Archive for March 7th, 2008

Sony Ericsson files patent on haptic gaming device, doesn’t call it PSPhone

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming It's nice to know that Sony Ericsson is plugging away on making our crazy, dare-to-dream fantasies a reality. The latest proof that someone up there (and by up there, we mean Japan) likes us comes in the form of a new patent for a touchscreen handheld that ...

Texting generation carrying spelling habits to birth certificates?

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones It's bad enough when exams have to cater to horrific spellers due to their SMS-based vocabulary, but we're doing everything we can to make ourselves believe this latest report simply isn't true. Reportedly, a social analyst in Australia somehow believes that the wide range in spellings in a ...

Snakebots traverse terrain, plan silent, midnight attack

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Filed under: Robots Apparently the Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has been quite busy as of late... building an army of robotic snakes. Though we've seen droid snakes before, bot-makers at the school have been investigating the myriad possibilities of single-task snakes, coming up with configurations for swimming, crawling, and ...

MPIO intros V10 touch screen-based PMP

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio, Portable Video MPIO's many PMPs may not always turn heads, but it looks like the company has done alright for itself with its new V10 player, which boasts a 3-inch WQVGA touch screen display and some all around decent specs. That includes 8GB of storage (with an ...

Microsoft said to be ditching 20GB Xbox 360 for 60GB model

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Filed under: GamingWe'd already heard about a possible price cut to the Xbox 360, but it looks like that might not be all that Microsoft has in store, as TrustedReviews is now reporting that the 20GB hard drive in the standard Xbox 360 model is about to get the boot ...

Neuromonics Oasis quiets the ring in your ears, won’t stop the voices

Friday, March 7th, 2008

Filed under: Portable Audio Do you have a constant, annoying ringing in your ears? If you're like us, you probably suffer from at least a mild form of tinnitus. Whether it's from exposure to massive jet engines, or just listening to Reign In Blood one too many times, you probably wish ...