Archive for 'August,2010'

Cases For New iPod Touch, Nano Leak

Cases For New iPod Touch, Nano Leak

Well, it looks like a new version of the iPod Touch is basically confirmed at this point, but we weren’t as sure about the rumors of a one-inch touchscreen iPod we saw back in July. No [...]

AMD Kills ATI Brand, PC Gamers Weep A Little

AMD Kills ATI Brand, PC Gamers Weep A Little

An era of PC gaming has died today, as AMD has killed the ATI brand on their video cards. Market research had shown that most customers didn’t really care about the ATI distinction, so upcoming video [...]

Nintendo Lowers Prices Of DSi and DSi XL

Nintendo Lowers Prices Of DSi and DSi XL

Nintendo has just announced a price drop for their extremely popular Nintendo DSi and its bigger brother, the DSi XL. The DSi has been reduced to $149.99 (from $169.99) and the DSi XL to $169.99 (from [...]

PS3 Jailbreak Is Illegal In Australia — More Countries To Follow?

PS3 Jailbreak Is Illegal In Australia — More Countries To Follow?

The PS3 Jailbreak saga continues. A federal court in Australia has granted a temporary injunction of sales of the modchip device, which allows the playing of backed-up games off a hard drive, in that country. The modchip is [...]

Samsung Fascinate Hits September 9th

Samsung Fascinate Hits September 9th

UPDATED. BoyGeniusReport has some details on Samsung’s upcoming smartphone releases, which include the Fascinate, expected to arrive on September 9th. If you weren’t aware, the Fascinate  is a Galaxy varient packing a 4-inch AMOLED display, Android [...]

LG’S LEX8 LED TV Is The Thinnest Ever

LG’S LEX8 LED TV Is The Thinnest Ever

LG’s LEX8 is a perfect showcase of the benefits of LED technology — I mean, just look at the thing. It’s just .88cm thick, has a 1.25cm bezel (the thinnest ever), and the requisite 1080p resolution [...]

Rumor: YouTube To Offer Pay-Per-View Movies

Rumor: YouTube To Offer Pay-Per-View Movies

The Financial Times is reporting that Google is in talks with Hollywood studios to launch a global pay-per-view video service by the end of 2010. If it happens, YouTube will transform into a major player in [...]

HP CTO Teases Upcoming Phone, Tablet & More On Twitter

HP CTO Teases Upcoming Phone, Tablet & More On Twitter

HP’s Mark Budgell is either in big trouble or a genius, since his “leaked” photos of HP CTO Phil McKinney holding upcoming devices have been buzzing around the internet. They were posted to Twitter today and [...]

Urinal/Sink Hybrid Concept

Urinal/Sink Hybrid Concept

I’m not sure what to think of this urinal/sink hybrid concept, from Yeongwoo Kim. As you can see from the picture above, it lets you both use the bathroom and use a sink in the same [...]

Ricoh G700 Waterproof Camera

Ricoh G700 Waterproof Camera

Ricoh’s new G700 waterproof camera is tough. It promises underwater photography at up to 5 meters depth, has added shock resistance — it can survive a 2 meter fall, and is resistant to chemicals like ethanol [...]