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Filed under: Cellphones, Peripherals, Portable Audio
There's a big difference between "smallest" and "small enough," but SAIT and
Samsung SDI might've just crossed the gap with their new joint-developed
fuel cell mobile charger. The device, which the companies claim is the world's smallest fuel cell charger yet, can pump 2W of juice, and supposedly charges mobile devices in 1/5 the time of competing offerings. At 5.3 ounces, and measuring a mere 5mm thick, it shouldn't be much of a problem at all to slip this into your bag, letting you extend the life of your PDA, phone, camera or PMP. In tests the charger has completed 200 continuous charges, and is nearly ready for market -- with over 120 patents involved in making this thing tick. The unit is based on small user-replaceable methanol cartridges, providing "limitless" power if you're willing to spring for enough fuel cartridges. There's no exact word on when these things will hit retail shelves, but Samsung expects chargers like this, along with fuel cell-based laptop batteries to be commonplace in 2-3 years.
[Thanks, Mike]
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BOLD MOVES: THE FUTURE OF FORD A new documentary series. Be part of the transformation as it happens in real-time
Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Gamespot reports:
"Unreal Tournament 3, based on Epic's Unreal Engine 3, has been in development for years. BioShock, Gears of War, and Mass Effect also use Unreal Engine 3 yet preceded Unreal Tournament 3's arrival by a few months, and almost a year in the case of Gears of War. The games may all use the same engine, but they have very different hardware requirements. Whereas BioShock requires powerful hardware to run, Unreal Tournament 3 doesn't leave anyone out of the fun. Mid-range CPUs and video cards from two years ago can run the game just fine, and with marvelous image quality. Of course, if you want more performance, higher resolutions, and antialiasing, more power is the way to go.
We tested Unreal Tournament 3 using the UT3Bench utility. The utility uses multiple demos, but we stuck with the Suspense flyby demo for all of our performance tests. The flyby takes a 60-second aerial tour of one of the larger vehicle-based multiplayer maps. All results are the average of three test runs:"
From Pollstar:
Robert Lucas, a former frontman of Canned Heat, died of an apparent drug overdose Nov. 23 at a friend's home in Long Beach, Calif., according to his former manager Skip Taylor.
Lucas, 46, recently left Canned Heat to pursue a solo career. The singer, harmonica and bottleneck guitar player had two stints with the band between 1994 and 2006.
Canned Heat, whose hits include "Goin' Up The Country" and "On The Road Again," has had four frontmen in its more than 40-year history. (...)
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MISC NEWS
Jim Caviezel goes from Jesus to terrorist.
Killing aliens and singing along to your favourite tunes: just another week in the Australian release schedule.
Engadget writes:
"NVIDIA's recently rolled out GeForce 8800M GTX has already made its way into a laptop, specifically Rock's Xtreme 770, specially updated to integrate the new chip. The 770 features a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, a 7200RPM 200GB HDD, 2GB of RAM, a 17-inch 1920x1200 display, and that all important GeForce 8800M GTX graphics card. The new card is certainly no disappointment, kicking the 8700M by a factor of two in most gaming benchmarks (although that also says a lot about the 8700M's lackluster performance.) The bottom line with the 8800M GTX is that it enables acceptable performance in Crysis at reasonable resolutions, which is more than can be said of most desktops. However, you might want to hold off until the GPU reaches lappies other than the Rock Extreme 770, which costs £2,199: that's over $4,500 at the current exchange rate."
MacMall today is offering discounts of up to $600 on Apple's latest desktop and notebook offerings. OnSale.com is holding an iPod sale that includes free gifts. Microsoft is effectively offering $100 off Mac Office 2008. Amazon.com has slashed prices...
Pocket-lint: "Hype can sometimes be a ridiculous thing. Especially in the games industry. A few gorgeous looking mocked-up screenshots can sometimes be enough to send us salivating like Scarlet Johannsen just appeared stark naked on your living room sofa. We can but dream.
Assassin?s Creed is one of such hyped titles. We?ve been drip fed the odd clip here, a screenshot or two there, and all the critics have been treating it as it?s the rebirth of gaming itself.
So the ?Metal Gear Solid in olden times? sneak-a-thon finally arrives, and you know what? It?s not quite as good as we?d all hoped.
Assassins Creed isn?t quite the freedom based ?kill your target however you like? title we?d all been hoping for. Yes, it might be based on despatching various targets just like Hitman, but unlike that classic series, Assassin?s Creeds strict structure leaves you a little cold".
Check out this live video of The Twang performing a live version of new double-A side single Drinkin
The reinventionof the San Jose Mercury News began with an undercover operation.
More footage from The Polar Express featuring narration from Tom Hanks.
Move aimed at getting more studios to adopt the technology, says Sony.
Sony has cut the cost of its PlayStation 3 development kit by almost half, while adding a host of software development features aimed at simplifying the game creation process.
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Ripten will be posting a "deals of the week" column meant to help frugal gamers get the games and gadgets they love without breaking the bank.
"Remember to keep your friends close, and your wallet closer."
An anonymous reader writes "According to this article, Microsoft is only a few lines of code away from becoming the greenest company on Earth." From the article: "Redmond should issue a software upgrade to every computer running Microsoft Windows worldwide to adjust each machine's energy-saving settings for maximum efficiency." The author figures that the upgrade would affect 100 million computers and that the power cost savings could hit $7 billion per year. CO2 emissions would be cut by 45 million tons. But what about the impact on computing?
Movie and game fans of a certain age are now buzzing from the news of Vivendi?s newly announced Ghostbusters game. It?s a license deal guaranteed to send geek excitement alarms wailing with ambulance sirens and flashing with blue lights, but an important question must be raised. Why?
Analysts said Tuesday that Electronic Arts is cutting prices on sports games such as "NBA Live 08," "Madden NFL 08" and "Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08," which the analysts said is a bad sign going into the holiday season.
The list is part of a special issue of Entertainment Weekly hitting stands Friday, and a special counting down the famous names will air on TV Land at 8pm ET on the same day. While the famous faces on the countdown are impressive indeed (who can really argue that Johnny Carson is the top spot), I’m sure plenty of people will have problems with not just who is on it, but where some of the icons are ranked. So, in an effort to write something that doesn’t deal with The Work Stoppage That Shall Not Be Named, I though I would analyze some of the choices that really surprised or infuriated me.
The Open Road: "Actuate's 2007 survey of enterprise adoption of open source is out, and the results point to a massive groundswell of open-source adoption..."
In St. Albans, Vermont, three men have pleaded guilty to stealing an Xbox 360 and more than a dozen games from a teen battling cancer.
According to police, the men knew that cancer patient Jeffrey Cota would be away from his home and undergoing surgery in Boston. That?s when they made their move, stealing the 360 and games from Cota?s bedroom.
Want to keep up with all the news coming out of this year's American Film Market? ShockTillYouDrop has put all its latest AFM headlines on a single page for your perusal.
The Last Remnant is Square Enix's first next generation multiplatform title. The new game is planned for release on PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360. The Last Remnant is positioned to take on the world, with a simultaneous release in Japan and North America and a European release planned.
In the cavernous LA Convention Center, no one can hear you scream… about the food.
Call of Duty is one of the most popular first person shooters. In the latest game the action has moved from the second world war to the modern day, but can this latest tour of duty live up to expectations?
MotorStorm moves to the tectonically challenged US state of Hawaii and we find out what's new...
I am – Hercules!!
“Studio 60” is back?
FoxNews.com, I thought,...
Che gives some impressions of his experience with Mass Effect so far.
"Combat is really fun. There are occasional problems with the AI, but it's really nothing 3rd/1st person shooter fans aren't already used to in teammates found in the genre (GRAW, RS: Vegas, etc). I set my squad to "active" which lets the AI use both defensive and offensive abilities on their own (without you having to pause the action, choose targets, and say "perform a neuro blast" or whatever). They definitely get the job done and I often find them stealing my kills. Thankfully, XP and loot goes to the party and it's up to you to divvy up items.
When I said earlier that this game is a shooter first and an RPG second, I was wrong. It's really a great balance of both genres. Mechanically speaking, this is an action game through and through. You dodge bullets, spring to cover, and do all the things required of you in games like Gears of War. You point your gun at something and fire and there is a 1-to-1 cause-and-effect reaction and sh*t takes damage and blow up, etc."
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Columnist Jon Espenschied gives guidance on finding the stars who can really help with your information security problems and on avoiding those who will slow you down.
The allocation of 1.85 million tickets ground to a halt after the Web site received 20 million hits in the first three hours of sale Tuesday.
This demo lets you play one match as Italy, Sweden, Spain, or Czech.
Given all the understandable excitement over the Douchebag Hall of Fame, we decided to figure out which of our current crop of douches -- in and out of the Hall of Fame -- seem to draw the most reader interest. Brave Intern Mary descended into the comment pits for a quick tally, though unfortunately she was down below when recent inductee Steve Damion made the list, so he's not yet accounted. But for comparison's sake, we included a few names which have not technically made it into the Hall of Fame, but are virtual locks for future inclusion due to clamorous reader insistence on same. After the jump, examine the numbers and draw your own conclusions.
Impossible Is Nothing: The Top Douchebags
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No real surprises here -- really, A.J. has more than earned his place, and Joe Dolce has a guaranteed seat someday, whether he asshat or douchebag be. Lucy Gao dominates the other historical-interest contenders, but with luck, we'll fill out that backfield a bit more with other choices real soon now.
Since the Office convention this weekend, I?ve had Office on the brain all week. Thursday can?t come fast enough, so I decided to scour Youtube looking for ways to satiate my craving for all things Dunder-Mifflin. Fortunately, thanks to the hard work and dedication of some fans of the series, I had no trouble finding what I was looking for.
Michelle Williams is rumored to be joining her estranged husband Heath Ledger in leaving her giant Brooklyn house behind in favor of Manhattan. Time to call up Celebrity Movers! [Page Six]
Heiress-model Lydia Hearst and heir-nonmodel Cisco Adler got matching skeleton key tattoos to "symbolize a new way of life." An even retardeder one? [Gatecrasher, 2nd item]
Looks like Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal are still in some sort of top-secret fake relationship. [TMZ]
According to comments made recently by producer Deborah del Prete -- and IESB's unnamed sources -- Frank Miller will indeed be directing a "Buck Rogers" update for Nu Image/Millennium.
This describes my cat all too well.
Plus: High-def camcorders; Apple to stream Web, PC video to TV.
The beautiful blue babe celebrates...
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that Microsoft won't participate in the January spectrum auction; it will leave the role of buying spectrum to service providers.
Two high school freshman are targeted by the school bully on the first day of school. The boys hire what they think is a low-budget soldier of fortune to protect them, but he turns out to be anything but. Drillbit Taylor opens March 2008.
Runtime: 2 min 31 sec
Canadians may soon pay a small tax on every legal music store download, says a new measure (PDF) sanctioned by the Copyright Board of Canada. Requested by the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), the tax would apply at least 2.1 cents to every individual song download and 1.5 cents per track for complete albums. S...
50 new shots posted.
From next month, intelligence agencies are placing ads in a series of espionage adventures including Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Doube Agentin the hope of attracting new recruits, reports The Times.
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Taking out the trash edition!
Congrats to Pammy! Danny! Larry! And all the trash buckets that made this edition!!!
Hi everyone!! Hope your weekend is going well!
I posted a vlog last night!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07yGyA17NA
I hope you don't mind my new schedule? I think Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday spreads it out a little better!
XoXo BUCK "Michael"
PS- I KNOW WHERE THE Philippines IS- stop emailing me- it was a joke! LOL
Author: WHATTHEBUCKSHOW
Keywords: Danny Bonoduche flips Johnny Fairplay Pam Anderson marries Rick Soloman Denise Richards David Hasselhoff WHAT THE BUCK
Added: October 13, 2007
If you were not already aware the Gallery of the NZ Body Art Awards 2007 has been
added to our website. Please have a look through the talented entries and fantastic
pictures: www.bodyartawards.co.nz
