Sony just opened the new season with an avalanche of HD televisions in Japan. With the KDL-70×7000 as its flagship —a 70″ Full HD LCD the size of battleship Yamato— the new army includes 15 Bravia models from the X, W and V series —starting at 40-inch— plus three models of the small new J3000 series, Full line-up after the jump.
LG’s new smart phone should be out in Europe by the end of the year, and we’re expecting to get a look at it next week at IFA. Find out what else this touchscreen beauty has got, and see some pretty ladies handling it, all after the jump.
Ladies, are you self-conscious about your breasts? Do you think they need to be bigger to get you attention from guys—or at least from guys like Adam Frucci? Well, you could have expensive and gross really awesome breast implant surgery, or you could just grab some F Cup tea from Japan. These sure-to-be-effective tea bags apparently make your breasts bigger when you drink a cup each day, while those cookies will just make the area below your boobs bigger. Big difference. Plus, who wants to chew when you can just swallow? [Tokyo Times via Tokyo Mango]
I’m already a huge fan of DVD-projector combos, so Epson’s new LCD-projector MovieMates make me titter like a school girl. The first thing Epson did was solve its size problem with the MovieMate 50. The new one is 63% slimmer than its predecessor—with a built-in handle!—yet still costs $799. But the inevitable shift to high-def has happened earlier than I would have predicted, with the advent of the MovieMate 72.
If you haven’t already guessed it, the 72 refers to 720p. It’s not a full 1080p, but a big step in the right direction, and at $1,199, hard to pass up. When you’re projecting an image 100 inches across, it’s all too easy to see the screen-door effect of the pixels from a 480p-resolution chip. The jump to 720p triples the number of pixels. With the requisite internal DVD upscaling, the image remains a lot smoother when you project it big. Also, since there’s an HDMI input, you’d be able to play games and watch Blu-ray or HD DVD movies at a much improved resolution too.
Usually Charlie is Gizmodo’s main man for projector reviews, but this is one that I’m going to have to commandeer for myself when it’s up for a test drive.
Every Transformer should be ashamed right now. Darth Vader has rolled onto their turf and made them all look weak in comparison. Optimus Prime certainly can’t turn himself into a man made planet, and the only thing Unicron can do is eat his way through the universe at 4 mph. We never believed the Millenium Falcon/Chewbacca Transformer could ever reign supreme. But Darth Vader, oh man. Not only does he still have his light saber, but when he transforms, he turns into the goddamn Death Star. I’d love to see Unicron’s fat ass try and eat the Death Star. Not likely. [UberReview]
The guys over at Nokia blog supposedly received an itinerary for the virtual Nokia Go Play event. The itinerary mentions the Nokia N81, Nokia N95 8GB, music store, NGage and some more suspect mentions, like “Pjotro dance footage” and “event bloopers.” Joke or not, we’ll find out in a few hours when the event hits on August 29th, 5 AM EST time. [NokiaBlog]
It’s DSLR season, with Canon and Nikon loosing their latest and now Olympus is following up with their E-3. We saw this camera first hand at PMA, unnamed, but obviously a replacement for the 4-year old E-1. Four years! Hey, that’s pretty nifty, Olympus — wait til your camera is actually out of date before updating it.
Rumor has it that the E-3 will come stateside in October/November. Of course, a little googling revealed that this camera has kept the 4/3 camera mount fans (yes, fans) waiting since 2006 Photokina. Gotta be tough to have all those lenses and nothing in this range to use it with. You’ll have to wait for MP ratings, etc, but it’s safe to assume it’ll be in the 8-12 range, like all cameras in this segment. [DPReview]
We like devices such as the M3 Perfect for loading DS Roms and homebrew projects, but you can’t really save data from actual DS games you might own. GameTech’s upcoming USB dongle lets you upload game save files to your computer and use them as your please. Insert your DS cart into the dongle, the dongle into a USB port, and you can transfer away. Seems good if your cart has a faulty EEPROM or you want to share your game save with someone else. No word on pricing, but its coming out August 31 and something tells me its exclusive to Japan. [GameBrink]
Watching TV on a cell phone is about as fun as taking a drill to your eye — and that’s something concept designer Seokwon Hong hopes to alleviate with the Brix. The Brix is a modular concept for a cell phone that would allow you to create a bigger and bigger screen depending on how many Brix bezel-less modules you may have.
We’re not quite sure how feasible this concept is just yet. If every Brix model would cost as much as they look like they would cost, you’d be spending a fortune getting a lot of these, unless one acts as a hub and the others are cheap screen modules and even that would probably cost you at least a lung or two. [YankoDesign via SciFi] galleryPost('brix', 4, 'Brix Concept Phone');
Aussie anti-spyware maker PC Tools, home of the great Spyware Doctor, has ‘won’ their long running battle with adware publisher Zango, who today conceded defeat by voluntarily withdrawing its proceedings against them. Seems once they couldn’t get a court to grant a Temporary Restraining Order, they saw they were screwed.
The magical irony of it all was Zango’s assertion that classification of their software as malware meant PC Tools’ software was “unfair or deceptive”. Takes one to know one, eh? The court that refused to give the TRO told Zango they were unlikely to prove that was the case… it’s taken them two months since that decision to see the writing on the wall.
A good result for the Anti-Spyware industry, so congrats to the PC Tools crew – keeping kicking malware butt! -Seamus Byrne
