Filed under: Cellphones

While AT&T customers have had the same technology for awhile in the 8525 – and heck, even Sprint users can pick up a Mogul now — those folks unfortunately locked into a Verizon contract are about two generations behind when it comes to HTC Windows Mobile devices. Well according to a purported insider going by the name “verizonguy” on the PPCgeeks forum, the long wait for VZW’s XV6800 version of the Titan may soon be over, with the company reportedly planning a November 16th hard launch. What’s more, an online-only soft launch could occur as soon as November 2nd, according to the writeup — good news indeed, as long as you haven’t already left Verizon in frustration for greener pastures.
 
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Original post by Evan Blass

Filed under: Desktops

At the end of a debate by the Yale Political Union on the topic of DRM — the verdict? It should be banned — well known free software advocate Richard Stallman was confronted by a collective group of ninjas, obviously hired by Microsoft in response to one Chinese student’s interruption of Bill Gates’ speech in China. Turns out the ninjas were just reenacting a comic from XKCD, which depicts “rms,” as he is affectionately known, whipping out a sword to defend himself from anti-GPL pranksters. No sword was thrusted in this example: instead, only a hearty chuckle was heard emanating from the bearded and shoeless father of the free software movement.
Read - Yale Political Union’s blog of the incidentRead - XKCD’s “Open Source”
 
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Original post by Conrad Quilty-Harper

Earlier last week we brought you news of a Tivo update that provides eSata support with officially licensed HDDs. Well, Best Buy seems to have done the dirty once again, leaking what appears to be the first Tivo supported hard drive.
Other than a 500GB capacity, a $219.99 price point, a telltale name of My Book (Western Digital) Tivo DVR Expander and an expected shipping time of 1-2weeks, there is little other information available here. What more information do you need? [Best Buy via ZNF]

Original post by Haroon Malik

Buro Vormkrijgers not only has a stupendous name, but also tends to roll out fantastic designs intermittently. The Marie Louise lamp, which unlike Buro Vormkrijgers has a shockingly unoriginal name, makes up for the lack of excitement by having a jaw-dropping sexy design. The unorthodox light source is constructed from sheets of acrylic and uses a 14-watt fluorescent bulb along the length of the structure’s leg to provide the semi-creepy, stylish glow.

Different colored lighting options are available, including amber, yellow, orange, purple, blue, pink, red and green. Two styles are offered as further options, either an intricate etched pattern or a plain transparent design. Get ready to flex your flexible friend; the etched variety will set you back a magnificent $1,299, while the plain type will be a slightly more modest, but still ridiculous, $999. It’s a small price to pay; after all, with this in your bedroom, you […]

Original post by Haroon Malik

Buro Vormkrijgers not only has a stupendous name, but also tends to roll out fantastic designs intermittently. The Marie Louise lamp, which unlike Buro Vormkrijgers has a shockingly unoriginal name, makes up for the lack of excitement by having a jaw-dropping sexy design. The unorthodox light source is constructed from sheets of acrylic and uses a 14-watt fluorescent bulb along the length of the structure’s leg to provide the semi-creepy, stylish glow.

Different colored lighting options are available, including amber, yellow, orange, purple, blue, pink, red and green. Two styles are offered as further options, either an intricate etched pattern or a plain transparent design. Get ready to flex your flexible friend; the etched variety will set you back a magnificent $1299, whilst the plain type will be a slightly more modest, but still ridiculous, $999. It’s a small price to pay; after all, with this in your bedroom, you […]

Original post by Haroon Malik

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video

Well if you like looking through line after line of incomprehensible programming gibberish, make sure to hit up the Read link below, in which the TIFF exploit-based firmware v1.1.1 jailbreak code from team Toc2rta is posted in its entirety. More of an academic exercise for curious geeks than a useful bit of knowledge for the average iPod owner, we’re sure there’s still some interest out there in seeing exactly how this hack was developed. And as usual, if you do decide to go about ‘breaking your device as previously described on these pages, we’re, like, totally not responsible for any undesired consequences.
 
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Original post by Evan Blass

We are always looking for the best ways to improve our rigorous physical workout routines, and the Informance smart sunglasses look like a worthy asset to our arsenal of workout gear. The instrument is intended for use by professional athletes, and will allow them to view vital statistics in their peripheral vision using a projected image on one of the lenses.
The technology behind the device has been whittled down to a paltry 7 grams, meaning performance interference will be kept to a minimum. The physics behind the relaying of the image is rather nifty, but it involves far too many reflections from one place to another for it to make any sense to us. The image originates from a small LED display, which draws its power from a battery embedded in the glasses’ left arm.
Mike Hazel, of Cambridge Consultants, one of the firms involved in the development, pointed out […]

Original post by Haroon Malik

Filed under: Wearables

How anyone could think that a cloth vending machine would fool even the stupidest of criminals is beyond us, but we guess if the convertible skirt / vending machine is going to be made somewhere, it might as well be in Japan. The New York Times has the write-up of Aya Tsukioka clothing designs, intended to provide the vulnerable with ways of avoiding thieves and other evil folk: beyond the Coke machine, there’s a purse shaped like a manhole, and a child’s backpack that looks like a fire hydrant. Here, we just carry guns.
[Thanks, Ross M.]
 
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Original post by Conrad Quilty-Harper

Filed under: Gaming, GPS

Using nothing more than a little fine soldering, it is possible to get your PSP to accept the data output from 3rd party GPS recievers from Holux, among others. Like a lot of past PSP mods, this probably isn’t one for mere mortals: you’ll have to have a heavy dosing of leet skill to pull this one off, and be able to understand the gobbledegook that the custom executable throws up — although it will apparently work with Map This, a third party GPS and Map app for the PSP. Nevertheless, it’s all there on the read link, so check it out if you dare.
[Thanks, Wraggster]
 
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!

Original post by Conrad Quilty-Harper

Remember when we told you TiVo and Rhapsody had joined forces to allow the streaming of Internet radio stations and Rhapsody’s online music catalogue to broadband equipped TiVo boxes? Here’s a video of the new feature, which will allow users to search through music catalogues and Rhapsody charts via their TVs. If you are already signed up with TiVo, you will receive a free 30-day trial. Thereafter, the added content/functionality shall cost $12.99/month. Check out the short run-through of the UI, which seems to flow smoothly. Just how we like it. [TiVo via Osegundochoque, video via TiVo Blog]

Original post by Haroon Malik