Archive for January 16th, 2008

Mixed meme of the day: Beatles coming to Optimus Maximus

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

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Video: Land Rover LRX’s iPhone personalizes your car settings

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Portable Audio, Portable Video, Transportation At the nexus of MacWorld and the Detoit Auto Show is this, the iPhone dock for the Land Rover LRX concept car. Our brethren at Autoblog had a chance to sit down with Mr. Sandy Boyes, the LRX's interior designer, to get a ...

Hanlin’s V9 e-book reader with 9.7-inch e-ink display previewed

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds Although there's no arguing that the 6-inch e-ink display used in both the Kindle and the Sony PRS-505 looks beautiful, we're not exactly huge fans of endless scrolling -- which is why we're pretty intrigued by these shots of the Hanlin V9 that just popped up on on ...

PSP / PS2 hacked to support Bluetooth headsets

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Portable Audio We're still rocking a first-gen PSP, so we're not too broken up over headphone wires, but now that the PSP Slim can output game video to a TV, this little Bluetooth hack by N3M515 over at Instructables is just the ticket -- and it'll add in ...

HTC Shift hits the FCC, gets ripped apart

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Filed under: Handhelds It's been hit with a few snags along the way, but it looks like the HTC Shift's slow roll out around the word is finally nearing a close, with it now making its expected debut at the FCC. In addition to putting it through all the usual tests, ...

CDMA provider contemplating move to GSM: The Telus edition

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Filed under: CellphonesAh yes, ye olde we're-going-to-switch-our-network-technology story surfaces again, seems we can't have a quarter without this type of story raising it's head. We heard this same tale back when Bell Canada was involved in all that sale / merger / rumor business, but this time Telus is the ...

iTunes and Apple TV rentals and purchases: what you can (and can’t) do

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Filed under: Features, HDTV, Home Entertainment Oh dear lord is there a lot of confusion about iTunes movie rentals, and how they differ from movie and TV purchases -- and how the Apple TV and iTunes computer-driven downloads aren't the same either. Granted, real world scenario won't be too complicated for ...