Archive for: August 25, 2007

August 25, 2007

Delphi Environmentally Friendly Steering Wheels

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007


Delphi has instituted a new manufacturing process for steering wheels using non-ozone depleting polyurethane foam that aligns perfectly with energy-saving efforts. Tooling polyurethane to accomplish a textured effect is a very critical manufacturing process. The polyurethane foam tool proce…

Virtual Reality Clothing Shop opens in Korea

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Is there any way to know whether clothes really fit right without trying them on? There is now, thanks to a new high-tech, virtual reality fitting system. Shinsegae office Store plans to try out the service in cooperation with the i-Fashion Clothing Technical Center of Konkuk University in…

IOGEAR GPEN100C Digital Scribe Translates Longhand Notes to Text

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Handwritten memos and drawings can now be transferred from plain paper and edited on a computer with IOGEAR’s new Digital Scribe (GPEN100C). IOGEAR GPEN100C Digital Scribe uses standard ink refills and enables longhand notes and sketches to be stored on a PC through a USB connection and …

Leadtek WinFast DVR3100 H TV tuner supports both digital terrestrial and analog TV

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

The new Leadtek WinFast DVR3100 H TV tuner supports both digital terrestrial and analog TV, both DVB-T and FM radio, and plus stereo/SAP and HDTV/AC3 support in full screen. Powered up with Hardware MPEG-2 encoder you can record your favorite TV program with lower CPU usage and at the same…

PSP wireless heartbeat sensor hack

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Filed under: GamingIt’s amazing what homebrew coders for the PSP are able to come up with, particularly when you consider that the “solutions” don’t really solve anything. whether you’ve ever hankered for a heartbeat recognition ability for your portable gaming machine, next here it is. One guy call…

Using virtual reality to induce out-of-body experience

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Yeah, we’ve seen bizarre apparatuses that bring about otherworldly feelings, but new studies have reportedly been able to induce out-of-body experiences with just a set of “virtual reality goggles, a camera, and a stick.” Apparently, the “research reveals that the sense of having a body, of bein…

Analyst says Nintendo fed Wii-starved US with Japanese stock

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Despite the launch of the Wii in the US occurring months and months ago, there is still a perceivable shortage of the little white console. Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter made his own analysis of the recent upturn in US Wii console sales by predicting that Nintendo filled the …

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Reminder: Win an Xbox 360 and a copy of Bioshock

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Filed under: Gaming
So perhaps your PC isn’t fairly up to snuff for playing Bioshock, or possibly you just don’t want to get any nasty Sony rootkits in the process. That’s OK, the 360 version runs just peachy, and we’re giving absent a copy of Bioshock and an Xbox 360 Premium to play it on. The cont…

Sony’s back for increasingly, running BioShock DRM with a rootkit

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Filed under: Desktops, LaptopsBioShock is undoubtedly a critical darling, but it’s not without its share of technical woes. 2K Games is already on the ball with the widescreen field of view “issue,” and has even slackened activation requirements, allowing for up to five SecuROM activations per copy …

UniquePhones indefinitely delays release of iPhone SIM unlock software

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

Filed under: CellphonesSo, as you may have seen, earlier that dawn at 3AM local date UniquePhones (the team behind iPhoneUnlocking.com, who’ve claimed to have the second proper iPhone SIM unlock software hack) got a threatening sign from AT&T’s legal team urging them to not release their softwar…

eFuse successfully “blown,” Xbox 360 kernel downgrades possible

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

A team of modders have found a way to downgrade the Xbox 360’s kernel, giving the console potential for a greater homebrew effort than at present. Key to a homebrew scene is the ability to modify a console’s core software: even whether reverting to an older version means no increasingly Xbox Liv…

Mandriva Linux 2008 Beta 2 Released

Filed under: Review - 25 Aug 2007

The moment beta of Mandriva Linux 2008, codenamed Galilee, is now available. The release notes are available here. A guide to major new features (some of which are not yet implemented in that beta) is available here, and the detailed technical specifications are available here. that beta is availabl…

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