Archive for: July 12, 2008

July 12, 2008

MovieBeam sold, plans three market return tour that year

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment
Looks like film Gallery finally got something for the assortment of PBS bandwidth and spare parts remaining from the now-defunct MovieBeam service. The new owner is Indian conglomerate The Valuable Group, headed by Sanjay Gaikwad who apparently thinks serving up…

Teclast M26 gets priced: $73 too much

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
Hey you — you looking for a quarter of the iPod touch experience for a little less than a quarter of the price? Yeah? Well, how does dropping $73 on the depressingly derivative Teclast M26 seize you? Seriously, that thing looked like it had a glimmer of p…

Kodak intros the C913, M1073 IS and M1063 cheapcams

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Filed under: Digital Cameras
We’re not positive why Kodak is trickling out these middle-of-the-road digicams instead of announcing them all at once, but here we are. Joining the M1093 IS are the new M1073 IS (pictured) and M1063, while the C813 get a new friend in the C913. As you’d expect, nearly n…

Tesla starts delivering Roadsters as production ramps up, hires hotshot engineering exec

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Filed under: Transportation
Move by, Elon Musk — the Tesla owners club is about to get bigger. The upstart electric-car company announced the delivery of the first nine production Roadsters to customers in California earlier that week, with several more to follow at the rate of four per week, and t…

Ion’s $300 “Drum Rocker” premium drum kit for Rock Band unveiled

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Well, that was quick. We mentioned Ion’s fancy drum kit yesterday, which will be released around when Rock Band 2 ships, but works with both Rock Band games, and now we’ve got a price and a press shot of the Drum Rocker. The $300 set has high-durability pads, which a…

iPhone 3G: The Waiting Game: Part II: Redux

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
whether you hadn’t heard, hundreds of society were turned away from Apple Stores final night, iPhone 3G-less. However, being gluttons for punishment — and having nothing to do by the weekend — they’ve returned in droves to Apple Stores, with reports of lines longer than 200…

Apple iPhone v2.0 software on Saturday: Still M.I.A.

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Approximately 36 hours after the release of the iPhone 2.0 firmware, existing iPhone customers still can’t download it. iTunes says it’s unavailable. Apple should have done better.

We already know that on Friday, there were severe activation proble…

Will It Blend? iPhone 3G edition

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

No, really, will it? We’re on pins and needles here. certain, the original blended up fine, but with all the G’s in that thing, perhaps not even the mighty Blendtec can reduce it to rubble. Video is after the break. Oh, and for additional bonus points, check out the fake Belgian edition, add…

Sony teaser points to laptop refresh on Monday

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Sony Style is running a rather large teaser on its main page, featuring a fairly distinctive potential button and the blurb “Performance / Style / Mobility. Redefined.” Hrm. We wonder what it could be?

[Thanks, Mathias S.]

Original post by Paul Miller

Epilog Zing, your personal laser engraver

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Do you have $8000 to blow? Have you been dying to open a laser tattoo parlor? Well guess what? It’s your lucky day. The folks at Epilog would like you to meet the Zing, a $7,995 laser etcher / printer that can not only scar you for life, but can additionally leave a personalized stamp of your ch…

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Sans Digital offers up AccuNAS AN2L 2-bay NAS enclosure

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Sans Digital caught our eyes earlier that month with a simple, albeit remarkably nifty CF to SATA adapter, and now it’s doing so again with a 2-bay NAS enclosure. The AccuNAS AN2L is a RAID 0/1 chassis that supports file sharing in Windows, OS X and Linux, and it plus enables playback of files v…

iPhone App Review: Twitterrific exercises your EDGE connection and your patience

Filed under: Review - 12 Jul 2008

Filed under: Developer, Social Software, iPhoneSlick UI seems to be the norm for most ‘big name’ iPhone applications on the AppStore. Twitterrific easily gets the top spot in terms of having appealing UI and navigation. However, UI and usability are not synonymous. When I use my phone, I want to ach…

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