Thursday, June 25, 2009
Computers
Always Innovating Half-Netbook, Half-Tablet Ships July, Still $US300
11:40PM John Herrman | Always Innovating has hit on something very interesting with its Touch Book tablet, a sparingly-spec’d touchscreen device with a detachable keyboard, embedded Linux OS and impressively low $US300 price. But, oh god, they said it’d ship by now! Don’t worry. More »
Software
11:00PM Wilson Rothman | We finally received the official word on Windows 7 pricing. For the most part, people itching to upgrade immediately or buy a new Win 7 machine are in luck. More »
Windows 7 Pricing: Good News, Mostly
11:00PM Wilson Rothman | We finally received the official word on Windows 7 pricing. For the most part, people itching to upgrade immediately or buy a new Win 7 machine are in luck. More »
Games
Use Sony’s DualShock On The Wii, Then Giggle Like A Super Villain
10:56PM Mark Wilson | Why buy Nintendo’s fancy Wii Classic Controller or humiliatingly turn the Wiimote sideways when your old PS/PS2 controllers are perfectly fine? Import this DualShock to Wii adaptor for just under $US20 and no one will even notice. [Gametech via Kotaku] More »
Gadgets
Bake A Delicious, Healthy Pizza On Your Way To Work
10:34PM Mark Wilson | Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, and how many of you drive to work each morning without any pizza in your stomach? This travesty shall be amended! More »
Games
Sony To Announce ‘Details’ About Its Motion Controller On July 14th
9:57PM John Herrman | Next month, Sony will give us one more morsel (or maybe two! or three!) of information about the PS3 motion controller, announced at E3. This’ll be the third such motion controller info-dribble since the initial announcement, though this one, to be delivered by the company’s head of developer services at the Develop conference in England, promises “much more detail on Sony’s new motion controller debuted at E3.” More »
Software
IPhone 3GS’s Upgraded Hardware Means Console Emulators No Longer Suck
9:18PM John Herrman
Console emulators were one of the first orders of business when the jailbreak scene took off two years ago, but they’ve always been plagued by stuttering framerates—especially the more ambitious ones. The iPhone 3GS fixes this, gloriously. More »
Entertainment
Roxio CinemaNow Brings Streaming Movies To The Wii (in Japan)
8:30PM Dan Nosowitz | Well, it’s Japan-only for now, but the Wii is finally starting to compete with the PS3 and Xbox 360 in the only category in which it’s in third place: Media centre functionality. CinemaNow, apparently, is the guinea pig of choice. More »
Peripherals
IJector Sprays 50 Inches Of IPod, IPhone Video Onto Any Wall
8:09PM John Herrman | Simple, dock-form iPod projectors have typically been either a) imaginary lust objects or b) forsaken concepts. Landing next month, the iJector is neither of those things, in that it’s going be to available. Unfortunately, we’ve already spotted a few dealbreakers. More »
Phones
7:01PM Nick Broughall | If you’re looking at joining tonight’s midnight launch of the new iPhone, consider this: Apple retail stores will be selling the new handsets unlocked from tomorrow. More »
Apple Store Selling Unlocked iPhones Outright
7:01PM Nick Broughall | If you’re looking at joining tonight’s midnight launch of the new iPhone, consider this: Apple retail stores will be selling the new handsets unlocked from tomorrow. More »
GPS
