Gears of War 2 Zune Coming on Nov 7, Preorders Start in the Morning [Zune] | read this item
Killing two marketing birds with one stone, Microsoft's bundling some of its Zunes with various Gears of War 2 (launching soon!) paraphernalia. Each 120GB Zune will sport a laser-etched “Crimson Omen” and come pre-loaded with 244 pieces of media, including the soundtrack, behind-the-scene videos and concept art. The entire package will cost you $280 and will start shipping on November 7th. Pre-orders on Amazon.com ..Shop Now
Water Invisibility Barrier Protects Against Tsunamis [Invisibility Cloaks] | read this item
Research into invisibility cloaks, which work by bending light around 2D objects, could end up protecting offshore rigs and vulnerable coastlines from water. Scientists at the Fresnel Institute in Marseille, France said that established cloaking principles can be applied to ocean waves, and built a 10cm model to show how carefully placed concentric pillars make objects in the center “invisible” to the sea.
Microsoft, Washington State Sue Scareware Makers Over Fake Error Messages [Microsoft Mad] | read this item
Picture this: You're trying to figure out why your grandmother's computer is running so slow when she mentions that an error message told her to download a $39.95 “fixer-upper,” and you realize that some rat bastard out there tricked the poor old dame into installing spyware. Doesn't that make you angry? It's certainly pissed off Microsoft, who's filed a lawsuit with Washington state against ..Shop Now
Portege R500-S5007V
Genuine Windows Vista® Business (32-bit) with downgrade media for Windows® XP Professional
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor U7700
2GB PC2-5300 DDR2 667MHz SDRAM
128GB Solid State Drive (SSD)
Ultralight at just over two pounds, and offering a stunning silhouette, the Portégé® R500 Series is the ultimate expression of executive mobility and style.The world's thinnest widescreen 12.1-inch notebook PC with an integrated DVD-SuperMulti drive helps you make more headway every ..Shop Now
Field of Light: Nikolai Tesla Meets Lenny Kravitz [Design] | read this item
When I see images of Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation, whatever glumness I might have felt during the day disappears, and that Beatle-esque Lenny Kravitz song of a similar name starts playing in my head. If I had the chance to check out Munro's light installation, coming to Project Eden in Cornwall, England on November 1, I would totally wander through the fields—slowly, slowly ..Shop Now
Here,s the deal Im working on a computer for an friend where he changed the board. The baord is a Asus M2A VM 690 chipset supports AM2 up tp phenom! Secs include DDR2, sound PCI express 16, Sata3.0GBs and Raid and (onboard video Ati x 1250)! Going to run onboard video already set up in Bios start it up with moniter hooked up boots for ..Shop Now
Ars Technica Plays With LiquidTV/Tivo PC, Thinks It's Pretty Good [Tivo Pc] | read this item
Ars got their hands on Nero's freshly-announced LiquidTV/Tivo PC team up, and thought the Tivo software and Hauppauge TV Tuner hardware was a good experience for $200 ($100 for software only). They looked not only at how the UI functioned in the PC environment, but also at export options, content exchange, and hardware performance. Here's what they liked and didn't like.
Netflix To Open API and Databases To The Public [NetFlix] | read this item
Netflix will introduce their API to the public tomorrow at the Experience AJAX conference, and according to ReadWriteWeb, it will allow free access to movie data and stats stored on their servers. This doesn't mean that anyone will be able to write a streaming video app for any random piece of open hardware. However, it does mean that people will be able to will be ..Shop Now
Which of the EIGHT Versions of the Iron Man DVD Should You Buy? [Iron Man] | read this item
Okay, so you don't have a Blu-ray player and you're not getting a new Dell. That still leaves you with eight—EIGHT—different versions of Iron Man to choose from, with everyone from Walmart to Borders hawking their own exclusive kit. Best Buy's might the most exquisitely fanboy fapworthy, encasing the flick and a custom lithograth in a Mark II mini-bust made by Sideshow Collectibles. Here's a ..Shop Now
TDK Crams 260 GB Into 1.8-inch HDD, Sets A New Density Benchmark [Storage] | read this item
TDK has announced a new hard drive at CEATEC that manages to fit 260 GB of data into a 1.8-inch form factor. Using their prototype TMR head, TDK is able to attain a surface recording density of 803 gigabits per square inch, besting Toshiba's previous 378 gigabits per square inch. The leap was possible by combining the TMR head with recent perpendicular magnetic recording techniques, ..Shop Now
Digicam With Top Secret MI6 Info Sold on eBay | read this item
It's one thing to see, say, banking information to show up on a hard drive on eBay. But to see top secret information show up on a digital camera (likely on an SD card) sold on eBay, that's a whole 'nother ball of wax.According to The Sun, an unsuspecting ..Shop Now
Pandora and Other Webcasters Saved By Act of Congress [Web Radio] | read this item
Today the otherwise preoccupied Senate quickly passed the Webcaster Settlement Act many of you petitioned for, granting Pandora and other net radio services the right to negotiate royalties with the record industry's SoundExchange coalition for the years 2006 to 2015. OK, that's a mouthful—what it means is, they will likely not be driven to bankruptcy due to unreasonable royalty rates.
Glitch Drops Google Stock Price $200 in Four Minutes, Wiping Out $62 Billion [Oops] | read this item
At probably like the worst time ever for your stock to plummet harder than a meteor on a collision course with Bruce Willis, a glitch knocked $200 off of Google's stock price—that's half—in the span of four minutes as the markets were closing today. $62 billion. Erased. In four minutes. The glitch has been fixed, bringing it back to the correct price of $407, but ..Shop Now
Transformers 2 Will Be Shot in IMAX, Get Ready for Five-Story Transformers [Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen] | read this item
Holy crap. Parts of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are being shot in IMAX, meaning you'll get to see literally five-story Transformers getting smashed, exploded and all of the usual Michael Bay craziness in the only screen size truly worthy of Michael Bay. Like The Dark Knight, non-IMAX scenes will be letterboxed, and it'll blow back up to full screen size for IMAX sequences. Man, ..Shop Now
Get Your Directions From an Old, Washed Up Character from a Terrible Show [GPS] | read this item
While I understand why people would want their GPS navigators to give them directions in the voice of KITT or Mr. T, I have no idea who in their right mind would want Kim Cattrall (the old one) from Sex in the City telling them where to go whenever they drive. Not only will her voice remind you of that horrible show every time you ..Shop Now
Punching Bag Changes Color Just Like a Video Game Boss [Clips] | read this item
Remember playing something like TMNT arcade, and Bebop and Rocksteady would grow increasingly red, tempting you to throw in quarter after quarter because every moment seemed like the moment they would be defeated? This punching bag works under the same philosophy, though it turns from red to a sickly yellow, as if your opponent is leaking bile or slowly wetting all of their clothing. Also, ..Shop Now
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