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Vehicles
Sub-$3000 Tata Nano is Officially The World’s Cheapest Car
5:40AM Sean Fallon | India’s Tata Nano has been in the works for some time, but pre-orders are starting today with a MSRP of 100,000 rupees (under $3000)—officially making it the cheapest car in the world.
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3:00PM Nick Broughall | When Kogan first started out, they didn’t just announce products then cancel them a few days before launch. They offered cheap TVs direct to the public via an ebay store. Now another company has taken the exact same idea, and changed it only by naming the company Tyagi. More »
Another Cheap, Direct To Consumer TV Manufacturer Hits Australia
3:00PM Nick Broughall | When Kogan first started out, they didn’t just announce products then cancel them a few days before launch. They offered cheap TVs direct to the public via an ebay store. Now another company has taken the exact same idea, and changed it only by naming the company Tyagi. More »
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Cheap HDTV Battlemodo: The Best Sets Under $US900
8:00AM Matt Buchanan | With so much financial strife, it sounds insane to splurge on an HDTV now. Good thing there are 40″ or bigger sets to be had for under $US900. But which ones don’t suck? To find out, we grabbed five HDTVs you can find on the street for under $US900—some require a little snooping to find that price, but they’re out there. We’ve got four LCDs and one plasma, with four of them were discount brands, while one was from a pretty top name brand. We’re looking at a few things: are any sub-$US900 TVs actually watchable? Are any lower-tier brands as good as big name brands? And finally, which TV delivers the most bang for the buck? More »
Computers
$US170 Alpha 400 MIPS Netbook is as Expensive as it is Desirable
8:30PM John Herrman | A lot of portable computer manufacturers seem to have been losing focus lately, releasing netbooks at near-notebook prices. Not Belco! Their Alpha 400 MIPS netbook is priced more like a scientific calculator. Unfortunately, it’s specced like one too. More »
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11:50AM Nick Broughall | That crappy Aussie dollar that we’ve been bitching about? Apparently it’s not all bad. Susannah Moran in Australian IT is reporting today that thanks to our dollar plunging so spectacularly in recent months, we’re now the cheapest country in the world to buy iPods, improving from a paltry 14th position back in July.
So what does this mean? Well, maybe you should consider buying your next iPod sooner rather than later to take advantage of our crappy economy consider getting any Poms, Yanks, or other tourists with a stronger dollar to buy you an iPod for Christmas. If they can afford it, that is…
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Australia The Cheapest Place In The World To Buy iPods
11:50AM Nick Broughall | That crappy Aussie dollar that we’ve been bitching about? Apparently it’s not all bad. Susannah Moran in Australian IT is reporting today that thanks to our dollar plunging so spectacularly in recent months, we’re now the cheapest country in the world to buy iPods, improving from a paltry 14th position back in July.
So what does this mean? Well, maybe you should consider buying your next iPod sooner rather than later to take advantage of our crappy economy consider getting any Poms, Yanks, or other tourists with a stronger dollar to buy you an iPod for Christmas. If they can afford it, that is…
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Games
PlayStation 3 8-Bit Knock-Off Is Cheaper, Smaller, and NEStastic
7:00AM Jesus Diaz | This is the Sonilex, a gaming console from an alternative reality in which the Soviet Union wins the Cold War, communism takes all over the world, and a state-owned Sony invents and imposes 8-bit gaming for two decades. Or another alternative reality in which the economy crashes and nobody has enough money to buy shiny next-generation consoles. Either way, this Indian knock-off looks like a reduced version of the PS3, with unnecessary Eject button included. For $US32, it comes loaded with all kinds of goodies. You know, like cables, 41 cloned NES games, and a game pad called “DualShack 2″. [Gameguru] More »
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Student Develops Cheap Power Turbine For Developing Nations
2:20PM Matt Hickey | It’s one thing to tinker in your garage to restore that old gas-guzzling muscle car that you think will get you some action. It’s something entirely different to invent an electricity-generating wind turbine out of scrap parts that could revolutionise personal power in developing nations, especially if you’re in college. Max Robinson has done just that, designing a turbine out of spare parts that costs less than US$40 to build out of readily available parts and can power a home’s lighting for up to two and a half days or a radio for over a day. No word on how long an OLPC would last. [Daily Mail] More »
Computers
MIT Students Working On $12 Desktop For Developing Nations’ Schools
1:30PM Matt Hickey | Forget the OLPC laptop, MIT’s new hotness is the US$12 desktop computer for developing countries based roughly on the NES. The goal is to create an equivalent of the Apple II from the ’80s for less fortunate students across the world, likely to complement the OLPC laptop initiative. The designers imagine schools with computer labs where kids could learn the basics that they could use later in life. And the good news for the students who may someday get these is that gaming is indeed part of the package. [Project Page via Baltimore Sun] More »
Phones
Nokia Slashes Mobile Phone Prices as Much as 10%
9:30AM Jesus Diaz | Trying to put pressure on their competition, or feeling the pressure from increasing Samsung and LG market share, Nokia has reduced many handset prices by 10%–mostly music and media phones–but also making discounts across the whole portfolio. Analyst and Sean Connery-fan David Hallden calls the move a Crazy Ivan: More »
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