Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
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If you like gadgets you need my RSS feed. It keeps you up-to-date on all the gizmos you love!Filed under: Blu-ray, HD DVD, Players, Others
Nah, Buffalo isn’t manufacturing the HD DVD / Blu-ray drive that sits comfortably within its new external enclosure, but those parked in Japan can reportedly get ahold of this peace [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Amazon.com Widgets Filed under: Gaming
It’s amazing what homebrew coders for the PSP are able to come up with, especially when you consider that the “solutions” don’t really solve anything. If you’ve ever hankered for a heartbeat recognition ability for your portable gaming machine, then here it is. One guy called Art simply soldered [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
Yeah, we’ve seen bizarre apparatuses that bring about otherworldly feelings, but new studies have reportedly been able to induce out-of-body experiences with just a set of “virtual reality goggles, a camera, and a stick.” Apparently, the “research reveals that the sense of having a body, of being in a bodily self, is [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Gaming
Despite the launch of the Wii in the US occurring months and months ago, there is still a perceivable shortage of the little white console. Wedbush Morgan Securities analyst Michael Pachter made his own analysis of the recent upturn in US Wii console sales by predicting that Nintendo filled the gap by diverting [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Announcements, Gaming
So perhaps your PC isn’t quite up to snuff for playing Bioshock, or maybe you just don’t want to get any nasty Sony rootkits DRM in the process. That’s ok, the 360 version runs just peachy, and we’re giving away a copy of Bioshock and an Xbox 360 Premium to play it [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
BioShock is undoubtedly a critical darling, but it’s not without its share of technical woes. 2K Games is already on the ball with the widescreen field of view “issue,” and has even slackened activation requirements, allowing for up to five SecuROM activations per copy of BioShock. Unfortunately, activation problems go deeper than [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Cellphones
So, as you may have seen, earlier this morning at 3AM local time UniquePhones (the team behind iPhoneUnlocking.com, who’ve claimed to have the second proper iPhone SIM unlock software hack) got a threatening call from AT&T’s legal team urging them to not release their software — or else. Now, we can understand why [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Gaming
A team of modders have found a way to downgrade the Xbox 360’s kernel, giving the console potential for a greater homebrew effort than at present. Key to a homebrew scene is the ability to modify a console’s core software: even if reverting to an older version means no more Xbox Live for [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Culture, Studies
If you’re ready for a healthy dose of unconventional wisdom, you’ve come to the right place, as a couple of confident graduate student economists at UC-Berkeley are purporting that there is “no match in the evening cellphone use spike and crash data.” Basically, the duo is suggesting that although we’ve been on [...]
Aug 25th, 2007
by hueland.
Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Hope you weren’t planning on installing “your” legally purchased copy of XP or Vista today, Microsoft’s Windows Genuine Advantage servers are down at the moment, meaning your Vista install will go into “reduced functionality mode” when you fail to check in with Big Brother, and your XP install will just be generally [...]