Full credit to TiVo in Australia – they’re quickly becoming the de facto DVR for non pay TV subscribers. They’ve just boosted their distribution network to include The Good Guys, which means that there’s hardly an electronics store out there that doesn’t sell their box. It’s still $699 though. [TiVo]
Oh hello, again, you Cold War you! As if we didn’t have enough problems with worldwide economic collapse, the Russians are now testing President Obama’s nuclear balls placing strategic nuclear bombers in Cuba and Venezuela:
The Nintendo DSi release is right around the corner, and though some press shots and videos are out there, what does it really look like up close?
One of the brains behind the Aptera electric three-wheeled car also runs Epic Boats, which just intro’d the Epic 23e, the first plug-in hybrid electric boat. Who knew lithium-ion batteries were waterproof?
This whole online censorship debate keeps getting murkier and murkier. The latest example of its futility: Online forum Whirlpool (or more precisely, their web host Bulletproof) received the threat of an $11,000 a day fine for posting a link to a blacklisted anti-abortion website. Needless to say, Whirlpool took down the offending link. But the really scary part is that the ACMA blacklist now includes parts of Wikileaks, the whistle blowing website that is so set in their raison d’etre that they’ll publish their own sources.
Remember that Microsoft 2019 video? Lifehacker found someone so enamored with the computer desktop in the video that he went ahead and skinned his own desktop (presumably Vista), so that looks and (kinda) functions similarly.
EverGreen recently released 12 strictly-MP3-compatible players, each one representing a different animal in the Chinese Zodiac. These $US30 players have a 5 hour battery life and hold 2GB of music. [GeekStuff4U via AkihabaraNews]
Takara Tomy has come out with a dog-specific, digital pedometer that not only works as a digital dog tag, but also records your dog’s physical activities including eating, sleeping and walking. But what about sexing?
If you’ve been holding out on your DSLR purchase in the hopes of picking up one of the white Pentax K-m cameras, things could be a little bit tough on you. Pentax have announced that they are only bringing 40 of the white models to Australia.
Whoever assembled Lego bricks into iPods, a Mac Mini and crappy white earbuds, then make that into a Star Wars Podracer, clearly didn’t consider it could have ripped the space-time continuum.
