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With great power comes great responsibility, and with added codec support comes a crapload of new questions. That’s why Microsoft’s Xbox team has released a FAQ detailing what you may or may not want to know about the newly supported codecs.
Among the more interesting answers (as if knowing what setting to choose when re-encoding content for your Xbox 360 wasn’t interesting enough) is the “No.” to “Do you support DivX”, the “No.” to whether they support MPEG-2, and the fact that you can now play back some 1080 content at 30fps. Head on over for a look. – Jason Chen
If looking at the news gives you the idea that the world is going to hell and the Apocalypse is about to break loose on Earth, look no further. What you hear is the noise of thunder and the trumpet-playing beast, because we have found the definitive proof: Behold, the BolsiPlus.
BolsiPlus are sticky pockets. Yes, they are pockets, they stick, they made every surface fugly useful. And thanks to NASA’s Apollo program and the genius of Ilde Irun, its inventor, these pockets can attach to any surface known to mankind: just stick that Velcro strip to your laptop, fridge, wall, door, car seat, PlayStation 3, nuclear submarine or favorite tiger-pattern thong.
And as you can see in the gallery, they come in all kinds of fabrics and decorations. There’s even a Wall Street Journal model, perfect to put Walter Mossberg’s exclusive pre-production iPhone in his exclusive pre-production next generation Santa Rosa MacBook. You can even send your own photo. A video demonstrating its hundred billion uses (not safe for work, play or life) after the jump.
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Don’t quite have the money for a Helio Ocean but feel like getting a gadget high? We’ve got you covered. Here’s a roundup of cheap gadgets that are both neat and, well, cheap. Cheap as in both low in price and quality.
Get a FM radio monkey for anyone who’s born in the year of the monkey or just acts like a monkey. $16. Product Page [e-Goods via Technabob via ubergizmo]
This Al Bundy lookalike will hold your tape, pens, and paper clips. Guess where the paper clips are. $19. Product Page [Gifts for Professionals via nerd approved]
Although the announcement on Monday didn’t happen publicly as we first thought, select developers did get to see the Zune behind closed doors and signed NDAs. iLounge’s source tells them Microsoft demoed more than one upcoming Zune at the event.
First was the flash-based Zune which everyone was expecting, which earned a “not bad” reception thanks to its larger-than-Nano-size and lack of any great features. However, the new hard-drive based Zune (which we’ll call Zune 2) will have an even larger display, bigger storage capacity, and will match the current line of iPods in terms of features. That’s all their source said, but we’re sure to hear more as more details are made available. – Jason Chen
About those new Zunes (yes, plural) [iLounge]
In an interesting reversal, departed PC World Editor Harry McCracken has returned to the magazine as “vice-president, editor in chief”. What’s even more surprising is that CEO Colin Crawford has been dropped from the CEO position and is taking up the executive vice president, online position. He’s even given the editorial staff an apology for killing the story.
IDG is going start a search for a CEO for both PC World and Macworld, two magazines that Colin Crawford used to be CEOs of. Our thoughts? All the reader outrage online after the story first broke is what caused the sudden 180. Or, we suppose it’s probably more of a 540 since PCWorld actually went ahead and published a tame 10 Things We Hate About Apple anyway. – Jason Chen
Editor in Chief Harry McCracken Returns to PC World [PCWorld]
Do you enjoy fire? Do you also enjoy very intricate Rube Goldberg machines? Of course you do. So just hit play and prepare to be entertained to an embarrassing degree. –Adam Frucci
Now that we’ve shown you the technology and the hardware behind Intel’s new Centrino Duo platform, it’s time to talk CPU pricing. What do these new Core 2 Duos cost? It depends. They range from the top of the line 2.40GHz T7700 ($530) to the Core 2 Duo processor LV L7300 at 1.40GHz ($284).
And though we saw and liked plenty of new laptops today, it’s the HP HDX which bowled us over with its massive, but not overwhelming, design. Check out the gallery and the review below. – Louis Ramirez
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HP HDX Review [Computer Shopper]
There are some great Mac Mini setups out there, but none of them would hold up to military conditions. Enter VictorSystems. They took your typical pint-sized Mac and covered it in aluminum armor, wrought plates and finned heat sinks. Now the Mini is combat ready.
But what good is a beefed-up Mac if you don’t have equally tough peripherals? You can also pick up tough-as-nails keyboards, monitors, mice or even speakers. No word on pricing, but expect a decent price jump for a Mini that could beat you up.– Ben Longo
Rugged Mac mini designed for military use [Slash Gear]
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At last night’s ITP Grad Show at NYU, we saw this super-sweet project that essentially creates robotic paparazzi. It’s a smart robot, as it knows what humans like: skin, and lots of it. It has sensors that detect how much skin someone is showing, and it takes more pictures and yells at them more as a result. Check the video out to see it in action and hear it described by the brilliant/perverted creator. –Adam Frucci with video by Richard Blakeley
Some days it just feels like Groundhog Day. With Santa Rosa popping in more places than the Virgin Mary today, each post feels exactly like that and here’s the Sony VAIO FZ to prove it. Not only it has the already-sickening brand new Intel chipset, but it was leaked at the beginning of the month.
Today it’s official though, and we have prices, full specs and more photos of this widescreen 15.4-inch Core 2 Duo T7300 notebook after the jump.
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