Daily Crunch: Down Below the Ocean Edition
Inverted, ocean-bound “seascrapers”: aqua-communes for the future? Did you know there was a Last Starfighter video game? Energizer battery charger contains a trojan SNES cartridge plays ROMs loaded from your computer Sony reminds us of the high-cost of first generation 3D TV ...3 hours ago
Inverted, ocean-bound “seascrapers”: aqua-communes for the future? Did you know there was a Last Starfighter video game? Energizer battery charger contains a trojan SNES cartridge plays ROMs loaded from your computer Sony reminds us of the high-cost of first generation 3D TV ...3 hours ago
The iTable continues to develop and show gaming potential
We’ve told you about the iTable before, and PQ Labs. They showed off their latest stage in the development process at CeBIT this year, by installing the screen into a coffee table. The newest version can register up to 32 touch points and actually determine the shape of the object being placed ...6 hours ago
We’ve told you about the iTable before, and PQ Labs. They showed off their latest stage in the development process at CeBIT this year, by installing the screen into a coffee table. The newest version can register up to 32 touch points and actually determine the shape of the object being placed ...6 hours ago
Crunchdeal: Save $500 on a Toshiba R600 with OpenSolaris
So here’s a deal, but it’s a bit odd. The Toshiba R600 is advertised as being Toshiba’s ultimate notebook, and for the price it better be. You can buy it from Toshiba’s website for $2,099 for the base model which includes a 160GB hard drive, 3GB of RAM, and a 12.1″ screen, and comes ...7 hours ago
So here’s a deal, but it’s a bit odd. The Toshiba R600 is advertised as being Toshiba’s ultimate notebook, and for the price it better be. You can buy it from Toshiba’s website for $2,099 for the base model which includes a 160GB hard drive, 3GB of RAM, and a 12.1″ screen, and comes ...7 hours ago
Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii
Technology analyst firm Strategy Analytics just announced their latest forecast: Sony’s Playstation 3 will will outsell the Wii and Xbox 360 by the time they all end their product cycle. Say what? Unfortunately analysts are a trusted source in the tech industry, but stuff like this makes me ...8 hours ago
Technology analyst firm Strategy Analytics just announced their latest forecast: Sony’s Playstation 3 will will outsell the Wii and Xbox 360 by the time they all end their product cycle. Say what? Unfortunately analysts are a trusted source in the tech industry, but stuff like this makes me ...8 hours ago
New Elgato EyeTV hybrid is smaller, more compatible
Elgato just released the updated version of their USB tuner, the EyeTV. This new version has been resized (smaller) and added compatibility with Windows 7, making it ideal for that HTPC project you’ve been thinking about. The new version is now clad in brushed aluminium, but is still capable ...8 hours ago
Elgato just released the updated version of their USB tuner, the EyeTV. This new version has been resized (smaller) and added compatibility with Windows 7, making it ideal for that HTPC project you’ve been thinking about. The new version is now clad in brushed aluminium, but is still capable ...8 hours ago
Adam Savage on recreating the gun from Blade Runner
Who knew that Adam Savage had the same obsession with this gun that I do? I’d wish I were as crafty as he is, but I think I’m just going to have to be satisfied with living vicariously through him, as most of us do. Like him, I’ve wanted Deckard’s gun since the first time I saw the movie, ...8 hours ago
Who knew that Adam Savage had the same obsession with this gun that I do? I’d wish I were as crafty as he is, but I think I’m just going to have to be satisfied with living vicariously through him, as most of us do. Like him, I’ve wanted Deckard’s gun since the first time I saw the movie, ...8 hours ago
Copy our tablet for your iPad, will you? Well how do you like… this?
You may recall the minor hullabaloo around the time of the iPad launch that Chinese company Great Long Brother had released a tablet well before Apples that shares a certain distinctive design. They threatened to sue Apple for mimicking their own P88, though it’d be clear to a purblind marmoset ...9 hours ago
You may recall the minor hullabaloo around the time of the iPad launch that Chinese company Great Long Brother had released a tablet well before Apples that shares a certain distinctive design. They threatened to sue Apple for mimicking their own P88, though it’d be clear to a purblind marmoset ...9 hours ago
XNA 4.0 games on Windows Phone 7 Series look awesome (but won’t be for Zune HD...
A bundle of screenshots just hit the net showing off the latest Direct3D-based mobile games running on a WinPho7 device, adn they look pretty hot. We knew that the Tegra chipset in the Zune HD and likely in several upcoming WinPho handsets (Tegra 2, to be precise) is capable of some nice 3D, but ...9 hours ago
A bundle of screenshots just hit the net showing off the latest Direct3D-based mobile games running on a WinPho7 device, adn they look pretty hot. We knew that the Tegra chipset in the Zune HD and likely in several upcoming WinPho handsets (Tegra 2, to be precise) is capable of some nice 3D, but ...9 hours ago
Hard drive design leaving XP behind
Bad news for the XP diehards out there, hard drive manufacturers are tired of supporting you, and the next generation of controller technology is not going to work properly with DOS and Windows XP users. Of course it won’t be a major issue until 2011, and maybe not even then. It’s been coming ...10 hours ago
Bad news for the XP diehards out there, hard drive manufacturers are tired of supporting you, and the next generation of controller technology is not going to work properly with DOS and Windows XP users. Of course it won’t be a major issue until 2011, and maybe not even then. It’s been coming ...10 hours ago
In a world of tracks, Pink Floyd fights for the album
It has been suggested that the album is dead. That’s a bit hasty, I think; such an established musical tool can only be detonated when both the patron and the artist turn the key. What people are seeing is that the patrons (i.e. distributors and labels) have turned their key, and are now looking ...10 hours ago
It has been suggested that the album is dead. That’s a bit hasty, I think; such an established musical tool can only be detonated when both the patron and the artist turn the key. What people are seeing is that the patrons (i.e. distributors and labels) have turned their key, and are now looking ...10 hours ago
360-degree virtual combat room is like Iraq: The Arcade Game
Just so you know, I’m not making light of warfare — it’s just that virtual training like this, while valuable, does remind one simultaneously of Modern Warfare and Ender’s Game. Of course, as this article notes, the current generation of potential soldiers has grown up in a digital age and ...11 hours ago
Just so you know, I’m not making light of warfare — it’s just that virtual training like this, while valuable, does remind one simultaneously of Modern Warfare and Ender’s Game. Of course, as this article notes, the current generation of potential soldiers has grown up in a digital age and ...11 hours ago
Gunnar Optiks joining forces with Carl Zeiss to make new lenses
Gunnar Optiks, makers of advanced lenses to ease eye strain for computer users, is teaming up with Carl Zeiss to bring a whole new class of “optics” to you. Not a whole lot of details at this point, other than Zeiss coatings and tints “will be used on the Gunnar Optiks lenses to change the ...11 hours ago
Gunnar Optiks, makers of advanced lenses to ease eye strain for computer users, is teaming up with Carl Zeiss to bring a whole new class of “optics” to you. Not a whole lot of details at this point, other than Zeiss coatings and tints “will be used on the Gunnar Optiks lenses to change the ...11 hours ago
The rise and fall of iTunes LP (cue dramatic music)
Exciting news about Apple’s iTunes LP: apparently it’s a bit of a bust! The fine folks at GigaOM had the foresight to talk to people in the music industry to ask them, six months on, how’s iTunes LP doing? Not so great, is the answer. What went wrong? The first shocking revelation: iTunes LP ...12 hours ago
Exciting news about Apple’s iTunes LP: apparently it’s a bit of a bust! The fine folks at GigaOM had the foresight to talk to people in the music industry to ask them, six months on, how’s iTunes LP doing? Not so great, is the answer. What went wrong? The first shocking revelation: iTunes LP ...12 hours ago
Did you know there was a Last Starfighter video game?
I don’t know how I missed this a few years ago but did you know there was a fully-featured Last Starfighter videogame made for a documentary on the film. With all this talk of Tron I wanted to check out the other major CG-infused release from my childhood and after watching it (Don’t. You will ...1 day ago
I don’t know how I missed this a few years ago but did you know there was a fully-featured Last Starfighter videogame made for a documentary on the film. With all this talk of Tron I wanted to check out the other major CG-infused release from my childhood and after watching it (Don’t. You will ...1 day ago
Inverted, ocean-bound “seascrapers”: aqua-communes for the future?
You guys, I’m freaking out about how cool these things could be. A recent skyscraper concept competition yielded some really interesting designs, among them this utterly amazing concept, which they inexplicably call a “water-scraper” instead of the decidedly more euphonious “seascraper,” ...1 day ago
You guys, I’m freaking out about how cool these things could be. A recent skyscraper concept competition yielded some really interesting designs, among them this utterly amazing concept, which they inexplicably call a “water-scraper” instead of the decidedly more euphonious “seascraper,” ...1 day ago
IBM researching ways to help the aged, illiterate
IBM’s Open Collaborative Research is working on ways to get mobile Internet to the aged and illiterate all over the world. The initial research is happening in Japan and India and will be used to plan future endeavors including open source platforms for information sharing. Japan was chosen ...1 day ago
IBM’s Open Collaborative Research is working on ways to get mobile Internet to the aged and illiterate all over the world. The initial research is happening in Japan and India and will be used to plan future endeavors including open source platforms for information sharing. Japan was chosen ...1 day ago
MSI Wind12 U230 finally available
We told you back in November that MSI had a new notebook coming, and now they are finally here: MSI’s new Wind12 U230 machines are now available for purchase online, and they look tasty. There are two different version of the Wind12, the U230-033, and the U230-040. Both versions come standard ...1 day ago
We told you back in November that MSI had a new notebook coming, and now they are finally here: MSI’s new Wind12 U230 machines are now available for purchase online, and they look tasty. There are two different version of the Wind12, the U230-033, and the U230-040. Both versions come standard ...1 day ago
Quick hands on with the Vizit cellular connected touchscreen photo frame
The Vizit photo frame is an interesting twist on conventional photo frames. Forget about setting it up over Wi-Fi or USB—this thing connects to AT&T’s network and pulls in photos sent via e-mail, MMS, browser upload, Photobucket, and Flickr. I had a chance to play around with a beta version of ...1 day ago
The Vizit photo frame is an interesting twist on conventional photo frames. Forget about setting it up over Wi-Fi or USB—this thing connects to AT&T’s network and pulls in photos sent via e-mail, MMS, browser upload, Photobucket, and Flickr. I had a chance to play around with a beta version of ...1 day ago
What TiVo needs to do to make the Wall Street boys happy
TiVo can’t catch a break. The company just rolled out its next-gen platform and then finally ended a long court battle with Dish Network, causing its stock to surge to new heights. This all happened within the last two weeks. But then last night the company announced its sad Q4 2009 financials. ...1 day ago
TiVo can’t catch a break. The company just rolled out its next-gen platform and then finally ended a long court battle with Dish Network, causing its stock to surge to new heights. This all happened within the last two weeks. But then last night the company announced its sad Q4 2009 financials. ...1 day ago
Spy report: EA Sports’ FIFA World Cup 2010
Without Rooney, England is doomed. Yes, it’s about time that I write about FIFA World Cup 2010, which I played at some snazzy EA event about a week ago. Jimin and I played half a game—I was Côte d’Ivoire and Jimin was South Korea—and I totally bashed his brains in, 2-0 at half-time. After ...1 day ago
Without Rooney, England is doomed. Yes, it’s about time that I write about FIFA World Cup 2010, which I played at some snazzy EA event about a week ago. Jimin and I played half a game—I was Côte d’Ivoire and Jimin was South Korea—and I totally bashed his brains in, 2-0 at half-time. After ...1 day ago
PANIC! Study finds that students are addicted to their iPhones!!
200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be “addicted” to their iPhones. “When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the ...1 day ago
200 students surveyed in a Stanford study were found to be “addicted” to their iPhones. “When asked to rank their dependence on the iPhone on a scale of one to five – five being addicted and one being not at all addicted – 10 percent of the students acknowledged full addiction to the ...1 day ago
Tim Berners-Lee advocates for open data
Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks at TED2010 about the value of open data. I recently heard a talk by David Weinberger, and one of the take-away comments from that speech for me was that the world is “too big to know.” We use filters to select the pieces of data we want or need, but that assumes ...1 day ago
Sir Tim Berners-Lee speaks at TED2010 about the value of open data. I recently heard a talk by David Weinberger, and one of the take-away comments from that speech for me was that the world is “too big to know.” We use filters to select the pieces of data we want or need, but that assumes ...1 day ago
Energizer battery charger contains a trojan
Wha? Apparently the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a bit of malware, Arucer.dll, which allows remote system access on port 7777. CERT warns: An attacker is able to remotely control a system, including the ability to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs. The ...1 day ago
Wha? Apparently the Energizer DUO USB battery charger contains a bit of malware, Arucer.dll, which allows remote system access on port 7777. CERT warns: An attacker is able to remotely control a system, including the ability to list directories, send and receive files, and execute programs. The ...1 day ago
Smallville can’t be allowed to break Stargate SG-1’s world record
We MUST stop this. Somehow Smallville must be canceled before it surpasses Stargate SG-1 and becomes the longest running Sci-fi show in North America’s history. Now I’m not suggesting violence here. Oh no. That’s dumb. But maybe something like what Jericho fans did. They mailed in boxes and ...1 day ago
We MUST stop this. Somehow Smallville must be canceled before it surpasses Stargate SG-1 and becomes the longest running Sci-fi show in North America’s history. Now I’m not suggesting violence here. Oh no. That’s dumb. But maybe something like what Jericho fans did. They mailed in boxes and ...1 day ago
SNES cartridge plays ROMs loaded from your computer
My oh my, what have we here? The “NEO SNES/SFC MYTH FLASH CART” is basically a cartridge that you pop into your Super Nintendo (you do still have your Super Nintendo, don’t you?) that’s got 256MB of onboard memory upon which you can load up ROMs. So take a tally of your legally-owned SNES ...1 day ago
My oh my, what have we here? The “NEO SNES/SFC MYTH FLASH CART” is basically a cartridge that you pop into your Super Nintendo (you do still have your Super Nintendo, don’t you?) that’s got 256MB of onboard memory upon which you can load up ROMs. So take a tally of your legally-owned SNES ...1 day ago
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