Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Entertainment
Amazon HD Streaming Spotted on TiVo
11:19PM Mark Wilson | Are you a big Amazon Unbox fan who has been insanely jealous over Netflix HD streaming? Don’t break that remote in passionate rage just yet. More »
Entertainment
A Lesson in Gadget Product Placement, Courtesy of Scooter Smiff
11:02PM John Herrman | Moderately musical little person Scooter Smiff has helpfully demonstrated, point by point, how not to endorse gadgets in your music video. More »
Games
Wii Drum High Turns Your Controllers Into a Shaky PC Drum Set
10:29PM John Herrman | Wii Music set up a solid control scheme for drumming with the console’s various attachments, which hacker He Zhao has basically replicated. Except this time it’s free, customisable and on your PC. More »
Software
Apple Removes Antivirus Support Note, Reiterates OS X’s Built-In Protection
9:45PM John Herrman | As we saw yesterday, the accusations from the BBC, Washington Post, and Cnet saying that Apple was trying to “quietly” recommend antivirus software were false: Our quick fact check showed it was all an update to an old tech note. Now, Apple has removed the articles entirely. More »
Music
BluTiger Speakers Are Great For People Who Enjoy Graphing Their Music
8:46PM John Herrman | They’re really just a gimmick, but there must be a reason that software music players still include visualisations, and that this $US300 BluTiger 6000 speaker set has them permanently bolted to its front. More »
Peripherals
Logitech Timeline of Mousery is Full of Memories, Logitech Advertising
7:59PM John Herrman | It’s a piece of promotional material, but it raises memories: your first, imprecise mousings; excitement at the earliest wireless mouse, and subsequent realisation that it was uselessly jittery. More »
Design
China’s CCTV Headquarters Trying to Shake ‘Hemorrhoids’ Nickname
6:00PM Elaine Chow | China cultural fun fact: People here love giving nicknames to buildings. With all the avante-garde architecture around, sometimes the nicknames are less than complimentary. The new CCTV building is now trying hard to not be known as “Hemorrhoids.”
Peripherals
USB Card Shaver Disguises Your USB Shaving Shame
4:45PM Elaine Chow | This USB Card Shaver is the thinnest of its ilk that we’ve seen and, with a diameter of only 10mm, is perfect for the man-on-the-go trying to hide that he uses an USB shaver in the first place. More »
Games
New Xbox 360 Arcades Sports 256MB Internal Storage
3:45PM Elaine Chow | Microsoft has confirmed that it’s newest Xbox 360 Arcades come with 256MB of internal storage, making it NXE-compliant without you having to buy an extra memory card. Old Xbox 360 Arcade owners are still out of luck though. More »
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