Archive for June, 2008

LancerLink DDV-1080HD Camcorder

Check out this new camcorder from LancerLink  it’ll be priced at around $470 when it arrives in Japan this July – which is fairly good value for a compact high-definition device capable of full 1080p recording.  It has a 1/2.5-inch 5-megapixel CMOS sensor, 3-inch LCD display and SD/SDHC/MMC memory card slot happy with cards up [...]

Ultimate Ears are loud enough for kids

Some of you are concerned parents. Concerned about gadgets. No, I kid. And speaking of kids, these Ultimate Ears Loud Enough Earphones are child friendly and designed to protect their delicate eardrums. Which is pretty important as eardrums can be permanently damaged due to loud music. And kids especially like it loud.
That’s why Ultimate Ears [...]

ASUS My Cinema-PE6300Hybrid PCI-Express Hybrid TV Card

ASUS has announced a hybrid TV card that supports playback of both digital and analog programs. The My Cinema-PE6300Hybrid card is designed for users who want to watch and record digital or analog TV on their PCs. The card comes with a fully-functional remote control and is embedded with an hardware MPEG2 encoder that [...]

Verizon Wireless, MTV, Real Networks join to launch V Cast Music with Rhapsody

Verizon Wireless, Real Networks’ Rhapsody and MTV Networks today announced the launch of V CAST Music with Rhapsody service, to deliver “unlimited monthly access to music on up to three Rhapsody-compatible mobile phones and players and online on multiple PCs and Web browsers, for about the cost of a single CD.”
The monthly subscription cost $14.99 [...]

Gartner Says Worldwide Mobile Gaming Revenue to Surpass $4.5 Billion in 2008

Worldwide mobile gaming revenue is on pace to total $4.5 billion in 2008, a 16.1 percent increase from 2007 revenue of $3.9 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. While mobile gaming revenue will continue to lag behind other value-added entertainment services – such as music and adult content – the market still has much potential.

“Although current [...]

8-lane Salextric slot-car racing track

Many a kid has played with their slot car race track and watched as their racer zipped through the curves and straightaways only to be dislodged and careen off the track. It never gets old even as we age. It’s just that when you grow up, you need a bigger track. And in this case [...]

Cizmo’s CX1730M gaming laptop

Okay, so maybe Cizmo’s CX1730M is based heavily on Clevo’s M570TU, but it’s still one beast of a machine. This 17-inch monster packs a 2.26GHz Core 2 Duo processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, a 160GB SATA hard drive, WSXGA+ panel, a 2-megapixel webcam, dual-layer DVD burner (or optional Blu-ray drive), NVIDIA’s 512MB GeForce 8800M GTX [...]

North America BIS 2.5 Upgrade Complete: Say Hello to Native HTML Email Viewing (OS 4.5 Required)!

RIM completed their upgrades to BIS 2.5 in North America this weekend. If you’re not running OS 4.5 on your BlackBerry much of this won’t benefit you just yet (have patience, the widespread 4.5 rollout is coming!), but for those of you that are, a whole bunch of new features have just come your way, [...]

Tracking your night life activity on a blackberry

A Columbia University computer science professor has co-founded a New York-based company named Sense Networks to sell tracking software to other companies. It is also distributing a free version of this software named Citysense, which shows on your cell phone where the wild things are happening in your own town. Citysense ‘uses advanced machine learning [...]

MetroPCS CDMA Phone Party

MetroPCS is having a party and they want you to BYOP(Bring you own phone). Of course, they have phones they will sell you too, but they welcome you to bring your own phone if you like (and you will want to if you want something hot, their offerings are slim). This is a CDMA [...]