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Posts on ‘July 19th, 2007’

Philippe Starck Prive for Cassina

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At the spring Milan furniture fair, Philippe Starck once again brought the sexy with his Prive collection for Cassina. The pieces are made of black or white tufted leather. The leather lounge chair is [...]

Nokia to add Assisted GPS to all new GPS devices

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Looks like Nokia’s getting serious about Assisted GPS — in addition to adding support for the network-enhanced location service to the latest N95 firmware, the company has announced that the 6110 Navigator and all future Nokia GPS devices will support the technology. No word on what those devices [...]

World’s Most Expensive Living Artist Turns Jeans Designer

Filed under: Apparel, Art
I never know quite what to make of artist Damien Hirst, is he a brilliant commentator on modern life or merely a shameless huckster? Hirst, who recently became the most expensive living artist, delights in controversy. Whether its exhibiting sharks and other animals in formaldehyde, creating a diamond-covered skull, or his many [...]

iPhone on T-Mobile’s German site: Das Neue Kult-Handy!

Filed under: Handsets, T-Mobile, Apple

Yup, more anecdotal evidence in support of that iPhone deal with T-Mobile Germany. The image and text above, which translates to “the new cult cellphone,” are currently available from the T-Mobile.de site via the links below. Though, we have the feeling they’ll be gone in just a few short minutes of [...]

Sharp’s 65 and 52-inch AQUOS T-Series: world’s first THX certified LCDs

Filed under: Industry, Displays, Sharp, LCD

Even though Runco announced their development plans first, Sharp appears to be the first to market with a THX certified television. In fact, they’ve got two: a 65-inch and 52-inch LCD for Sharp’s new AQUOS T-series. That THX logo is meant to ensure the best match of brightness and [...]

Handy iPhone feature #3923: Album art while locked

From the “I didn’t know that” department: if you wake your iPhone from sleep when it’s playing music, it will display the currently playing album’s art instead of your wallpaper as well as put the name of the track that you’re playing underneath the clock. That way you don’t have to unlock the phone if [...]

LG’s new 50-inch 50PY3D 1080p plasma

Filed under: Displays, LG, Plasma

Just ’cause those LCDs get all the love these days doesn’t mean LG is ready to abandon the plasma game just yet. LG is adding the new 50-inch 50PY3D plasma to its existing PY3D series. The 1080p display includes LG Simple Link to communicate with other LG equipment in your [...]

LG’s 2nd gen Super Multi Blue Blu-ray / HD DVD hybrid drives and plans

Filed under: Blu-ray, HD DVD, Other hardware, LG

Super Multi Blue, Blu-ray, HD DVD, LightScribe, GGW-H20LI, GGC-H20LI — pay close attention, these are the terms you’ll need to familiarize yourself with for this post about LG’s latest multi-format optical drives. The $500 GGW-H20LI reads both HD disc formats, and writes at 6x dual-layer BD-R/RE discs (as [...]

LG debuts new Opus LCD lineup at the top end

Filed under: Displays, LG, LCD

Perhaps to replicate a bit of that success LG has found in its Chocolate brand, the company is eschewing the usual serial number mayhem for a new Opus badge to denote its “best of everything” LCD line. The displays will show up in September, and come in 42-, 47- and [...]

KVH intros TracVision SlimLine satellite system: HDTV in your RV

Filed under: Other hardware, Others, Satellite
Strapping a DirecTV antenna atop a moving vehicle is typically never a sound idea, but thanks to KVH’s new lineup of TracVision SlimLine satellite systems, bringing HDTV to your RV just got a whole lot sleeker. The firm has launched four separate 12-inch systems that aim to bring “crystal-clear reception” [...]