We’ve all been there – you drew the short straw and ended up as designated driver. It’s late – you’re tired, grumpy, sober and your mates are begging you to find a late-night kebab store for an early morning munchy fix. You just want to go to bed. Fortunately, the Latestbuy Car Stove means that your drunk mates can cook their own kebabs while you drive home.
I remember a time before the iPod Touch when PMPs were struggling to get noticed, even if they were fantastic machines. The Viewsonic VPD400 and VPD500 remind me a lot of that time.
It seems somewhat strange and unnatural to me that people would buy a portable DVD player in an age where almost everyone owns a laptop, an iPod Touch or a PSP. But then again, I also think it’s strange that people choose dumbphones over smartphones, so who am I to judge? In any case, Toshiba’s catering to the non-DVD ripping or bittorrenting crowd with their latest portable DVD player.
The PSP Go! should be hitting shelves in a couple of months, yet Sony is yet to announce a local price. What gives, Sony? Fortunately, David over at Kotaku has SCEA head honcho Michael Ephraim’s number on speed dial (maybe), so he hit him with the hard questions. The answers may not be exactly what you want to hear…
It’s probably just a coincidence, but the W series Walkman that we saw back around CES is being released in Australia to coincide with the 30th Anniversary of the original Walkman. The press release goes so far to call it the “30th anniversary wearable Walkman”.
Mattel’s Football (just “Football”) was one of the most popular standalone handheld games of the late ’70s, in the same ultra-addicting category as Tetris and Pac-Man. It was the beginning of the end for the attention span of American youth.
Late last week, Navman grabbed a heap of Aussie tech journos, threw us into cars and had us play around with their new MY series range of satnavs while we were driven around Sydney. During the brief hands-on time we had, I can happily say that the new range works.
Microsoft “guru” Paul Thurott says the Zune HD launches on September 5. Mind you, this info comes fresh from the Zune forums, so we’ll slap a rumour on it for now with the caveat that it matches our earlier post about a September launch window. [Zune Forums - Thanks Joel]
The folks at Energizer are updating their Energi To Go line of rechargeable battery life extenders to encompass the iPhone 3G and solar power.
The Vitamin is a tiny MP3 player that combines our hobbies of music, gadgets and prescription-strength home pharmaceuticals into one.
