We’ve seen the Cyber Sport Orbita Mouse bouncing around the Internets for about a year in search of a manufacturer. Now they’ve got it, with a corresponding January 2009 retail delivery date to match. The big selling point on this 800 DPI mouse is the use of a spinning scroll-wheel that replaces the typical left [...]
Well, that was fast. A poster by the name of StreetskaterFU has outlined what he claims is a method of hacking into PlayStation Home’s servers for download, uploading and deleting files. We’re not able to verify his directions, but if true it would be a potentially calamitous oversight on Sony’s part. Additionally, a PS3hax forum [...]
It looks like all those crazy rumors are true — we’ve just received word that the Celeron-based Eee Box B203 has popped up on Asus’ website. Aside from the the Intel C220 processor, very little has changed from the Atom-based Eee Box B202: it sports Windows XP Home, ships with up to 2GB RAM and [...]
Is it any wonder Philips is opting out of making a stop at CES this year? If it showed up with this line, it’d literally be laughed right out of Vegas. The outfit’s dedicated “showing” in San Francisco this past week consisted of two Streamium Network Music Players (NP2500 and NP2900) that we were already [...]
The been-there-done-that competition of the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii are a total yawn this holiday season, so we thought we’d give you a console war with a few more interlocking plastic building blocks mixed in to keep things interesting. These two otherwise-unrelated case mods each bring their own strengths to the competition: while [...]
Everything goes down on Twitter these days, (memes happen, people, memes!) and now there’s another kid on the scene, literally. Lil’ @kickbee is hitting us from the womb, thanks to his / her nerdy father. Kickbee Sr. wrapped his expecting wife’s belly with some piezo sensors to detect baby kicks, with an Arduino Mini [...]
Combining huge screens with usable keyboards in a pocketable package is the challenge phone manufacturers are eternally doomed to try to solve, leading to an endless stream of (mostly comical) patent applications for ridiculous form factors that will never see the light of day. That’s where we think — well, we hope — Nokia’s latest [...]
There’s something about fire-breathing robots that just gets us giddy, so you can imagine our joy when finding one that gallops, too. The hand-built robot dog — cutely coined LRRY-1 (pronounced Larry, we’ll have you know) — was built almost entirely from unwanted Citroën scraps, and not a single ounce of non-recycled material was used [...]
DisplayLink USB monitors are starting to trickle out a little more frequently now, but USB graphics cards based on the tech are still somewhat rare — we’ve seen a couple, but VillageTronic’s ViBook box is the only one that comes with software to span an image across up to six screens at once. That’s right, [...]
Details on this one are freakishly scarce, but DigiTimes has it that a number of recognizable handset makers are looking to incorporate MEMS gyroscopes into their 2009 smartphones. It’s anticipated that such devices would be used to sense motion in one form or another, with brands like Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, LG, Sony Ericsson and Apple [...]