Archive for August 28th, 2007

Logitech’s new ClearChat Pro and ClearChat Comfort headsets

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Peripherals The next time you're screaming down the line at your squadron to bank left and swarm on a pack of Nazi gunners, you'll be doing it in style and comfort thanks to Logitech's new ClearChat Comfort and ClearChat Pro headsets. The new USB-based, headphone / microphone combos are ...

mi VDO FX DV Cam: crappy flash-based video making for the children

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Digital Cameras YouTube auteurs aren't exactly short on options for capturing those sub-10 minute masterpieces, but the b2 folks that brought us the miJam have decided to give this crowded market a shot with the new mi VDO FX DV Cam. The shooter sports a 1.5-inch screen, 4x digital ...

BlackBerry Pearl 2 in the wild

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones If you're trying to figure out what's different here from the original... well, first of all, you're probably not a Pearl owner, and second, most of the fun stuff is under the hood. Pinstack has scored a plethora of high quality shots detailing the GSM / WiFi variant ...

Buy a Toshiba HD DVD player on Amazon and score eight free movies

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: HDTV, Home Entertainmentdigg_url = 'http://digg.com/tech_deals/Buy_a_Toshiba_HD_DVD_player_on_Amazon_and_score_EIGHT_free_movies';There's really never been a better time to jump into HD disc land. The format war isn't going anywhere anytime soon, the players are the cheapest yet, and there are free discs by the bucket-fulls just for signing up. The latest promo on Amazon ...

Accelerometers let you abuse your alarm clock

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Sure, it's all well and good to simply smack the "snooze" button on your alarm clock when you want to get a few more Zs, but isn't there a better, more exciting way to make yourself late to work? You bet your sweet you-know-what there is... accelerometers! ...

New jet-pack patent propels with water

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Transportation, Wearables Sure, we all love jet packs. Who doesn't enjoy strapping a gigantic tube of highly flammable fuel to their back and igniting it so it can propel you hundreds of feet into the air? Well, an inventor named Raymond Li has a different idea, one which he's ...

Welsh get incomprehensible anti-GPS signs

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: GPSApparently looking to avoid unfortunate incidents like this (or this, or this), the Welsh Assembly recently agreed to put up signs warning drivers not to use their GPS along narrow lanes. Problem is, the drivers may end up spending more time trying to figure out the meaning of ...

Apple’s locked iPhones the subject of new class-action suit

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: CellphonesThe Apple class-action party continues folks, this time featuring a disgruntled New York State customer named Herbert H. Kliegerman, who claims that the Cupertino giant failed to adequately disclose information pertaining to the "locked" nature of the iPhone and the roaming charges which might be incurred if a ...

Olevia debuts 65-inch 665H 1080p LCoS RPTV

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: HDTVSyntax-Brillian is dropping a new 65-inch 1080p LCoS HDTV at CEDIA '07 that might not win any awards, but based on previous models it should still be a quality set. This high-def rear projection should feel right at home within the ho-hum Olevia brand as it's equipped with ...

SanDisk bumps its Cruzer Micro series to 8GB

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Storage No matter how many we lose in the couch, we just can never get enough capacity in our thumb drives and SanDisk never seems to get tired of meeting our demands. The company just announced that it's sticking 8GB of flash into its Cruzer Micro USB flash drives, ...

Slim new Creative ZEN shows up on Amazon

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video While Creative still seems to be holding out until IFA to get official with its latest ZEN PMP, Amazon appears to be under no such restrictions, with it already accepting pre-orders for the slim new player. Looking a fair bit more enticing than many ...

22-inch iZ3D LCDs are now available just under a grand

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Filed under: Displays, Gaming Your boring old desktop, now in 3D! Or at least if iZ3D has anything to say about it. The new 22-inch iZ3D widescreen 3D gaming monitor just hit iZ3D's online store for an almost-palatable $999. The displays run off of included S-3D drivers, which are supported by ...