Craig Kornblau, president of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, is in a sticky situation. He needs to defend why his company exclusively backs HD DVD when the format is trailing Blu-ray by a long shot. Maybe glass-half-full talk day after day is what leads him to say things like this:
Oh man, Nintendo better pack up their portable gaming bags. Enter the compact, Nevover 7″ TFT LCD for the PS3, set to revolutionise the mobile entertainment industry as we know it.
The screen docks on top of the PS3 and folds completely down for storage, whilst the resolution of 234 x 480 will ensure your eyes bleed out of their sockets after three minutes of playtime (like your sex life – you freaky devil, you). We know what you are thinking though; ‘What about the sounds?’ Nevover have got you covered; integrated 2 x 1W stereo speakers will have you jiggling your butt to some serious beats. Pricing info is not available as yet, though if they are expecting you to pay for it, it is certainly daylight robbery.
Why settle for a factory made Lasonic iPod boombox when you can make your own with a vintage 1985′s Ghetto Blaster? Giz Reader Angelo Brisimitzakis posted his do-it-yourself guide so you can get the real ghetto look and sound yourself. galleryPost('ghettoblaster', 12, '1985 Ghetto Blaster Modded for iPod');
Remember when Gizmondo’s CEO Stefan Eriksson completely obliterated his Ferrari Enzo on the PCH and blamed his make-believe German buddy “Dietrich” for the whole thing? It appears that even the friends of rich-and-infamous failed entrepreneurs can’t outrun the law forever. After spending over a year on the lam, a man Los Angeles police are calling the Dietrich is sitting in a cell on $60,000 bail.
Apparently, every major carrier is getting a RAZR2. But that doesn’t mean they’re identical. Between the stores, network technology, and the custom UIs, each is different…and some better than others. Here’s is a brief guide to which RAZR2 has what: galleryPost('razr2variants', 8, 'RAZR2 Variants');
AU: This is actually pretty interesting even though it has bugger all to do with our local scene. Seeing that a phone set to be marketed as the same thing on different networks can have genuinely different features and hardware on board can be a big problem as a buyer. If you stick with your network whatever the case, you won’t get a choice. But if you want the best handset of the bunch, it pays to know what’s what. -SB
While we poked and prodded our new iMac trying to answer all of you’re questions, Ars Technicha went their traditional route and benchmarked the hell out of the poor iMac. How did it do? Gains all around, especially when compared to the aging Core Duo iMac. Informal tests, like seeing how long it takes to rip a DVD to Mpeg-4 using Handbrake, clocked in 20 minutes and 16 seconds (20-inch 2.4ghz 1Gb Memory). It even consistently beat out the 2.4ghz MacBook Pro on most tests, however this was most likely due to the MBP’s slower 5400rpm hard drive. [Ars Technica]
Google announced on their blog that they’re offering additional storage for their Gmail, Google Apps, and Picasa services. Storage sizes of 6, 25, 100, and 250 GB are available at prices ranging between 20 and 500 dollars a year. We hoped for more flexibility in how the storage could be used, but it’s nice for those running low on space. [AP] More »
Say you’re in Europe, standing in front of some medieval castle. You take a picture of it with your cameraphone and send it via MMS to Spellbinder. Soon you get a message back with your shot, only now there’s a giant green fire-breathing dragon guarding the castle’s gate. There are no elves in a sweatshop, magically overlaying images on top of your stuff. Rather there’s a system that analyzes the shot, matches it to a huge database of other shots, then does what Spellbinder’s programmers tell it to do. And it can do a whole lot more.
Apparently, you guys really like Sexy Stormtroopers. Fair enough. Far be it from me to judge your creepy and pathetic sexual fantasies. Whoops, I just did! My bad. In any case, apparently a couple of folks named Red and Johnny enjoy wearing Stormtrooper helmets in a variety of often-suggestive situations. Here’s a gallery of some of the finer examples of their art; follow the Flickr link to see the motherload. galleryPost('sexystormtrooper', 4, 'Sexy Stormtrooper'); [Flickr via Boing Boing]
