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The “Dragon Bike” is the latest creation from famed bike artist Jay Broemmel —and it would undoubtedly turn some heads if you were to ride it down the street. Broemmel even added some special touches in the form of Blue LED headlight eyes that move when you turn the handlebar and a jaw that bites down when you squeeze the left brake (no flames shooting out of the mouth?).
In Yamaha’s CEDIA booth, their flagship surround sound bar, was audio magnificence amidst the din. In my house, the sound was big and lively, but I ran into some problems, too.
Remember those Olinari Silver USB Dog Tags we showed you back in August? The ones that looked extremely nice but costed about $200 too much? They’re shipping now for the price of $US349 (with 2GB USB) and $US319 without. We really want one of these, but for $US349 we’ll stick with going bare chested. [Olinari]
We’ve had nothing but good luck in moving files to and from our Windows Home Server machine in Windows Explorer, but there’s a data corruption bug present that will kill your data if you’re writing stuff over the network directly from certain apps. The apps? Outlook, OneNote, Vista Photo Gallery, Live Photo Gallery, Money and some Torrent apps and Quicken/QuickBooks as well. That doesn’t sound good. Our advice is to save stuff locally before copying it onto the Home Server. [Microsoft via ComputerWorld]
People just don’t like being spied upon. If you live in the UK, you’re certainly familiar with those autonomous traffic cameras lurking around every corner that catch you speeding or running traffic signals, and then tattle to the police, resulting in a traffic ticket in your mailbox. A group called MAD (Motorists Against Detection) has been smashing those boxes for the past seven years in retailation. In fact, the guerilla group claims to have obliterated 1000 of the cameras, and have big plans to step up their attacks on the eavesdropping gadgets.
Although we write about HDTV and HD content all day like all of us have it (because most of us editors do), some of our readers actually don’t. We want to find out how exactly how many of you make up this group of resolution-deprived bastards. Vote, and then tell us exactly what type of set you have. Bonus points to the person who has the most number of TVs in their house, no matter what type.
We just talked to the two guys responsible for the Guitar Hero Office Christmas Light Extravaganza and asked them to elaborate on the process of creating such a bad ass light show. The two guys, Kyle and Colin Bryson, have been equipment from National Instruments to make automated light shows already, and just took it to another level with the Frets on Fire (the PC Guitar Hero) integration. Check out the full interview and bonus video (playing Through the Fire and Flames, the hardest GH3 song) after the jump.
Although we’ll never see this TG LLUON Mini PC here on account of how it’s Korea-only, it looks so good that we just had to show you anyway. Inside the small box is an Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, a 500GB hard drive, DVD burner, GeForce 8400GS and Wi-Fi. It’s $US1500, unfortunately, making it almost three times as much as a Mac Mini. But man, does this look so much nicer. It’s like Darth armor to Luke’s dorky outfit. [Akihabara News]
Those Media Center Extenders we told you about back in September (the ones that support DivX, XviD and WMV HD) are finally shipping now. Dell has both the Linksys DMA 2100 and 2200s up for sale, but a reader tells us that his 2100 doesn’t actually work with DivX or XviD, and the manual makes no mention of this. It could be user error on his part. Anyone have any experience with it? [2100 via 2200]
• The FBI wants to install 150 digital billboards in 20 US cities in the next few weeks to show fugitives, missing people and gadget bloggers. [Network World] • Oft-discussed Radiohead will have a live webcast concert at midnight on January 1. It’s almost cool to stay home on New Year’s Eve now. [Pitchfork] • Google is stuck in patent troll hell with Hyperphase Technologies, LLC. The company claims it holds patents on certain parts of AdSense technology. [The Register] • Yahoo filed a patent for “smart drag-and-drop” technology, which means “displaying drop targets in proximity to a drag-able selected object.” Too bad everything from MS Excel to Apple Mail to Adobe Flash all use similar technology already. [Ars Technica] • Vonage finalised their settlement with AT&T over the former infringing on the latter’s VoIP patents. The settlement is believed to be somewhere in the neighbourhood of $US39 million. [CRN]
