3D Televisions Finally On Sale

Well, after years and years of hype, we’ve finally got word of the first commercially available 3D television. Last thursday, Amazon.com put up for sale Samsung 46-inch and 55-inch TVs have the capability to display 3-D programming. The sets, which are LED backlit and cost $3,300 at the high end, cost roughly 20% more than [...more]

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Mar 08 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Porn Detection Device Created By Some Monster

A company named Paraben has, for some god awful reason, created a device that searches your hard drive for illicit JPEGs. It’s a USB stick – just plug and play – and a report pops up, revealing the ugly truth to whomever happens to be conducting their search. How’s the software work? Paraben says it scans [...more]

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Mar 07 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

TiVo Launches New Set-Top Box, Has Web TV Features

Huzzah! TiVO’s launched a new flavor of its set top box, the “Premiere” edition. The box, which will run for $300, is notable in that it’ll include simpler functionality for Netflix, YouTube and other online video streaming services. It’ll also help go through local television listings easier as well. The basic “Premiere” model will hold 45 [...more]

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Mar 06 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Confirmed: iPad To Launch April 3rd

Yesterday, we ran a story reporting on a rumored release date for the iPad. Apple just confirmed that rumor as false – the “magical and revolutionary” iPad is launching on April 3rd. Well, the Wi-Fi version, anyway. The model that can tap into AT&T’s 3G network arrives in “late April.” The model will be shipping with 12 [...more]

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Mar 05 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Rumor: iPad Launch Date is March 26th

We’ve all heard the rumors of production problems with the iPad, and we know the official release date is said to be sometime “in late March.” Now, the websites Examiner and MacRumors are both reporting that the iPad will launch on March 26th. If correct, that’d mean Apple’s launching the same week they launched the iPhone [...more]

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Mar 04 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

One In Four Televisions Now Internet Connected

Some cool news for those who love Netflix on their flatscreens – market research firm iSuppli found that in a survey of 800 televisions purchased in January, around 27% were connected to the internet via digital video box, game console or the built in capabilities of the set itself. This finding show that – no [...more]

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Mar 01 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

World’s Largest Commercially Available Flash Drive?

One flash drive. Two hundred and fifty six gigabytes. Limitless pornography. Gentlemen, meet the DT-310, a Kingston flash drive that holds 256 gigabytes of data in its tiny frame. It costs eleven hundred dollars, reads up to 25 megabytes per second and writes at 12 MB/s. It’s the most unneccessary thing I’ve ever seen, and [...more]

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Feb 28 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

New PlayStation 3 Models On the Way?

You don’t have to be a gamer to be interested in the PlayStation 3. Although Blu-ray players have plummeted in price over the last few years, the PS3 is still a great affordable Blu-ray player that has the ability to receive new features via software upgrades. The PS3 was redesigned last year when the Ps3 [...more]

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Feb 27 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

New Dell Tablet Sounds Pretty Cool

With all this talk of the iPad, it’s hard to remember that yes, other idiots are also trying to make a device designed only for fun during a massive recession. If I had a bunch of expendable cash, I think I actually might buy this new Dell tablet, the Mini 5. Here’s what it’s packing: Flash [...more]

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Feb 26 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Motorola Introduces Augmented Reality Eyepiece

Finally: a piece of augmented reality tech that’s as useful as it is cool looking. The Golden-i, a  joint venture between Motorola and miniature display maker Kopin, serves as a computer to those whose hands are busy doing actual, useful things. Designed to fit under a construction helmet, the Golden-i’s tiny eyepiece provides the equivalent [...more]

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Feb 21 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos