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Blu-Ray

Blu-ray Cannot Contain Metal Gear Solid 4's Awesomeness

The one technical advantage Blu-ray held over HD DVD is that Blu-ray discs hold more stuff, 50GB on a dual-layer disc. But that's still not enough for Metal Gear Solid 4 in all its glory, according to creator Hideo Kojima:

Kojima: For us, we're not still not satisfied with the quality we can do. You know, there's not capacity space.

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12:30 PM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY MATT BUCHANAN
17,345 views, 95 comments

Cellphones

Rumor Smashed: Xperia X1 Still Coming in 2008

While this weekend we reported on a rumor that Sony Ericsson's upcoming Xperia X1 was delayed until late 2009, it turns out that isn't the case. Sony came out and confirmed that they're still on for a late 2008 release. Now you can sleep easier, I'm sure. You're welcome. [Unofficial Sony Ericsson Blog via Mobility Today]

12:10 PM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY ADAM FRUCCI
3,243 views, 9 comments

Roundup

What You Missed Last Weekend

So, you missed the weekend action—here's your chance to catch up:
• Time Capsule was stripped to the bone.
• WiiMax gave us a Wii sniper gun, finally.
•AT&T; was rumored to be offering cheap, refurb iPhones.
• Optimus Prime danced the robot.
• Apple Store proved to be the best place to get laid. more »

12:00 PM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY HAROON MALIK
594 views, Comment

Apple

MacBook Air Selling Like Extremely Expensive Hotcakes?

Apparently, the MacBook Air is selling well enough to be unavailable in many stores and require a 5-7 day wait for online orders. Despite the high price, the super-thin laptop is often selling out the day a shipment arrives at an Apple Store, according to research done by Ars Technica. Of course, without knowing just how many MacBook Airs Apple is manufacturing, this could just as easily be a case of Apple not making all too many in the first place, making demand seem higher than it really is. What do you guys think, have you seen lots of them out in the wild or is this just a case of distorted perceptions? [Ars Technica]

11:40 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY ADAM FRUCCI
6,092 views, 81 comments

Latest by sebas0069: Guys, Guys, this market is just not for you. Face it when was the last time you saw a girl? OK, now I understand your fustrations with these articles or post, But PC users just take this as more »

bookseat

Bookseat: the Book Storage Chair for Small Libraries

Useful if you have a really really small apartment, or you just appreciate bookshelf-cum-furniture design, the plywood Bookseat stores your ~~TV Guide~~ copy of War and Peace handily within reach. Alternatively, if you think books are old hat, you could store your DVDs and computer mags in it. Some might think Bookseat is design convergence gone mad, but we think it's simple, neat and that you'll be seeing it in waiting rooms of trendy offices everywhere. Available sometime in Spring, price unknown. [Fishbol furniture via Freshome]

11:36 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY KIT EATON
2,885 views, 20 comments

Latest by Moordryd: If you need this, you have too much crap. Throw it out! more »

Digital Ink

Iogear Mobile Digital Scribe Writes Anywhere

The updated Iogear Mobile Scribe captures 50 pages of your handwriting and doodles on any surface, using normal ink, and without the need to be connected to a computer like the previous Digital Scribe GPEN100C. This storage capability is more than enough for a full day of classes and meetings, but short of the 250 pages necessary to do anything really useful. And with useful I really mean full-length stickmen animations. Full specs after the jump: more »

11:18 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY JESUS DIAZ
6,301 views, 12 comments

Upgrades

Sony Increases Hard Drive Storage Fivefold

Sony has announced that they've increased hard drive storage capacity by five times through developing a new method of writing information that's viable even for notebooks. Instead of writing via magnetics, the new system resembles current optical technologies, using a hybrid magnet/laser to write information to a disk at densities of 125GB/square inch. As we understand it, most elements of the traditional hard drive stay intact, but your current 320GB hard drive setup would see data storage reaching 1.6TB. Of course, there are no immediate plans for mass production. [itplus via electronista]

10:56 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY MARK WILSON
5,443 views, 26 comments

Latest by aec007: @Suijin: WOW, seem that you are the only one that remembered.... Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is the technical term...[gizmodo.com] [en.wikipedia.org] I thought this was coming in a couple of years... but it's here now!... Everyone else... go read again... more »

TomTom

TomTom Go 930 and Go 730 IQ Route Knows Best Way to Go On Monday or Saturday

The TomTom Go 730 and Go 930 are refreshes of their 720 and 920, with two new headlining features: IQ route and advanced lane guidance. Using data collected over the last year from other TomTom devices, IQ route actually tells you the best way to go depending on the day—like, the freeway on Saturday afternoon, but backroads on a Monday morning. Right now it's only by day, but as they collect more data, it'll be increasingly specific—morning vs. night, etc. Advanced lane guidance is basically a little movie demo of massive highway junctions and turnoffs, so you don't take the wrong one. Full specs below. more »

10:00 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY MATT BUCHANAN
4,495 views, 21 comments

Latest by everzen: Garmin 800 series is the way to go guys. more »

unconfirmed

New Asus Eee PC 900 Revealed?

According to the French site BlogEEE.net, Asus has a reworked Eee PC on the way. While the casing will have the same dimensions as the original Eee, the 900 will feature a larger 8.9" screen (up from 7"), an unspecified faster processor, 1GB memory standard (up from 512MB) and SSD storage options as high as 12GB (up from 8GB). But the sticker price (in Europe) has seen an increase from 299€ to 399€. We've contacted Asus to confirm the information and will keep you updated. [blogeee via eeesite]

9:59 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY MARK WILSON
8,895 views, 32 comments

Latest by hkicedude: Asus with the Eeepc 701 4G is truly revolutionary for the laptop industry with the price and the small form factor. I am very happy that I have invested in this machine. I was originally waiting for the 8G version, more »

Weight

Asimov's Law Weighing Machines: Scales That Lie

No one likes learning their weight from a set of scales, so Alice Wang's new concept devices take inspiration from Asimov's First Law of Robotics to protect you from the cruel truth. Her three scales are designed to not "harm a human being " (i.e. you) by either requiring another person to read them or just flat-out lying to you. Dieting would never feel the same again. more »

9:51 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY KIT EATON
4,653 views, 15 comments

Latest by 92BuickLeSabre: @ideaman2020: Well, sure. If your going to change the entire conversation to talk about something totally different, I agree with you. more »

Home Theater

Rotating Home Theater Makes Our Couch Look Like Garbage

While we enjoyed the Batman home theater and the Star Trek home theater, neither system was really practical for—we'll just say it—normal people. But this rotating home theater with a rotating floor is both amazing and the sort of setup that our wives could get behind...pending we had the necessary endless piles of money. more »

9:41 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY MARK WILSON
9,622 views, 13 comments

PCs

Motion Computing F5 Tablet is Highly Evolved Speak N' Spell

The latest semi-rugged tablet to hit the market, Motion Computing's F5, keeps a good idea alive: a built-in handle lets the butterfingeriest ~~extraterrestrials~~ field workers keep hold of their precious electronics. more »

9:32 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY WILSON ROTHMAN
2,599 views, 11 comments

Latest by odysseus: We've been trialling some Motion tablets at work, and they come out streets ahead of the Toshiba's and others we've trialled as well. These guys know how to build hardware, but sadly we're having to go with the big more »

Mods

How To: Power Your Computer With Car Batteries

Taking a lesson from the Tim Allen school of modding, one man rebuilt his UPS with a bit more kick. Because the UPS was only able to run his RAID-wielding desktop for three minutes before shutting down, he decided to add two 24V car batteries to the equation (the maximum that his UPS could tolerate). The good news: it worked, and will run his computer for an hour plus.

The bad news is that these larger lead acid batteries are not sealed, and will be releasing some not-so-good gases into his computer room. Hit the movie at about halfway for the money shot. [techspot]

8:36 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY MARK WILSON
2,007 views, 23 comments

Latest by skulldriveshaft: I thought a good on-line UPS was pretty much standard equipment for computer users. It cleans up whatever fluctuations you might have, and the switchover is seamless. If you have a RAID wielding desktop, it's time to get a NAS RAID on more »

Handcuffs

ZeroPointZero Watch Handcuffs Get Us All OneHundredPointZero Under the Collar

Designer Luis Beruman's new ZeroPointZero concept is a set of digital watch handcuffs. Yes, that's handcuffs, guys: snap them onto your own wrist for that cool jailhouse look, or share some happy time with a friend. We know very little about them apart from the photos in the gallery. Nevertheless, this fetishistic concept has got us all excitable, and we want them made into a real product. Now. Please? [LuisBerumen via TFTS]

8:01 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY KIT EATON
6,655 views, 22 comments

Latest by celloids: The chick is hotttt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! more »

mr floppy

Floppy Coasters Help You Party Like It's 1979

Designed by Greek geeks-at-heart Supermandolini, these floppy coasters are cute things to stick beneath your drinks. Measuring 3.5" square, a set of six will cost you $41 and make you wish you were still licking your brother at Asteroids all over again. [SuperMandolini]

7:37 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY ADDY DUGDALE
2,683 views, 26 comments

Apple

Mac Mini Gets Steampunked for Wedding and We Say Yes!

I have never been a big fan of steampunk computers (LEGO steampunk is a completely different matter, though) but I have to admit that this Apple Mac mini is actually so simple and elegant that I would actually like to have it myself. The complete set after the jump—with Gilliamesque keyboard or the Nautilus-style flat screen included—is very nice, but the mini itself is just perfect.

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6:40 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY JESUS DIAZ
31,199 views, 34 comments

DIY

Apple Floppy Drive Amp Mod is Retrofabulous

Check out this fantastic DIY project, which involves an Apple PC 5.2 Floppy Drive being modded into a fully functioning amp. I think you will agree; it looks quite amazing. The amp has four speaker terminals, face-mounted volume control, an RCA stereo jack and styling that makes us drool all over our now weakened knees. If you're willing to make the $5.99 investment for the floppy drive, give this awesome project a shot. If we weren't so lazy/cursed with abysmal soldering skills, we certainly would. [Instructables]

6:20 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY HAROON MALIK
3,385 views, 10 comments

Latest by CEOself: ahhh, Mac Mini in that thing would be sweet. more »

Bluetooth

U&I; UIBS700 Stereo Bluetooth Headset has Plug-in speakers, Necklace Design

For those of you who don't like Uhura-like Bluetooth headsets that stick out of your ear, the new U&I; Capella UIBS700 headset is a necklace-style alternative that does stereo sound. Its slightly old-school-styled case fits in a small LCD screen and also comes with a 1.2W per-channel speaker add-on. It's got enough battery power for eight hours of talk and 200 hours standby. It's Bluetooth 2.0 and supports auto-switching, so your phone can cut in over your music. We'll know pricing and release data info after CeBIT. [Aving]

6:06 AM ON MON MAR 3 2008
BY KIT EATON
935 views, 2 comments

Latest by ChromeBro: Uhm there's no such thing as stereo phone calls. You mean to say binaural during phone calls, stereo for music. more »