Thursday, April 15, 2010

Cars Quintuple In Data Storage

Toshiba’s got a new automotive HDD out today that’s packing 200GB of storage. Consider that your typical Ford today has just 40GB, and start planning all the music and movies and media that’ll be housed in your next car’s dashboard.


Sony’s 3DTVs Will Be Available In June In UK, Come With Goodies

While the actual price of the set hasn’t been revealed, the HX803 will be Europe’s first Sony 3DTV, coming bundled with Blu-rays and games aplenty.


Electronics Brain Trust To Create New Mobile HD Plug

This winter, Nokia, Samsung, Silcon Image, Sony and Toshiba have set aside differences to team up and create the most awesome mobile HD plug known to man. It’s like the trailer for a really lame action movie.


Software

Photoshop’s New Content-Aware Fill Has Its Limitations

Photoshop CS5 has some incredible new features, particularly content-aware fill. It’s great! Just not as great as Megan Fox fans might want it to be. Brace yourselves for supreme disappointment.

[Reddit via The Daily What]


Gadgets

Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle Slurps HDMI Over USB 3.0

Want to capture the HDMI signal from set-top boxes or your camcorder straight to you computer? If it’s equipped with USB 3.0, the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle is an inexpensive breakout box for doing just that.


Computing

27-inch iMacs Receive Some Firmware Fixes

If your 27-inch iMac sometimes forgets to wake its screen when coming out of hibernation, or if CPU usage goes nuts after using headphones for a while, well, you’re in luck. New firmware! It goes by the name 27-inch iMac EFI FW Update 1.0. So do that system update thing you do so well. [MacRumors]


Gaming

Obama Wants Microsoft To Make A Video Game About US Budget

Showing yet again that the prez is down with the kids, Obama’s pitched Steve Ballmer the idea of creating a video game… about the US budget. His “down with the kids” campaign is a little rusty, it appears.


Toshiba’s 2D To 3D Cell Regza TVs On Sale This Winter

Joining Sony with a wintertime 3D launch, Toshiba’s 3D Regza LCD TVs will use the 2D-3D conversion cell processor technology that we saw at CES.


Cars

Iceland’s Volcanic Ash Causes Hundreds Of Flight Cancellations

Chaos is reigning across Western Europe today, with hundreds of flights cancelled due to volcanic ash sweeping across the continent. The pulverised rock and glass from the Icelandic Eyjafjallajokull glacier volcano can harm the electrical systems of aeroplanes, apparently.


Computing

Internet’s Age-Old Riddle Answered: Cats Are Better Than Dogs. At Least With iPads.

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A video response to Iggy the cat pawing the iPad yesterday has solved internet’s biggest dilemma. Yes, cats are better than dogs. Though kudos to Chloe the corgi for recognising pure evil and barking like mad.