Archive for the 'Gadget Reviews' Category
The Bat Phone [Gadgets]
Unlike the previous half-assed Bat Phone, that Bat Phone is the real deal—meaning you get a retro ’60’s handset, base, and flashing light when someone calls. You’ve got a few ringing options here. You can either have a standard ringer, no ringer (just flashing light, like Batman), or a buzzer. You’re going to want the flasher for certain, but…
Microsoft’s Limited Edition Xbox 360 For Chinese New Year - considering Nothing Says Chinese New Year Like Halo 3 [Chinese New Years]
We’re not certain how well the Xbox 360 is doing in China, but Microsoft’s cashing in on that whole Chinese New Year business by throwing out a limited edition Chinese New Year Xbox. The box is colored red, which Chinese citizens like, but includes Halo 3, which doesn’t assemble a whole lot of sense to us. whether we were designing a game to includ…
Make Your Nasty MacBook Sparkling White (and Minty Fresh) With Toothpaste [MacBook]
Apple uses spare white for a reason: It’s a pleasing, clean color. Until it isn’t. Like whether your mom sets a coffee cup on top of your MacBook, or you toil away on it with particularly grubby mitts. Solution? Arm & Hammer toothpaste!
All you’ve gotta do is rub some of it on the given blemish, let it dry, soon after wipe away with a damp cloth…
Contest Reminder: HDTV Contest nearly by! Enter Now! [Announcements]
If you still haven’t entered our contest to win an HDTV and a Windows Media Center Extender, tomorrow’s the last day. That means you’d better get going on those pictures you’re going to take for it.
Orginal post by Jason Chen
Nokia, Microsoft in Talks to Load Windows Mobile on Phones [Cellphones]
Nokia, who’s supposedly super loyal to the Symbian platform, is currently in talks with Microsoft (says one of Microsoft’s marketing directors) to load Windows Mobile on the handset maker’s phones. Here’s what Nokia already uses of Microsoft’s: ActiveSync and PlayReady, but like an anxious teenaged lover, Microsoft is working “closely” with Nokia a…
You Don’t Have to Extend Your AT&T Contract to Upgrade Your iPhone [IPhone]
Benny Goldman: “I wonder how many jerkoffs went out and bought the new [16GB iPhone] even though they already owned the old one.” Apparently, a fair number of society, who I don’t think would appreciate being called jerkoffs, Benny. But that’s how some AT&T reps treated them according to our viligant brother site’s spy network, making a bunch of pu…
SanDisk’s 8GB Ultra II SDHC Doesn’t Even Need a Reader [Peripherals]
Making flash memory USB compatible without a card reader seems to be the hot thing to do nowdays, and SanDisk is following up on the craze with their Ultra II SD card with USB interface. It’s 8GB, has a $99 MSRP, and can fold in half to reveal the USB connector that you can easily shove into the USB slot on your machine. considering whether we have…









