Saturday, September 22, 2007
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Microsoft Zune Patent Reveals Playlists/Music Over WiFi
11:00PM Haroon Malik | A recent unearthed Microsoft patent details a preference based music service, where suggested music is directly pushed to your Zune based on your currently playing tunes. The selection would be forwarded to the device over WiFi, finally putting the Zune’s WiFi function to some good use. Whether this will be linked to a conventional music store is not clear, but the work seems to be related to earlier filed patents. More »
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Darth Vader Crossbred With A Pirate Flag, Toy Collectors Go Crazy
9:23AM Adrian Covert | Japanese Artist KAWS has teamed up with Tokyo toy store Original-Fake for a custom Darth Vader vinyl toy. Utilizing KAWS signature art styles, the toy kinda looks like result of Darth Vader molesting a sheep (actually a skull and crossbones)…except cooler looking and less creepy than it sounds. This limited edition toy (probably less than 500) drops September 29 in Tokyo and according to to Toys R Evil, this won’t be an easy buy. To get one, you’ll need to be over 15, have a valid ID and an admission ticket for the store. And even then, you’re not guaranteed anything except crazed geek status. [Original-Fake via Hype Beast and Toys R Evil] More »
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Halo 3’s Master Chief is an Ass
7:50AM Jason Chen | So, okay, we’ve gotten into the Halo fever a little bit too with our gallery of the Halo 3 Limited Edition Xbox. Well, here’s a bit of Halo 3 tomfoolery for a late Friday afternoon. Apparently some guy dressed up in a Master Chief suit, went down to his local game store, and started humping PS3s and “stealing” copies of Halo 3. [Gamebrink] More »
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Salmon Sperm Make for Better LEDs
7:20AM Jason Chen | Andrew Steckl, a photonics expert from the University of Cincinnatti, has discovered that salmon sperm makes for better LEDs. He came to this disgusting discovery from analyzing biological materials and coming to the conclusion that DNA serves as a better material for intensifying LED properties. The best part: the fishing industry just throws away this salmon sperm! It’s perfectly good sperm! What a delicious waste! I mean![UC via Treehugger] More »
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NYC Subway Stations Will Get (More) Phone Service
6:16AM Wilson Rothman | The New York subway system, that bastion of gentility and mutual respect, is about to get a mobile-service upgrade, allowing people to talk n’ text in all 277 underground stations. More »
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Xbox 360 Halo Edition Looks Like a Weapon (Hardware Gallery)
6:02AM Brian Lam | This Limited Edition Xbox is basically your Premium Xbox with an HDMI port, but the attention to detail on the case is impressive. Text and graphics running over the side of the green, camo splattered Xbox, and an HDD and drive tray painted in the same reflective gold as the Master Chief’s helmet make it seem as if it were a weapon pulled straight out of the game. The detailed shots of the logos, some of which are shared with the Halo 3 Zune, are in the gallery below. The problem is, WTF, why isn’t there a 120GB HDD in here? Just because you’re a Halo fanboy doesn’t mean you should have to suffer the indignity of last year’s HDD. I’ve swapped that one out of my Elite, and so I lose the gold trim of the Halo HDD in exchange for the 500% bump in storage. What a silly compromise. More »
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Platinum Club Treadmill With iPod Dock, 15-inch LCD
5:21AM Jason Chen | If we could ever summon up the strength to go exercise (which would then give us more strength), we’d want to do so on one of these Platinum Club Series Treadmills with a USB port for your iPod. Just hook up your iPod via the standard iPod cable, and you can scroll through playlists, watch videos, or just provide power for your player while you run. Not only that, there’s a virtual trainer and USB compatibility so you can save your workout data onto a thumb drive to take home. If this weren’t $7,999 we’d get one for ourselves. [LifeFitness via Everything USB via Slashgear] More »
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The SF Chron gossip column is reporting that …
4:03AM Jason Chen | The SF Chron gossip column is reporting that Woz and Kathy Griffin are engaged. If this is true, congrats! If not (as we think, since he said just last week that the two had actually never met yet), can we please stop talking about Woz and Kathy Griffin now? [SF Gate] More »
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$7,250 Speaker Cables Turn You Into a Dancin’ Fool
4:00AM Charlie White | If you thought Monster Cable was bad with its $80 HDMI cables, check out these Pear Anjou Speaker Cables, ringing up the cash register at an astonishing $7,250 for a couple of 12-footers. The most entertaining aspect of this sucker bait is the way the company got some gullable snob to gush about how he thinks he can actually hear a difference between these and the other presumably high-end wiring he’s auditioned: “… way better than anything I have heard…Simply put these are very danceable cables. Music playing through them results in the proverbial foot-tapping scene with the need or desire to get up and move. Great swing and pace–these cables smack that right on the nose big time.” Bullshit. Total bullshit. Danceable? Dance, fool, dance. [Pear Cable] More »
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