We were already thinking the Meizu M6 was a damn good multimedia player, with FM and video playback plus a lower price than the iPod nano. Then Meizu announced its Meizu M6 Mini Player SE late last year, identical to the M6 except in one very important respect: It’s scarcely thicker than a credit card. How does 7mm sound to you? That’s just a hair fatter than the iPod nano’s 6.5mm thickness.
Now it looks like we’ll be seeing the finished product this August, offered only in 8GB trim, for the reasonable price of $130. Hey, that’s $119 less than the 8GB nano. – Charlie White
Super Thin Meizu M6 in the Works [Meizu Me] More »
So here are Sony’s official pics of the new DAV-IS10 mini home theater system. Last night they demoed a 2.1 system (with an annoying John Mayer song that’s still stuck in my head), but the official system is a 5.1 setup. The satellites are abnormally small (I’d say they’re smaller than the Neonode handset), but pump out 50 watts of power each along with a normal-sized subwoofer that delivers 200 watts. Would I personally buy them? Probably not. Here’s why.
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Since we told you about Sony’s PS3 firmware 1.8 rollout yesterday, there’s new info about what it will and won’t play over a network, and some revealing screenshots surfacing as the firmware rolls out across the world.
Since the announcement and rollout yesterday, what else have we learned about the PS3 1.8 firmware?
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This cross between Darth Vader and C-3PO is not really a robot like we told you before, but I bet it can still squash your head like a ripe melon with its air servos. The 220-pound, 6-feet-tall beast with 24 movable parts is really an automaton designed to mimic a protocol droid, which means that is remotely controlled and its functions are pre-determined, much like the automatons you see in DisneyWorld rides. And the rest of us. Still, the design is amazing, as you can see in this new gallery and a new video after the jump.
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You may or may not have heard of the iGasm, a variation on the theme of iPod-compatible vibrator, this time made by Ann Summers, purveyors of sauce and smut to saucy, smutty people in the UK.
News of this product has reached the ears of the suits black turtlenecks in Cupertino and apparently they are not happy. More, plus a picture of the iGasm unboxed (and unPantsed, you’ll be pleased to hear) after the jump.
Fohenz’s new 2.1-channel PC speakers are called Aqua. For $27 (Korea only, which is a shame) you get a 3.5-inch woofer, 2-inch drive unit, mic and headset inputs, and they support 6W output power. And they’ve got a nice neon light that looks all ’80s porno to me. With a name like Aqua, though, I think they should have made them waterproof. – Ad Dugdale
Waterdrop shape 2.1-channel PC speaker AQUA [Aving USA]
Ever wanted Dog Vision? Nope, me neither. Artist Hung Chi-Penh (whose work can currently be seen at the Virgil de Voldaire gallery in NY) however, has created a helmet that gives you the canine perspective on the world—as well as possible dizziness.
Mr Hung’s helmet, shaped like a dog’s head, natch, has small LCD displays inside, that are connected to a knee-high tube that looks like an elephant’s trunk with a camera at the end. The camera can be controlled either by hand or by moving the body, so you can view the world from different perspectives. So, to recap: knee-high vision; dizziness— sounds more like a Friday night-cocktail-Ad-chums-high heels-dancefloor interface to me. – Ad Dugdale
‘One Eye Ball’ Gives You a Dog’s Perspective of the World [Gearlog] More »
The Afterglow chair, designed by Douglas Homer, is the perfect present for the entomologist in your life. Allow me to do a little bit of sexy scene-setting for you. It’s a balmy summer evening and you and he/she have been making the bug with two backs for—ooh, almost seven minutes now (and that was doing it twice).
While you lounge in the afterglow, sated and unashamed, that special insect lover in your life is studying the Afterglow on the porch, checking the creepy-crawlies and roaches that climb with wild abandon over its HDPE surface. There’s an armless two-seater as well as an ottoman if you really want to glow to town. – Ad Dugdale
Afterglow HDPE chair [NOTCOT] More »
I’ve been waiting for someone to do something like this for disco light years, and when they do I find there’s something a bit too Bratz about it for any serious discophile to contemplate it. As someone with a PhD in all things light-up dancefloor and Sylvester, I can tell you for starters that that pink is NO NO NO. As is the mouse mat. Whoever made this should have contacted me. I would have made it glittered and shiny and, basically, fuckable – which, let’s face it, is what disco was all about. It’s $20 and WRONG. – Ad Dugdale
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