Archive for: December 20, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
According to a recently released report by the Pew Net and American Life Project, a telephone study of US youths aged 12-17 found that — get that — kids actually put value on “non-online” meetings, such as “talking on the phone” or “hanging out.” whether you believe thes…

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Gadgets

Laboratory officials celebrated Los Alamos’s decision to pursue, pending approval by the National Nuclear safety degree Administration, the final phase of Roadrunner, a high-performance computer (HPC) slated to become the computational cornerstone of Laboratory mission-related work. “Roadrunner ush…

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Computers

New generation active computer games stimulate greater energy expenditure than sedentary games, but are no substitute for playing real sports, as per a research studyin that weeks Christmas issue of the BMJ. Young humans are currently recommended to take an hour of moderate to vigorous physical exe…

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Computers

Filed under: Ask Engadget, Features, PeripheralsConsidering it’s the buying season and all, we’re not shocked to see that one come rushing into the Ask Engadget inbox. But considering the multitude of options out there, we’d say it’s bit too late to go on a week towering research bender in order to …

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Gadgets

I got my hands on an early copy of the Norton 360 2.0 beta release and ran it through a few quick tests. For a beta version it's looking pretty darn good - but then, the standards are higher when the beta is a security product. It noticed ZoneAlarm on the test system and politely asked me to uninstall it. The installation seemed quicker than what I remember, and the streamlined preinstall scan ensured that it went smoothly.

Once the installation completed it assigned me one simple task - configure the backup system. But that was easy enough to do, since its recommended settings seemed perfectly logical. After that, nothing! No more worries. Oh, it did mention seven tasks that it was going to handle itself, sometime when I'm not using the computer. I peeked at an installation of the original N360; in similar circumstances it told me I was AT RISK and popped up several warnings. Looks like version 2.0 is going for the "strong silent type" award.

I waited around (well, I worked on another project) for a while and sure enough it did start taking care of those tasks. But I got impatient and started looking for a way to manually clear things up. Hey, nice! The main window is still divided into four big areas, but now when the mouse is over one of them you get a quick menu of related actions. "View Details" was just the right action to show me ...

Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds
The tips have been flowing in hot and heavy on that one, so we felt it only fair to pass along the latest rumblings in the world of GP2X to you. We first got word that a new emulation monster could be coming from the GP2X community back in September, and whether late b…

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Gadgets

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’m a sucker for pretty looking things. It helps when they’re actually useful too. In the case of most items in Digg’s labs section, the latter can’t often be said, but they’re certainly fun to look at. nowadays Digg’s launched a new visualization called “p…

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Web

Run totally on Macs, Charity Checks is a giving program that lets you form contributions to any charity while your gift recipient chooses the cause. With Charity Checks everyone comes out a winner.Original post by Christopher Koch

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Apple

It’s been 20 years since Canon shipped the first film-based EOS 650 AF SLR, and although the camera industry has undergone some fundamental changes since, the EOS line remains as strong as ever. Canon announced nowadays that it’s now shipped by 30 million EOS cameras, and by 10 million digital E…

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Digital Cameras, Gadgets

Their clients have exciting new products we’ll want to use; cutting-edge stories we need to take in. Who better to spread the word than LaunchSquad. One of the world’s fastest growing PR firms, LaunchSquad wants to excite folks about the new ideas and technologies offered by the companies they r…

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Apple

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Wireless
It looks like those in need of a little wireless music streaming on the cheap (relatively speaking) will soon be able to get their hands on a new device that does just from the folks at Aerielle which, as Crave points out, is better known for churning out ge…

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Gadgets

Fear not, hair band fans--"Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s" lives on.

On Monday a federal judge in Detroit denied The Romantics' request to halt production of the video game because of copyright issues.

The Romantics filed suit in November against Guitar Hero producer Activision for improper use of its song, "What I Like About You." The Romantics, however, were not arguing that Activision had no rights to the song; the company had legally secured the rights to use a cover version of "What I Like About You." What bothered the band was that Activision had basically commissioned a cover band that was too good and sounded too much like The Romantics. The band, which has not shied away from endorsement deals in the past, apparently thought that if Activision was going to produce a song that was so similar to the original, it should have forked over more cash and licensed the original song, not the cover version. Got that?

The judge was not in agreement, and denied the request. Christmas-morning interpretations of "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls and Poison's "Nothin' But a Good Time" are safe for all to enjoy.

Activision said in a statement that it was "pleased" with the ruling and thought The Romantics' case was "without merit."