Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Business
The Terrifying Spread of the Walmart Plague
10:58PM Jesus Diaz | This is probably one of the scariest videos I’ve seen: The spread of Walmart. It may just be the slimy green, but it looks like an outbreak movie where everyone dies. More »
Peripherals
Sony SRS-DF30 Speaker System Won’t Let PC Kill the Radio Star
10:45PM Elaine Chow | Nowadays we’ve got podcasts, internet radio etc.—but if you absolutely must listen to NPR the old-fashioned way, Sony has helpfully thrown an FM tuner into one of its new computer speaker sets. More »
Music
Sony Muteki Audio Systems Monstrously Dwarf Your iPod
10:45PM Elaine Chow | Sony’s two new Muteki audio shelf systems, which are both “Made for iPods,” have tossed aside that whole thin, streamlined aesthetic. The result: the iPod looks like something climbing out of a monster truck. More »
Music
Sony Walkman X-Series Is Surfable, Touchable and Shuts Up the World Around You
10:30PM Elaine Chow | Sony’s Walkman NWZ-X1000 features an OLED touchscreen, Wi-Fi and built-in noise cancellation and could re-seat the brand as the world’s music player of choice… if it doesn’t come with typical Sony prices. More »
Music
Sony W-Series Walkman Has Got No Strings, And No Display
10:30PM Elaine Chow | Sony has gone all Pinocchio on us with its sportsy W-series Walkman MP3 player, eschewing cords for an all-in-one music player/earbud ensemble. $US70 for 2GB of storage and 12 hours of playback time. More »
GPS
Garmin’s 855 and 885T Nuvis, Maps for Life and Eco-Friendly Driving Software
10:00PM Adam Frucci | Garmin just dropped a couple new GPS units on us, the 855 and 885T. Both of ‘em bring lane assist and voice control together and cost as much as a used car. More »
Hardware
Video: ioSafe Solo Fire/Flood Hard Disk Test Puts ‘Will It Blend?’ To Shame
6:10PM John Mahoney | I was taken to a Vegas house off the strip. There’s a fluorescent green pool, a purple jacuzzi. No strippers in sight—it was time to set a fireproof hard disk aflame. More »
Music
Sansa slotRadio Comes With 1,000 Songs Preloaded
6:01PM Adam Frucci | Do you enjoy music but not enough to care what specific music you’re listening to? Then the Sansa slotRadio is designed for you, it comes with 1,000 “hand picked” songs. No taste required. More »
Phones
3:31PM Nick Broughall | Kogan’s PR agency just sent us this YouTube Video of the Agora in action, and although the phone looks slightly out of focus and there’s some wicked reflections off the screen, it shows off Android working fairly seamlessly. Also worth pointing out is that this, and the photos we saw yesterday, are of a pre-production unit that will be almost exactly the same, except without the silver bezel around the screen (there’ll be a black bezel instead to match the rest of the phone). Stay tuned for more Agora news – Mr Kogan himself is at CES and I’m sure the US guys will try and get a hands on this week. And if not, we’ll get our hands on a review unit soon enough…
[Kogan Agora on Giz] More »
Kogan’s Agora Now Handled On Video
3:31PM Nick Broughall | Kogan’s PR agency just sent us this YouTube Video of the Agora in action, and although the phone looks slightly out of focus and there’s some wicked reflections off the screen, it shows off Android working fairly seamlessly. Also worth pointing out is that this, and the photos we saw yesterday, are of a pre-production unit that will be almost exactly the same, except without the silver bezel around the screen (there’ll be a black bezel instead to match the rest of the phone). Stay tuned for more Agora news – Mr Kogan himself is at CES and I’m sure the US guys will try and get a hands on this week. And if not, we’ll get our hands on a review unit soon enough…
[Kogan Agora on Giz] More »
Entertainment
