Tools & Gadgets & Gizmos to Drool for
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Merely days after DirecTV reassured its customer base that hordes of new HD channels were (still) on the way, EchoStar Communications CEO Charlie Ergen has reportedly downplayed the whole shebang. During a second-quarter [...]
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Artist Emilia Castillo grew up in Taxco, Mexico surrounded by master silversmiths. She apprenticed at her family’s Los Castillo silver workshops, where she learned the old world techniques of working with silver and other metals. She carries on the family tradition, creating beautiful works of art in the old [...]
Filed under: HD DVD, Players, Others
Recall that DV-HD805 we caught wind of a few months back? Turns out the whispers were somewhat accurate, as Onkyo’s “first HD DVD player” is indeed slated to hit the US market this fall. The unit will feature HDMI 1.3a connections, support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD audio, 24p capability, [...]
Boy, if today isn’t iPhone Hack Day. To cap it all off tonight, here it is: the first native game written just for the iPhone.
No, this isn’t a web app. It’s Lights Off by Lucas Newman and Adam Betts, winner of second place in the Iron Coder contest at the C4 conference. And it’s a [...]
Comrade Moren has returned victoriously from Chicago, home of the C4 conference. He reports on the Mothership about the plethora of iPhone hacks at the conference.
Of course, Mac developers are among the most passionate users of the platform, and that’s no different when it comes to the iPhone. There was easily a higher saturation of [...]
For better or worse, Apple designed the iPhone to be a completely closed system. That is, you can’t add new applications to it, and even some seemingly “normal” cell phone features - like the ability to add custom ring tones - are locked up. Or are they?
Thanks to an extremely well-organized group of very talented [...]
Filed under: ABC, CBS, The CW, Discovery-HD, ESPN-HD, Fox, HBO-HD, HDNet, INHD, MyNetworkTV, NBC, Showtime-HD, Starz, TNT-HD, Universal-HD, Listings
What we’re watching: Tonight we have the return of Monday Night Football on ESPN-HD, along with the season premiere of Weeds and the series premiere of Californication.
Our traditional high-def listings continue below.
Here are some other HDTV programs [...]
Filed under: Home Entertainment
Blue Raven has introduced the Maestro 1070, an iPhone and iPod hi-fi docking station, with 70 watts powering a 5″ center sub and two 3″ satellites. Looking suspiciously like the official iPod Hi-Fi — but with handles on the side, not the top!! — the universal dock accepts and charges Apple’s hardware, [...]
Filed under: Wireless
Hot on the heels of the “white space device” test flop of 2007 (i.e., last week’s news) Microsoft is regrouping and firing back at the FCC’s findings, claiming that the initial prototype was “defective,” but a new model works correctly. In an attempt to convince US regulators that use of the soon-to-be-abandoned 700MHz [...]
Filed under: Cellphones
It’s pretty obvious that Apple didn’t design the iPhone with video conferencing in mind — what with the camera on the back and all — but that doesn’t seem to have dissuaded the folks from Ecamm Network, who recently whipped up a workaround with the help of some mirrors and some coding skills. [...]
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