Saturday, May 19, 2007
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CableCARD Media Centers Shipping, Get a Sneak Peek
12:00PM Seamus Byrne | Hey home theater PC lovers! Those of you who are still waiting around for CableCARD-enabled machines in order to get high-def cable in your home theater setup don’t have to wait much longer, since these CC machines are finally shipping. If you wanted to get a sneak peek at what you’re going to get with these systems, check out our exclusive first hands on with Niveus’s systems back in April. We’ll have more coverage on these soon as well. – Jason Chen galleryPost('niveushands', 8, 'CableCard HTPC Hands On'); Gallery [Gizmodo] More »
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HP LED Laptops Confirmed for Q3 2007
11:57AM Seamus Byrne | I’ve been waiting for this good news from HP for awhile: their laptops are finally, officially, and definitely going to get LEDs inside of LCDs. Judging from family names, the two confirmed machines, the HP Compaq 2510p and 2710 tablet (not the laptop above), they likely aren’t high end beauties like those DV pavillions you’ve seen in the Shawn White and Jay Z commercials. But they’ll have the battery saving, bright tech inside their screens, and that makes me happy on the insides. Hewlett-Packard(HP) plans to ship in the third quarter an ultra-light notebook and a tablet PC with light-emitting diode displays… More »
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World’s Largest Offshore Wind Power Plant, Bird Friend or Foe?
11:40AM Seamus Byrne | 350 enormous wind turbines are to be placed 13 miles out from England’s coast, making it the biggest planned project of its kind. Once fully operational, it would generate enough electricity to power half of Southwest England. This must come as a mixed bag for those happy-go-lucky sea-birds. On the one hand the less fossil fuel being burned the better, but on the other there are 1050 (that’s 3-per tower) bird-maiming blades being installed at a cruising altitude of 150 meters.– Ben Longo World’s Largest Offshore Wind Project? [EcoGeek] Bird Flight Info [EarthLife.net] More »
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Rumour: Logitech’s Upcoming Mini Media Center Keyboard Revealed
11:00AM Seamus Byrne | A reader claims he just participated in a survey for a wireless remote from—probably from Logitech—that looks like it’s in the final design stages. The tipster claims the keyboard is probably going to be branded either the “Slice”, “Keymote”, or “Digital Living Keyboard” under the DiNovo line. Of course, this is a survey and all of this stuff is probably not even close to being final, but it’s a nice sneak peek into what Logitech could be thinking about doing. See the full specs after the jump. More »
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Ten Sub-$150 Cameras Compared (They’re Not so Bad)
11:00AM Seamus Byrne | Remember when getting a camera under $150 was essentially as good as throwing your money away, getting a pen and paper, and drawing a picture yourself? Well gramps, get with the times. You can get a pretty decent point and shoot for under a buck fiddy now, and Laptop Mag’s got a comparison of ten of them. There’s no big winner here, but take a look at the shots and see which one you prefer. They all look pretty decent to us, and should be fine enough as a gift for your parents or someone who doesn’t really care about squeezing the last ounce of quality out of his purchase. – Jason Chen Ten Quality Cameras You Can Afford [Laptop Mag] More »
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Baby Doll Lamp
10:20AM Seamus Byrne | …because nude toy baby dolls weren’t creepy enough as it is. $100. –Travis Hudson Product Page [Via BoingBoing] More »
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David Pogue’s “Geek to Me” Show Airs Tonight
10:17AM Seamus Byrne | Set the TiVo! David Pogue’s new show Science Channel show, which he writes and stars in, starts tonight. 8 pm on the Science Channel! Every Fri for 6 weeks. Also on Discovery HD starting June 7. It’s going to be like a 30 (60?) minute version of the funny videos we link to on the NYTimes every week. There’s a video after the jump, with a mossberg-ish funk track for the video’s opening soundtrack. I forgive David, because it has a snazzy snare drum threaded through it. (I hope he plays plays piano at some point during the season.) AU: This should turn up on Discovery out here on Foxtel if we have any luck.
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Creative Zen Wav Leaked? Possible iPod Nano Competitor Spotted in Singapore
10:00AM Seamus Byrne | Just when we thought the Creative Zen Stone was the only thing they had up their sleeves, Creative’s gone and released a Zen Wav in Singapore (their home country). The device looks like a Nano competitor with a set of integrated speakers, 2GB storage, FM radio, voice recording, and a photo/video playback mode. There’s no word whether this will be available in the US, but the price there in Singapore seems to be $117 when converted to bucks. But if Creative wants this to stand up to the best-selling iPod Nano they’ve got to bring the goods. And when we say goods, they take that to mean building a player that looks almost exactly like the Nano except for some speakers and a different control scheme. – Jason Chen Anything But iPod [via Electronista] More »
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Unconfirmed: Nokia 8600 Looking Better, Getting More Specs
9:40AM Seamus Byrne | We saw the 8600 back in April when it was posted on Carphone Warehouse, but now someone’s posted an “official” picture of it in the mobile review forums. Along with the picture, which looks tons better than the render last time, there are more specs as well. The phone will have Series 40, a 2-megapixel camera, quad-band GPRS/EDGE, Bluetooth, and a QVGA display. That’s pretty much all we know for now, but it’s been approved by the FCC, so it’ll probably be released somewhere sometime soon. I’m not usually keen on Nokia’s designs, but this 8600 looks pretty darn hot. – Jason Chen Forums [Mobile Review via Unwired View] More »
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