Archive for October, 2009

DIYer Concocts Homegrown View-Master, Relies on HTC Magic And Google Street View (video)

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

It’s been far, far too long since we broke out the View-Master from the admittedly dusty toy chest, but now we’re guessing it’ll be at least a score before we get the urge again. Why, you ask? The View-Master 2009. These homegrown virtual reality goggles are surprisingly impressive despite their ragged look, and by utilizing [...]

Titanium Mouse by Intelligent Design Costs $1,200, Might Be Worth a Little Less

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

No matter how bad the global economy gets, you can always rely on there being a select few people with (a lot) more money than sense. Exclusively for them, Dutch outfit Intelligent Design has put together this handcrafted Bluetooth laser mouse, which boasts a neodymium scroll wheel, high quality plastic resin and a grade 1 [...]

HTC HD2 Fulfills its Unboxing Obligations on Video

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

You’ve already seen the HD2 that HTC would have you see, but now it’s time to take the obligatory journey to the world of unboxings. Seen here in “not-yet-final” packaging, the WinMo 6.5-packin’ handset looks sexier than ever, even in that still-to-be-tweaked green box. Hop on past the break and mash play if you’re looking [...]

HP’s Pavilion dv3 And dm1 Wash Ashore on European Land

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

As one of the last two Vista holdouts on HP’s online laptop store (the other being HDX16), we were wondering what was going on with the Pavilion dv3. Well, it’s still not stateside, but Germany and the UK can apparently pick up the Windows 7-equipped touchscreen dv3-2200 now for £799.99 / €899 (somewhere between $1,305 [...]

Telus Kicks off HSPA+ Network With iPhone November 5th, HTC Hero, LG New Chocolate and More To Follow

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

Telus already announced that it’d be launching the iPhone in November, but it’s just now gotten official with an actual date: November 5th — which just so happens to also be the day that it lights up its brand new HSPA+ network. Unfortunately for anyone hoping that a little competition would spark a price war, [...]

Netflix For PlayStation 3 Requires a Disc, Software Solution Coming Late 2010

Monday, October 26th, 2009

It can’t all be sweet, right? So Netflix is indeed coming to PlayStation 3, but there’s a catch, and that is a disc (badly photoshopped into the picture above) will be required for use — not just for a one-time install, but every time you want to stream. Joystiq shot some questions off to the [...]

HTC Confirms it Has Android 2.0 Handsets in The Works

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Of course nobody expects Motorola and Verizon to be the sole benefactors of Android 2.0’s Donut-ey goodness in the long run, but in an age of increasing Android ubiquity it seemed odd to see them as the only ones with a more-or-less-confirmed Android 2.0 handset on the way. Well, Sascha Segan over at Gearlog did [...]

Microsoft Ditches Family Guy Special… For Being Family Guy

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Face? Meet palm. Microsoft’s decided to pull out of its co-sponsoring of “Family Guy Presents: Seth & Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show” after execs attending the taping came to the sudden conclusion that Family Guy-caliber jokes were to be told, tackling such topics as “deaf people, the Holocaust, feminine hygiene and incest.” We’re not sure [...]

Sony Ericsson Looking Ready To Come Clean With Android-powered Rachael on November 3

Monday, October 26th, 2009

It could be argued that Sony Ericsson owes the world some love after it built up its last event only to introduce a single, solitary A2DP headset, but we might finally get what’s coming to us in just a few days’ time. It looks like November 3 is the date SE has chosen to unleash [...]

Sense UI Update For HTC Magic Makes The Scene in Taiwan

Monday, October 26th, 2009

If our ability to guesstimate Chinese website contents based on sketchy machine translation software is correct, it looks like HTC Magic owners in Taiwan are finally getting that Sense UI update they’ve been teased with since mid-August. Further blurring the lines between the aforementioned handset and the Hero, it is unknown whether or not the [...]