Friday, April 17, 2009
Peripherals
ChocoShuffle Case Turns iPod Into Something No More Edible
11:40PM Mark Wilson | The $US8.99 ChocoShuffle looks delicious, turning your new iPod shuffle into milk chocolate, white chocolate or…some sort of strawberry chocolate. But buyer beware. More »
Computers
R/C Bulldozer PC: The Baddest PIII Around
11:20PM Mark Wilson | Say you’ve got some old Pentium III hardware sitting around, collecting dust. You could ship it off for “recycling,” OR you could build an remote controlled bulldozer. More »
Music
Generic $US25 Stereo Beats $US1,100 Sound Systems
10:30PM Jesus Diaz | Proving that more expensive is not always better, a $US25 “value” stereo system has obliterated $US1,000 equipment from Sony and JVC in a British customer choice award as voted on by 500,000 people. More »
Music
My First Album
10:00PM Jack Loftus | The first album I owned was Still Cruisin’ by the Beach Boys. It was 1989. Shoulder pads were big. Hair was bigger. The Beach Boys were on Full House the previous year. I was eight. More »
Vehicles
We Want Monorails, These Monorails
9:56PM Jesus Diaz | The Señor Presidente Obama may want a high speed train. We want it too. Actually, we want a monorail, which have been dreamed and actually built since the very beginning of the 20th century. More »
Random Stuff
Want to Be the Real Q? Apply Here
9:25PM Jesus Diaz | If you want to be the gadget inventor for Her Majesty’s Intelligence Service, the MI5—British Military Intelligence Section 5— is actually offering the real post now. The best thing: It’s part-time. More »
Online
Pirate Bay Four Found Guilty
7:12PM John Herrman | Early this morning, Peter Sunde, co-founder of the Pirate Bay, glumly tweeted a “leaked” verdict, indicating that things didn’t look good for the four Swedish shipmates. Shortly after came the official word: Guilty. More »
Business
Sony Ericsson Reports Carnage in Q1
6:23PM John Herrman | As expected, Sony Ericsson lost mounds of money this quarter, with sales down by almost half in just a few months; cuts followed. This after Nokia had its worst quarter in a decade. [SE] More »
Random Stuff
Prosciutto-Wrapped Air Hose Cuts Through Steel, Cucumber Version Proven Inferior
4:00PM Dan Nosowitz | In a crushing blow for vegetarians worldwide, a cucumber doused in vegetable oil has been proven inferior to prosciutto when tasked with cutting through steel sheet metal. Pork: 1, PETA: 0. More »
Phones
