Monday, December 7, 2009

Gadgets

Back Up Your Valuables In A Time Capsule Gift Box

11:41PM December 7, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

No broken MacBook and pair of old routers, but you do have a Time Capsule gathering dust? Turn it into a gift box, adding hinges and a silk cushion. Just don’t put an engagement ring in there, trust me. [Instructables] More »


The Masculine Mint Pass Robot Music Tank Could Crush Sony’s Rolly Under Its Tracks

11:15PM December 7, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

The Korean Mint Pass is doing some pretty neat things in the MP3 player world, with this Robot Music Tank player/speaker concept tracking humans with its pyroelectric sensor, locking onto their thermal temperature and rolling after them, gleefully playing music. More »


Amazon To Open Physical Store In UK?

10:30PM December 7, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

With Best Buy opening in the UK soon, could Amazon be planning a walk-in store too? Sounds pretty crazy to us, considering its doing so well already without the massive overheads a central London store would bring. More »


Mobile

HTC Suffers Redface With Its First Android 2.0 Phone, Passion, Delayed

10:02PM December 7, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

Our dreams of an HTC-shaped Android 2.0 device launching before Christmas now lie in tatters, with Digitimes reporting that the oft-leaked, much-hyped Passion has been delayed by several months to an early 2010 on-sale date. More »


Intel Confirms Larrabee Graphics Card Is Dead

9:46PM December 7, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

Last week Intel blabbed to us that its high-end Larrabee card would never debut as a “standalone discrete product,” and now its demise has been made official. Can you hear Nvidia and AMD crowing from where you are too? [Reuters] More »


Gadgets

Barnes & Noble Nook Review

5:00PM December 7, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

It’s a relief to finally lay hands on the Nook. The dual-screen reader was just a prop at its unveiling so I’m happy to report it works (pretty) well. It can’t kill Kindle yet, but it’s an alternative worth considering. More »


News

Week One Of The Great Giz Giveaway Winners

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3:15PM December 7, 2009 | Nick Broughall

We’re giving away lots of stuff in the leadup to Christmas – something new each day in fact, for the next two weeks. Here are the winners from week one: More »


Mobile

SpinVox Voice To Text Launches On Optus

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2:26PM December 7, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Even though Optus announced they were launching a SpinVox powered voice-to-text voicemail service back in April, the service itself has only just launched today. More »


Entertainment

Toshiba’s Blu-Ray Player On Sale Today

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12:30PM December 7, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Blu-ray must be one hell of a big, bitter pill for Toshiba to swallow. But full credit to them – they sucked it up, swallowed down and have just released the BDX2000 Blu-ray player in Australia. More »


Software

Foxtel Has Finally Launched An iPhone App For Programming Your iQ

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11:28AM December 7, 2009 | Nick Broughall

If you own an iPhone and have a Foxtel iQ, head to the app store on your phone RIGHT NOW and download the free Foxtel app, which lets you remotely program recordings for your DVR. More »