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Posts on ‘July 12th, 2007’

Lake Tahoe Penthouses Up For Sealed Bid

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The 80|50 Northstar Private Residence Club is holding a sealed bid event for two whole ownership penthouses at the Lake Tahoe club. The penthouses, which both measure over 1,800 square feet with a generous [...]

Timex’s iPod-controlling i-Control watch hits the FCC

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Chalk another one up to the rumor mill, as it looks like the leaked PowerPoint slide we saw just last month was indeed referring to an actual product. Thanks to an FCC filing, we now know that Timex is actually cranking out a Made for iPod timepiece in its [...]

EU chipping in to standardize Chinese mobile TV

Filed under: Multimedia
A visit to the “mixed signals” department reveals this little gem: just weeks after locking up DVB-H as the mobile TV standard of choice in Europe, the European Union has hooked up with China to push — wait for it — DMB. The two standards are, of course, heated rivals in the push [...]

Blu-ray backers launch promotional website

Filed under: Industry, Blu-ray, Sony, Fox

A website that should likely be dubbed “Hollywood in Blu-ray” rather than “Hollywood in Hi-Def” has recently emerged, and while it claims to be a more reputable site than those “other promotional portals,” we aren’t buying it. The site — which is purportedly backed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, [...]

Yamaha’s BODiBEAT plays music in time to your workout

Filed under: Portable Audio, Wearables

We haven’t seen too many portable audio devices out of Yamaha (well, unless you count scooters), but the company’s new BODiBEAT looks like it could be a big hit with runners. The arm-mounted DAP contains an accelerometer that links to the earphone-mounted pulse monitor, enabling the BODiBEAT to play tracks that [...]

Man’s quest for $10 AT&T DSL ends in success… kind of

Filed under: Networking

Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins’ internet ordeal is over, and he has detailed all the painful, laborious, and clearly unnecessary steps needed to put yourself into Cashville with AT&T’s cheap-o DSL service over on his website. In the end, the poor guy spoke with what appears to be hundreds of the company’s employees, had to [...]

Suspicious Liquids: Sony Bottle Mystery Solved

Two nights ago, I enlisted your help in determining the contents of a mystery bottle sent to me by the Sony VAIO team. There were plenty of good guesses—Apple juice, Soylent Green, blanc de noir, and of course, the blood of PS3 engineers. Well, I’m not going to say you’re all wrong, but some of [...]

For The Ladies: Apple Command Key Ring: Totally Geeky, Not at All Classy

This ring is another fashionable addition to the fabbed-from-Apple-notebooks line of geek jewelry—if you’re around six years old. On the other hand, even a six year old can afford it, since it only costs $4. [Etsy via Shiny Shiny]

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Custom iPhone ringtone hacking instructions prepped for noobs

Filed under: Handsets, Apple
If you can’t wait for the eventual Apple update, then by all means have at it weekend hackers: custom iPhone ringtones can now be yours. Disparate hacks have been cobbled together into a step-by-step guide over at the appropriately named hacktheiphone site. The instructions make use of both the iPhoneInterface and jailbreak [...]

Commodore unveils lineup of US-bound gaming desktops

Filed under: Desktops

Unlike some companies we’ve seen, it appears that Commodore Gaming is actually keeping its word, as the company has just now released the final details on its lineup of flashy US-bound gaming rigs. The Cg, Cgs, Cgx, and Cxx machines progress gradually from least extreme to highly 1337, and all four can be [...]