Archive for: October 22, 2007

We first saw Griffin’s Evolve wireless iPod speakers way back in January at CES, and it looks like they’re finally shipping. The detachable speakers each contain a battery with ample juice to final 10 hours, and the Evolve base can charge both the speaker cubes and a docked iPod. Apparently Best…

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Portable Audio

Interesting; were you at all curious to know how many of Apple’s iPhones were sold to US T-Mobile customers and exporters “with the intention to unlock” the handsets? Well, there’s no way anyone will ever know, but on today’s Apple Q4 earnings shout Tim Cook (or we think that was Tim Cook) state…

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Cellphones

While they’re still far from eMachines-territory, those in the market for an Alienware system can now knock a few bucks off their desktop or laptop of choice — whether they’re willing to fork by some of their old gear, that is. That can be done as part of the company’s just-launched AlienExch…

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Desktops, Laptops

Just final year Bridgestone was feelin’ pretty good about itself for unveiling the “world’s thinnest” sheet of two-color e-paper. These days, the outfit is engaged showing off a new version that measures in at just 0.29-millimeters thick and is capable of displaying 4,096 colors on an eight-inch…

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Displays, Gadgets

Sure, Apple’s profitability and viability is based on any number of factors, but there’s one figure that analysts have been training their calculators on for months that has finally seen the light of day: Apple sold 1,119,000 iPhones in Q4 2007, which ended on September 29th, bringing the grand …

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Cellphones, Desktops, Gadgets, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Wacom’s 21-inch Cintiq display tablet got a little sibling nowadays, the 12.1-inch Cintiq 12WX. The unit is basically an Intuos3 tablet with an integrated display, so it features everything you’d expect — 1,024-level pressure-sensitivity, input device rotation support, touch strips, ExpressKeys…

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Peripherals

Well, after about a day and a half of anticipation, we’ve got a TakeTV of our own to idiot around with. First thing that struck us: that ain’t your mom’s USB flash drive — unless your mom carries around a Zachmorrisphone, considering the TakeTV is big. (But it’s not really intended for taking o…

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Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Peripherals, Portable Video, Storage

IBM ain’t the first big fish to dabble in the wireless HD chipset realm, and while we’d heard that the outfit was looking into the matter a year ago, things are seemingly now moving forward. Big Blue has joined hands with MediaTek in a “joint initiative to develop ultra fast chipsets that can wi…

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Gadgets, HDTV, Wireless

What's the future of Web video? Lots of giggling blond girls, if MySpace has its way. MySpace TV just launched Roommates, the first original series created specifically for the site.

Created in conjunction with Iron Sink Media, the series revolves around eight attractive females who have recently graduated from college.

Roommates seeks to appeal to the large overlap of viewership between those who strive to be attractive sorority girls, and those who just like to look at them. Both demos should be sufficiently satisfied by the highbrow subject matter tackled by the series. Says NewTeeVee: "the first episode features one of the girls standing in her underwear scolding her dog, followed by some girl-on-girl farting."

You're going to have to take their word for that one. I didn't make it that far into the first three minute webisode.

The series is scripted, though MySpace seems to be positioning it as something of an even ditzier version of The Real World, leading some on the Web to mistakenly refer to it as a "reality series" (not that reality shows are ever especially real to begin begin with, of course, but let's digress from the moment).

The interesting thing here, however, is the interaction between the series and the Myspace community. Character profiles and vlogs aren't especially groundbreaking, but the fact that MySpace audience interaction will affect the storyline certainly gives the series something of an edge.

Roommates premiers today, running Monday through Friday, until December 21, for a totally of 45 glorious episodes.

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It’s been nearly three years since Elonex delivered its original eXentia Media Center PC, but now the firm is hitting back with a new iteration along with an interesting boombox. The £999 ($2,045) eXentia pro all-in-one PC (pictured after the jump) boasts a 22-inch LCD and packs a 2.2GHz Intel …

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Desktops, Portable Audio, Portable Video

eMachines looks to be trying to construct its already budget-priced desktops even increasingly appealing to consumers that holiday season, with it nowadays introducing a pair of models that it says strike just the right balance amidst performance and value. The most affordable of the pair is the c…

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Desktops

Those looking for a little EV-DO with their laptop but not willing to put up with the protrusion of a USB modem will soon have a few increasingly options to consider from HP, which has announced a bundle of new trade laptops equipped with some embedded mobile broadband courtesy of Sprint. Those in…

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Laptops