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Tech NewsThe iHome iHC5 Gets Reviewed
iLounge got their hands on the soon-to-be-released iHome iHC5. This clock radio has decided to branch out from the iHome’s comfortable iPod market, and instead is trying to attract media cellphones. While it does do some interesting things like stream music from your cellphone or PC using Bluetooth, it does have a couple of problems. … Continued
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Dealzmodo: 120GB Xbox 360 Hard Drive For $139
Act fast if you want to get a 120GB Xbox 360 hard drive for $139 (regular price: $179), because Amazon’s knocked $40 off the ticket price as their deal of the day today. Come tomorrow, you’ll either be checking UPS tracking status or crying to yourself, wishing you’d have pulled the trigger. We’re not saying … Continued
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Xbox 360 Gets Updated HD DVD Drive in 2008 [Actually, No]
Update 2: PC World UK is claiming that Bennett from Microsoft really did say, and they quote, “There will be a new HD DVD drive next year, but it’s not finalised yet.” Another writer at ComputerActive, the UK’s largest computer magazine, corroborates the story. This means either Bennett is mistaken, or someone else at Microsoft … Continued
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ViewSonic Diamani DUO PC/TV hybrid LCD Displays Swing Both Ways
ViewSonic takes a tilt toward practicality with its PC/TV hybrid LCD displays, packing a passel of inputs into its Diamani DUO 19-inch NX1932w and 22-inch NX2232w screens. It makes sense: You have all this resolution floating around, why not tack an HDMI port on board, add an ATSC HD tuner and 10-watt speaker system, and … Continued
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Tech News
Home Theater Screen Disguised as a Bookshelf
Now, here’s a great idea: Why not disguise a projection screen as a bookshelf, and then place a few other identical-looking shelves nearby as decoys? That’s just what Italian designer Matteo Ragni has dreamed up here, trying to cross that bridge between a dedicated home theater room and a multi-use space that might double as … Continued
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What Features Do You Want in the TV Set of the Future?
Westinghouse, the company whose PR flacks try to make us think their old TVs are new but we’re not fooled, keeps the press releases coming anyway, and in their latest missive they’ve done a poll, asking people what features they’d most like to see in TV sets of the future. The top answer? Voice recognition. … Continued
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Ben Heck Sticks an Xbox 360 Wireless Controller into an Original Xbox Controller
Console modder Ben Heck generally takes formerly gigantic things and crams them into small packages. For his most recent project, he did the opposite: He stuck an Xbox 360 wireless controller into an original Xbox controller, which is monstrous in size. While yes, he added batteries and wireless capabilities to the original Xbox controller, it … Continued
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Horn Speakers are Gigantic, Expensive and Dumb
I see a lot of speakers, but I have the same issue with almost all of them: they just aren’t stupid enough for me. That’s why I love this Ferguson Hill FH001 Horn Speaker; it’s gigantic, looks really dumb, and costs a downright-insane $19,916. And at that price you’d expect awesome sound, right? Wrong! This … Continued
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ReplayTV Personal HD Rolled Out, Has iPod and iPhone Support
As we predicted on Monday, ReplayTV rolled out its Personal HD today, a USB tuner dongle that we’ve confirmed is a Hauppauge WinTV HVR-950 modified especially for ReplayTV. It’s the software that makes this product unique, giving you the ability to convert those videos you record on your PC to formats that will play back … Continued
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Tech News
Death Star Home Theater
Electronic House has this rad story of a home theater designed to resemble the control deck of the Death Star. The entire thing was designed by Doug Chiang, the lead designer on Episodes I and II. DVDs are tucked behind a hidden door replica of Han Solo in Carbonite, and the entire starfield is lit … Continued
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WiiMote Lightsaber Game Finally Here
There’s going to be something else you’ll get besides slightly lousier graphics when you purchase Star Wars: The Force Unleashed on the Wii instead of Xbox 360 or PS3: a lightsaber mode. LucasArts developers just announced that they’re adding a Duel Mode into the game, which lets WiiMote users use their sword just as Miyamoto … Continued
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Is Sony In Negotiations to Sell Cell Manufacturing Plants?
Sources say Sony’s thinking about selling off their Cell CPU manufacturing plants, as evidenced by their recent canoodling with Toshiba. These plants would be the same ones where Sony currently produces the processos used in the PS3—you know, the Cell processors. If true, this sale would help Sony free up $860 million in free cash … Continued
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Total HD Dual-Format Discs Gets Delayed ‘Indefinitely’
Bad news for people looking forward to Total HD discs so they can abstain from the idiotic HD format war currently raging: Total HD has been delayed indefinitely. The format, which was to include Blu-ray on one side and HD DVD on the other, had already been delayed once from end-of-year 2007 to sometime in … Continued
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Halo 3 Special Edition Xbox 360 Unboxing
Apparently, there’s a game called Halo 3 coming out for the Xbox 360 soon. Funny, I’ve never heard of it! Microsoft seems to think that people will be so excited about it that they’ll buy a fancy, more expensive system dedicated to it despite the fact that it doesn’t actually come with a copy of … Continued
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Tech NewsGadgetsHalo 3 Episode of “Future Weapons” Tonight on Discovery Channel
If the Halo 3 hype/marketing blitz hasn’t made you wanna kill yourself yet and you still want more, check out Future Weapons tonight on Discovery Channel at 8 p.m. EST, since they’re doing a Halo 3-themed episode. No details on what kinds of killing machines they’re going to be showing off, but it should be … Continued
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Scoop: ReplayTV Personal HD to Roll Out Wednesday
ReplayTV? We thought you were dead! Again. But no. An anonymous tipster sent us this shot of the upcoming ReplayTV Personal HD, a USB dongle that lets you watch and record HDTV on your PC, giving you that so-called “living room experience” of which we are all so fond. We hear there are some other … Continued
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i-SOBOT, World’s Smallest Humanoid Robot, Hits US Next Month
Takara Tomy’s 6.5-inch, Guinness-certified “smallest humanoid robot in production,” i-SOBOT, is finally making its way to our primitive shores next month. The English website and price are still “coming soon,” but since this dancing, push-upping wunderbot runs about $300 in Japan, we can pretty safely guess it’ll be thereabouts. Hopefully we’ll have our meatpuppet mitts … Continued
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Samsung BD-UP5000 Combo Player Reviewed (Verdict: Excellent)
HDGuru scored the first review with the new Samsung BD-UP5000 Combo HD DVD/Blu-Ray Player. And in short, they loved it. With the format war continuing with no end in sight, the Samsung BD-UP5000 it is the logical choice for HDTV viewers that want the best performance no matter which DVD, Blu-ray or HD DVD discs … Continued
By Mark Wilson