Archive for August, 2007
Flat screens modded into art installation pinball machine
Filed under: Gaming
El rei de la casa, meaning “the precious child” in Spanish, is a video game exhibition being shown in Barcelona, Spain. The aim of the exhibition is to highlight the mainstream media’s misrepresentation of the internet and all its evils(C), and what better way to dispel these dai…
Microsoft gets official with new Halo 3-themed Xbox 360 accessories
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
We first caught sight of these new Halo 3-themed Xbox 360 accessories a few months back, but Microsoft is just now getting official with them, confirming all the details that made themselves known earlier. As we mentioned last time, the controllers are both of the wi…
CrowdSpirit gadget development project goes into beta
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
It’s been quite a while coming, but the ambitious CrowdSpirit project has finally moved from the hype-building stage to the beta testing stage. For those that missed it the first time around, the project aims to apply crowdsourcing to the development of gadgets and consume…
LG’s KS20 and KU990 vs. the iPhone
Filed under: Cellphones, Features
The silent, yet eerily palpable rivalry betwixt LG and Apple continues, secretly, growing subtlety with every new phone release (as you can see in the Windows Mobile-based KS20). Or maybe these two companies just love this design — certainly Nokia is fond of it. It…
AT&T now offering Motorola RAZR 2 V9
Filed under: Handsets, Motorola, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA, UMTS
What a refreshing change of pace! AT&T actually beat its estimate of “early September” for its variant of the Motorola RAZR 2, the V9 — albeit in a rather bizarre shade, “mahogany” (where we come from, that’s called purple, but whate…
Loopwing toy car runs on wind power
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets
We’re big fans of both alt-power and silly toys, so Tamiya’s latest kitcar, the Loopwing, pushes all our geek buttons. The build-it-yourself kit car comes with its own windmill, and just five minutes of charging in a five mile wind powers the three-wheeled racer for three …
Hands-on with the Samsung Blast
Filed under: Handsets, Features, Messaging, Samsung, T-Mobile, GSM, GPRS, EDGE
As US carriers lean harder and harder on messaging, offering a plethora of QWERTY and otherwise messaging-enhanced (case in point) phones, unlimited messaging plans, and tighter email integration, we’re liking what we’re …