Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Entertainment
Roku HD-XR Hands On: Where’s Roku Going With This?
11:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Roku updated their lineup today with two new models bookending the current Roku HD. I took a look at the higher-end HD-XR — it’s solid, but disappointing, since it needs a firmware upgrade (coming soon) before it feels truly next-gen. More »
Business
Phil Schiller: No More Apple Products This Year [Update]
11:00PM Jesus Diaz | People are mumbling about incoming this and that “coming soon” from Apple. Normally, we don’t have a clue about what really goes on at Cupertino. Sometimes, however, we hit gold, lurking in the dark. Others, we get The Word. More »
Software
The Most Epic Review Of Windows 7 You Will Read Half Of
10:57PM Matt Buchanan | Do you like novel-length reviews of operating systems? Ars has you covered, as always, with one of the nerdier, guts-oriented reviews around. At 15 pages, it’s 30 per cent shorter than their Snow Leopard review. I’ll spoil it for you anyway: “Windows 7 is, overall, a fantastic OS.” Which is pretty much how we, and pretty much everybody else, felt. [Ars]
Phones
Sony Ericsson Equinox 3G Clamshell Phone Exclusive To T-Mobile
10:51PM Danny Allen | The Equinox (aka T707) may be a mid-range quad-band dumbphone…but it’s pretty. It’s got trippy light effects for incoming calls, GPS, 3.2-megapixel camera, FM radio and Bluetooth. A motion sensor also controls certain functions. $US50 (with two-year contract). [T-Mobile] More »
Games
10:20PM Rosa Golijan | Definitely one for the things-I-wish-I-were-talented-enough-to-do category. These five guys are playing a way-bigger-than-life-size game of Guitar Hero by shooting soccer balls at sensors made from torn-apart Guitar Hero controllers. Oh and they’re scoring some pretty decent accuracy too. More »
DIY Soccer Ball-Controlled Guitar Hero Game
10:20PM Rosa Golijan | Definitely one for the things-I-wish-I-were-talented-enough-to-do category. These five guys are playing a way-bigger-than-life-size game of Guitar Hero by shooting soccer balls at sensors made from torn-apart Guitar Hero controllers. Oh and they’re scoring some pretty decent accuracy too. More »
Gadgets
MSI’s eReader Will Have Nvidia Tegra Graphics in 2010
10:09PM Danny Allen | That rumour about an MSI eReader looks good-to-go: their chairman acknowledges a reader with Tegra graphics is coming, but they’re ironing out some problems at the moment. Meanwhile, Asus also has some cool-sounding readers in the works. [DigiTimes]
Phones
Android-Powered Sony Ericsson Xperia X3 Coming Nov 3?
9:38PM Danny Allen | Sony Ericsson has something cooking for November 3, and we’re thinking it’s the XPERIA X3, complete with that beautiful gesture-based Rachael user interface on its 4-inch screen. It may even have a 1GHz Snapdragon processor and Android 2.0. [Sony Ericsson] More »
Design
Table Of Sound Will Shake, Rattle, And Roll Everything Off Your Desk
7:20PM Rosa Golijan | Dock your iPod in a corner of the Table of Sound concept model and turn it up for the built-in speakers. Now try to get anything done while your table is shaking from the old-school rock blasting out its sides. More »
Design
6:40PM Rosa Golijan | At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that’s missing a corner, but then I realised the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair’s bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion. More »
I Don’t Care If It Could Disappear, I Want This Tetris Chair
6:40PM Rosa Golijan | At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that’s missing a corner, but then I realised the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair’s bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion. More »
Gadgets
