Wednesday, June 13, 2007
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Samsung Upstage Gets Flaming Red Paint Job
11:47PM Seamus Byrne | 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. More »
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Eureka N!ergy Tent Keeps Your Gadgets Charged While Camping
11:31PM Seamus Byrne | 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. – Louis Ramirez Product Page [Popgadget] More »
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MacTruck Laptop Case for Clumsy Apple Fanboys
9:02PM Seamus Byrne | 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. galleryPost('mactruck', 7, 'mactruck'); More »
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Steve Jobs’ Photo With ThinkPad is Fake
9:00PM Seamus Byrne | 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. More »
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New NVIDIA 8700M GT Rendering Looks Better Than Xbox 360
8:17PM Seamus Byrne | 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. galleryPost('nvidia8700GT', 4, 'nvidia8700GT'); More »
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Why Megatron Will Never Beat Optimus Prime
11:37AM Brian Lam | 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. galleryPost('megatronwimp', 8, 'Megatronwimp'); Now look at you. More »
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GameStop Makes a Grab at the Halo 3 Money Train With Limited Edition Accessories
11:30AM Matt Buchanan | 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”. More »
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Official PS3 Blog
9:19AM Brian Lam | 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. – Brian Lam More »
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USB Ass Cooler 2007 Edition
9:00AM Seamus Byrne | 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. – Jason Chen Product Page [Thanko via Everything USB] More »
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