Thursday, May 21, 2009 - Page 2
Cameras

Underwater Camera Cases, Video DSLRs Are a Match Made In Fish Heaven

Most popular, mid-to-high-range DSLRs eventually get their own waterproof diving cases, but this one is special. It’s a Sea&Sea housing for a Canon 5D Mk II, and it lets you take videos like this:


Mobile

Vodafone Accepting Pre-Registration For HTC Magic

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Following on from our HTC invite for an event next week, Vodafone have just sent out a press release stating that they are now offering Pre-registration for the HTC Magic phone.


Computing

Dell Mini 10 Finally Sprouts Built-in TV Tuner Option

Dell just told us the Mini 10 is finally getting that built-in TV tuner option promised at CES as a $US50 add-on. It tunes in to over-the-air digital ATSC TV. AU: I imagine this is US only for the time being.

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Computing

Acer Aspire easyStore Expandable 1TB Windows Home Server Cube Is $400

Acer’s Aspire easyStore is on the cheaper and smaller side of pre-built Windows Home Server configs at $US400, but unlike some at that price, this little cube actually has three hot-swappable HDD bays to expand its 1TB of storage. Full specs:


Garmin GPSMAP 620 Offers Both Land And Water Navigation

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If you’re one of those people that needs both a regular satnav for your expensive four-wheeled drive and a marine satnav for your expensive luxury yacht, I really hate you. Also, you should check out the Garmin GPSMAP 620.


Gadgets

Surprise: Hayden Panettiere Knows How to Read

Also, that’s a Kindle DX she has in her hand, not a Kindle 2. Everyone else on the Heroes set needs to stand on apple boxes to hide the fact that she’s six-foot seven.


What is the Deadliest Machine of All-Time? (Heavyweight Division, Round 3)

Not surprisingly, Megatron easily took another heavyweight round over Marvel’s Sentinel. So we are upping the ante in Round 3 with a robot so horrifying, just thinking about it will give you nightmares for weeks.


LEGO Micro-Scales Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater House

I love Lego’s Frank Lloyd Wright Collection has a mini model of the Guggenheim Museum in NYC, but I’m more in love with the model of the Fallingwater house built over a waterfall.


Nexus’s Velvety Laptop Cooler Has No Fans

Another gadget to keep your laptop from burning you silly, Nexus’s TDD-9000 liquid cooling pad is a soft, velvety cloth filled with a patented, gel-like substance that needs no plugs, wiring or electricity to quietly, yet actively, cool your laptop.


News

Win! One Of Five Terminator: Salvation XBox 360 Games!

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When Terminator 2 came out, I remember reading that Edward Furlong (the barely pubescent kid who played John Conner) was just picked up by a talent scout at the local shopping centre. At the time, I was so jealous, I started hanging out at the local shopping centre on the off chance an Australian talent scout would pick me up to star in a movie about man-killing aliens. It never happened.