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Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Gaming
Although we’re a tad doubtful the vast majority of you PS3 owners set out to convert your gaming console into a grill, apparently more than a few have done so in Japan, or else they just get a kick out of dousing their banbanji in Sony sauce. Although the translation here is loose, it looks like a gimmicky t-shirt manufacturer in Japan felt like mocking the so-called Sony Emmy by actually naming a condiment after it, which if not a joke, would actually be fairly flattering. Anywho, the sauce sports a clever label celebrating the faux SIXAXIS award, as well as picturing the PS3 Grill and coming in both 20GB (small) and 60GB (large) varieties. Additionally, the 20GB size is marked down to ¥399 ($3.28) from the MSRP of ¥499, while the 60GB bottle sports an “open price,” but should go for ¥599 ($4.92). It doesn’t look like a smattering of these sauces were produced, though, so you’d best phone your loyal friend(s) in Japan to head out and snag you one if you’re so inclined, but for those holding off, be sure to hit the read link for a bevy of detailed pics.
[Via Joystiq]
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PSA: how to spot a new silver iPod shuffle
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Portable Audio
If you’re browsing the wares at your local iPod-peddlin’ location, but don’t want to look like a fool when you get home and discover you just bought a silver shuffle with the old school headphones — or perhaps the inverse is true — then you might be pleased to hear that it’s easy to spot the difference: the brand new silver shuffle has silver accents on the cardboard backing, while the old version was dressed up with green. Happy hunting!
[Via Cult of Mac]
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Atomic “transistor” proposed using quantum cloud material
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Desktops, Misc. Gadgets
Intel might be oh-so-smug about its fancy new insulators and 45nm process, but doesn’t have nothing on these upcoming atomic transistor dealios — other than that whole “shipping” thing, of course. Scientists working at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and compadres at the University of Colorado Boulder have proposed implementing a “Bose-Einstein condensate” to pull this off — a super-cold gas cloud of atoms all in the same quantum state — which is manipulated with three adjacent chambers that are created by trapping atoms with magnets or laz0rs. By swapping atoms between the two side chambers, and controlling that action with the center chamber, a behavior is created similar to that of an electronic field-effect transistor. Which is apparently a good thing. So yeah, the tech definitely flies over our heads, but if this works it sounds like it’s a pretty big breakthrough in building atomic “circuits” some day by connecting basic atom elements and should hopefully keep Moore’s law alive and well a few decades down the road.
[Thanks, Jeremy]
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Artimi’s WUSB camera tech might be in your hands in 2008
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Digital Cameras, Wireless
Artimi, a fabless semiconductor company, has been working on wireless USB for cameras for the past while, and finally got to show off some of its prototypes at this year’s CES. The deets were slim, however, and they’ve finally come clean with some more specs for our prying eyes. Of course, WUSB is no mystery. 480MB/s up to 10-feet, 110MB/s up to 30-ish-feet, along with the prestige of being the new “it” wireless standard for peripherals. Artimi is taking all that good bandwidth loving to the camera, and is teaming up with “several brand name camera vendors” to do it, the names of which it will announce in Q2. It’ll cost manufacturers about $25 to add WUSB at the outset, but within 3 years that figure should be down to $10, and Artimi figures all but the cheapest cameras will have it by then. We might see a WUSB cam get launched in ‘07, but most likely we’ll have to wait for ‘08 to roll around before this becomes a reality. Artimi also expects WUSB dongles to be fairly common by then, but the first-to-market products will most likely include a dongle just in case. As to battery life, these kids aren’t too concerned, ’cause WUSB can toss 1GB of pics in about 30 seconds, so the chip doesn’t need to be on for too long.
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Sony mulling more PS3 price cuts?
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Gaming
According to Senior VP Takao Yuhara at Sony, that pre-launch price cut in Japan might not be the only one the console will be seeing in its early life. “We may look at the price as part of our strategy to expand the market when the timing is right,” said Yuhara. Sony wants to break even in its game division by March 2008, and “Such factors, including price cuts to some extent, are factored in,” according to Yuhara. Sony is also still holding fast to its target shipment of 6 million PS3s by March 31st 2007, and with the Wii and 360 breathing down its neck, it might very well have to drop prices to compete. Of course, the semi-promise of some sort of price cuts, possibly Japan-only, before March 2008 is isn’t really much to go by, but we’ll take whatever threads of hope we can get.
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Neil Patel & Cameron Olthuis Join Text Link Ads
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007SEO, social media optimization & link building experts Neil Patel and Cameron Olthuis have announced on their Pronet Advertising blog that they have been hired by Text Link Ads as Text Link Ads Evangelists.
As the newest Text Link Ads employees and probably the highest profile staff members since Andy Hagans, Neil and Cameron will […]
Handheld lasers to help detect counterfeit drugs
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Misc. Gadgets, Handhelds
While it usually only takes a quick glance to detect a KIRF candidate in the gadget space, detecting fake drugs (the prescription type) can be understandably harder — not to mention quite a bit more “high risk.” Fake drugs are flooding the market, accounting for half of all drug sales within some parts of south-east Asia and Africa, and contaminated fakes have killed hundreds of people, with many others buying “medicine” with no actual active ingredients. Now there’s a new laser-based handheld sensor on the scene that can see through the look-alike packaging and weed out fakers via molecular analysis. The new detector, developed by Pavel Matousek and Charlotte Eliasson of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK and due for action by the end of the year, uses “Raman spectroscopy” to detect materials by measuring the range of radiation emitted by molecules when shone upon. Up until now, packaging gets in the way of such tests, but Matousek Eliasson have figured out a tricky way to overcome that, and tests of their method have proved effective. Current handheld detectors — which cost between $20k and $40k — can easily be modified to work with the method.
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SimpleTech announces “world’s thinnest” 2.5-inch 64GB SSD
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
World’s thinnest titles aren’t just for cellphones and DAPs, don’t you know, Solid State Drives need to shave those millimeters just as much as the next guy, and SimpleTech seems up to the task with its new 64 gigger. The 2.5-inch drive, a member of SimpleTech’s Zeus SSD lineup, measures a mere 9.5mm thick (0.37-inches), compared to some competing solutions more than twice as thick, making it a solid option for squeezing into those ever-slimmer laptops. SimpleTech is currently targeting the device at high performance applications such as military, intelligence and aviation, and has apparently buffeted the drive against shock, humidity, vibration and altitude — most of the stability naturally thanks to the flash technology, of course. No word price, but with those kind of customers, we’re guessing this one won’t be cheap.
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Urban Aeronautics plans X-Hawk flying car for 2010
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Transportation
Flying cars have been doing this whole vaporware thing long before Duke Nukem Forever was even a twinkle in 3D Realms’ eye. That’s why it’s practically absurd to assume anything at all will come from this new X-Hawk flying car, whose inventor, Rafi Yoeli, the founder of Urban Aeronautics, claims could ready for the market by 2010. The project has been in the works for years already, but Rafi recently managed to get a rudimentary prototype to fly a few feet off the ground, and has sparked some interest from Textron’s Bell Helicopters for potential partnership. Two main things set the X-Hawk apart from the pack. First, the ducted fan design allows the car to achieve the speed and maneuverability of a helicopter — 155 mph, 12,000-foot altitude, two hours of flight time, vertical take off and landing — but removes the dangers of exposed rotors, allowing the “car” to sidle up to buildings for rescue missions, or coexist in close quarters with other vehicles. The enclosed-rotor design isn’t perfectly unique, but the X-Hawk further differentiates itself by its target market: Rafi is going after those established military and rescue dollars, instead of the theoretical consumers willing to drop $1.5 million on a flying car that they’ll still need to obtain complicated licenses for and etc. Making high-rise rescues possible, along with urban airlifts and such makes this sound like a natural fit, and perhaps we’ll get a little bit of trickle-down flying car action before 2035 when Duke Nukem finally ships.
[Via Autoblog]
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HTC Vox gets previewed, lacks 3G / touchscreen
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007Filed under: Cellphones
If you had a hankering for HTC previews to finish off your January in style, today’s your lucky day. While you’re probably still gawking at the HTC Athena peek from earlier, the same lucky soul managed to get his palms around an HTC Vox, and being so kindhearted, we’ve got the results from another sweet photo shoot. It’s about time we saw a few live snaps of this bugger too, as we’ve been waiting ever since it got official and was captured in the wild, and now you can get closer than ever without actually owning one yourself. Notably, a few more details were spilled out concerning the features (and lack thereof) of this smartphone, as we learned that it does indeed lack 3G as well as a touchscreen LCD. What you will reportedly get, however, includes Windows Mobile 6.0, 128MB of Flash ROM, a 2.4-inch QVGA screen, voice command recognition, QWERTY keypad and a numeric pad, 802.11b/g, two-megapixel camera, microSD slot, and a TI OMAP 850 processor clicking along at 200MHz. Of course, exact specs and inclusions could change on retail models, but if you’re interested in seeing all sorts of angles, not to mention shots of OS, be sure to hit the read link after clicking through and scroll on down.
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