Archive for December 14th, 2007

Nokia’s N-Gage hits the N81 next week in pre-release form

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming It's a good time to be an N81 or N81 8GB user, since Nokia's got some pre-release versions of full N-Gage titles just for you as of next week. Nokia's hoping for some feedback with this "N-Gage First Access" setup, since the full service isn't quite ready ...

Toshiba intros five capacious new 1.8-inch hard drives

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: StorageWe're all for bulking up the storage in our notebooks and portable gear, so naturally we're quite thrilled that Toshiba has developed a quintet of new 1.8-inch PATA hard drives that promise higher capacity and better performance for the gadgets we hold so dear. Three of the drives ...

NVIDIA 3-Way SLI review roundup

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming No use kidding around: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 3-Way SLI kicks benchmark ass. Reviewers across the board found the setup to be far and away the best money can buy when it comes to graphics, but the price is certainly steep. Not only are the cards super pricey ...

GarageBand 4.1.1 brings custom tones to iPhone

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones As the pic says ladies and gents, Apple has decided that if you're clever enough to work in GarageBand -- and really, aren't we all? -- you deserve custom tones. To get this working all you need do is grab at the fresh GarageBand 4.1.1 update released yesterday, ...

Microsoft lets loose Hyper-V virtualization software beta

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: DesktopsMicrosoft isn't exactly known for releasing things early, but that's just what its done with the beta version of its new Hyper-V virtualization software, which is included as part of Windows Server 2008 RC1 Enterprise. As Microsoft itself points out, that was originally only expected to be released ...

iPhone integral part of Land Rover LRX concept

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Transportation Well, would you take a peek at this? Not even a month after we pored over Volkswagen photos that certainly had a hint of Apple about them, images of the Land Rover LRX are surfacing and giving us the same kind of vibe. In a press release ...

Nintendo establishes official raincheck program for Wii

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: Gaming This one's just hitting the wires folks, but apparently, Nintendo has established an official raincheck program to somewhat alleviate the Wii shortage frustrations that are sure to overwhelm those scouting one for the holidays. Details are scant at the moment, but we do know that Nintendo of America ...

Art installation made up of hundreds of case fans is full of air

Friday, December 14th, 2007

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Taking the all-fan casemod to the next (il)logical extreme, Dutch art concerns Studio Roosegaarde has built a 10-meter long corridor out of hundreds of fans called Flow 5.0. The installation, which is currently on display at the TodaysArt festival in Rotterdam, is controlled by several microphones and ...