Archive for December, 2007

More Penryn laptops surface from Toshiba, Lenovo and HP Compaq

Filed under: Laptops

If you’ve just now finished shuffling through yesterday’s barrage of mobile Penryn-based laptops, here’s yet another helping for you to try and digest. Up first is a pair from Toshiba (13-inch Satellite U300 / 17-inch Satellite X200), followed by a refreshed ThinkPad T61 and R61 from Lenovo and a trio of HP Compaqs […]

Becker Traffic Assist 7827 loose in the UK

Filed under: GPS

Not that it’s been that long since we heard from Becker or anything, but it’s never too early for yet another numerically named navigation unit, right? Available now in the UK, the Becker Traffic Assist 7827 sports a 4.3-inch 480 x 272 resolution touchscreen, 400MHz processor, 128MB of RAM, a SiRFstarIII GPS chipset, […]

Sega Toys Brain Checker keeps you on your toes

Filed under: Handhelds
Though we don’t believe this to be one of those “mind-controlled tech toys” Sega Toys was working on, it’s pretty evident that it will give your mind a workout. From what we can tell, the Brain Checker is a standalone gizmo designed to stretch your mental muscles with a myriad puzzles, but most […]

Fox and Disney iTunes Movie Rentals, 24 Hours Only?

Variety cites studio sources and confirms previous reports that Apple will be announcing iTunes movie rentals at Macworld San Francisco 2008.
They also report that both Fox and Disney have signed on to provide movies for the new iTunes…
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Venturer SHD7001 goes on sale in UK for 170 pounds

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainment

Right on cue, the Venturer SHD7001 HD DVD player has gone on sale via QVC UK, and while all the specs look exactly as we predicted they would, the price is a hair lower than we expected. Pegged at £169.92 ($338) — or available for two easy payments of £84.96 — […]

iPhone 1.1.3 Features and Screenshots? Locate Me, Movable Icons, More… [Video]

GearLive claims to have played with the upcoming iPhone 1.1.3 firmware update and reveals a number of new features to be included to the latest version of the iPhone’s software.
Dragging the Mail iconThe new features …
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RIAA suing citizen for copying legally purchased CDs to PC

Filed under: Portable Audio
Sure, we’ve heard RIAA-admiring lawyers affirm that ripping your own CDs is in fact “stealing,” but it seems the aforementioned entity is putting its money where its mouth is in a case against Jeffrey Howell. Reportedly, the Scottsdale, Arizona resident is being sued by the RIAA, and rather than Mr. Howell just […]

Girl unwraps iPod, finds heavy-handed social commentary instead

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

As the unfortunate trend continues, yet another kiddo has found their Christmas PMP replaced with something that’s, well, not a PMP. In today’s episode, we find a Washington, D.C. girl that unwrapped an iPod earlier this week and discovered that the only Apple product tucked within was the inner packaging. […]

USB flash drive payment system hits South Korea

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

We’ve definitely seen some outlandish attempts at improving or outright replacing the humble credit card, but South Koreans will soon be able pay for purchases using the most easy-to-lose system we’ve seen yet — by inserting a special USB flash drive into a slot. The system, which is being rolled out by […]

Half of US households own a digital television

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment
We already learned that some 28-percent of US households were rocking at least one HDTV back in March, but now the Consumer Electronics Association has come forward with new figures showing that over half of American abodes are home to a digital television. According to revamped CEA projections, around 32 […]