If you’ve ever wanted to sit on a hard, flat, unyielding piece of metal while biking but your butt gets cold easily, we’ve got a solution for your ridiculous problem.
A Google cache at Dell’s site reveals a few details about their upcoming MacBook Air competitor, the Adamo. The leak indicates a few interesting things about Dell’s plan for peripherals, and hints at price.
While picking the Best of Lego 2008, a naughty reader sent me this Lego Mindstorms NXT Masturbator machine. It’s no Robotech thruster or pink blowjob machine but, if you have an hexagonal penis, get it.
Modder extraordinaire Ben Heck is growing disciples like Chia Pets, and his forum poster SifuF’s new Nintendo Sixtyfree Lite-R is an incredible little portable N64. We’re sure he’s made the Heckster proud.
Plucky New York Times reporter Matt Richtel made a shocking discovery: Big box retailers are exaggerating the screen size of certain televisions by as much as half an inch. The unanswered question: How dare they?
The Gadget: The Roadmice car-shaped mouse. Our particular review unit was in the shape of a GM Camaro.
Jasper, the next version of the Xbox 360 motherboard, has been leaked and apparently it comes with new unannounced goodies. Apart from the rumoured 65nm graphics processing unit–the unit uses a 150W power supply, 25W less than before, which signals a lower consumption most probably caused by the reduced GPU footprint–the new units allegedly come with a new south bridge and, surprise surprise, a 256MB flash memory chip for internal storage.
We have a soft spot for genius comedian-actor-writer-gadget-juggler Stephen Fry here at the Giz. He speaks things as he sees them, as an end user, with his usual wit. Lately he has been playing with a BlackBerry Storm and, like our review, he thinks that it’s no you-know-who killer. In fact, he completely smashes it in his condensed Twitter review:
Just the other day it was announced that Dell was partnering with AT&T in the US to offer a Mini 9 Netbook with a mobile data contract. Now David Flynn over at APC is reporting that Dell and Vodafone are shacking up in Australia to offer a free Mini 9 netbook on a $70 contract for 24 months. The deal includes 5GB of mobile data each month, and is expected to be announced next week and be available in December.
Doing a bit of maths, you’re still better off buying the Mini 9 up front and then adding the Vodafone 5GB data pack with USB modem for $40 a month (it works out about $120 cheaper). But sometimes convenience is everything, isn’t it?
Head on over to APC for a full cost breakdown of the bundle, and if you’re in the market for both a netbook and a wireless internet contract, maybe hold off for a week or two until we receive the official announcement…
[APC Mag]
Remember when Sony gave away a PS3 with every Bravia purchased? You should, they did it twice. Well Panasonic has taken a leaf from Sony’s book to try and entice you to buy one of their Full HD plasmas this holiday season by offering a free Nintendo Wii via redemption when you pick up one of their Full HD plasmas.
I’m not quite sure this promotion will have the same effect as the Sony one – the PS3 makes the most of your HD panel, while the Wii’s 480p maximum resolution looks pretty average on a large screen. But then again, the Wii is still selling like hotcakes, even though there aren’t any really enticing games, so this could be a masterstroke from Panny.
The promotion kicks off tomorrow (November 29) and ends Christmas Eve, and is valid on Panny’s Full HD plasmas, a full list of which is available below.
