Filed under: Home Entertainment
We’re still not totally convinced this isn’t just some joke gone too far, but given the fact that they’re accepting PayPal payments as we speak, we’re going to have to go with “scarily real.” The FM DockRadio is simply an FM radio for your Bose SoundDock. Obviously the iPod doesn’t have an FM radio tuner, so the need is there, but we’re guessing the $89+ cost isn’t going to fly for something as incredibly janky and featureless as this. Especially when we could just go out and buy a Coby for twenty five cents at Costco — which plays CDs and keeps you warm.
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Filed under: Cellphones, Features
Our up-close experiences with mobile wizardry at Mobile World Congress this year have ranged from the mild to the wild, and today, we’ve got the whole range. Any guesses which are which in this particular batch, hmm?
Read – Motorola’s bargain basement MWC offerings
Read – Nokia’s S60 touch UI at MWC
Read – Polymer Vision’s e-ink Readius
Read – Nokia’s high-rolling N96
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Filed under: Laptops
You know how much we love SSDs around here, but getting one the legit way currently involves poking a rather large hole in your wallet — so we were pretty interested to see how a jury-rigged SSD built using that CompactFlash-to-SATA adapter we spotted a while back would hold up. While we probably would have sprung for something a little larger than the 4GB drives used in the test, the results are pretty encouraging: DIY SSD drives were overall faster than the 1.8-inch traditional drive found in the MacBook Air, and even a little faster than the VAIO TZ’s 64GB SSD. The drives were bested by a 7200rpm 2.5-inch drive and a 128GB SATA SSD, as you’d expect, but what we weren’t expecting was the negligible hit on power consumption — it looks like SSDs really don’t use less power, as the unchanged battery life of the SSD MacBook Air hinted. Still — you know we want one. Check out all the results and a little howto action after the break.
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Filed under: Gaming
We’re always a little skeptical of piracy impact numbers, especially when companies try to factor in things like “lost sales,” which can’t be adequately measured, but it’s still interesting to hear how large the hit is estimated to be — like Nintendo’s recent filing with the US Trade Representative that piracy cost it and its partners some $975m worldwide in 2007. Saying that the popularity of the Wii and DS makes Nintendo an “attractive target” for counterfeiters, the big N broke the problem down by region, highlighting its efforts to stem the tide and proposed solutions and regulations. We’d say that with profits soaring and plenty of people clamoring for hard-to-find systems, Nintendo could probably get back a little of that cash by finally getting some boxes on shelves instead of pushing for new laws, but hey — even Mario’s lawyers probably get sick of being paid in mushrooms.
[Image courtesy of Nick Cueva]
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