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Kaz Hirai hints at future SIXAXIS iterations

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Don’t look now, but here we have yet another crop of details on Sony’s (still) forthcoming rumbling SIXAXIS. In a recent interview with Kaz Hirai, he mentioned that Sony is currently looking at [...]

Can You Pay Me Now: Verizon’s $6 Million Fax Extravaganza Bill

Amazon.com Widgets Verizon, breaking the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, sent 10,145 unsolicited faxes to businesses in Louisiana, Florida and Alabama. And while they weren’t required to pay that $1,500 per violation maximum penalty, Verizon was slapped with a fee of $625 per offense—or $6 million total for these junk faxes.
So we’ve got [...]

In Brief: “I’m on record as the first guy over two …

“I’m on record as the first guy over two hundo (I put the extra five bucks on there just for that purpose).” [fakegene]

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Tastes Like Plastic: Angel Speaker Looks Like a Mint

Do you like your portable speaker looking like a large, oddly shaped, Tic-Tac? Well lucky you, because Brando has just released such a device. The Angel speaker boasts nothing out of the ordinary, except making buyers simultaneously appear stupid and cheap. Available in orange or green, the Angel Speakers are powered via USB and come [...]

6G iPod UI video: Apple’s new interface?

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video

According to this MacRumors video — which has since been pulled per request of Apple’s legal department — the new iPod interface will look a lot like the iPhone. Go figure. Of course, there’s always the chance that this video might be a fake, but if that’s the case, why [...]

Duke University: Duke Absolves Apple, Fingers Cisco

Duke University has now shifted the blame from the iPhone to Cisco, for causing the reported wireless outage. Duke ’s chief information officer, Tracey Futhey, detailed; “Cisco worked closely with Duke and Apple to identify the source of this problem, which was caused by a Cisco-based network issue.”
Though the specifics of the trouble were [...]

Analyst Antics: Gene Munster Predicts $205 For Apple in 2008

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster has moved Apple’s stock price projection for 2009 up a whole year to 2008, making Munster’s projection the highest price anyone has ever given Apple: $205 per share. Is there method to his madness? Of course. And it has something to do with our obnoxious graphic.

One thing we learned [...]

Greenbox converts carbon emissions into biofuel

Filed under: Transportation

A breakthrough technology developed by three engineering lads in Wales could hold the key to converting carbon emissions into beneficial substances such as biodiesel, methane gas, and fertilizer. The cleverly-dubbed Greenbox was designed to be fixed underneath one’s vehicle where it could gobble up carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide until the next fill [...]

New Company Makes Innovative Use Of Wine Leftovers

Filed under: Dining, Wine, Green
Yesterday I mentioned distilleries that use old whisky casks as barbecue chips and it got me thinking about winemaking leftovers. That’s when I ran across this story, on Apres Vin, a new company in Washington that specializes in using winemaking leftovers. The company creates gourmet grape seed oils based on varietals [...]

Researchers develop multi-gigabit WiFi

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

A research group from the Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC) at Georgia Tech has recently released a study demonstrating high-speed wireless data transfers at a staggering 15Gbps at a one meter range. The system is still in its infancy, as data rates drop off steeply with just a little added distance (10Gbps [...]