Scrolling through the Google Shopping results for "Blu-ray burner" brings us to $200 before we find a device that will actually author the high-capacity disks. And that's the cheapest online price: The same Light-On unit is also listed for $380, So the new "Portable Blu-ray Super Multi Drive" from Amex looks like good value at $290.
What's more, it looks… Read More
Let's be honest: the Averatec All-In-One is a netbook with a big screen. The 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor isn't going to give you blistering performance, but in our experience it will give you enough power to do most everyday computing tasks.
Like a netbook, the All-In-One is cheap. $550 buys you the computer, an 18.4 inch, 1680 x 945 widescreen display (with built-in webcam), a keyboard and a mouse. You'll also find a DVD drive, built-in mic, 5 USB ports, ethernet and a 120GB hard drive.
Perhaps the neatest feature… Read More
We knock Nokia's premium line of Vertu cellphones not because, deep down, we really love them, but because they are cynical cash-ins, phones devoid of all but the most basic features priced to appeal to the moronic consumer who equates high price with high status.
So Norihiko Inoue's concept design neatly sums up the whole Vertu scam. Described by Inoue as a "celebration of empty space", the design is literally a shell with nothing inside. The conceit is that, sometime in the future, components will be so small that… Read More
The headline at New Launches reads "HourDoc a new way to punch in to work". When I read it, I immediately imagined Spidey's arch-enemy Doc Octopus literally punching through a wall before crashing into his office and then simultaneously checking email, pouring coffee and being evil, his many arms whirring into a blur of productivity.
Sadly, upon… Read More
The Down Low Glow is a bright tube light for your bike. You strap it on to the bottom of the frame and it puts your ride right in the center of a pool of neon light. Apart from making your bike look like a lowrider, the $110 kit actually makes you safer.
Regular bike lights, whether they blink or burn bright, only shine forwards and back. The Down Low Glow adds a third dimension, making you visible from the side. The light (available in five colors, including hot, hot pink) also marks your territory -- the glow on the ground… Read More
Over at BoingBoing Gadgets, Rob Beschizza (pronounced "Biscuit-Czar") takes time off from blogging from a dystopian future to bring us a rather splendid swipe at Windows 7, which – according to Rob's "sauce" – will arrive in a mind-spinning 20 versions.
But if there's an instinct that Microsoft will find hard to put to bed, it's the one that led to more versions of Vista than can be counted on one hand. The place is run by a sales guy, after all! Click through for our exclusive leaked ad… Read More
If you’re not a celebrity, but want to feel like one, then get yourself an Ultra Motor A2B. Wherever I rode this futuristic fully suspended machine onlookers were agog. Trips to Trader Joe’s, the gym, the farmer’s market, bank, post office, beach strand and everywhere else were perpetually punctuated… Read More
Betting on Apple is paying off big time for AT&T which is exclusive service provider for the iPhone in the U.S as more users have switched to the carrier since the device's launch.
AT&T connections associated with the 3G iPhone have risen for two consecutive months since the phone launched on July 11, according to Nielsen Mobile.
Forget about 3D cameras and TVs for a second and imagine a machine that spits out any object on your computer screen.
Industrial designers can do that in their offices now with a desktop printer that launched today: The Alaris 30 Desktop 3D, which processes a 3D CAD file and carves out a polymer model of the image.
The machine… Read More
There's no stopping the rise of netbooks as more customers have been springing for these low-cost, ultraportable devices in a weak economy and amidst sluggish growth in the PC industry, says research firm IDC.
"The proliferation of low-cost portable PCs coincided perfectly with market conditions," says Jay Chou, research analyst with… Read More
Mark Verstegen has trained some of the greatest athletes in the world at his Athletes' Performance facilities in Arizona, California, and Florida. It's the kind of place where you go if you're hoping to be a top pick in the NFL draft, but need to boost your 40-yard dash time. The trainers work intensively with these elite… Read More
Now that the launch of the new Macbooks is out of the way, it might be time for Apple to take a look at iTunes and its digital-music-service strategy.
Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile phones, is nipping at Apple's heels and mounting what could be the biggest challenge yet for iTunes and Apple's… Read More
After showing off a slew of sexy, aluminum Mac notebooks on Tuesday, Steve Jobs said Apple computers still aren't sporting Blu-ray players to dodge extra licensing costs:
"Blu-ray is a bag of hurt," he said during a question-and-answer session. "I don’t mean from the consumer point of view. It’s great to watch movies, but the licensing is so complex.… Read More
Thanks to their utilitarian design and low prices, netbooks are inspiring a booming subculture of hackers souping up their liliputers with touchscreens, GPS and unauthorized operating systems like Apple's Mac OS X.
netbook sales… Read More
Television broadcasters are getting ready to ditch analog programming and go fully digital in four months -- and 10 million U.S. households aren't even ready for the switch, a survey says.
That translates to one in five households who will receive nothing but static on their analog-only TV sets come Feb. 17, 2009, Read More
It's the natural order of all things Apple: First the announcement, then the un-boxing. Opening up a new Apple toy is always fun -- the company pays almost as much attention to the box as what's inside the box, and with the new MacBooks it looks like Apple has outdone itself.
Flickr-er Joe Russell picked up a MacBook and has posted the packaging porn in the form of the traditional unboxing pics. His conclusion?
Very small, dense box. Not unlike a ream of paper.
Opening the box, first… Read More
Once you've peeled the packaging away from your shiny new MacBook Pro, what's next? If you are iFixit, you just keep on going, cracking open the case to see what's inside.
How does dissembling the new Unibody compare to the old style Apple portables? To begin with, way easier. Once the battery compartment is off, it's just six screws beween you and the interior, and they're all on the bottom of the case. Compare this to the plastic MacBook I took apart a few days ago (to replace the keyboard,… Read More
Surprisingly, UK dermatologists are not claiming evil radioactivity as the cause for a new rash of skin problems. Instead, it's plain old irritation.
The British Association of Dermatologists has interpeted studies on itchy, cheek-reddening eruptions which have been dubbed "Mobile Phone Dermatitis". The cause? Nickel allergy. Phones which contain… Read More
It looks like the Android Market, the Googlephone equivalent of the iPhone App Store, won't be quite the un-policed, anarchic free-for-all we expected. While anybody can still post any application for download to an Android-based device, the Android Market terms of service state that Google can kill, from the comfort of the armchair in its secret… Read More
Yesterday, I replaced the Ralink Wi-Fi card in my Medion Akoya Mini, the Gadget Lab netbook Hackintosh. When we first installed Mac OS X Leopard onto the Wind clone, there were a few things that didn't work so well, and one of those was the wireless networking, something pretty imp ortant for a tiny, take-anywhere netbook. So I ordered a new card from Ebay and swapped it in.
The Akoya veraisons of the Wind contain the Ralink card, and there are OS X drivers available for it. MSI… Read More
As my tiny desk disappears still further under a mountain of crap, I yearn to just stick everything but the computer in a cupboard, the collection of cables and flashing LEDs safely contained. What I need is a NAS.
And if Iomega's new terabyte box manages to keep its price down on its journey across the Atlantic, I might just have found one. The StorCenter ix2 is a networked hard drive with gigabit (10/1000) ethernet, UPnP support (which, for any security minded person will be useless), iTunes server… Read More
You might easily be fooled by the Aluratek Internet Radio Alarm Clock’s dowdy, low-tech design. It's easy to dismiss as one of those cheap, gray market knockoffs usually found on drug store appliance shelves. But the beauty of this… Read More
3D is all the rage now with printers, cameras and now a webcam.
The Novo Minoru 3D webcam looks a lot like Disney/Pixar's Wall-E robot and brings the promise of 3D video home.
In an attractive red color, the webcam has two cameras spaced roughly
the same distance apart as human eye.… Read More
Between the Youtube videos, fan sites, and ever-cranking rumormills, it’s like we knew all about the first Googlephone before we ever got our mitts on one: a boatload of apps available through the Market, built-in Amazon music store, 3G, Wi-Fi, Google Maps with Street View, that crazy shape-driven lock code, and so on. Sure enough, all those… Read More
Is the first 'Google' phone, HTC's G1, truly ready to free the wireless web, or is it a half-baked version that's only acceptable to those trapped in the T-Mobile ghetto?
In this week's Wired Gadget Lab Videoblog, Daniel Dumas and Joe Brown take a first look at the highly anticipated multimedia phone and find that it is still not as good as the iPhone.
While the handset comes with interesting features, like the quality Android OS, the OK 3G network and some useful applications, the unexciting hardware design and not-quite-there… Read More
An environmental group is applauding Apple for its new laptop manufacturing process, which reduces the use of harmful chemicals.
Greenpeace, an environmental blog, commends Apple for cutting down on the amount of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) used in its notebooks and new cinema display. The new products' internal power cables are now PVC-free, and Apple says it's… Read More
If you are considering buying a Scooba robotic floor cleaner from iRobot in the next few days, it may take a little longer than you expect for the product to be delivered.
All models of the Scooba are sold out on iRobot's website. One of the company's most popular models, the Scooba 350, has… Read More
Hewlett-Packard wants you to touch its products. There's no shame in that.
The Wall Street Journal cites "people familiar with the matter" saying that HP will roll out a touchscreen notebook by the end of the year. Beyond that, the sources weren't familiar enough with the matter to disclose any details on price or specifications.
The rumor shortly follows an earlier report… Read More
The US Stock Market died, and far from slipping quietly into the water, it selfishly refused to let go of anybody who reached in a hand to help, dragging everyone down into a watery grave along with it.
In our world, the world of gadgets and hardware, this has led to much speculation, much of which has focussed on Apple and its soon-to-be-announced… Read More
That cheap, $800 Mac everyone is talking about? It might not even be a Mac. And it might not be $800.
MacRumors and Apple Insider are both reporting that Apple will be announcing a new Cinema Display today, and it will cost $900 for 24 inches. It's about time -- aside from price reductions Apple hasn't updated the line since the launch of the current aluminum models in June 2004. Back then the 30" cost a quite astonishing $3300, with… Read More
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