Your hard drive is seriously f*cked, and you have some big shiny balls (or you’re dumb as hell), you might be interested in how a fellow from Mandible Games claims that he recovered data from his drive. According to the article, he noticed that his drive would spin, but it would not show up in BIOS and there was a distinct and repetitive clicking noise.
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The MousEX Glider pad is weird in the sense that most people wouldn’t come up with a pad you rest your mouse on that you slide around with your hand. Why would anybody do this?
Because that same pad holds different add-ons like a navigational wheel, a giant button, or an 18-button pad that you can program macros onto. We’re not sold on the concept, especially since placing your hand flat on a pad and sliding it around is way less ergonomic than using a mouse. However, we love programmable macro buttons dogs love peeing in the grass, so we’re willing to give this a shot. [MousEX]
Gamersweb stumbled upon this set of gadget bondage pictures on 2chan, the anonymous Japanese internet forum that wrought the nerdling train romance onto the world. We’re not sure what exactly traditional Japanese bondage rope has to do with Game Boy Colour, computer speakers, or a roll of toilet paper, but it looks like somebody’s getting some practice in before working the real thing (if that time ever comes). [Gamersweb]
After the thrill of unboxing your new iPod nano is over, you are left with a clear plastic case that will undoubtedly take millennia to biodegrade. Thanks to the folks at Bird Electron, turning your case into a fully functioning speaker kit takes all of five seconds, a boon for the environmentally conscious yet lazy and unskilled person. The kit works with 3rd generation nano cases, and the speaker fits neatly inside. After that, all you need to do is plug and play. 2100 yen ($22). [Product Page via Trends in Japan]
Displaytech announced they will be supplying 13 companies with micro displays to be used for the upcoming Pico Projector technology. The Pico Projector, which will be rolled out at CES 2008, will be featured in Motorola handsets and project video onto any surface. It’s Not the most exciting news, because it’s just a component, but it excites me because it means the ball is rolling on theoft-discussed Pico Projector. One of my biggest worries is that the Pico Projector will disappear into obscurity, never to be touched by consumer hand. And it would ruin my dream of entering large public spaces and projecting incriminating videos of Chen with various gadgets. [Display Tech]
TiVo and the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) have announced a new external adaptor that will bring switched video capabilities to CableCARD devices, such as series 3 TiVos. Due in the second quarter of 2008, this adaptor will finally put good use to that spare USB connector found on new TiVos. This might not sound that exciting, but it actually benefits the consumer more than you think.
Whatever Dell’s planning with the zingspot.com website, it’s got something to do with being an “online consumer portal for digital entertainment content acquisition and distribution,” which was the description for Zingspot in the recently filed trademark papers. It all stems from Dell’s acquisition of Zing, the people that power Wi-Fi music players. What that above sentence actually means is anyone’s guess, but our money’s on it being some kind of “portal” for “digital entertainment content” where you can acquire or distribute said content. Call it a hunch. [Trademork]
If you picked up Nine Inch Nails’Year Zero remix album, 1337-ly titled Y34RZ3r0r3m1x3d, you probably noticed the second disc “halo 25 data,” containing the multitrack master files for every song from Year Zero. Some of them had already been posted online not long after its initial release, and that experiment’s success led to the full-blown version. It’s obviously meant to spur fan remixes, with the last piece in the puzzle being an official site to organise and distribute them all. Thanks to Universal’s legal wrangling with YouTube, it’s not going to happen.
I’m usually turned off by video transfer/burner devices like this Canon DW-100 because of how unrefined DVD burning still is. The DW-100 takes high-def AVCHD video from your camcorder and burns it to DVD without a computer. It’s hard to argue with that.
It can also function as an external burner for any PC or Mac computer. If this works like it should, and Canon markets it properly, a device like this could do well in the current home movie market. It is expected to release in March 2008, but no price has been set. [Akihabara News via Geek Sugar via Crunch Gear]
In case you haven’t heard, a rumour has been floating around today stating that AT&T may recall certain BlackJacks due to an antenna issue that could result in poor reception and dropped calls. Reaction to the story by the Samsung camp was swift.
