Monday, June 11, 2007
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Philips Reveals Copycat Apple TV Clone?
11:38PM Seamus Byrne | Philips has reportedly put together an answer to the Apple TV, and just about all we have so far are these pictures snagged at Computex 2007 in Taiwan showing a nondescript brushed aluminum box that looks like a cross between the Apple TV and a piggy bank with a coin slot up front. Just like Apple TV, it streams audio and video from a network drive, but this one does it wirelessly, and unfortunately we’re hearing its hard drive is a meager 40GB. Take a look at the ass-end of this sucker after the jump. More »
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Sony Ericsson Dropping New Phones on the 14th?
11:35PM Seamus Byrne | Let the phone wars begin. The guys at Slashphone are reporting that Sony Ericsson will announce an armada of new phones this Thursday in Berlin. We’re not sure which 4 models we’ll see, but one of them is rumored to feature HSDPA along with a 5-megapixel camera. Being a fan of Sony Ericsson phones (and their concepts), we’ll be sure to keep our eyes peeled. – Louis Ramirez Sony Ericsson to Announce New Music and Imaging Phone [SlashPhone] More »
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Porsche P’7911 Design Multihammer Power Drill – the Apostrophe is All-Important
11:17PM Seamus Byrne | Toasters, kettles, sunglasses, coffee makers, phones – now add drills to the endless list of things made by Porsche that don’t have five wheels and go “Vroom!”. They’ve got into bed with german tool company Metabo and have come up with an (admittedly) super-sexy drill that is made of carbon fibre and aluminum. The price and a couple more pics are after the jump. More »
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Sony Reveals Hidden Stash of VAIO CR Santa Rosa Notebooks
11:01PM Seamus Byrne | If Sony’s last crop of notebooks proved to be too rich for your blood, their new VAIO CR series might be what you’re looking for. For starters, they’re based on Intel’s Santa Rosa platform, so we’re talking the latest tech here. They have 14.1-inch (WXGA) screens, which means you won’t go blind trying to read text, but you also won’t break your back lugging the system back and forth. More »
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Download Steve Jobs Keynote Bingo Game, Play Along
11:01PM Seamus Byrne | With the Steve Jobs keynote at WWDC 2007 a mere hours away, those nutty Swedes have created another Keynote Bingo game. It’s a downloadable Mac application that creates a bingo card for everybody with combinations of 100 of the possibilities of today’s much-anticipated announcement that happens at 10 a.m. PDT. Take the jump for an example bingo card and download instructions. More »
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Sony Upgrades its HD Camcorders for Summer
10:24PM Seamus Byrne | Quiet as you like, Sony have snuck out a couple more HD-compatible camcorders, the SR8 and the SR5C without even a whisper. The SR8 looks like an upgraded version of the SR7 which is barely two months old, and the SR5 is now the SR5C. You want prices, shipping dates, more pics and just what these lovers are saying to each other? Of course you do. AU: Sony has flagged an upcoming camera event for next week here, so we can expect local details on these Handycam updates then. -SB More »
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Blogging Apple’s Keynote Faster Than a Greased Leopard (Rawr!)
10:00PM Seamus Byrne | Less than 5 seconds to publish. That’s how fast our new liveblogging system is. We’ll be able to deliver the words from El Jobso’s mouth to your LCD faster than any other blog by minutes. With nice photos. Cool, huh? Bookmark this page. We’ll update it with a link June 11th, Monday morning, well before the Apple Keynote starts at 10a.m. PST. And we’ll have friends along. It’s over! More »
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What Happens When a Nintendo DS Lite and Pikachu Get Busy
9:24PM Seamus Byrne | This sunny-side-up DS Lite is the limited edition result of a love-in with Pikachu and Nintendo. However, the bad news is that there’s no guarantee you’ll get your paws on one, as this yella fella with Pikachu etched on the cover is so limited that it’s only available via a lottery system (and $139). If you live in Japan, get yourself down to the Pokemon Center and on the list from July 20 onwards. – Ad Dugdale Anybody down for a yellow DS Lite? [Akihabara News] More »
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Send People Your Current Location (and Directions), Rate Local Restaurants Using TeleNav 5.2
3:01PM Seamus Byrne | The most elaborate GPS software for mobile phones is TeleNav, and it’s also the longest running. I remember testing its turn-by-turn navigation with a Nextel phone back in the summer of 2004, the GPS-phone equivalent of the dawn of time. Today TeleNav introduces version 5.2, starting with Sprint customers first. It may sound like an incremental update, but it’s really a whole new deal, with location sharing, business ratings and other fun stuff, plus a new user interface courtesy of frog design. More »
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