Apple Technology

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

digg_url = \’http://digg.com/apple/The_Croiman_Psycho_iPhone_makes_other_modders_weep_with_joy\’; See it? No, not the reflective surface or the bastardization of the Intel Inside logo on the back… the other modification to this stock iPhone. Right, that Apple logo is burning white a la your off-the-shelf MacBook. Amazingly, the trick is accomplished without any appreciable […]

Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video

It seems like Sharp likes to make its electronic dictionary upgrades a yearly occurrence, with the company now trotting out its new RD-CX310 model, a nearly right on time follow-up to its not-very-dissimilar RD-CX300 device. Among the upgrades this time around are a roomier 30GB hard drive, along with […]

Filed under: Desktops

digg_url = \’http://digg.com/apple/Apple_iMac_3_06GHz_unboxing_hands_on_and_benchmarking\’; Look what arrived on our doorstep today! That’s right — the shiny, expensive new iMac that’s now equipped with that funky custom and / or overclocked 3.06GHz CPU. Take a look at us wildly unboxing and handling the behemoth in the gallery below, and get a load of its fairly […]

Filed under: Desktops
There’s all the makings of a class-A debacle over at AMD headquarters, as it turns out that the chip maker’s quad-core Phenom processors are incompatible with some popular motherboard chipsets. Due to a thermal frequency mismatch, the 125-watt 9750 and 9850 CPUs don’t play well with 780G-based mobos — which are designed for […]

Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds

A fistful of RIM documentation on Waterloo’s upcoming BlackBerry 9000 has found its way onto the interwebs courtesy of the good folks at Boy Genius Report, and while there’s nothing groundbreaking here, BlackBerry fanatics are sure to be drooling by the time they get to the last slide in this page-turner. The […]

TechRadar writes “A hacker has turned his OQO ultraportable into the world’s smallest Mac running Leopard. ‘I will warn you this project is not for the plug and play crowd but definitely do-able,’ the hacker, ‘TRF’ says. Interesting, given the OQO was designed by ex-Apple employees.” It might run Mac OS X, but one thing […]

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

Tsinghua Tongfang has managed to produce at least one mildly interesting MP4 PMP in the past, so we’re not too surprised at the company’s new PMC-M880, which features semi-high-def nice-looking PAL video out at 720 X 576 resolution in addition to the usual array of MP4 features. On the go, […]

Filed under: Household

Those looking for another good reason to set up camp in Sweden have just found it. Okay, so maybe Manodo’s oh-so-informative display isn’t that astonishing, but it certainly gives a select few apartment residents in the country access to an enviable amount of information. Reportedly, the screen is being installed in several Swedish […]

Filed under: Storage

Because history has proven that hard drives must get smaller and more capacious, Verbatim went and released the 500GB 2.5-inch SmartDisk HDD. Despite claims from others, Verbatim says this marks the first available 9.5mm Z-height 2.5-inch hard disk. The drive is made up of three 166GB platters striped with Perpendicular Magnetic Recording at […]

Filed under: Gaming

It doesn’t look like Activision and Harmonix are ever going to make nice and implement broad hardware compatibility for Rock Band and Guitar Hero controllers, but if you’ve got a sizable investment in PS2 gear, The Ant Commandos’ new converter might let you ignore all the nastiness and keep rockin’ anyway. TAC’s Universal […]