Activision is really busy these days. They are negotiating to translate Guitar Hero game into a reality TV series and also they have other surprises up their sleeves. The video game company has set up deals for a World of Warcraft picture and even a Call of Duty movie! The game series seeks to represent American, Soviet and British perspectives, a blend which is unusual in typical war pictures and could make for an interesting underlying premise to the...
The soon to be released 2009 iPhone will have a compass which means there will be a magnetometer built in. This and the GPS would make the navigation a piece of cake. This might not be as exciting as the rumored feature of a video camera feature on the iPhone 2009 but it will be cool with so many gadgets on a single phone! [I4U]...
The first ever commercial for the Nintendo Entertainment System shown in the USA. I never had the chance to play with ROB though. [Geekstir]...
Harmon Kardon will soon release its first Blu-ray player christened as the BDP-10. This device will have BonusView and BD-Live capability, which will allow users to view extra online content associated with certain Blu-ray movies. The player will also have advanced audio codec support and will play back 1080/24p videos without pulldown conversion. It can also display JPEG photos and DiVX videos burned on discs from external USB drives. Sound cool isn’t it! Connections include an HDMI 1.3a with...
Leaked pics and details start pouring in much before the release of a popular product. We have got some leaked pics of the upcoming Nokia XpressMusic 5900 and the pictures seem to be legit. When compared to its predecessor the 5800, it has a larger 3.5 inch display, 5 Megapixel camera, and more or less the same build of S60 5th edition all enclosed in a slightly thinner case. Thats the only information available for now. We will keep...
A spinning, cylindrical-shaped structure with the ability to hold 10,000 residents was named the winner of an annual NASA competition which was the brainwork of a Toronto high school student. Eric Yam, a 12th grade student in Toronto’s Northern Secondary School took the grand prize making him the first Canadian to win such an award. The space colony Asten, named after the Egyptian god of balance is 1.6 kilometer-high structure made up of a series of habitation rings stuck...
Finally an answer to the Star Wars vs Star Trek debate. The above video shows what would happen if Captain Kirk dared to enter Imperial controlled San Francisco. The Death Star would blow the USS Enterprise out of the sky in an instant. Needless to say Star Wars wins. [Crunchgear]...
One intrepid DJ has created a cool mix of music using the Belkin Rockstar multi headphone splitter. He used a Nintendo DS Lite running Electroplankon, a DSi running Korg DS-10, an iPhone, an iPod Touch and a Kaossilator. Well not much to say about results but the possibilities are endless! You could set up a whole series of ipods at a party! The splitter comes at a price of $20 and it is certainly better than emptying your pocket...
LaCie has launched two new high capacity NAS solutions – the Big Disk Network and d2 Network. The d2 Network supports up to 1.5TB capacity, while the Big Disk Network combines two drives in a RAID 0 setting, for up to 4TBs of storage. Both units support workgroup environments for up to 50 users and that too 15 users at a time and network administrators can choose from various security levels for user profiles, groups, and public or guest...
If Apple decides to work more on the recent patent application, we could be soon seeing Apple iTune Kiosks for local and remote media downloading in public areas such as airports, malls, hotels and even public transportation. Consumers who are always on the run can browse selective and popular media from these kiosks. They can then purchase and download the content into their handsets after swiping their credit card. It does sound simple but there are drawbacks like connectors could...
These stickers go near your electrical outlets. They do make them stand out but are a bit pricey at $71 for a whole set and you will have to get shipped from out of the country. They look cool and probably you could stick them in your office provided your boss doesn’t mind about stickers on the office walls....
Samsung has unveiled its new desktop LCD monitors using the series 70 as the name comprising of P2070, P2370, P2370HD LCD displays. All the three monitors will have a slim profile. The P2070 and the P2370 will come with a screen depth of 30mm while the P2370HD will have a depth of 65.5 mm and will also feature Samsung’s Touch of Color design. Some of the other features include 50,000:1 contrast ratio, reduced power consumption, Starlight Touch Controls etc....
This anatomical heart vase is made from hand blown glass and undoubtedly looks amazing. The strawberry and aqua hints add to the beauty of it. At $450 you better take good care of it as then it may damage your actual heart. Only 250 of these pieces exist and part of the proceeds go to the American Heart Foundation. [Available at SupermarketHQ via Nerdcore]...
Cambridge Consultants has launched a wireless asthma inhaler called Vena that lets medical devices deliver readings to a central monitor located at home, or to an online health record such as Google Health or Microsoft Health Vault. The idea behind the technology is that patients and their health care support professionals should be connected wirelessly, via the treatment devices. It employs two emerging wireless standards, including the Infrared-based IEEE11073 and the Bluetooth Medical Device Profile. Vena embeds the two...
If I was a guitar player, I would buy this but since I am not, I will gift it because it is so cute! It is a guitar stand made from a salvaged suitcase. This way wherever the guitarist goes, the suitcase can follow and you don’t have to worry about it getting any unwanted scratches or marks. The panels of the guitar stand are on hinges so it easily folds down in less than a minute, saving valuable...
