According to Zune Insider, the Red Zune 80 is starting to show up in retail stores after a stint at Zune Originals. The color must be hot, hot, hot! [Zune Insider]
Archive for April 25th, 2008
Apr
25
2008
 
Customized Mii Sculptures Now Available For $79 [Gaming]Posted by: admin in General Gadgets News
http://www.chinavasion.com/product_info.php/pName/directors-edition-digital-alarm-clock/ Give time some direction with this cool and funky Directors Digital Clapperboard Clock.It stands freely or can be hung on a wall. Great for motion picture fans. Envision this in your home entertainment area. Great too for playing director when making your own Oscar Award winning videos.Log in today to www.chin…
Motorola, the company that manufactured the first commercially available cell phone, saw its overall sales drop 21% in this year’s f The mobile phone division lost $418 million during the quarter, almost 80% more than the $233 million it lost during the same period last year. Motorola only sold 27 million handsets in the first-quarter, as it saw its share of the global market fall below 10%, down from the 22% of market share it had in 2006. Motorola’s enterprise mobility solutions division did see growth. This branch of the company sells computing and communications equipment to businesses. That unit’s operating profits grew by 9%. Via Mobilecrunch
Apr
25
2008
Samsung Electronics Posts First-Quarter Profits of 37%Posted by: admin in Mobile GadgetSamsung Electronics announced today that its net profit was up 37% in the first-quarter of this year. Much of the increase came Samsung stated that mobile sales “achieved similar volume” to last year’s fourth-quarter record sales of 46.3 million handsets. Handset sales continued to grow despite the fact that the global market for cell phones has contracted by about 13%. Samsung sales in China and India are driving the company’s sales increase. “Our handset business is growing very strong,” Chu Woo-sik, executive vice president for investor relations, told analysts on a conference call. Samsung leads the world in the manufacture of personal memory chips and flat screen TVs and is the second-largest manufacturer of mobile phones. Via Mobilecrunch
Apr
25
2008
Porta Party Mixes iPod and Loo With No Stinkiness [Party]Posted by: admin in General Gadgets News
When J Rob won the Citizen Reviewer contest to review the Warrior Wolf King XXtreme, I was a bit trepidatious. First, this guy is a drunk! Second, he wouldn’t move his Ford Focus from off our lawn! Was this the guy to review such a hi-end piece of hardware. My fears were assuaged, however, […] When J Rob won the Citizen Reviewer contest to review the Warrior Wolf King XXtreme, I was a bit trepidatious. First, this guy is a drunk! Second, he wouldn’t move his Ford Focus from off our lawn! Was this the guy to review such a hi-end piece of hardware. My fears were assuaged, however, when he send us this excellent review of the Warrior Wolf King XXTreme keyboard. Stay tuned for our next Citizen Reviewer contest. In these turbulent days of the Console Wars, perhaps too little attention is paid to the unsung heroes, the dedicated faithful, the Personal computer gamer. We who have battled valiantly, our 104 key sword before us and our 5 button optical dagger (with optional weight adjustment and on-the-fly sensitivity controls) at the ready. Suddenly, from the wilderness of shadow there stalks a competitor with Ergonomic Dual Discs Optimized for Single-Handed Input, intent upon dethroning your current gaming keyboard and claiming one of your hands as its own. Enter the Wolf King Warrior XXtreme! Just how massive is this thing, anyway? Will I need to upgrade my desk?
The WKWXX is slightly smaller than your keyboard, but you know what makes it seem even tinier? No corners. The rounded design is an optical illusion, hiding its true girth. Also, it’s heavy enough to injure someone with in a bar fight. Perhaps “dense” is the better word. It’s dense enough to injure someone with in a bar fight. Please game responsibly. Since my hand will be living there, how does it feel? Wolf King claims that this keyboard is ergonomic. I respectfully disagree. I have massive hands, and I still felt like I was reaching slightly to rest my fingers on WASD. However, the keys are responsive, and I really enjoy the W directly above the S and the enormous spacebar key beneath my entire thumb. You know what I’m talking about.
I’ve heard rumors of a blue back-light that you can turn on and off with the push of a button. Are we living in the future already? But did you know that this USB keyboard is also a USB hub? For real! You lose 1 USB port to the keyboard, but then you get 2 USB ports in exchange. Sweet deal! I’ve noticed that there’s an entire alphabet over there on the right. How about that, huh? And now we come to the right hemisphere, where all the letters that didn’t get a shot at the left hemisphere find a loving home. It is a thoroughly contrived, perfectly-circular-for-no-good-reason home. Typing on the right hemisphere is painfully, nigh excruciatingly slow. Although the WKWXX keeps the QWERTY format intact, the fact that it’s split in half and then shoved underneath is not what rational people would call a solution to the problem of text chat in gaming. And don’t forget the complete omission of Home, Insert, End, Page Up and Page Down keys. Really? Didn’t think those are that important, huh? In fact, I promised to write this review solely on the WKWXX. And is that what happened? Not so much.
Finally, no macro buttons here unless Volume +, Volume-, and Mute count. (They don’t.)
How can you be this far into a gaming keyboard review without talking about a single game?
Using a dizzying feat of statistical prowess, I am able to conclusively show the performance delta between playing with a WKWXX and playing with your current keyboard. Behold.
Game Over after using my old keyboard.
Game Over after using the WKWXX That, my friends, is a 60% improvement. But will that performance spike translate to CoD4, WoW and Minesweeper? It MUST be so. Science declares it! Wrap Up Will the WKWXX make you a superior person? No. Will the WKWXX make you a superior gamer? Almost possibly. Will you invent ever-more derogatory expletives to heave at the designers of the right hemisphere QWERTY concept? Indubitably. And if my humble review wasn’t good enough for you, by all means, partake of some fine Engrish marketing-speak directly from Wolf King USA. Check out J Rob’s entire post here.
Apr
25
2008
Confirmed: Panasonic and Pioneer Teaming Up for Plasma Panels [Kuro]Posted by: admin in General Gadgets News
Like Pioneer told us before, while they’re sharing some tech secrets and even swapping engineers to develop superior plasmas for the future, the processing part of the Kuro magic will stay in Pioneer’s hands. But, despite lower production costs, don’t expect cheaper Kuros for a while—the move’s to make Pioneer more profitable. We’ll begin seeing the co-developed sets in Fall 2009. [Impress] |
Those 
In the outside world, we all know the iPod can take a one-man dance party from 0-60 in under 3 songs. But ever wonder what it’s like on the inside? The Porta Celebration adopts its shape from the similarly named Porta Potty, but has the skin of an iPod. Insidethe Porta Party is an iPod dock and disco ball that will also take the one man celebration from 0-60 in under 3 songs — if you provide the tunes. And when you’re finished inhabiting the iPod, it’s kind enough NOT to spit you out on the New Jersey Turnpike. [
When Pioneer announced it was going to 
Entries (RSS)