Archive for 2006
Microsoft Brings Back the Blue Screen of Death
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Not that your screen really needs saving these days, but some cruel jokers over at Microsoft TechNet have released the Blue Screen of Death Screen Saver for those of you with a sadistic streak. The screen saver accurately emulates the dreaded OS hard crash that Windows is (in)famous for. It… |
November 13th, 2006
Classic Video Games in LEGO Form
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The guys over at Brick Flick have painstakingly built a series of LEGO vignettes based on classic video games. The scenes include Mortal Kombat, Castlevania, Shadow of the Colossus, Contra, Excitebike and my personal Favorite, Katamari (Block)acy – shown above. There’s also an awesome animated featurette, Grand Theft Auto LEGO… |
November 12th, 2006
Art Lebedev Does Sound
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Industrial designer Art Lebedev is known mostly for his Optimus Mini Three OLED keyboard and his nifty cursor shaped mouse. Now his clean, minimal designs will be showing up in a new desktop speaker system. Art’s new Sonicum speaker system is a 2.1 system featuring two satellite speakers and a… |
November 12th, 2006
Xbox 360 Gets HD Movies, Tv, Possibly Larger Hard Drive
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On November 22, the Xbox Live Marketplace will start offering movie and television downloads for the Xbox 360. Microsoft has announced agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, TBS, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Warner Brothers to offer an initial lineup of over 1,000 hours of TV shows and movies… |
November 7th, 2006
Belkin Shows Zune Accessories
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In case you’re planning on picking up Microsoft’s new Zune player for the holidays, you might want to check out some of these new accessories being offered by Belkin: TuneBase FM Transmitter($79.99): Broadcast tunes to your car stereo; able to work in either portrait or landscape mode |
November 6th, 2006
Xbox 360 HD DVD Playback: Over 4.7 Million Lines of Code
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In this post by Shaheen Gandhi, an engineer on the Xbox 360 Platform Team, a massive amount of code went into the HD DVD playback system for the Xbox 360. |
November 5th, 2006
The Vibro Sounder: Any Surface Becomes a Speaker
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With a name like The VIBRO Sounder, I wasn’t sure if this was an audio device or a marital aid. It actually turns out to be a sonic transducer that turns any nearby surface into a loudspeaker. At just 50mm x 50mm x 60mm (about 2.36″ x 2.36″ x 1.96″)… |
November 5th, 2006
The Ultimate Vaporware
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Just in time for the holidays, The Onion – America’s Finest News Source, will offer the ideal holiday gifts for the guy or gal who has everything. Gotchabox is a set of three boxes from completely fake, yet surprisingly real sounding bad gift items, the USB toaster (are you sure… |
November 5th, 2006
Pinball Reincarnated in Digital Format
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At this week’s Pinball Expo in Chicago, a little company called Global VR showed off their UltraPin pinball machine which brings back the feel of old pinball machines, but updates the concept for the 21st century. |
November 3rd, 2006
Samsung’s Hip Mini Mp3 Phone
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Samsung’s latest mobile phone, the SGH-X830, features an innovative slim swing-open design and full media player capabilities. When closed, the phone measures just 3.3″ (h) x 1.18″ (w) x .78″(d), and weight just 75 grams (about 2.65 ounces). The SGH-X830 features a 1.3 megapixel digital camera and media playback in… |
November 3rd, 2006
