Filed under: Handhelds, Portable Audio, Portable Video
Nah, Zoltrix Technology didn’t actually merge a 4-port USB hub with a PMP, but quite frankly, it may have been more worthwhile if that were indeed the case. As it stands, this totally unsightly unit merely plays back MP3, WMA, MPEG, AVI, ASF, WMV and VOB files, rocks a built-in image / text viewer and includes an FM tuner for whatever it’s worth. Apparently, the unit can be had in 256MB, 512MB, 1GB and 2GB sizes, but seriously, don’t be caught dead with this one.
[Via PMPToday]
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Filed under: Robots
RoboPhilo — the self-proclaimed personal humanoid of your dreams — has landed just in time for the holidays after being announced months back, and yep, it will indeed sell for under five bills. Available now at the RoboBrothers website, this (comparatively) affordable creation comes ready to walk, kick or boogie down with 20 servos, an included remote and a couple of ports for good measure. Essentially, it’s only limited by your imagination and programming knowledge, and is ready to consume your forthcoming time off just as soon as you cough up the $499 required to get it on its way.
[Via Technabob]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Laptops
We’re not sure why Lenovo is feeling so particularly jolly this holiday season, but we’re certainly not complaining. The company just slashed prices on its ThinkPad R, T and X series laptops, and its ThinkCentre A desktops. All models have received a 25% price cut, except for the R series with a still-lovable 22%. Yeah, you know the person on your list with everything? We bet they don’t have seven ThinkPads courtesy of their new favorite nephew.
[Thanks, Joe K.]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
Filed under: Gaming, Peripherals
Alright, try to stay with us here. Guitar Hero III’s axe works just fine with Rock Band, but only the Xbox 360 hardware — and Rock Band’s guitar won’t play the first note on any flavor of GHIII. Yeah, it’s a bit confusing, but apparently the folks over at 1UP were downright tired of being dizzy, and phoned up Guitar Hero publisher Red Octane’s co-founder and VP of Business Development, Charles Huang, to chat about the totally confusing compatibility quandary. We fully understand the complexities in getting the instruments to work with other games, as well as the potential business impact, but Mr. Huang chose to take a different route in explaining why no Guitar Hero title would accept a Rock Band controller. He was quoted as saying that Red Octane wasn’t “too interested in having [Harmonix] guitars work on its game, because [Harmonix is] having a lot of issues with its guitars.” Of course, this logic begins to fall apart when you realize there was absolutely no compatibility even before these malfunctions came to light. Nice try, though.
[Via DailyTech]
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Filed under: Desktops, Laptops
Those of you clamoring for a public beta of Vista SP1 Release Candidate can spend your weekend brushing up on what all is going to change when that download finally goes live. Available now on Microsoft’s website is a sizable document outlining “notable changes” in the forthcoming update, which includes improvements in application compatibility, hardware ecosystem support, reliability, performance / power consumption, security, desktop administration, support for new technologies / standards and interoperability. If we tried to even hit the highlights, all but the most vigilant would probably doze off before they could scroll down to the next post, so we’ll just advise the curious to hit the links below and cancel every plan you had for the next 30 or so hours.
[Via I Started Something]
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Office Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum System Packs the power to bring games to life!
