Thursday, September 17, 2009 - Page 2

Pioneer CDJ-2000 Lets You Mix With A Big, Beautiful LCD Screen

The Pioneer CDJ-1000 CD Turntable was revolutionary when it launched because it was among the first devices to mimic vinyl turntables without the vinyl. Now, upgraded and equipped with a huge, 6.1-inch screen, the CDJ-2000 wants to up the ante.

Computing

Archos 5 Android Internet Tablet: Amazon Taking Pre-Orders

The 4.8-inch screen tablet won’t get full Flash support until December-ish, but you can slap down your plastic now if you don’t wanna wait: 160GB ($US330), 500GB ($US430), 32GB SSD ($US380). No word yet on the shipping date. [Amazon]

News

Play Our Paul Blart Game To Win A Copy On Blu-ray

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It’s just like Pacman, except with a fat guy on a Segway instead of a yellow orb muncher, and hoons on bikes and skateboards instead of ghosts. Plus, get a high score and you could win a prize!

Mobile

Sprint Hero Review: Faster, Stronger, Uglier

Take the most daring Android phone yet, but make it faster, stronger and better (but blander). You have the Sprint take on the HTC Hero, which happens to be the best Android phone you can buy.

Cameras

Pentax K-x DSLR: 12MP Photos, 720p Video For $US650

Pentax’s entry-level game just got interesting with the K-x: At $US600, the followup to the K2000 is the cheapest DSLR that’ll shoot 720p video. And it comes with blood red, shiny blue and cookies ‘n’ cream white.

HP DreamScreen Brings Media Streaming To Digital Picture Frames

HP’s new DreamScreen 100 and 130 aren’t exactly digital picture frames, though they do have that function and pretty much the same form factor. They also stream photos and music, play videos, connect to Pandora, and do social networking.

Cartridges For Planet Ark Collects 10,000,000th Cartridge

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In the seven years its been running, Planet Ark has recycled 10 million printer ink cartridges. That’s about 4700 tonnes of waste that didn’t go straight to landfill. That’s a pretty good effort, but I reckon we can do better.

Rub-A-Dub-Dub, Don’t Take This Mouse In The Tub

We’ve seen soap-shaped mice, now in a case of life imitating art imitating a rodent imitating a Dove bar we’ve got the M-SP1UR Soap optical mouse. A plain three-button mouse that looks like soap-on-a-rope. [AkihabraNews via CNET]

Gadgets

Remainders – Things We Didn’t Post

Dan Brown’s new digital novel outsells all physical books…The BlackBerry Tour’s debilitating trackball problems…Photos show a comet “giving birth” to baby comets…Samsung Instinct HD to release this month?…

Geek Out

President Obama Finally Reveals Himself As Jedi Master

Today is a Great Day in America’s history: President Obama has revealed himself as a Jedi Master, playing with a lightsaber while making sounds like *swisssssh* and *swoooosh* with his mouth. The Star Wars Kid has been vindicated, at last.

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