January 2008

Wii Fit Coming to US in Q2

The “Wii Fit” is Nintendo’s next great controller and has been a huge success in both Europe and Japan since its release in Q4 2007 will be coming to the US in Q2 2008.  The Nintendo Wii-based exercise game and tool has been included on nearly 150 games announced by Nintendo last week including “Mario [...]

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Over 1 Billion Cell Phones Sold in 2007

According to Wikipedia’s entry on world population, there are about 6.6 billion people on Earth. According to market research firm, Strategy Analytics, 1.1 billion cell phones were sold in 2007. That means, that assuming that no one had a mobile before, 1/6 of the people in the world would now have one. Of course, that’s [...]

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Firefox Coming to a Mobile Device Near You

Mozilla is working on a mobile version of Firefox. Unfortunately, it probably won’t see the light of day until end of this year. Well it’s about time. I was wondering why this was taking so long. In case you don’t already run Firefox on your computer, get with it already. Just click the image link [...]

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Tokyoflash’s Tibida Watch

Welcome to Tokyoflash’s latest style in watches… the Tibida. Tibida expresses three functions through its name; time, binary and date. Created using 42 white LEDs, this design offers three conceptually different ways to tell the time; hour-centric, minute-centric and binary. Combining a stainless steel case and clasp with a mineral crystal lens and polyurethane band, [...]

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Pan Am – Secret Agent Laptop Bag Flight Blue

Thanks Anne P. for the groovy suggestion for Gizmos for Geek’s Gizmo of the Day! Granted, as you mentioned, it’s not quite a gizmo but the laptop case is pretty cool for geek’s who likes retro stuff (like you!). While younger geek’s would probably have no clue what “Pan Am” is other than from movies [...]

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Praxinoscope Early Animation Kit

Once upon a time, when animation was in its infancy, cartoons were much more dangerous to watch. Each frame was painted on a section of cave wall. In order to see the animation, you’d have to run down the cave at a constant speed blinking your eyes repeatedly. Many lives were lost as folks tripped, [...]

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VIA Unveils Next-Generation Faster and Green-Friendly Isaiah x86 Processor Architecture

VIA Technologies, Inc unveiled their next-generation Isaiah x86 Processor Architecture today which will produce high performance and functionality with low power consumption to help enable the “Small is Beautiful” devices. These “Small is Beautiful” devices include slim and light notebooks, pocket-sized UMPCs and Ultra Mobile Devices with multimedia with wireless broadband capabilities to smaller formed [...]

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World of Warcraft Hits 10 Million Subscribers

At a minimum of $13/mo, that’s a cool $130 million/month for Blizzard. Now I’m sure they spend a pretty penny every month to run the servers and pound out updates, but even if they spent $10 million/month, they’re definitely raking it in, and it’s one hell of a return. By the way, if you live [...]

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MagnoGrip

This is one of those gadgets that you think to yourself… “damn, I wish I would’ve thought of that!” The MagnoGrip is simply a magnetic wristband guaranteed to securely hold nails, screws, drill bits, fasteners and tools. It allows professionals and do-it yourselfers to finish jobs in less time and with less frustration. The magnogrip [...]

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Most Significant ‘dot release’ of Mac OS X Ever

According to the Apple Insider, the Mac OS X 10.5.2 (due out next month) will have nearly 100 fixes and could be the most significant ‘dot release’ of Mac OS X ever. Currently in private testing among developers are twenty new fixes in Mac OS X 10.5.2 build 9C16, which was released during last week’s [...]

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