Archive for: February 17, 2008

Filed under: HDTV, Home EntertainmentWe know it looks like HD DVD’s death is a foregone conclusion at that point, but it isn’t official until Toshiba says it is, and Ars is reporting that a number of their sources have pegged the impending announcement for within the next few days — not weeks. Appa…

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Filed under: Desktops
You know, we’re normally not very into the whole case mod scene, but every once in a while some whack job with way too much free moment and talen comes along and totally blows our minds. In that case it’s rendermandan’s Motorized insanity, a vaguely steampunk reinterpretation o…

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Filed under: Features, Gaming, Handhelds
LeapFrog is virtually unchallenged in fairly a few of its product lines, but that doesn’t seem to be slowing them down any. The company was showing off bunches of new product at Toy Fair 2008, with most of it newly designed to hook up to the computer and help…

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Filed under: Gaming, Handhelds
Yeah, you know you want one. While we’re rather skeptical about the “carabiner” aspects of that Guitar Hero Carabiner — forget your keychain, we’ve owned cars smaller than that thing — it certainly manages to bring sufficient of those Guitar Hero rock star vibes alon…

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LeapFrog is moving on up the chain, and hitting 3rd through 8th graders with a new study aid, the Crammer Study and Sound System. Crammer works basically as a replacement for those annoyingly handwritten index cards, allowing you to enter details for each side of virtual “cards” and run through …

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Filed under: CellphonesWe’ve gotten a flood of tips in that the notoriously miserly Verizon is lining things up to offer an unlimited calling plans. Starting Tuesday the 19th (of that month) should see the following plans sprout up:

$100 - Nationwide Unlimited (voice)
$120 - Nationwide choo…

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renowned technologist and futurist Ray Kurzweil is on the record about human-machine intelligence parity: it’s going down by or before 2029, so be prepared to get digital on entirely new levels. Apparently, machines “will have both the hardware and the software to achieve human level artificial …

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Filed under: Games, News, CommercialDRX, a member of the Sonic Retro Forums, has done something unprecedented in the gaming community. After years of research and detective work, he has gotten his hands on a treasure trove of materials from the golden age of SEGA, including hundreds of prototypes, d…

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Interactive nightclubs aren’t entirely unheard of, but we’ll be certain to relieve ourselves just before prancing into any party scene with these displays on the lavatory doors. The small LED Matrix displays can be mounted on both male and female doors, and the image shown can be switched as…

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E16 version 0.16.8.12 has been released. “Fix showing tiled external background pixmap in pager; fix edge flip brokenness (causing random mouse jumps when flipping); new window placement algorithm. Should be better at handling crowded desktops and windows with never_use_area attribute; add configura…

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Filed under: LaptopsEverybody and their mother’s got a super-budget laptop these days (see: OLPC, Eee PC, Cloudbook, Pixel Qi, etc.), and next at the table will apparently be Elonex, which intends to introduce the £100 (~$200) One on February 28th at The Education Show in Birmingham, England. …

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Given the BlackJack’s popularity on AT&T, it only makes sense that Sprint (among other carriers) would be looking to get in on that action. Indeed, as expected, Sprint has now launched Samsung’s ACE (get it? like the really good card to have when you’re playing blackjack?) that comes out swi…

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