Archive for: August 30, 2008

August 30, 2008

Super Nintendo controller table signals a trend

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Remember that fad where everyone had dining room tables of their favorite Disney character? Or the age in the 70s where tables were shaped like lava lamps? No? At any rate, the modders by at SCAD Inc. have spent all summer crafting a fully-functional Super Nintendo c…

Stix 200 Wiimote wannabe reviewed: it’s just as terrible as we imagined

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Be honest here, GoLive2’s Stix didn’t stand a chance at being taken seriously, and even when one reviewer attempted to have fun with the unashamed Wiimote knockoff, he folded epically. The Stix 200 looks strikingly like Nintendo’s accelerometer-packin’ controller, th…

Demand for HP’s Mini-Note growing fast?

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: LaptopsHP has always been confident that the 2133 Mini-Note would sell quickly, to the point where the company planned to build some two million units that year, and it sounds like that bet’s paying off — China’s Apply Daily is citing sources at HP Taiwan quoting worldwide sales growin…

Official tethering option for iPhone on the way?

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

It seems Apple and AT&T are in talks regarding adding a tethering option to the iPhone. One user emailed Apple to complain about the lack of that feature, particularly considering it is offered on most other smartphones for $30/month.

Supposedly, Steve Jobs replied and said:
We agree, and are d…

French doctors use laser to destroy brain tumor in conscious patient

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsNeurosurgery with robotic assistance is getting pretty old hat nowadays, so it looks like scientists are trying to up the difficulty factor by keeping their patients awake — a team of French doctors just completed the first successful removal of malignant brain tumor from …

Keepin’ it real fake, part CXXXVIII: HiVision knows that even netbooks need fake friends

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: Laptops
HiVision (also known as Shenzhen), a Chinese OEM exhibiting at IFA, is totally unabashed about its collection of netbook look-alikes, which range from 400MHz ARM-based computers that could retail for as little $150, to full featured VIA-powered affairs. Everything was as plastic…

Creative’s Zen Mozaic, X-Fi players hands-on

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video
We won’t belabor these two: X-Fi has been spotted plenty of times before, and the Zen Mozaic “is a crap,” as our friends at Engadget Spanish put it. There was no functioning WiFi to tryout out the X-Fi’s networking features, but they looked pretty tedious …

DayWalker case mod is amazing, can’t solve Wesley Snipes’ tax evasion problems

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: Desktops
There was no shortage of case mods at NVIDIA’s NVISION conference, but that one in specific managed to snag the majority of the highlight. Created by Richard “DarthBeavis” Surroz, the Blade-themed DayWalker actually houses three separate computer systems; two are for playing ga…

HTC’s Android-driven Dream revealed in glorious spy photos

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Filed under: Cellphones
certain, we’ve seen some blurry videos and a few stolen glimpses when Andy Rubin demonstrated that beast, but now we’ve gotten our hands on a slew of pictures showing off a very real T-Mobile-branded Dream in all its Android-running glory. Not only does that confirm the desig…

Smartphone Sales To Hit $200 Billion In 2012

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Consumers increasingly want more sophisticated handsets, and smartphone sales are expected to grow 52% that year compared to final year, according to Gartner. Overall, 190 million units will be sold that year, accounting for about 15% of the total handset market. In 2012, Gartner predicts, smartphon…

Dell To Continue to Offer XP on new PCs

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

Dell, Inc announced on Friday that it will offer Windows XP operating system to their personal computer customers after the June deadline. Microsoft has scheduled to pull the Windows XP operating system from store shelves on June 30 in an effort to upgrade customers to Windows Vista.Original post by…

Android App Store Winners

Filed under: Review - 30 Aug 2008

The day after Google announced its reply to Apple’s iPhone App store, it has announced the winners of a contest wherein developers win $275,000 or $100,000 for developing a top app for Google’s upcoming Android mobile phone OS. To get an notion of where the trend in mobile computing is heading, all …

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