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So it turns out the rumors were true. Samsung's two-faced phone, the music-playing Upstage, got a Ferrari-red paint job this morning.
The phone has a tiny LCD on one side (for making calls) and a bigger screen on its backside to show music info. Other features include Bluetooth 2.0 and access to Sprint's music store. The phone is out today on Sprint.
Despite it's annoying name, the N!ergy tent has good intentions. It comes with three 12V outlets that keep your gadgets juiced while you're roughing it in the great outdoors. You'll need the E! Power Pak (an extra $50) to power the tent, but once you're up and running you can forgo the whole nature thing and listen to your iPod while playing with your DS (and still have room for 1 more gadget). The 8 person tent goes for $279.
Product Page [Popgadget]
So, Lord Steve of Jobsworth carries his Lenovo in leather does he? Cough. I reckon he's more likely to use this, the MacTruck case (not that I am saying that you are clumsy, your Lordship, oh no, I am waiting for a SF ballet company to debut Black Turtleneck, the story of Jobs told through the language of contemporary dance.)
Well, if I'm going to be completely honest, there are reasons for and reasons against why our favorite Occasional Beard (that's what I love about Keynotes, it's the Will He, Won't He Have Used A Razor-ness of it all) might have a MacTruck rather than a Lenovo in a swanktastic embossed leather pochette.
There's now a photo floating around that allegedly pictures Steve Jobs holding a special edition, leather-bound Lenovo ThinkPad Reserve. Why does this matter, I don't know. But the thing is that some people believe is real and we are going to say it's fake: it's fake. There. Fake fake fake. Fake.
It is fake - not for obvious reasons, like "Steven P. Jobs" being in focus while the surface onto which it has been stamped is not - but because we actually have the real picture. Which shows that the image above has been retouched - intensely - after the jump.
NVIDIA has just released their new top of the line GeForce 8700M GT, just in time to remind you that no matter how cool your new MacBook Pro or Sony VAIO are, you are not the King of the Hill anymore.
Not only that: NVIDIA says that now your Xbox 360's graphics have been officialy overtaken by a notebook GPU, as you can see in the gallery. The new 8700M GT has been first appeared into the Toshiba Dynabook Satellite WXW, which just got announced in Japan. Full specs after the jump.
Megatron, man. What happened to you? Before this Michael Bay movie, you had some balls. You used to turn into a giant gun, or a gun that Starscream could pick up and shoot those goody-two-shoes Autobots with. A giant gun so big that Dirty Harry would have splat like a bug on a 80mph windshield if he had to deal with the recoil. Some kind of crazy f'd up die-cast Decepticon Walther P-38. But no more.
Now look at you.
Because bleeding Halo fanatics out of $130 for the Halo 3 Legendary Edition really only scratches the surface of their (parents') bank accounts, GameStop is stepping up to collect the remaining lunch money with a line of "limited edition" Halo 3 gear that drops Sept. 4: a pair of Spartan and Covenant 360 controllers and a wireless headset with a "uniquely Halo look".
A blog for everyone at SCEA to write on, from execs and down? This is a smart move for Sony. They can respond to rumors and break news here. And we can all comment and link to it. I mean, when is the last time you visited playstation.com? Check it out.
Thanko's usually known for their heating gadgets, but cooling's just heating in reverse. In the case of this USB ass cooler 2007 edition, Thanko's improved on the 2006 edition by making it black and, uh, we're not sure what else.
Still no clue whether they solved that fart potential blowing up into your face problem though.
Product Page [Thanko via Everything USB]
This is something we didn't expect. Unlike Optimus Prime, these Transformer gadgets and a crazy Hong Kong man, these transformers plushies don't cut you up when you rub your face on them. If the cartoons in the '80s taught us anything, it's that robot aliens from another galaxy enjoy being used to prop up a woman's ass during intercourse.
Product Page [Kapowgifts via Nerd Approved]
To follow up on our previous PSP Slim news, Rumor Reporter has even more details about the upcoming smaller version of Sony's portable console. Their sources say (and this contradicts some of Kotaku's reporting before) the new PSP slim won't have any big speed increases. In addition, the UMD tray is totally gone.
We got the chance to play with Oral-B's new Triumph electric toothbrush this afternoon. The $149 brush comes with a palm-size wireless display (it uses RF technology to communicate) that provides real-time feedback as you're brushing so it lets you know how much time you've spent brushing and also what quadrant of your mouth you should be brushing. The Triumph doesn't have any ultrasound waves, but for all you sensitive gum types (like myself), the brush has four modes: polish, brush, clean and massage. There's even a built-in pressure sensor that keeps you from brushing too hard. The brush comes out this September for $149. Product Page
If there's one thing we never thought would be a cellphone strap, it would be lingerie. Well, never count out a horny Japanese businessman, we suppose.
For about $9, you can get your own bra or panties to attach to your cellphone. It's just a gimmick, and it's tiny, so it's probably the only lingerie your wife will permit you to have that doesn't belong to her. Unless, of course, you've been fucking a midget on the side.
Product Page [Strapya via Tokyo Mango]
If you ditched your watch because you carry a phone around with a built-in clock, but are sick of pulling your phone out every time you want to check the time, you should check out this Haptic Clock. It's a small program for Java phones that tells you the time through a series of vibrations, allowing you to keep your phone in your pocket.
Simply reach in your pocket and hit the 5 key to get it to tell you the time. How does it tell it to you?
It's been a month since our last entry in PlayStation 3 Melee Watch, but this most recent instance involves Katanas. Apparently, some home invasionist came knocking on a door in search of a PlayStation 3 (Blu-ray fanatic?), but met with Damien Fernandez and his Katana.
After jumping out of bed and stabbing the intruder in the chest, the two of them ran out of the house, into the street, with Damien chasing after him with the sword. Everything ended peacefully when a K-9 officer found the burglar hiding in a palm tree.
Teen Scares Off Burglar With Samurai Sword [Local10]
Video-philes with a control streak can invest in this HC-300 Home Controller to do all their turnings on and off in glorious high definition. Not only does the $699 HC-300 support 720p, there's a brushed aluminum chassis, Zigbee wireless technology, IR ports, Relays and tons of outputs in the back as well.
What's the point of this? Just to have a richer GUI compared to other home automation solutions thanks to the HD output. Because we all know how inconvenient it is when you meant to wirelessly shut off the TV but turned off the light instead. Boy, that's a problem the average working man can relate to.
Control4's New HC-300: Faster, Sexier Home Controller [CEpro]
Want to pretend you were there? Watch it now and count the booms yourself. [via Crunchgear]
Remember those WildCharge wireless chargers we played with back at CES? They're almost here. You'll be able to get one July 9.
Hello, I am the Brute Squad and this is my friend Patsy. Looking at the latest product pics, some people are saying that the iPhone is now smaller than it originally was. The fact is that its dimensions have not changed.
See, what happened is that here Patsy was the first hand model for the iPhone money shots. The thing looked so big in his tiny hand that some people thought Walter Mossberg would be able to use it as a surf board. So Steve called and now I am the one who holds this marvel.
And in case you are wondering, yes, hand models pose in their underwear. It's a thing we do. Like the the thing with the rubber ducks, the maple syrup and the hockey pu... hmm, on second thought, let's just skip to the comparison images after the jump.
I always look at boring old USB drives and ask, "Why can't these be jewel-encrusted?" Ditto for my run-of-the-mill earbuds, which seem to lack some kind of large embedded crystal. Believe it or not, the Philips-Swarovski Active Crystals collection is due to arrive in the US this August, and we've got the exclusive first look at the lineup.
In an attempt to cover musical source preferences past and present, Philips has created two stereo systems that will sell for $199 when they arrive in early fall.
Hearkening back to the past, the systems play CDs, even the burned kind that hold MP3s and WMAs. Solidly in the present, they are both full-fledged iPod docks. The BTM630 (above) even plays song files from SD or MMC cards. Looking towards the future, both systems can receive stereo Bluetooth signal from handsets including, yesiree, the iPhone (Hey, Philips said it, not us).
Jump for a shot of the modular BTM628 and the press release.
Thought yesterday's WWDC Keynote was the worst keynote ever? Show your disapproval with this Worst. Keynote. Ever. shirt. Hell, just buy one and wear it to every keynote you go to from now on—even if it's not a Jobsnote—just for a pre-emptive screw you to the presenter.
Bonus points if you wear it to your own keynote address.
Product Page [Spreadshirt via Crunchgear]
We wrote about these LivinColors Lights back on my birthday this year, but Philips actually has availability information on the gorgeous fixtures now.
Beta 2 released today. Go get it, Sling faithful. [via JK on the Run]
Are you a four-year-old boy with $55,000 in disposable income sitting around? Well then, son, have I got the product for you. Just think of it as the biggest toy ever.
It's a life-sized replica of a Camarasaurus, one of the less popular kids at the dinosaur cafeteria table. But hey, that doesn't make this lumbering herbivore any less impressive. Standing 18 feet high and stretching 55 feet long, it'll make your birthday party the social event of the school year. So what are you waiting for? Have dad get your checkbook and become the most popular kid around.
Product Page [via Red Ferret]
There was a reason ZFS wasn't named-checked as one of Leopard's 10 (not so) new features at WWDC 07—despite declarations by Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday Apple denied ZFS's presence in Leopard. Put another way by Brian Croll, senior director of product marketing for OS X: "ZFS is not happening." Ouch.
But if you read into it and consider InfoWeek's note, "upon further questioning, Croll would only confirm that Apple had never said ZFS would be a part of Leopard," in conjunction with the fact that it was Sun's CEO making the slip, not some random peon, it seems fairly likely that something Sunny was cooking in the Apple kitchen. It's not like they're down and out in any case—Apple's probably already kicking around stuff for 10.6
Apple Says No Sun File System For Leopard [InformationWeek]
Hey guys and um, our 5 female readers. I need a bit of your help.
Business 2.0 remembered just how much they like their tech and gadget news with a big slice of fun, and made Gizmodo the dark horse late addition to their "Who matters now?" poll -- a list of 101 interesting tech personalities that are so absurdly powerful and rich, that its insane we're even on the same list as them.
Charlie did a post about this early in the morning, which was really flattering to me specifically, but honestly, that's not even close to the truth of what is going on here. (Cheese ball writing mode ON.)
You know those scratch cards that are covered with silver latex, letting you try your luck at the lottery, or as we call it here at the Giz, the "stupid tax?" Some crazy Brits covered a whole SUV with the stuff, and somewhere underneath were the winning words. Whoever revealed them took home the truck.
Perhaps as a symbol of unbridled greed, the Chevy Captiva "Scratch Car-d" was parked on top of 16,995 pennies, intended for use as scratching utensils. After 14 hours of frenzied scratching, thousands of panels were revealed, with one big winner. Crazy way to get yourself a car, but it sure beats a dance marathon.
World's first ever 'Scratch Car-d': Scratch the car to see if you won [CarTech]
Investing a lot of money in a sweet home theater setup can be well worth it if you're a TV or movie buff with a generous bank account. But hey, why spend all that money to get a huge TV and nice speakers for your living room when you can spend the same amount on some mediocre gear crammed in a pool table?
AU: Oh dear. I wrote about this exact pool table back for a magazine back in 2004. When the PS2 on there was up to date. Talk about OLD... But hey, yes, you can find these here in Australia if you want one (actually, it is an Australian made thing).
Samsung is dropping an upgraded version of their T9 music phone, dubbed the T9+, that features some additional wireless sharing features. It's got the Zuney song-sharing functions that the last incarnation had, and it ups the ante by allowing wireless games to be played with anyone else with a T9+ within 30 feet. There are already a few multiplayer games made for it, with more on the way. It's all well and good, although I think you'd be hard pressed to find a situation where you're with a group of people where multiple T9+'s will be present.
It's headed to Korea first, with English software updates coming soon to prep for a North American version.
MobileWhack [via Electronista]
Now that ATI has finished rolling out their new graphics cards, the boys in green are attempting to take back the spotlight with the new 8400 GS, Nvidia's first GPU to rely on 65nm architecture. What's all the fuss about? 65nm GPUs will be cooler, faster, and cheaper to manufacture. The new card will also support the faster PCIe 2.0 standard. The 8400 GS is expected this Fall with more 65nm cards due in Q4.
Nvidia Readies 65nm GPUs for Fall This Year [SlashGear]
Eye-Fi's looking to give your digital camera a nice upgrade this Fall when it introduces its first 2GB Wi-Fi SD card. The card will let any SD-friendly camera upload pics wirelessly to photo blogs or to your PC. Pricing will be a bit steep ($100), but it beats buying one of those fugly Wi-Fi cameras.
Product Page [via CrunchGear]
Here's an 8-minute video that shows you a grandiose idea somebody dreamed up: building a 3000 foot-tall pyramid in Tokyo Bay. This megacity would be so tall, and has such tremendous volume that 24 80-story skyscrapers can be suspended within, and people would travel inside it via the tubes that are also supporting the enormous structure. It's extreme engineering, indeed. You gotta feel sorry for those people living in Tokyo, all crammed together like sardines in a can, so maybe this grandiose idea can give them some elbow room. To rent the amount of space made by this huge structure, it would cost $10 billion a year within the city of Tokyo. If built, it will be the largest structure in the world. Go for it! Living in a Pyramid [Random Good Stuff]
It's time for the $150 battle in our running iPod Dock Bracket. In one corner, we have the Logitech mm50. It's sleek and has excellent posture. We're guessing its grammar is pretty good, too. In the other corner, we have the alleged steroid-pumping Griffin Amplifi. Raised on the streets, the Amplifi showed up with a grudge. And right about now, the mm50 is wishing that it were matched by weight instead of price.
If we were betting men, we'd give this round to the Amplifi. Why? Because we sorta know the reviewer.
Clear off the back of your desk, because this set of FH007 transparent speakers will reveal the world beyond them for all to see. It's an odd configuration, with two large oval-shaped transparent drivers pounding out the bass, and then two circular speakers taking care of the left and right channels.
Powering everything is a 4x 16-watt cube, letting you plug your PC, iPod or any other audio source directly into the system without needing an amplifier. Take the jump for one more picture of these see-through baubles, and some pricing info, too.
I'm not sure how they did it, but some crafty hacker has managed to cram a Mac Mini inside his Apple SE/30 turning his old-school Mac into a modern day all-in-one. Sure, you'll be running OS X in black and white, but think of how cool it'll look as your DVD slides out from your SE/30's front vents.
Product Page [via Make]
Looks like uninterruptible power supply manufacturer Remio has decided to try their luck with their HC series. They got some plastic cubes, make them into dice and fill them with everything they could find, from powered USB ports for charging your gadgets to audio input and output ports. They even included two speakers along with the surge protected plugs for power cords, fax and CATV coaxial connections. Full specs and a diagram showing all its faces after the jump.
Now it makes sense why Apple released Safari for Windows. Steve must love his Windows security jokes so much that he decided Apple should create a browser that exploits them even more.
Currently only six bugs have been found. Four involving Safari crashing & two that allow remote code to be launched. Currently there's no official word on whether or not these can be recreated on its OS X counterpart. So for now we'll call this a sneak attack, or maybe a beta. Yeah, beta sounds better
Security researchers: Safari for Windows not so secure [CNet]
The obsession with thin and shiny above all other characteristics is apparently moving out of the gadget world and into the less-appropriate realm of furniture design. Take a look at this Isis chair, for example: it's a mere 3cm thick when folded up for some reason.
See, to me, that's not a selling point. I like to have some cushioning to make a chair, you know, comfortable. I'm not going to be hanging this on my wall; it doesn't have to deal with taking up too much space on my desk. So while I'm sure this is a marvel of design, I don't want to get my precious ass anywhere near it.
Yanko Design [via Akihabara News]
Need to expand your Internet connection to another part of your apartment? Netgear's new XEPS103 PowerLine Extender can turn any electrical outlet into an instant Internet connection. As a bonus, if you have a Netgear router, it'll replace your router's power adapter and still double as a network extender. Speed-wise you're looking at 85Mbps. The Extender is out now for $80. A full kit (with the XE103 Wall-Plugged Ethernet Adapter) is coming this summer.
Press Release
If you're looking for a perfect match for your Mac Pro, Apple Cinema display or MacBook Pro, you may have just found it with this Kensington Ci70 wireless desktop set. Somebody with some design chops just got on board at Kensington, because this baby is thin enough to be a runway model, has a slim mouse that docks into the keyboard, and it's made of titanium. Woo, woo.
HTC's Touch, the touchscreen (TouchFLO) phone from Windows Mobile maker HTC will be launching in Taiwan first, and then making its US debut sometime before the end of the year.