The MX-6000 is the first home theater remote control to offer two independent communications and control methods simultaneously. The MX-6000 provides both a narrow band 418 MHz transmitter for instant control of conventional home theater components and a Wi-Fi transceiver for high-speed transfer of cover art, artist, album and title metadata. The MX-6000, is for the complete control freak. The two-way 4.3-inch touchscreen can take control over everything in your home theater, as well as the digital content on...

Here's the first in the series of ads for Microsoft’s $300 million campaign. As reported earlier it includes Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld promoting Windows XP. The ad does not talk about any Microsoft product or service but just Bill Gates saying that PC's will one day be edible. The ad fails to make a dent IMHO. Source...

A Belgian woman on vacation in Spain received a bill for €18,889 ($27,119) from her operator for Internet surfing. She was billed at €9.68($13.7) a megabyte. When outside their country, exchange students, back-packers, brides, and bridesmaids on hen parties in Tallinn pay on average ten times for a text message—or SMS—than what they do domestically. The European Commission is proposing to put a stop to this, as it feels that mobile operators are taking advantage of young consumers—the main...

TiVo the company that made TV time shifting all the rage is here with its newest offering, the TiVo HD XL. The XL is the spiritual successor to 2006's TiVo Series3 DVR. And the XL simply stands for lots of hard drive space all 1TB of it, which translates into about 150 hours of HD recording (up from 20 hours for the TiVo HD) more than 1,360 hours of basic quality SD recording. The XL features the same 3.4-by-16.5-by-12.6-inch...

Don’t you miss those good old days when dad would take the family outdoors to live by nothing but the wilderness, ok not so far from the road but still out from the hustle and bustle of the busy city life. Today’s fast paced life has made us over dependent on not sacrificing our usual lifestyle, everyone likes to be pampered by courteous hotel staff at some place hundreds of miles away from home. Where is the sense of...

We don’t usually think about what happens to the waste we produce and flush down the drain, but one thought to keep in mind is that every time one flushes a considerable amount of water is wasted. This is because no one has yet come up with a better solution for the John in the last 100 years. Until now all we have seen are either high pressure low quantity water flushing toilets, or the chemical toilets used in...

Kyocera is fitting out another major solar power plant with photovoltaic modules for the Spanish renewable energy company Avanzalia. When finished, the project will be one of the largest solar power generating facilities world-wide. In August 2008, the plant in the Castile-La Mancha region of the Spanish province of Cuenca will be capable of generating 18 MW – enough electricity to supply 9,200 households. By this time, 89,320 Kyocera PV modules will have been installed. Some 3,300 tonnes of...

As you walk out of your favorite multiplex after watching 2hours worth of entertainment, you notice posters of the movie coming next. The posters just contain the familiar faces donning different roles in that movie, but wouldn’t it be nice to see what the movie is all about just by pointing your phone camera at it and directly viewing the trailer or other exclusive content right there on your mobile phone. If you were in Japan this wouldn’t be...

Sharp has expanded its North American LCD TV lineup with the D65U series of LCD HDTV's. * Native 1080p resolution * 42" to 52" sizes * Energy Star-compliant * Active backlight and contrast controls * Sharp's Advanced Super View and Black TFT Panel technologies * 176-degrees viewing angle * Five HDMI ports * Two composite inputs * One S-video, PC-in, and RS-232C To be made available in 42, 46 and 52 inches they will be retailing for $1600, $1900...

Sure we all know who Porsche is but other than making cars they have diversified into making some stunning mobile phones. Porsche Design now presents the Eton Porsche P’9120 stereo system which comes with a separated iPod dock and built-in FM, AM as well as DAB RDS radio tuner. The radio provides for manual tuning along with ten presets for each band frequencies which include 10AM/10FM/10SW/10DAB. The Eton P’9120 has its body extruded from high quality aluminum which is...

LG Korea has unveiled the successor to its popular Viewty phone. The KC910 is been touted by the company as the only phone with a 8 megapixel camera and a full touchscreen, it is also the thinnest 8 megapixel cameraphone , thanks to its slim 13.95mm profile. Specs include 3 inch touchscreen, Schneider-Kreuznach lens with 1600 ISO rating, A-GPS, 7.2Mbps, Dolby Mobile, video recording at 5 - 120 fps and Xenon flash. LG has said that it will provide...

Nokia on Wednesday started shipping the N96 the much awaited iPhone killer and an upgrade to the expensive N95. Compared to its predecessor it packs a larger 2.8 inch screen and the memory has been doubled to 16GB apart from this the N96 sports a 5-megapixel camera, turn-by-turn voice navigation and a slide-out keypad for multimedia just like the N95. The N96 is priced on the higher side at EUR 550 ($795) excluding taxes and subsidies. (Press release after...

Dell has launched a tiny laptop called the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 for the mobile traveler who has very basic PC usage like just surfing the web, shopping online, instant messaging, and the once in a while blogger. It comes with an Intel Atom Diamondville processor, a Digital Photo Frame like screen measuring just 8.9” and options of 4, 8 and 16GB SSD options. Incase you find the storage too less, online storage is provided by Box.net with 2GB...

Bendboards caused a sensation when they were introduced. They are practically indestructible, can be washed and take the brunt of a heavy and frustrating coding session which includes coffee spills, mayonnaise etc. The soft material allows a quick, reflexive typing action that is silent and more comfortable than traditional hard, plastic keyboards. Plus it has pixelated images of the retro 8-bit invaders on all the keys, it’s completely flexible, so you can roll it up and throw it in...

Classe's Garage in Sweden took the humble Toyota Prius and turned it into a loud orange mutant. This baby packs in 15 LCD screens and 4400 watt stereo which will rock your neighborhood. Of course with all these gizmos this Prius is not exactly eco-friendly, again pimping aint easy. (Check out the video from Street Extreme after the jump)...