February 2008

Classic Nintendo Themed TV Remote

Need some help rounding out your classic Nintendo collection? Old NES somewhere in the basement… CHECK. Purchased every Classic Console game on the Nintendo Wii… CHECK. But do you have a cool universal TV remote that looks just like a NES controller? No? ThinkGeek.com does and it’s ready for immediate delivery via winged turtle shell.

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Dash Shipping Mar 27 to Pre-Order Customers

As we reported from CES, Dash was showing off a very cool GPS unit that uses collective data from its users to send pretty up to date traffic info back to those very users. Back then (and now), Dash was allowing folks to pre-order the units. So those units will ship on Mar 27. Kudos [...]

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Mvix MX-780HD Media Center is Released

The MX-780HD has finally been released after rumors of it first appeared last year. It’s the 3rd generation in the MX line and the successor to the acclaimed MX-760HD. Apart from its new sleek black color, the 780 features HDMI out, and HD support all the way up to 1080p. Just like the 760, the [...]

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The technology week in view: 22nd February 2008

Have you changed the channel? The default channel that is? What channel? The channel on your wireless broadband router! We have and it’s improved our performance in Wireless woes – change the channel. I also changed my default channel at home when it turned out that many of the neighbours routers seem to be invisibly [...]

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Geek Challenge: Mythbusters vs. Brainiac

The eternal question that begins, “I wonder what would happen if I …” is the foundation of modern science. Galileo was actually the first person of note decided it might be worthwhile to put the long-held scientific principles of Aristotle to the test by the simple experiment of taking objects of different weights and dropping [...]

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Kaossilator Touchpad Synthesizer

This pocket sized music synthesizer is like nothing we’ve seen before. Rather than using keys or buttons to play musical notes, the Kaossilator features a revolutionary touchpad design. Move your finger from left to right to change the pitch of the note, and up and down to change the sound. But musical sounds are only [...]

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American Idol on iTunes

The biggest American reality show on TV has finally joined the iTunes platform. Fox Broadcasting, Fox Interactive Media and FremantleMedia signed an exclusive deal with Apple to bring American Idol audio and video performances to iTunes as single song-sized snippets available the day after they premiere on air. Audio performances of the top 24 contenders [...]

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Star Wars R2-D2 Peppermill

Not that you’ve noticed… but all fine restaurants on Tatooine feature R2-D2 pepper grinders. Usually after you order your salad of Dagobah greens a Wookie will come around and offer you some fresh ground pepper from one of these handy droid-based mills. Word to the wise… never refuse a Wookie. Fortunately for you we’ve managed [...]

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HD-DVD Dead – Goodbye Format War, Hello Single Standard

A few months back I gave Toshiba some advice on how HD-DVD could win the format war. Perhaps it was too little, too late, or it was sound advice that fell on deaf ears. Either way, Toshiba has packed up camp and announced it will no longer be manufacturing or marketing HD-DVD players and ending [...]

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Mini Rubber Band Artillery

Here in the US we get the shaft when it comes to capsule toys. Gum balls, stickers, temporary tattoos… nothing good. However, amazingly in Japan instead of one of those gummy hands on a string you can get an itty bitty rubber band gun. Now you can stage a tiny stinging ambush with minuscule rubber [...]

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