Archive for November 20th, 2007

DIY’er stuffs MAME machine into dinner table

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Gaming, Household Hot on the heels of Gamerator's stupendous MAME cabinet and AOTS "world's largest arcade machine" comes a DIY project that gives both of the aforementioned products a run for their money. The aptly-titled IKEA MAME Dinner Table cleverly crams a MAME machine into a standard dinner table, ...

Sony, Fuji, and Maxell fined $110M for videotape cartel

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets The EU just lashed Sony, Fuji, and Maxell with fines totaling €75 million ($110 million) on grounds of fixing the price of professional videotapes. The 3-way Japanese cartel controlling 85% of the professional videotape market was found guilty of artificially controlling prices on Betacam SP and Digital ...

Nintendo’s DS Lite Bundles are a real pair

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Gaming Sometimes those rumors are spot-on. Just like we heard, Nintendo is launching two special-edition Nintendo DS bundles for the holidays. The Gold edition ships with The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass while the Metallic Rose ships with the Best Friends version of Nintendogs. Each comes emblazoned with the ...

Doorbusting Toshiba A135 for only $229 you-know-when

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: LaptopsBelieve it or not, we've but three days before this year's Black Friday arrives, and Best Buy has just unveiled that it will be offering up Toshiba's Satellite A135-S7403 laptop and a Canon PIXMA 3-in-1 printer for the low, low price of $229. We've already seen Dell throw ...

JVC Victor gets official with 4k x 2k DLA-SH4K projector

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Displays, HDTV, Home Entertainment Not even two months after JVC Victor showcased its (then unnamed) 4k x 2k projector at CEATEC, the firm has finally come clean and given said unit a proper title and release time frame. The DLA-SH4K, which obviously packs that awe-inspiring 4k D-ILA chip, touts ...

Exmocare’s wristwatch cares about your feelings

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Wearables Exmocare has been prepping this watch for quite a while now, but it certainly seems to be shaping up of late. The Exmocare wristwatch monitors your heart rate, heart rate variability, movement and galvanic skin response, all of which the watch uses to determine how you're doing, specifically ...

Water-activated portable power generator on the horizon

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets We've seen our fair share of diminutive power generators, but rather than worrying with vibrations or hyperventilating, Millennium Cell and Horizon Fuel Cell have teamed up to deliver an iteration that's water-activated. The pair has been working together on this technology for some time now, and apparently, ...

Fujitsu’s LifeBook S6510 gets reviewed

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Laptops Fujitsu's LifeBook S6510, which we just caught wind of earlier this month, has made its way over to Notebook Review not a moment too soon, and the kind folks over there have put the machine through its paces in order to give you the skinny. As expected, reviewers ...

Keepin’ it real fake, part XCVI: the true nano fatty

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video We suppose this is exactly what happened the first time Ive fired up Photoshop to mock up the third-gen iPod nano -- or what happens when KIRFers spend a little too much time watching pandas at the zoo. Plays the usual goofy MTV format on ...