Archive for May, 2013
Business
Tivo Discontinues Loyalty Program
As of 5/28/08 Tivo will discontinue their rewards program. According to ZatzNotFunny, Tivo has upgraded the reward prizes to include the HD boxes for 120,000 and 150,000 point, which also includes lifetime service. David of Zat...
Business
Apple Stock By Product Release
The guys at Wired put this together. Interesting, yes, but accurate, not entirely, especially (and Wired makes this point) since Apple’s stock fell before the Macbook Air was released. Nonetheless, the svelte bodied machi...
Cell Phones
Sprint Finally Goes Unlimited And Includes The Kitchen Sink
After watching their competitors run a muck, Sprint has finally implemented an affordable ‘unlimited plan’. For $99 Sprint customers will get what Sprint has called “Simply Everything”, and it appears to...
Home Theater
This Is What A $6 Million Home Theater Looks Like
At first glance I thought this home theater had to me a computer fabrication. Not so. In fact, it’s all real with more pictures below to tell just how over the top one audiophile went. Although the system is 8.8 channels ...
Cell Phones
Samsung SGH-F700 To Join Verizon As The Glyde
What originally started as the Samsung SGH-F700 in Europe has become the Glyde (SGH-U940) for Verizon’s network. According to Gadgetell you can expect this touch screen, QWERTY keyboard slider (hence the name) sometime in...
Displays
World’s Largest Display Can Cover An Entire Building Of Any Size (video)
ADTI (yeah, I’ve never heard of them) announced the Skynet display (I’m thinking “Terminator”) today. Made up of thousands, if not millions of LEDs, the display can be wrapped around any building, is lig...
Cell Phones
Apple SDK March 6th, 2008
Apple has invited members of the press (I am not prestigious enough yet) to a special event to be held March 6th, 2008 at 10am PST at Apple’s Town Hall. Apple didn’t beat around the bush on this announcement stating...
Computers
Destructor Gaming Mouse Pad Insures Ultimate Accuracy
I can understand that there are gaming mice, but gaming mouse pads? I guess so. Razor’s Destructor gaming pad is composed of a proprietary gun metal coating, which apparently insures a highly reflective surface. They clai...
MP3
Creative Zen Stone Plus With Built-in Speaker Now Available
The Zen Stone and Zen Stone Plus (the plus has a screen) with built-in speakers are now shipping in the UK and US. Announced at CES this year, the Zen Stones are tiny little MP3 players with even tinier speakers on the back. Th...
Speakers
Sony’s Newest Offer, S-Air Speaker, Is Either A Streaming Speaker (Sweet) or A Wireless Speaker (Weak)
Sony announced a barrage of products a few days ago. One of the more notable additions to their line up (at least I think so) was the S-Air Speaker system that allowed wireless streaming of music into any room (up to 164′...
Cell Phones
Nokia Morph Concept Video
By now you’ve heard about the Nokia Morph: a nanotech based phone that cleans itself and can be transformed into all sort of different shapes dependent on what the user needs to do. Well, now there’s a video (above)...
Wacky
Looking Bubble For The Doggy At Your Door
The pet-obsessed doing everything pet-possible to make their pets happy, especially dog owners. The ‘Pet Peek’ does exactly what is pictured. It would probably give some good laughs the first few times the mailman...