Archive for July, 2008

Yahoo! to compensate DRM-protected Music Store customers

Filed under: Portable AudioHey, both of you Yahoo! Music Store customers, listen up. Just hours after Yahoo! affirmed that it would be powering down its DRM servers, along comes a spokesperson to alleviate any worries that you two will get screwed in all of this. According to Carrie Davis, customers “will be compensated for whatever […]

Zune Guy calls Microsoft ‘liars,’ says Zune situation is ‘f***ing bulls**t’

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
You’ve probably heard by now that the infamous Zune Guy (”Microsoft Zune”) was so disappointed with Microsoft that he’s elected to have his ink removed in place of something more in line with his shifted priorities. In addition to the reconstructive work he’s going to have, ZG claims that Microsoft […]

E-Lead’s Noahpad UMPC gets trunk lid unboxing

Filed under: Laptops
We’ve been seeing in the wild shots of E-Lead’s Noahpad for months on end, but on some fateful trunk lid likely to be halfway across the planet, this undeniably peculiar UMPC has finally arrived to an end user. Oddly enough, said user couldn’t even wait to get the thing inside, and as you […]

Nikon D700 full-frame DSLR gets unboxed on video

Filed under: Digital Cameras
It’s easy enough to drool over the press shots of Nikon’s luscious D700. Seeing someone unbox this full-frame beast on video is another experience entirely (bordering on spiritual, really). Unfortunately, the vid waiting after the break is just two minutes long and doesn’t show any clicks being depressed, but those looking to […]

Samsung Costume hard drive concept appeals to the ladies

Filed under: Storage
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/External_Hard_drive_for_the_Ladie_in_Cosmetics_Section_soon’; Not that Samsung is actually looking to pump this out into beauty salons worldwide, but there stands at least a mild chance that sophisticated females shopping for new compacts would also spring for some storage. Joongoo Lee’s Costume is a sleek, deliberately styled 2.5-inch external hard drive that looks entirely […]

IOCELL contents phone logs conversations, sends ‘em around the web

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Not quite sure why, but we get this whole Get Smart vibe from this thing. IOCELL’s contents phone would probably be more suited for a highly covert spy agency rather than your grandmother’s home, but we suppose even granny could appreciate the built-in hard drive that logs conversations, plays ‘em back and […]

Infineon CEO wants to sell flagging Qimonda unit… badly

Filed under: StorageLittle known tidbit for those not keenly watching the happenings at Infineon: the firm was forced to write down the value of its Qimonda stake by €1 billion ($1.57 billion) in April. Not surprisingly, Infineon’s head honcho is about ready to rid the company of the flagging unit, making quite a few direct […]

PS3 homebrew capabilities inevitably leads to Pong

Filed under: Gaming
If you’ll recall, the evolution of homebrew on the Wii started out quite similar to this. First comes the Hello World proof of concept, then comes Pong. It would just be wrong to unfold otherwise, right? Dragula96, the same guru who whipped up the original homebrew hack, has now introduced 2 Player Pong […]

Keepin’ it real fake, part CXXVI: Jointech’s $99 JL7100 rips Eee PC in spectacular fashion

Filed under: Laptops
The Kira 100 was a decent Eee PC knockoff, but at just north of $475, there was literally no purpose in picking it over the genuine product. The Jointech JL7100, however, really makes ASUS’ darling look mighty unnecessary. Okay, so maybe the fact that this thing relies on WinCE 5.0 rather than, you […]

Intelligent space robots to dig around, throw raves on their own by 2020

Filed under: Robotsdigg_url = ‘http://digg.com/space/Intelligent_space_robots_to_dig_around_on_their_own_by_2020′;Let’s face it — we owe a great deal of gratitude to the robots that get up each and every morning to explore far reaches of the universe that we humans are just incapable of landing on. But there’s still the problem of we humans having to tell these things what […]

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