Thodio A-Box Bulletproof Speakers Are Perfect For Your Bunker [Speakers]
Back in 2007, Thodio made the lovingly hand-crafted iBox speakers. But you know what? That was then. In today’s rough and tumble world, your iPod needs speakers wrought with freakin kevlar. Welcome, survivalists, to the Thodio A-Box.
The innards are the same as the iBox, with your choice between two 25 watt amplifier or a “heavy [...]
My 10 Years With The PlayStation 2 [Happy Birthday PS2]
On March 4, 2000, Sony unleashed the successor to their wildly successful PlayStation on an unsuspecting world. Ten years later I’ve still got PlayStation 2 games on preorder. And to think I didn’t even care until 2002.
In 1999, I was still new to the internet video game press business, but that was okay, as [...]
Radeon HD 5870 Gloriously Abused By Asus, Made Super Overclocking-Friendly [Guts]
The Radeon HD 5870, as shipped, is a very powerful graphics card—more than most people need, even, and at the very least, enough for anyone. Except, apparently, Asus.Asus’ plans for their newest Republic of Gamers (ROG) Radeon HD 5870-based card cater to a specific breed—the overclock-everything-for-the-sake-of-it PC tweakers, who are dwindling along with their gaming [...]
Dockers free pants: We’re all cattle after all – Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
It’s easy to say consumers are cattle, but not so easy to prove.
Until now.
“dockers free pants” was the top hot search term on Google Monday, the day after Dockers aired what you might consider the most immediately successful Super Bowl ad of the year.
To be fair to the other ads — it’s a lot [...]
Are These the First Core i7 MacBook Pro Benchmarks? [Rumor]
There’s a pretty gnarly GeekBench result running around which appears to be for a new model MacBook Pro—6,1 to be exact—running a crazyfast 2.66GHz Intel Core i7 620M, one of the Arrandale chips Intel announced at CES.MacBook Pros are definitely in need of fresh guts, and the obvious choice for chips are from the fresh [...]
Next-Gen Accelerometers Will Have Temperature Sensor Amongst Other Cool Functions [Accelerometers]
In an ongoing quest to bring you news about the guts of your next gadgets, here’s some riveting stuff about accelerometers. Remember when they first burst onto the scene? How much fun we had tilting out phones? Yeah, that. Anyway, STMicroelectronics is one of the big suppliers, and has just shed some details on a [...]
Samsung’s LED LCD HDTV Lineup: The 9000 Does 3D and Has a Input-Previewing Touch Remote [HDTVs]
Samsung’s LED LCD televisions are here and the flagship 9000 is a doozy. It’s the only one they’re calling “ultra thin”, has 3D support in late 2010 and a touch remote that shows you content from other video sources! The thinness is achieved by shoving lots of guts into the pedestal, which doubles as [...]
Micahb says "From 3 remotes down to 1 – Yippie!" about Logitech Harmony 880 LCD Remote Control
This is my first universal remote so I don’t have another remote to compare it to.
That said, I _love_ the Harmony 880! I’m using it to control my TV, whole house audio system and Popcorn Hour A-110.
Going from 3 remotes down to 1 is a huge improvement and the setup was relatively straight forward.
My only [...]
Hesse confirms Sprint will have an Android device this year, maybe more
Speaking at Brainstorm: Tech, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse explicitly stated that Sprint would carry at least one Android device by the end of the year. As to why Sprint has taken this long to pick up an Android device, he said that it wasn’t quite ready for prime time. But now that the second version [...]
Samsung T659 gets shot
In the weeks after that big ol’ T-Mobile launch list leaked back in April, details and photos emerged of just about every handset mentioned. One, however managed to stay off the radar: the Samsung T659, otherwise known as “Scarlet”. Of course, we’re talking about Samsung here, and Samsung phones just don’t get announced without leaking [...]
