Archive for March, 2008

Sony Rolly busts a color move

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Home Entertainment, Portable Audio, Robots Sony just turned out the Rolly music player in black. A surprise blown by the FCC just last week. At least we can wonder at the colorful end-caps at a cost of ¥1,500 (about $15) per. Of course, if you scoffed at the original ...

PSP slim modded for dual analog sticks

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming Been longing for a second analog stick on your PSP? Modder LordNico's got you covered with the Razor X (seriously, where do these guys come up with their names?), a user-installable analog stick that appears to mimic the functions of your standard four button pad. (In other words, ...

Original content coming to Xbox 360

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Filed under: Gaming, Home EntertainmentWe were kind of wondering when it was finally going to happen: Microsoft's inked a deal with a production company to do original content for the Xbox 360. The licensed back catalog of stuff is good and all, but this would fill that niche in between ...

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX triple-SLI rig benched

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Filed under: Desktops, Gaming Looks like the first NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX cards have made their way out in the world -- officially announced or not -- and TweakTown's got the benches. Performance gains seem marginal in triple-SLI over dual, but hey, those drivers probably aren't finished and these cards aren't ...

Apple seeds updated iPhone 2.0 beta, not many changes

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Filed under: Cellphones Looks like Apple's been passing around a new working version of the iPhone 2.0 beta firmware -- not too many changes since the last release we saw, though. So far, from what we can tell the build is now officially 2.0 (before it was registered as 1.2), the ...