, it’s hard for us to imagine sticking anything as loud and power hungry as the GeForce 8800 GTX into our precious desktop, no matter how great the latest games look on it, and we’re having an even harder time envisioning NVIDIA’s new 8800 Ultra anywhere near our motherboard. The new children-eating […]
Filed under: Storage var digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Flash_memory_oddity_reveals_image_of_Jesus_and_or_Gandalf’; Now that we’ve got our own CNC hot-air gun to draw images of Jesus and Mary to our heart’s content, we’re not so very surprised to see those revered images popping up in odder places, like this here flash memory. Revealed by transmission electron microscopy, the folks […]
Filed under: Storage
We already knew that Lexar had an 8GB ExpressCard SSD up its sleeve, but it seems that the company just can’t get enough of that high-speed solid state storage, today announcing 4GB and 16GB cards in addition to officially announcing the 8GB model. From the looks of it, both the 4GB and 8GB […]
Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment, StorageNo more gazing jealously across the Pacific as those Chinese consumers gobble up cheap-as-free BDC-S02 Blu-ray drives from Pioneer. The new BDC-2202 will be available in the US next month, and can read Blu-ray at 5x, Blu-ray dual layer at 2x and reads and writes to DVDs and CDs as […]
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Household
While we’ve seen a variety of domiciles packed to the hilt with consumer electronic-related goodness, the big boys and girls most certainly come out of the woodwork (or the downstairs home theater) when Electronic House begins accepting applications for its Home of the Year. The award goes to […]
Filed under: Household
It pains us to see the furry fad still lingering around, but joining the totally hairy Philips display comes the patent-pending “no constraints carpet,” which presumably aims to provide warmth and companionship to the lonely house dweller. Reportedly showcased at the Tokyo Fiber convention, Panasonic has developed a electrified faux fur that comes […]
